Rambo: First Blood Part II
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Short description
Rambo: First Blood Part II follows John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran serving time in a high-security prison. His former commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman, offers him a way out: a covert mission back to Vietnam to gather evidence about American soldiers still held in camps years after the war ended. Rambo accepts, but the operation is meant to be reconnaissance only. When he disobeys orders and tries to rescue a prisoner, the mission's coordinator abandons him behind enemy lines, leaving him to fight his way back with limited means.
The film was directed by George P. Cosmatos, his fourth feature after The Cassandra Crossing, Escape to Athena and Of Unknown Origin, and the first of two films he made with Sylvester Stallone, followed by Cobra in 1986. Stallone stars and co-wrote the screenplay with James Cameron; Richard Crenna returns as Trautman, with Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson and Martin Kove in supporting roles. Buzz Feitshans produced.
Made for a budget of 44 million USD, the film took roughly 300 million USD worldwide, a large return on its cost. Audiences rate it moderately: 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from about 195,000 votes, and 6.7 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller base of 4,475 votes. A film critics' rating of 4.8 out of 10 from 45 reviews places it clearly below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Soviet military are dressed in uniforms that only remotely resemble the real thing. In some scenes, Soviet soldiers are inexplicably wearing black naval infantry berets.
- In the final part of the second film, as in the first, Rambo fires from an M60 machine gun.
- According to information revealed in a documentary film, the producers of the film intended to make John Travolta Stallone's partner in the second installment, who was to play Rambo's partner, also involved in rescuing American prisoners of war. Stallone disliked this idea, as he did not want to share the glory with anyone.
- Dolph Lundgren was given a role in the film, but Stallone preferred to film him in "Rocky IV" (1985) and therefore fired him from this project.
- James Cameron, credited as a co-writer of the screenplay alongside Sylvester Stallone, claims that he only wrote the first draft, which was then heavily revised by Stallone.
- Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky is the only villain in the script who has at least one line in English.
- When Rambo is traveling on a boat with smugglers, one of them lifts the lid of a crate and shows him an RPG-7 grenade launcher. The grenade and the crate lid both have the inscription “AMMUNITION OBR 1943 caliber 7.62”.
- The first film to be released simultaneously in over 2,000 US cinemas.
- Since it was impossible to obtain a sample of a Soviet military helicopter for the film crew, an Aerospatiale SA 330 Puma transport was disguised as a Mi-24. Experts believe the helicopter was successfully disguised – it genuinely resembles the Mi series aircraft.
- In the USSR, the distribution of the first copies of the film in early author's single-voice voice-over translations (primarily by Vasily Gorchakov) on video cassettes became the basis for and a threat of persecution by the Soviet militia, according to Soviet law, up to criminal punishment by Soviet courts of up to 3 years in prison and fines under Article 228 of the Criminal Code for the distribution of propaganda of violence and cruelty, as well as anti-Soviet propaganda.
- In the scene where Rambo talks with his Vietnamese contact at the beginning of the film, he says: "I am expendable." 25 years later, Sylvester Stallone directed the film "The Expendables."
- The song “Peace In Our Life” by Frank Stallone plays during the end credits of the film.
- The military base in the film was shot at an air force base in Mexico.
- The scene with the electric torture on the metal cage was later parodied in the film 'Hot Shots 2' (1993) with Charlie Sheen.
- The film attracted the attention of US President Ronald Reagan, who praised Sylvester Stallone for creating the image of Rambo as a symbol of the American army.
- In the final battle scene with the Soviet helicopter, Rambo fires at it with a grenade launcher through the windshield (canopy) of his own helicopter, but upon landing at base, the windshield is completely intact.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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