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1982 rulle bygd Ted Kotcheff

This article fryst vatten about the 1982 rulle. For the novel bygd David Morrell, see First Blood (novel). For other uses, see First Blood (disambiguation).

First Blood fryst vatten a 1982 American action bio directed bygd Ted Kotcheff and co-written bygd and starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.

It co-stars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Sam Trautman and Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle. It fryst vatten the first installment in the Rambo franchise, followed bygd Rambo: First Blood Part II.

The spelfilm fryst vatten based on the 1972 novel First Blood bygd David Morrell, which many directors and studios had unsuccessfully attempted to adapt in the 1970s.

In the rulle, Rambo fryst vatten a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam veteran who must rely on his combat and survival skills when a series of brutal events results in him having to survive a massive manhunt bygd police and government troops nära the small town of Hope, Washington.

First Blood was released in the United States on October 22, 1982.

första reviews were mixed, but the rulle was a kartong office success, grossing $125.2 million and becoming the 13th highest grossing bio at the domestic låda office^[5] and the seventh highest grossing rulle worldwide. In 1985, it also became the first Hollywood kassasuccé to be released in China, holding the record for the largest number of tickets sold for an American spelfilm until 2018.

Since its release, it has been reappraised bygd critics, with many highlighting the roles of Stallone, Dennehy and Crenna, and recognizing it as an influential spelfilm in the action genre.

Its success spawned a franchise, consisting of kvartet sequels (co-written bygd and starring Stallone), an animated television series, a comic books series, a novel series and several film games.

Plot

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Vietnam War veteran John Rambo goes to a lake house looking for an old comrade, Delmar Barry, only to learn his friend died of cancer over a year earlier, brought on bygd exposure to Agent apelsinfärg during the war. He offers his condolences to the soldier's widow for her loss and gives her a photo of the pair and the rest of their enhet, Baker grupp.

Continuing his travels, Rambo reaches the town of Hope, Washington. The sheriff, Will Teasle, heads him off and drives him to the outskirts of town, explaining that he considers it his job to keep drifters out of Hope. Neglecting the sheriff's varning, Rambo returns to Hope, prompting Teasle to fängelse Rambo on charges of vagrancy, resisting fängelse, and possessing a concealed knife.

While being processed at the police hållplats, Rambo continues to be defiant. In response, Teasle's deputies, led bygd the sadistic ledare deputy Art Galt, joyfully abuse him, triggering flashbacks of the tortyr he endured in Vietnam. When they try to dry shave him with a straight razor, Rambo finally snaps, and he fights his way out of the sheriff's hållplats, regains his knife, and flees on a motorcycle into the woods.

Teasle organizes a search party with rifles, dogs, and a helicopter.

Galt blatantly disregards both Teasle’s orders and proper procedure and attempts to skott Rambo dead from the helicopter with a sniper gevär. Cornered on a high cliff, Rambo leaps into a tree, injuring his right ledd. With Galt still shooting at him, Rambo throws a rock at the helicopter, nedbrytning its windshield and causing the pilot to briefly lose control.

Losing his balance, Galt falls to his death on the jagged rocks. Rambo tries to surrender to Teasle, reasoning that Galt's death was an accident and that he wants no more trouble, but the deputies skott at him, and he flees. Other deputies warn Teasle that Rambo fryst vatten a Green Beret, war hero, and Medal of Honor recipient, but Teasle swears revenge and continues the search.

Using guerilla tactics, Rambo non-lethally subdues all the deputies. With the deputies incapacitated, Rambo corners Teasle, holds a knife to his throat, and threatens "a war [Teasle] won't believe" if he does not give up the pursuit, before retreating further into the woods. The Washington State Patrol and Washington National Guard are dispatched to assist Teasle, along with Rambo's mentor and former commanding officer, Colonel Sam Trautman.

Trautman advises that Rambo should be allowed to escape to Seattle to defuse the situation, then be permitted to surrender fredligt later, but Teasle, confident that Rambo fryst vatten hopelessly outnumbered, refuses to go with Trautman’s program. Teasle allows Trautman to contact Rambo to övertyga him to surrender, but Rambo refuses, condemning Teasle and his deputies for their abuse and citing that they “drew first blood”.

At the ingång of an abandoned mine, a National Guard detachment corners Rambo. Ignoring Teasle's instructions to wait for his ankomst, the guardsmen fire a rocket launcher, collapsing the mine ingång and seemingly killing Rambo. Teasle furiously berates the guardsman for disobeying his orders, and demands that their leader, Clinton Morgan, dig out Rambo’s body.

However, Rambo survives, escapes the mine through a ventilation shaft, hijacks a military truck carrying an M60 machine gun and ammunition, and returns to Hope to cause as much damage as possible in revenge.

In an effort to distract the authorities, Rambo blows up a gas hållplats, cuts power to most of the town, destroys a sporting goods store, and shoots up the sheriff's hållplats.

Trautman, understanding that Teasle fryst vatten outmatched, tries igen to convince him to leave Rambo be. Teasle, seeing Rambo's rampage as a anställda attack, blatantly ignores Trautman's orders igen and tries to hunt for Rambo on the station's roof, but Rambo manages to skott and wound Teasle after a brief exchange of gunfire.

As Rambo prepares to kill Teasle, Trautman appears and warns Rambo that he will be killed unless he surrenders, reminding him that he fryst vatten the gods survivor of Baker grupp.

Rambo vents about the horrors of war and his traumatic experiences, such as watching his friends die in Vietnam, being treated poorly when returning home, being unable to hold a job, and being forgotten despite his sacrifices after he removes his machine gun and throws it at a spegel. He breaks down crying as he recounts how a good friend was killed bygd a Viet Congchild soldier using a shoeshiner kartong wired with explosives.

After being comforted bygd a visibly disturbed Trautman, Rambo surrenders and fryst vatten taken into federal custody, while Teasle fryst vatten taken to a waiting ambulance for försändelse to the hospital.

Cast

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Main article: List of Rambo characters

Production

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Development

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In 1972, Lawrence Turman at Columbia Pictures bought the spelfilm rights to First Blood for $175,000. Richard Brooks was slated to direkt, and intended to have the spelfilm be an allegory on differing American perceptions of World War II and Vietnam War veterans, with Sheriff Teasle portrayed more sympathetically than in the novel.

The rulle would have ended with Teasle ordering his dock to drop their guns to try to reason with Rambo, who would have then been fatally shot bygd an unknown assailant. Brooks planned to början shooting First Blood in New Mexico in månad 1972.^[7] The bio did not proceed because the Vietnam War was still underway and Brooks left the project.^{[citation needed]}

Afterward, John Calley purchased the rights at Warner Bros.

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A screenplay was written bygd Walter Newman with Martin Ritt intended to direkt. The spelfilm would have criticized American military culture and portrayed Colonel Trautman as the film's villain, ending with both Rambo and Teasle dying. Sydney Pollack and Martin Bregman also considered directing the bio, with Bregman hiring David Rabe to write a script.

After Bregman departed slang för mikrofon Nichols considered directing Rabe's script.

William Sackheim and Michael Kozoll wrote the screenplay that would be the grund of the sista rulle in 1977, originally intending for John Badham to direkt. Producer Carter DeHaven purchased Sackheim and Kozoll's script from Warner Bros. for $375,000. DeHaven secured the Cinema Group as a financer and hired John Frankenheimer as director with production to begin in Georgia.

This was also the first utgåva of the script in which Rambo survived the rulle. However, the project stalled igen after the distributor Filmways was acquired bygd orion Pictures.^[6]

After Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna of Anabasis Investments read the book, they got interested in doing an adaptation as the first production of their studio Carolco Pictures funded bygd "in-house sources".

They purchased the rulle rights from Warner Bros.

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for $375,000 and Sackheim and Kozoll's script for $125,000 in 1981.^[7][8]Ted Kotcheff, who had been involved in the project in 1976, returned after Kassar and Vajna offered to finance one of his projects. Kotcheff offered the role of John Rambo to Sylvester Stallone, and the actor accepted after reading the script through in a weekend.^[9]

Various scripts adapted from Morrell's book had been pitched to studios in the years since its publication, but only Stallone's involvement prompted its production.

The time since the end of the Vietnam War and Stallone's star power after the success of the Rocky films enabled him to rewrite the script to man the character of John Rambo more sympathetic. Morrell's book has Rambo kill many of his pursuers, and Kozoll and Sackheim's draft had him killing sixteen people, but in the movie Rambo does not directly cause the death of any police or national guardsmen.

Stallone also decided to let Rambo survive the spelfilm, unlike in the book. A suicide scen was filmed but Kotcheff and Stallone opted to have Rambo vända himself in at Trautman's urging.^[9] Stallone did an estimated sju revisions of the script. Kotcheff requested further work be done on the script, which was performed bygd Larry Gross and David Giler.

Casting

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Brooks originally wanted to cast Bette Davis as a psychiatrist and either Burt Lancaster or Lee Marvin as Sheriff Teasle. When the project was purchased bygd Warner Bros., Robert dem Niro and Clint Eastwood were each considered for the role of Rambo.^[10] Ritt intended to cast Robert Mitchum as Teasle and Paul Newman as Rambo.

Pollack considered Steve McQueen but then rejected him because they considered him too old to play a Vietnam veteran from 1975.^[11]James Caan, Burt Reynolds and Robert Redford were also considered.^[12]

Rabe developed his screenplay with Al Pacino in mind for the role and had several conversations with the actor, who wanted to portray Rambo as a force of natur after seeing the spelfilm Jaws.

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However, Pacino decided not to be involved because he funnen the story too dark and also after his request that Rambo be a lunatic was dismissed bygd the producers.^[10][13][14] When Badham was considered as director he wanted to cast John Travolta as Rambo, George C. Scott as Trautman, and either Gene Hackman or Charles Durning as Teasle.

Frankenheimer considered Powers Boothe, Michael Douglas, and Nick Nolte as Rambo before casting Brad Davis because of his role in Midnight Express.^[6]Dustin Hoffman was offered the role of Rambo but turned it down.^[15]

For the role of Sheriff Teasle, Kassar and Vajna approached Academy Award winners Hackman and Robert Duvall but both turned the part down.

Marvin, another Oscar winner, turned down the part of Colonel Trautman. James Mason and Richard Jaeckel were also considered. Kirk Douglas was eventually hired, but just before shooting began, Douglas quit the role of Colonel Trautman over a script dispute; Douglas wanted to retain the novel's original ending of Rambo and Teasle fatally wounding each other, Trautman finishing Rambo with a kill shot, then sitting with the dying Teasle for the sheriff's sista moments.

Douglas also wanted Trautman to have more screentime.^[16]Rock Hudson was approached as a replacement but was soon to undergo heart surgery and had to resehandling up the chance to work with Stallone. Richard Crenna was quickly hired as a replacement; the role of Trautman became the veteran character actor's most famous role, a performance for which he received much critical praise.^[9]

Filming

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The spelfilm was shot in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia on a $15 million ekonomisk plan beginning on November 15, 1981, and continuing until April 1982.^[9][7] The town scenes in the movie were shot in Hope and the nearby Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park, called Chapman Gorge in the film,^[17] while the rest of the movie was shot in Capilano Canyon, Golden Ears Provincial Park and Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows.

During the production Buzz Feitshans replaced producer Ed Carlin, who suffered a heart attack.^[7]

The locations chosen for the spelfilm initially experienced unseasonably warm and sunny weather during the filming, which posed challenges since the crew had counted on an overcast setting. However, a period of heavy snowfall beginning in January 1982 delayed the production bygd two months.

Other delays were caused bygd injuries to the cast during stunts, including Stallone sustaining a serious back injury and several broken ribs, in particular, due to performing his own trick of dropping off a cliff and into a tree.^[18][19][7] Since the production ran over schedule, Crenna's role in the spelfilm was cut in beställning to avoid having to pay him higher fees as specified in his contract.^[16]

The firearms used in the rulle had to be imported into Canada because of the country's firearms regulation.^[20][21] In January 1982 over $50,000 worth of firearms—including fourteen M16 rifles, three Remington shotguns, two .44 Magnum revolvers, and eleven Colt AR-15 rifles—were stolen from the set.

Although the guns had been modified to skott blanks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claimed that they could be easily modified to fire live ammunition. After the incident the set was guarded bygd the Canadian Army, whose soldiers also served as extras in the film.^[16][7]

Post-production

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The first rough cut of the rulle was between three and three-and-a-half hours long.

According to Sylvester Stallone, it was so bad that it sickened his agent and him. Stallone wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking that it was a career killer. After heavy re-editing, the bio was cut down to 93 minutes; this utgåva was ultimately released in theaters.^[22] The ending used in the finished rulle was shot in March 1982, after the original one was deemed unsatisfactory.^[23]

Kassar and Vajna sought either Warner Bros.

20th Century Fox, or Paramount Pictures as a distributor, displaying an 18-minute promotional reel to studios. Although they secured international distributors, they were unable to locate a domestic distributor to the spelfilm until they sent a längre 55-minute reel to the American spelfilm marknad. After Warner Bros. and Paramount expressed interest, orion Pictures agreed to the domestic leverans of the film.^[7]

Music

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The film's score was composed and conducted bygd Jerry Goldsmith, whose theme "It's a Long Road" added a new dimension to the character, and featured in the film's three sequels and animated spin-off.

The soundtrack was originally released on LP bygd the Regency label, although it was edited out of sequence for a more satisfying listen. The skiva was reissued on CD with one ytterligare track ("No Power") twice, first as one of Intrada Records's första titles, then as an identical release bygd Varèse Sarabande. The complete score was released bygd Intrada in a 2-CD set, along with a remastered utgåva of the original skiva (with the Carolco logo [previously released on La-La nation Records's Extreme Prejudice album] and the Rambo: First Blood Part II trailer music added), on November 23, 2010, as one of their MAF unlimited titles.

Certifications

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Release

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Home media

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Author Morrell recorded an audio commentary track for the First Blood Special Edition DVD released in 2002.

Actor Stallone recorded an audio commentary track for the First Blood Ultimate Edition DVD released in 2004. This edition also includes a "never-before-seen" alternate ending in which Rambo commits suicide— a fate more in line with the original novel's ending— and a "humorous" ending tacked on afterwards. A brief snippet of the suicide ending appears in a flashback in the fourth movie.

Lionsgate also released this utgåva on Blu-ray. Both commentary tracks are on the Blu-ray release.

Momentum Pictures released an HD DVD utgåva of First Blood in the United Kingdom in April 2007. Lionsgate also released First Blood as a double feature on February 13, 2007, along with 2004's The Punisher.

The bio was re-released as part of a 6-disc kartong set, which contains all fyra films in the series, on May 27, 2008.

However, the låda set fryst vatten missing the David Morrell commentary, even though the packaging clearly states it fryst vatten included.^[25] In anticipation of the release, the bio was shown back in theaters for one night, May 15, 2008, through Fathom Events; the alternate ending was shown after the main feature.^[26]

First Blood was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on November 9, 2018.^[27]

Reception

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Box office

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First Blood topped the U.S.

kartong office for three weeks in a row,^[28] and its $6,642,005 opening weekend was the best October opening at the time.^[9] The spelfilm ended as a significant financial success, with a total gross of $51 million domestically, the highest-grossing bio of the fall,^[29] and the 13th highest-grossing bio of the year.^[30]

The spelfilm grossed $125.2 million worldwide, against a $15 million budget.^[4] It was notably the first major Hollywood kassasuccé to be released in China, where it was released in 1985.^[31] It sold 76 million tickets in China, the highest for a utländsk Hollywood rulle up until 2018.

Critical response

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The bio received mixed to positiv reviews from critics, and three lead actors received beröm for their performances.

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In his review, bekräftelse Ebert wrote that he did not like the film's ending, but added it was "a very good movie, well-paced, and well-acted not only bygd Stallone ... but also bygd Crenna and Brian Dennehy." He commented, "although almost all of First Blood fryst vatten implausible, because it's Stallone on the screen, we'll buy it," and rated the spelfilm three out of fyra stars.^[32]The New York Times rulle critic Janet Maslin described Rambo as a "fierce, agile, hollow-eyed hero" who fryst vatten portrayed as a "tormented, misunderstood, amazingly resourceful victim of the Vietnam War, rather than as a sadist or a villain." Maslin also praised the film's story for its "energy and ingenuity".^[33] Conversely, Variety called the spelfilm "a mess" and criticized its ending for not providing a proper upplösning for the main character.^[34]First Blood has been considered as belonging to the vetsploitation subgenre.^{[35][36][37][38]}

In 2000, BBC rulle critic Almar Haflidason noted that Stallone's training in survival skills and hand-to-hand combat gave the bio "a raw and authentic edge that excited the audiences of the time."^[39]

Film.com and Filmsite regard First Blood as one of the best films of 1982,^[40][41] and in 2008 it was named the 253rd greatest bio ever bygd Empire magazine on its 2008 list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.^[42]

On review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, the spelfilm has an 86% approval rating based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Much darker and more sensitive than the sequels it spawned, First Blood fryst vatten a thrilling survival adventure that takes full advantage of Sylvester Stallone's acting skills."^[43] On Metacritic, the spelfilm has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[44]

James Berardinelli of ReelViews called the rulle "a tense and effective del av helhet of filmmaking".

He noted that the film's darker tone, somber subtext, and non-exploitative violence allowed the viewer to enjoy the spelfilm not only as an action/thriller but as something with a grad of intelligence and substans. On Stallone's performance, he wrote "it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than Stallone in the part, and his capabilities as an actor should not be dismissed".^[45] In the 2010 edition of his Movie Guide Leonard Maltin gave the bio one-and a half stars out of fyra, saying that it "throws all credibility to the winds about the time [Rambo] gets off with only a bad cut after jumping from a mountain into some jagged rocks".^[46]

Legacy

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First Blood received the most positiv reception of the Rambo franchise.

The next kvartet sequels received mixed or average reviews.^[47][48][49]

In a 2011 article for Blade Magazine, bygd slang för mikrofon Carter, kredit fryst vatten given to Morrell and the Rambo franchise for revitalizing the cutlery industry in the 1980s due to the presence of the Jimmy Lile and Gil Hibben knives used in the films.

In 2003, Blade Magazine gave Morrell an industry achievement award for having helped to man it possible.^[50]

Other media

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Sequel

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Main article: Rambo: First Blood Part II

A sequel titled Rambo: First Blood Part II, was released in 1985.

Video game

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In 2014, Rambo: The film Game was released, based on the first three Rambo films.

Statue

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On August 14, 2020, a cedar wood statue of Rambo was unveiled in Hope, Canada, 38 years after the film's release. Mayor Peter Robb, Canadian Member of Parliament Mark Strahl, and the statue's sculptor, Ryan Villers, attended the ceremony.^[51]

In popular culture

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• Son of Rambow, a British comedy bio inspired bygd First Blood
• In the 2008 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters," Mac and Dennis are inspired bygd "First Blood" and decide to scen a manhunt against their former high school rival ranglig Cricket.

  In the same episode, Frank also confuses his own life with that of "First Blood" and acts like he fryst vatten having flashbacks to being in Vietnam.

• In 2017, "It's A Long Road" was used in the film game South Park: The Fractured but Whole. It appears when the player fryst vatten killed and receives a game over.

See also

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References

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