Rambo Movie Clip

Over the past week or so we've watched few movie clips about the Vietnam war. Last week we watched some from Apocalypse Now and today we watched a clip from First Blood, which is the first Rambo movie.

I thought the clips we watched made the movie seem pretty interesting. Even though the movie itself wasn't actually about the Vietnam war and didn't take place in Vietnam, they had some snippets of information regarding things that happened during the war and what it was like for Rambo now that he was back home.

One of the lines in the clip that I found to be funny was when one of the police officers heard that Rambo had been a green beret in the war. The officer said, "Those guys are pretty bad-ass!" (or something along those lines, the actual quote may be a little off). Anyway, I thought that was a good way to show that the soldiers in the war were tough guys, they say and did a lot of things that we would find absolutely grotesque.

Another interesting part of the movie was when the Military person who had trained Rambo for the war came into the tent with the police officers and talked about all the things he had trained Rambo to do. He said that Rambo was trained to live off the land, eat anything to survive, ignore pain, and most importantly, he was trained to kill. This was a good way to portray how the things the soldiers did in the war will be carried with them for life. They can't just throw those memories and nightmares behind them as soon as they get home, they will remember everything they had to do to survive.