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Rambo is an American media franchise centered on a series of action films featuring John J. Rambo. The five films are First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). Rambo is a United States Army Special Forces veteran played by Sylvester Stallone, whose Vietnam War experience traumatized him but also gave him superior military skills, which he has used to fight corrupt police officers, enemy troops and drug cartels. First Blood is an adaptation of the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell.

The film series has grossed $819 million in total, $300 million of which is from the most successful film, Rambo: First Blood Part II. Stallone co-wrote the screenplays of all five films, and directed Rambo. The franchise also spawned an animated television series, Rambo: The Force of Freedom, and comic books, novels, and video games.

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Between the first and second films, Rambo is convicted and remanded to a civilian maximum-security prison where hard labor is the norm. Despite being a convict, the rigid routine and discipline of prison life provides Rambo with some measure of much-needed stability, as it reminds him of his past in the military and its own rigid hierarchy.

The original scores for the first three films were composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. The music from the first and second films was performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the music from the third by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra. Goldsmith's main theme for Rambo was the basis for the end title song "It's a Long Road", performed by Dan Hill, part of the First Blood soundtrack.

All five existing films in the Rambo franchise are available from Lionsgate by virtue of the studio's output deal with StudioCanal (the company that currently holds the underlying rights to the first three films) and Lionsgate itself co-producing the latter film (in partnership with The Weinstein Company). Paramount Pictures (via Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution and Trifecta Entertainment & Media) holds the television rights to the first three films, while Debmar-Mercury handles television distribution for the latter film on behalf of parent company Lionsgate.

Rambo[a] is a 2008 action film directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, based on the character John Rambo created by author David Morrell for his novel First Blood.[10] A sequel to Rambo III (1988), it is the fourth installment in the Rambo franchise and co-stars Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake La Botz, Maung Maung Khin, and Ken Howard. The film is dedicated to the memory of Richard Crenna, who died in 2003. Crenna had played Colonel Sam Trautman in the previous films. In the film, Rambo (reprised by Stallone) leads a group of mercenaries into Burma to rescue Christian missionaries, who have been kidnapped by a local infantry unit.

The film was an independent production between Nu Image and Emmett/Furla Films for Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH.[12] It was green-lit and sold before Rocky Balboa was released.[13] In between the making of the third and fourth films in the Rambo franchise, the films' original producer, Carolco Pictures, went out of business. In 1997, Miramax purchased the Rambo franchise.[14] The following year, Miramax subsidiary Dimension Films intended to make another film, and a writer was hired to write the script, but attempts to make it were deterred by Stallone, who had stated that he no longer wanted to make action movies.[15] In 2005, the studio sold those rights to Millennium Films and Nu Image.[14]

In the novel and first film, Rambo appears as a soldier who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to normal life. He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. In the next films and novelizations, he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger. Due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. However, Colonel Samuel Trautman (who was his commanding officer in Vietnam and is probably his only friend) understands him and the pain and torture he has endured in the war and is the only one able to reason with him when he becomes an outlaw after incapacitating police officers in the town of Hope.[8]

A Bollywood remake of First Blood was scheduled as of 2019[update] to be released in October 2020, with Tiger Shroff, cast in the role of Rambo, expected to star in Hindi remakes of all five films in the Rambo franchise.[11]

John Rambo is considered a cultural icon.[19][20][21][22][23] The character influenced many action heroes and films in the 1980s and 1990s. The John Rambo character became a prominent part of pop culture, and "Rambo", a word that can function as a noun, adjective, or a verb, became part of the English language. Perhaps more crucial from a cultural perspective, Rambo is a word that can be found in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary. According to this source, Rambo is "a Vietnam War veteran represented as macho, self-sufficient and bent on violent retribution." As well, it is widely popular to use adjectives such as Ramboesque, Ramboid, or Ramboism, to denote an ideological position that resembles Rambo's attitude and behavior.

The Rambo film series also introduced and popularized the concept of the One Man Army in films, in which a protagonist is a well-trained individual who can defeat countless enemies by himself. Rambo's weapons also became part of American pop culture. Weapons such as the M60 machine gun and the bow became synonymous with the character. But it was his signature weapon, the survival knife that became popular, which led to an increase in knife sales during the 1980s.[citation needed]

Rambo has also been mentioned or referenced in many films, such as Die Hard, TV shows, cartoons, novels and comic books. The character of John Rambo has been featured in many lists of greatest action heroes. In 2013, Rambo was voted #1 in WatchMojo.com's top 10 film soldiers of all times and #6 in a list of the top 50 action movie heroes in Total Magazine.

In the Philippines, local comic actor Palito, known for his skeletal stature, had a resurgence in his career in the mid 1980s starring in several comedy movies parodying the Rambo films. This started with a supporting role in the parody Johnny Rambo Tango (1985) starring Redford White. This led him to the lead in Rambuto, (1986), which translates to Ram-bone, the title being a pun of the Tagalog word buto which means "bone", again to capitalize on his being "thin-boned", compared to the bulk Rambo character. Palito also had the lead in No Blood, No Surrender. In this parody, he played a clumsy veteran who goes to a village searching for daughter.[31]

After viewing the Netflix documentary Sly, which focuses on Sylvester Stallone and his decades-long movie career and expertise in action film franchising, I watched all of the Rambo films, mainly because the first three were released before I was on this earth.

While we never had a fullblow confirmation in the films (only in COD), it was probably due to the fact that MACV-SOG was only declassified in the 90's and Rambo's first 3 movies were made in 80's and he was not doing military missions in the last 2 movies anymore. Since the existence of MACV-SOG still was a secret in the 80's, Rambo and Trautman probably never openly spoke about it, to maintain its secrecy.

The Rambo franchise consists of five films from 1982 through 2019, with Sylvester Stallone playing the character at various ages throughout. John Rambo was created by author David Morrell in his 1972 novel First Blood, which was later adapted into the 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (Uncommon Valor) and starring Stallone at Rambo, First Blood kicked off the franchise, which would be followed by 1985's Rambo: First Blood Part II, directed by George P. Cosmatos (Cobra). In 1988 Rambo returned with Rambo III, this time directed by Peter MacDonald (Legionnaire). Rambo aka John Rambo was the next entry, released in 2008 and directed by Stallone. The last chapter of the series (so far) was 2019's Rambo: Last Blood, directed by Adrian Grunberg (Get The Gringo).

The Rambo films take place in the present day, often pulling from real-world places or scenarios from around the world to put Rambo into. Rambo: First Blood Part II takes place in 1985, and begins with the character being released from prison by his former commanding officer Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), in order to go back to Vietnam on a top-secret mission to document (and rescue) captured U.S. POWs. Rambo's age in Rambo: First Blood Part II would be 37 years old, as the events occur three years after First Blood. Stallone was also 37 years old at the time of production.

Contrary to the previous Rambo films, which featured Sly stealthily killing enemies with a Hoyt Rambo (based on the Hoyt Spectra), Rambo picks up another vintage compound bow opting this time for the Martin Cougar II. The film showcases Rambo's skill with the bow by killing Burmese soldiers from a distance of 60 yards.

Rambo's bladed weapon in this film is a primitively built golok made out of a slab of metal as opposed to his expertly crafted survival knives in the other films. Sylvester Stallone actually stayed up all night filming the scene of him building the machete like you see in the film, although due to time restrictions, he had to do it all at once without cooling the blade. They went through about seven pairs of heat protective gloves due to this. Sly claims after making the machete, he had a rather warm handshake. 006ab0faaa