unfortunately that would make liberals (the ones that called guys like this a baby killer) the villains. And Hollywood doesn't like calling liberals, villains.
As the Son of a Vietnam veteran I would often ask my Father about his time there. While he wasn't in the same situation as the Rambo character he did of course lose friends and face his own mortality on a few occasions. While at a Base known as Hill 55 about 10 miles Southwest of Da Nang he was asked to grab a sheet of Plywood from a nearby pile to use as a makeshift table. Lugging the wood up the hill across his back he heard a series of thwip sounds followed by a "pinging" noise. Turns out he was being snipped from the Jungle nearby and that ping he heard was a shot hitting a nearby metal fencing, the thwips were rounds hitting the ground. A guy wearing camouflage and a hat with a feather stuck in the brim shouted at him to get for cover before grabbing his own rifle to return fire. That guy as it turned out was famed Vietnam war sniper Carlos Hathcock known as White Feather.
Unfortunately my father was in that same position as Rambo, and years later I was in that same position, My brother John was in that same position, my brother Brandon was in that same position (He's a Command Sergeant Major now, and my cousin Rondelle was in that same position (he was killed in combat). I retired a Master Chief (Seabee) with 24 years of service, but unfortunately today I'm suffering from a brain tumor that developed from being around burn pits.
My dad was a medic over there. He never would tell me anything about it. I can imagine the stuff he saw. Spent the rest of his life as a surgical assistant.
He did everything he was told to do, did everything he was raised to believe was right, lost everything and for it he was hated, abused, and discarded by the people he sacrificed it all for.
Still say he should have earned an Oscar on this alone. Young heads always think it’s just a shoot em up action flick. Then you watch it from beginning to end and it was so much more than that. The rest were indeed money grabs (it is Hollywood after all). But this scene is powerful art.
I agree.It’s a powerful scene,how he couldn’t get over the death of his buddy who was blown up by that rigged shoeshine box in Saigon.As I said in a previous post,it’s a shame he turned Rambos story into a franchise.First Blood is the best of the lot.First Blood 2 wasn’t bad,but the rest…no!
The second one tried to recapture that ending with another monologue. It wasn’t awful, but it clearly was a one-time thing for First Blood. You can’t recapture the impact of that scene, and it’s the reason why this Rambo will always be remembered the most.
Man... It really hits hard watching the women cry at the end of Rambo, because THIS monologue is the whole point of the movie. PTSD was in its baby steps when they movie came out.
Nah. We've known the symptoms for decades before that. It just had other names. "Battle fatigue", "shell shock", etc. But what it's always been is real truama. Not the "truama" people claim when mean things are Saud about them online. Or being disciplined by their parents and calling it truama.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerfuck you its trauma you fucking asshole i can hear fucking voices in my fucking head whenever i do something my piece of shit family wouldent approve of. Just because no one shot at me doesnt mean a fucking abusive curcomstance cant do the same thing.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer yhe disciplined by parents part hits hard, because some clearly haven't gone through that properly, then act as if the world should change to suit them.
Sylvester Stallone’s performance is so incredible it’s easy to overlook Richard Crenna’s amazing performance as a man who wants to also break down in tears but tries to maintain his military bearing
Richard Crenna's performance conveys a lot of things. Over the course of the film he's been bragging about how Rambo is a deadly machine he created. In this scene, you can see the guilt on his face as he realises what he's done to a human being
Stallone at his absolute best.I saw this when it came out in 1982,and loved Stallones performance.It’s just so sad that he turned it into a franchise like Rocky and The Expendables.
17 years, here (11 active. six as a contractor). I still instantly drop into a defensive stance, fist cocked, if someone surprises me; you're right, you don't just turn it off
PTSD is a real thing, my uncle served in Vietnam and was never the same. In his time there was no real help for a lot of those guys. I watched him struggle until the end and the last time I saw him smile, we were putting him in the ground. I hold a huge amount of respect for war vets.
@@damone70those poor chefs have a hard time forgiving themselves. They did what they had to do and with what was given. Mostly a joke but my bro told me modern MREs aren’t great.
Stallone's soliloquy still resonates - heartbreaking, profound and necessary - totally humanizes John Rambo and also showed a world that Vietnam vets who suffered PTSD needed to be taken seriously. Such a cinematic moment.
I love he called out the vile protesters. Boys come back to their fellow countrymen spitting on them for doing a job many didn't even want to do. The same is true today with protesters. Most don't know much of anything about what they are even protesting.
I am Japanese, and when I saw this movie 40 years ago, I was 20 years old and did not think that deeply about war. After seeing this last scene, I began to think deeply about what war does to soldiers. Now, it is very valuable for young people to see this film and have the same thoughts as I did.
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33”War….war never changes. We start to forget the things we should remember…and we start to remember the things we should forget.”
The way those military trumpets somberly play as he's hugging Trautman feels like they're quietly serenading a casualty of war. And he may not be dead, but he's still very much a casualty, and not just of the war, but of unjust societal judgement.
When I was a kid I used to see Rambo as an action icon. They made cartoons, action figures, comic boos about the character. Growing up, I realized "First Blood" was a drama, it was really about PTSD, loneliness and being rejected by society. Stallone did a very good job here. Then they decided to turn the character into the immortal action hero in the sequels. I'll be honest, it would have worked much better if they'd never made any sequels.
In the original Script Rambo was supposed to die, not have a soliloquy. When the Officer comes in je original shoots Rambo. And they even shot it. But during testing it didn't sit right with the audience so they took it out.
This single performance is one of thee greatest performances of all time. I grew up in the 60's, my brother was drafted before he graduated - and this is graduating high school. He returned with PTSD that wasn't diagnosed till after 1977 because the US Gov didn't 'recognize it' as a 'real affliction' until then! What this movie did not tell you was that those within the ranks that had PTSD were at times bullied/brutalized while with the affliction and serving!
I remember watching Ken Burns PBS series about the Vietnam War and one episode showed Vietnam Veterans throwing their medals away outside the White House.Vietnam veterans were treated like shit by both the public and the government at that time and Stallone talking about the treatment he got,especially at the airport and being called a baby killer is true.Thank God the treatment of veterans is so much better and people go up to veterans today and thank them for their service.
My father was a green beret viet war vet, he really hated having to talk about the war, in fact, every time he tried to, he would start smoking heavily, he showed on occasion PTSD, by zoning out but he was also later on showing signs of Parkinson's, it was getting so bad I, with my mother, had to quickly move out, without him getting too possessive, not out of fear of his PTSD, but he was showing the signs that he couldn't recognize me as his son. Now, the question is do I hate him? Not entirely, more like I pity him, do I miss him? No, I don't. Am I proud that he tried fighting for his country? Yes, but I wished that one day, he would understand that he did everything he could but he was never home with me growing up in the 90s, he was either working with computers or out flying, this was before he retired and started chain smoking.
An hour after Jim Minarik was discharged from the army, two persons spat on his olive, drab uniform as he walked along a street in Oakland California. Just returned from Vietnam and having no civilian clothes, Minarik wore his uniform again that night when he chose a good San Francisco restaurant to celebrate his: safe return stateside. He was denied entrance to the restaurant, and told that he was a war criminal. That was on Dec. 10, 1968, and Minarik solved the problem bý purchasing a civilian suit. "It was not a very good welcome back to America." the former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division said yesterday. Washington Post 6-2-71
Its a myth. It was a meme of the time, everyone heard someone who's friend's cousin got spit on. Reporters looked for exact specific instances and couldn't track any down.
As someone raised by a Vietnam vet who had 5 kids and I’m one of the 6 he adopted; stories of disrespect being shown towards returning veterans are all true actually as it happened on multiple occasions to my father yet he kept his cool and simply responded to hate with kindness.
Newer audiences to this film, having heard about the character and/or the franchise for years, are in for a shock when they get to this part of the first film, the best of the series. It's in a class all by itself because of this scene. It sets itself apart from every other "action" film of it's time.
As an Afghanistan veteran I personally cried when we pulled out. I knew all those people would be slaughtered. They knew while the Americans were there they’d all be fine. As soon as we left all hell broke loose.
Stallone is definitely not just about muscles, gun shots and punches. He's a great actor. Rocky 6 has 3 great emotional scenes, one of him teaching his son a lesson, another of him talking to the boxing committee, and another of him venting to Paulie about the "stuff in the basement", this last one made me cry. Great actor!
I had a good friend, force recon, scout. He's a great guy, but self-destructive. Smokes a lot of weed. Says it helps, because while he's high, he can't smell his friends burning. This wasn't Vietnam, it was Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan. Nothing ever changes.
One of those rare occasions when the movie gets it better than the book. This was a powerful message for how wrong the Vietnam era veterans were treated. In the war, by the government, by their own countrymen, when most of them were draftees, not voluntary forces. They get home, trying to do the best they could, turned away most everywhere they went... and even still, to this day, held up and used as a prop for political clout.
Basically, this was the scene that was the message to everyone of what every soldier from Vietnam was going through. Sure, there were some bad apples in the military, but the sheer lack of empathy from the public... something in short supply, even today. But you know, all John Rambo wanted was just something to eat. And a puffed-up sheriff was playing gatekeeper.
As someone who used to really struggle with PTSD, I'd say this is pretty accurate. You're always tense, on guard, startled easily. Those memories...they cling to you like a parasite. Haunt you every day, all the time, in your sleep. A certain smell, sound or touch can instantly pull you back into *that* place; wherever it was, whatever happened. People look at you differently, they don't understand why you are this way. It is hell. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Exactly my wife can't understand sometimes why I am so paranoid..why I never sit with my back facing a door...why I have to be able to see my surroundings at all times..Why I am always observing everything everyone does around me...why I am paranoid about making sure everything is secured and locked constantly...it isn't pleasant in the slightest. Like you said you get the "why are you like this??" Response to these behaviors and you can't even begin to say why....
I was recently waiting at a bank to speak with loan an officer, there was a Vietnam vet sitting across from me. We got talking and he told me he had, had 13 operations that he had caught some shrapnel, and they could not get all of it out he still had some in him and spoke of how painful it was sometimes, he walked with a cane. He explained how he still had nightmares and had to moved out of his home because he was afraid, he might hurt his wife, he said they trained me to kill and kill quick.
My father was in the 4th marine division in WW2 and was in the battle at Iwo Jima. He was there 10 days before he was hit with shrapnel from a mortar and almost lost his left leg. I can't imagine the horrors he witnessed In those ten days which probably felt like ten years. He, and the other men and women who made it home from that war, were at least treated as heroes. The way the returning vets from Vietnam were treated was absolutely disgusting and an insult. You may not agree with a war some vets have to serve in, but they're human beings just like you and should be treated with respect. You may think you know but you will NEVER know what they've been through and experienced. Thank you to all veterans.🇺🇸
"Congratulations!", they said, "You've got what it takes!" They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes They took a clean-cut kid A d they made a killer out of him is what they did. - Bob Dylan
I would never hate a soldier for fighting in an unpopular war. They sacrificed their time in the military to get better just so they can protect our country, but they are honor-bound to follow orders of their superiors. It is not their fault they fought people they were told were our enemy because that is what they are trained for. Of course, there are situations that they should question the legality of, but an entire war? They can't fight against the call.
In the original screenplay Col. Trautman kills Rambo after this monologue rather than comfort him. Because he knows Rambo is a dangerous weapon that he can't control anymore.
@@SadScientist1 It's also the only form of protection he can really offer Rambo. A quick merciful death versus the long slow paranoid crawl to death the civilian prisons would have offered Rambo. The second movie pictures Rambo being taken to military prison, which wouldn't have happened as Rambo's crimes are all within the civilian world which would have meant Rambo would been thrown into one of the worst max security prisons in the country, probably killing quite a few people but ultimately probably going ever more insane from the extreme PTSD and constant paranoia before finally getting murdered sometime in the long years he'd have gotten for all the killing. If I remember correctly Trautman is supposed to sort of wipe his face after shooting Rambo before telling the cops outside it's over. Meaning he's broken up about killing Rambo, but can't do anything else because of the two issues, Rambo's uncontrollable now and Rambo will only end up going to a place that will just be torture for him until he dies.
Honest to god Sly should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this movie. Which the exception of Creed and Rocky 1 this is his best performance of all time. The final scene when he talks about how horrifying the Vietnam War was still makes me cry to this day. Also he very wisely had the ending changed as well as him killing no one directly. In the original book First Blood Rambo actually completely snaps and goes on a killing spree and the book ends with Colonel Trautman shooting and killing Rambo like he was putting down a rabid animal. But Stallone in his amazing foresight knew this character needed sequels so he encouraged the director and the studio to have him kill no cops or guardsmen and have him arrested instead of killed off.
Some veterans suffer in silence. I'm a USMC vet myself, but I never saw true combat. My dad DID see combat........two tours of duty in Vietnam, also as a Marine. Growing up, I was aware of Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, documentaries about vets, seminars about PTSD while I was on active duty, etc). But I always had the impression that my dad wasn't affected. In the last year, I've found out that for the last 54 years, my dad has slept with a gun under his pillow. He's startled easily by loud noises. He still has nightmares about jungle warfare. Most of the typical problems. I always felt "lucky" that my dad didn't suffer like others did. To know that he has been suffering all of these years while telling no one is very painful for me.
For all of you who want to know what Vietnam was like I have a friend who was in Vietnam. He said to see Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and The Boys of Company C.
Stallones finest acting performance. Highlights the plight of veterans who came home from Vietnam and were treated terribly by the nation and all the PTSD that most soldiers suffered from, where nothing is over and the memories and things they experienced continued to haunt them all.
People think Rambo is an action movie when it's really about PTSD and the horrors of what war can do to the mind of a person on the field. It should have gotten far more awards for what it tried to get the world to know about
At the time, there was no diagnosis for PTSD. Vers were considered crazy and locked them up. There were no programs, no groups, no one to do anything for anyone. Vets also had a hard time getting and keeping jobs because of the PTSD. Just wasn't a good time for vets.
This is a reality for most military veterans in the US . We are the highest homeless and suicidal rates and it’s a situation I’m going through now . Lots of civilians don’t understand what we go through and it’s hard to hold down employment and most don’t care or are disrespectful especially this younger generation .
I saw Rambo 2 before First Blood. I was shocked by this scene because Rambo 2 was a straight up action flick with bits and pieces of the originals heart. And his breakdown at the end reaching for Trautman was my first glimpse at PTSD and what it can do to a person. Years later it’s still a powerful scene in a powerful movie.
for those wondering what punishment he got, see First Blood part 2, it wasn't good. sentenced to 30 years hard labor. He gives an equally moving soliloquy at the end of it too (I've heard that veterans in the theaters were giving standing ovations).
This movie is so misunderstood by so many boomers as a big, manly movie without "all that modern bullshit". But conveniently forget the movie ends with him breaking down, crying, and saying the war was the worst thing that ever happened to him and he can't adjust to civilian life.
I grew up in the 80s and of course we knew about Vietnam. But still it was seen in bits and pieces, in photos and maybe a few movies. We saw homeless Vietnam vets on the roadside with cardboard signs and we still somewhat subconsciously disregarded them as "crazy" I think. So the societal abuse and dismissal of their service continued long after the war was over. This was before we knew the term PTSD or the psychological toll that wars take on our veterans. It continues today with our recent war vets obviously. History continues to paint the picture of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If we focus and learn about how these countries have changed in the succeeding years of wars we seemingly "lost", there are positives shown thought the passage of time. Vietnam suffered greatly in the hands of the communists after we left. Look at Afghanistan now, the Taliban is now restricting the rights of all men, now that we have left. Iraq is a fairly stable country now. Incidentally, William Calley who was convicted for My Lai massacre died earlier this year. This one incident did the most to tarnish the service of others.
For anyone who never saw the sequel. Rambo ended up in prison, with a very long sentence. A particular prison that Trautman did his best to keep him out of. No extensive therapy of any kind. Just left to mostly deal with things on his own. In the sequel, Rambo gets chosen for a propaganda mission that he believes is an early rescue mission for POWs. If he agrees to go on the mission, he gets a full pardon. Trautman returns. But Rambo soon suspects something is wrong. But he goes on the mission anyway. Also, in the original ending to the first Rambo film, Trautman is holding a pistol as Rambo has his breakdown. At the end, instead of going in for the hug, Rambo rushes in, grabs the weapon and shots himself. Ending his own existence.
@ would have sworn there was at least a few feet between them rambo was by the filing cabinet rambo gets up kinda fast or rushes him. the only part they reuse in the 2008 movie is rambo taking a 45 to the guts so i may have retroactively reframed it.
@@bloodlinefilms Likely that. Rambo rushing in close and grabbing Trautman's hand with the gunshot going off was so incredibly sudden and unexpected. Unfortunately, a more realistic ending. But Hollywood loves leaving things open for sequels.
@ i think they showed it to the test audience and people sympathized with him so much they rejected the bummer ending. same thing happened with clerks to compare apples and oranges.
The movie that proves Stallone can act. Of course there are others, but for people that thinks he is only an action star, this is the movie to show there is more
The first reaction video of JustTrustAsh’s channel I ever watched was Rambo-and it was Hannah’s sweetness and empathy for Rambo at the end that made me subscribe. 💜
This ending wasn't the original ending where Rambo gets arrested. It was the second ending they shot and was the ending that made in theaters the real ending, which was from the book as well, yeah this movie is based on a book where Rambo tells Colonel Trautman that he can't live a normal life since society would never accept him and gives him a gun saying you created me you kill me then he begs him to shoot him but the colonel until Rambo forces him to pull the trigger killing him but the producers, as well as the test audience, hated that ending so they changed it where Rambo gets arrested you can see this ending on the DVD as an alternate ending, but that ending was the original ending in the book and movie.
As I see in the comments, I am also the son of a Vietnam veteran. Though he never went this far, my father was never the same after. This is hard to watch.
Watching the Colonels confusion always gets me. He has only ever seen Rambo as a bad ass tough soldier he trained, he honestly looks like he doesn't know what to do when he sees him break down. Old story though, they only train you for the war, they don't train you for after.
In a few clips, when Rambo says “parking cars”, the word “parking” was silenced. Did the censors think that he said “fuc-king”? If they did, that means that they thought that he said “I can’t even hold a job fuc-king cars!”
This was an incredibly powerful scene. Many people consider Stallone's acting skills as laughable, some thinks he does a really good job. Whatever the opinions are about it, Sly really did an amazing performance in this entire scene. It was very raw, emotional, and just gives you goosebumps.
Honestly one of the most important scenes in any action movie and the best part is that we weren’t expecting it. It gave this whole movie a new purpose for its existence and it screamed into our faces the horrible reality for those who came back from Vietnam. Did it make up for all the mistreatment and silence those Vietnam vets got when they did what they had to do to get home? No, but at least we now listen.
I operated and repaired the most advanced surface radar on the planet. Was qualified as a master helman to drive during underway replenishments, anchoring, mooring, straight transits. I spent 6 months looking for work before getting hired at home depot to push carts and load cars. Of any movie, this scene is the hardest for me to watch.
Sadly this was true for a lot of Vietnam Vets. It wasn't just the protestors making them feel despair coming back home, it was often times family too. Society at large turned their backs on the soldiers. The self deletion rate and homelessness is the highest amongst veterans from that war. Even the VFW wouldn't even recognize them, as they called it the Vietnam "conflict" instead of war. Our country and culture did those men dirty. Add to that the PTSD (real PTSD, not the ones tiktok 304s claim to suffer from), trauma, drug addiction, mental illness, etc. It's horrifying to think about. God have mercy on us for how we treated them. Stallone delivers this message in his epic and heart breaking performance here.
What i found really interesting about Rambo's figure is that people, mostly men of course, sees him as the "embodiment of masculinity", like how "real men" supposed to be, supposed to act, the man that's not afraid of nothing, the "one mans army", and THIS SCENE shows Rambo the way he really is deep down inside, a traumatized man, a man that was trained to not be afraid, to fight, to "act like a man", and in this moment, THE WAY I SEE IT, he shows how men, how REAL MEN supposed to be, as someone who's not afraid to show his real emotions, his weaknesses! The "fighter Rambo" is the one that guys see as a role model, when in fact this scene's Rambo is the one who they should look up to!
Everyone says "thank you for your service" to vets of any war, my old man said if you ever see a vietnam vet, do not thank him for his service (you can if you want but) tell them "welcome home", because no one did when they came back, the few i said it to were so greatful and happy, they shook my hand, i continue that gesture to this day...welcome home vietnam vets, thank you!!!
Vietnam veterans have always and always will be my heros. I remember being at LAX. I seen a soldier pushing another soldier in a wheelchair. He had no legs. When they got outside there were protesters, calling them baby killers and spitting on them. I was 9 yrs old and that was the first time I remember being so angry at the world.
Another Well chosen segment from a memorable video. That video and Rocky really started it for Sky. Btw, happens to be my first name from 61 years ago.😊
For all the reviewers, I feel your pain the first time I saw saw this scene. It really gets to the heart. It's the study of many Vietnam Vets who suffered from PTSD and mental breakdowns .
PTSD really became visible with the Vietnam War. In previous wars, the soldiers retuning home, the journey could take weeks or months. During that travel time, soldiers had the opportunity to decompress and share their experiences with others (usually men in their unit and/or other units aboard the ship) who also understood their pain; basically, the best form of therapy for them. We saw this with the return of WWI and WWII veterans, but that doesn't mean it worked with everyone. With Vietnam, returning vets didn't get that. Most were flown home, a trip that would take hours (not weeks or months) so there was no time to decompress. And they'd be lucky if they were sent back home with anybody they knew. If not, they were on their own with the trauma. I learned a story about one of my relatives (Reginald Hart, 3rd Army Infantry, 30.cal Gun Crew, Gunner) back in WWII from my Dad, of 12 who'd served. My dad managed to track down a member of his unit and wrote to him. The letter sent back told us of one time my relative (Hart) and he were in a bombed-out house, using it as a machine gun nest. The letter said that it was dark and raining, but eventually they could hear Germans coming up the road. The man wrote simply, "He waited until the shadows were barely visible, probably no more than 15' or 20' in front of us, and he must have widowed 20 to 30 German women that night." No one in our family ever knew this, until we had gotten the letter. I have another relative named Cleavland O. Petty, from Tennessee. If you've ever watched the series Band of Brothers, you might've heard of him.
Stallion should’ve won an Oscar just for this scene.
its Stallone 😂
@@Life_Is_AdventureeIt is, but he is also Stallion. The Italian Stallion.
Isn't that right, Apollo? (RIP Carl Weathers)
unfortunately that would make liberals (the ones that called guys like this a baby killer) the villains. And Hollywood doesn't like calling liberals, villains.
OK boomer @@Kissfan96dr
@@orion351us lol it was the boomers that were doing that.
I was called a "baby killer" when I first came home from deployment. I was a Medic. I saved kids. Lol. It hurt so bad.
That’s close minded, brainless people for you. The opinion of a fool holds no weight no more than the weight of termite.
Still hurts somedays brother
Thank you for your service.
Remember, the same type of people who called you a baby killer would proudly declare themselves to be pro-abortion.
Meanwhile the people calling you that aborted 60 million kids.
As the Son of a Vietnam veteran I would often ask my Father about his time there. While he wasn't in the same situation as the Rambo character he did of course lose friends and face his own mortality on a few occasions. While at a Base known as Hill 55 about 10 miles Southwest of Da Nang he was asked to grab a sheet of Plywood from a nearby pile to use as a makeshift table. Lugging the wood up the hill across his back he heard a series of thwip sounds followed by a "pinging" noise. Turns out he was being snipped from the Jungle nearby and that ping he heard was a shot hitting a nearby metal fencing, the thwips were rounds hitting the ground. A guy wearing camouflage and a hat with a feather stuck in the brim shouted at him to get for cover before grabbing his own rifle to return fire. That guy as it turned out was famed Vietnam war sniper Carlos Hathcock known as White Feather.
AND EVERYBODY CLAPPED 👏 👏 👏
Unfortunately my father was in that same position as Rambo, and years later I was in that same position, My brother John was in that same position, my brother Brandon was in that same position (He's a Command Sergeant Major now, and my cousin Rondelle was in that same position (he was killed in combat).
I retired a Master Chief (Seabee) with 24 years of service, but unfortunately today I'm suffering from a brain tumor that developed from being around burn pits.
I was in rehab with white feathers grandson. I met him once. He was amazing.
Im also the son of a Vietnam Veteran. I salute all I encounter. My father told us his stories NIONSTOP for first 20 years of my life.
My dad was a medic over there. He never would tell me anything about it. I can imagine the stuff he saw. Spent the rest of his life as a surgical assistant.
Remember
All Rambo wanted was something to eat
He just wanted to eat and his own country's people discriminate him
He did everything he was told to do, did everything he was raised to believe was right, lost everything and for it he was hated, abused, and discarded by the people he sacrificed it all for.
They drew first blood not him
Still say he should have earned an Oscar on this alone. Young heads always think it’s just a shoot em up action flick. Then you watch it from beginning to end and it was so much more than that. The rest were indeed money grabs (it is Hollywood after all). But this scene is powerful art.
I agree.It’s a powerful scene,how he couldn’t get over the death of his buddy who was blown up by that rigged shoeshine box in Saigon.As I said in a previous post,it’s a shame he turned Rambos story into a franchise.First Blood is the best of the lot.First Blood 2 wasn’t bad,but the rest…no!
The second one tried to recapture that ending with another monologue. It wasn’t awful, but it clearly was a one-time thing for First Blood. You can’t recapture the impact of that scene, and it’s the reason why this Rambo will always be remembered the most.
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Agreed
Man... It really hits hard watching the women cry at the end of Rambo, because THIS monologue is the whole point of the movie.
PTSD was in its baby steps when they movie came out.
Nah. We've known the symptoms for decades before that. It just had other names. "Battle fatigue", "shell shock", etc.
But what it's always been is real truama. Not the "truama" people claim when mean things are Saud about them online. Or being disciplined by their parents and calling it truama.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerthank you
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerfuck you its trauma you fucking asshole
i can hear fucking voices in my fucking head whenever i do something my piece of shit family wouldent approve of.
Just because no one shot at me doesnt mean a fucking abusive curcomstance cant do the same thing.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer Love the user name my man
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer yhe disciplined by parents part hits hard, because some clearly haven't gone through that properly, then act as if the world should change to suit them.
Sylvester Stallone’s performance is so incredible it’s easy to overlook Richard Crenna’s amazing performance as a man who wants to also break down in tears but tries to maintain his military bearing
Richard Crenna's performance conveys a lot of things. Over the course of the film he's been bragging about how Rambo is a deadly machine he created. In this scene, you can see the guilt on his face as he realises what he's done to a human being
Stallone at his absolute best.I saw this when it came out in 1982,and loved Stallones performance.It’s just so sad that he turned it into a franchise like Rocky and The Expendables.
I served for 22 years. This is so true. You just don't turn it off.
17 years, here (11 active. six as a contractor). I still instantly drop into a defensive stance, fist cocked, if someone surprises me; you're right, you don't just turn it off
What time period and branch did you serve breakfast in?
PTSD is a real thing, my uncle served in Vietnam and was never the same. In his time there was no real help for a lot of those guys. I watched him struggle until the end and the last time I saw him smile, we were putting him in the ground. I hold a huge amount of respect for war vets.
@@damone70those poor chefs have a hard time forgiving themselves.
They did what they had to do and with what was given.
Mostly a joke but my bro told me modern MREs aren’t great.
Stallone's soliloquy still resonates - heartbreaking, profound and necessary - totally humanizes John Rambo and also showed a world that Vietnam vets who suffered PTSD needed to be taken seriously. Such a cinematic moment.
I love he called out the vile protesters. Boys come back to their fellow countrymen spitting on them for doing a job many didn't even want to do.
The same is true today with protesters. Most don't know much of anything about what they are even protesting.
Amen brother. Amen.
We turned them into weapons and then turned our back on them. We failed as a country
Nearly all Vietnam vets got a lot of hatred they didn't deserve.
at that time PTSD wasn't even a thing. I think this movie and this scene brought a lot of attention to it.
I am Japanese, and when I saw this movie 40 years ago, I was 20 years old and did not think that deeply about war.
After seeing this last scene, I began to think deeply about what war does to soldiers.
Now, it is very valuable for young people to see this film and have the same thoughts as I did.
Here's some sayings about war you might find interesting:
"Battle is an orgy of chaos"
"War never changes, but always changes people"
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33”War….war never changes. We start to forget the things we should remember…and we start to remember the things we should forget.”
The way those military trumpets somberly play as he's hugging Trautman feels like they're quietly serenading a casualty of war. And he may not be dead, but he's still very much a casualty, and not just of the war, but of unjust societal judgement.
Well said. Another amazing work by one of the GOATs for movie scores, Jerry Goldsmith.
When I was a kid I used to see Rambo as an action icon. They made cartoons, action figures, comic boos about the character. Growing up, I realized "First Blood" was a drama, it was really about PTSD, loneliness and being rejected by society. Stallone did a very good job here. Then they decided to turn the character into the immortal action hero in the sequels. I'll be honest, it would have worked much better if they'd never made any sequels.
In the original Script Rambo was supposed to die, not have a soliloquy. When the Officer comes in je original shoots Rambo. And they even shot it. But during testing it didn't sit right with the audience so they took it out.
The last line in the movie:
“I can’t get *it* out of my mind”
Summed up *everything*
Sly is an underrated writer.
By far, the best acting Stallone ever did. ❤
Rocky and Copland say hi...
@Jaydogg222 Both great movies. But they don't even come close. The last 5 minutes of this movie blows them all away.
@@toxicrevenuegaming Nope
Stallone is a GREAT actor
We often regard him as just an action hero and a muscle head.
But the man is an amazing actor and an amazing writter
@@Mugthrakaikr? An amazing actor, always will be one of my favourites personally.
This single performance is one of thee greatest performances of all time. I grew up in the 60's, my brother was drafted before he graduated - and this is graduating high school. He returned with PTSD that wasn't diagnosed till after 1977 because the US Gov didn't 'recognize it' as a 'real affliction' until then! What this movie did not tell you was that those within the ranks that had PTSD were at times bullied/brutalized while with the affliction and serving!
I remember watching Ken Burns PBS series about the Vietnam War and one episode showed Vietnam Veterans throwing their medals away outside the White House.Vietnam veterans were treated like shit by both the public and the government at that time and Stallone talking about the treatment he got,especially at the airport and being called a baby killer is true.Thank God the treatment of veterans is so much better and people go up to veterans today and thank them for their service.
Stallone at the least should have been nominated for an Oscar for this.
I read that surviving vets from Vietnam War stated that Sly stated the truth of what they are going thru back then and still going thru today!
My dad is a 77 y/o Marine Corps Vietnam vet & he still suffers from PTSD to this day, as well as the effects of Agent Orange exposure.
I am a viet vet usmc . this is absolutely true.
@@tmorris53 Thank you for your service and God Bless!
My father was a green beret viet war vet, he really hated having to talk about the war, in fact, every time he tried to, he would start smoking heavily, he showed on occasion PTSD, by zoning out but he was also later on showing signs of Parkinson's, it was getting so bad I, with my mother, had to quickly move out, without him getting too possessive, not out of fear of his PTSD, but he was showing the signs that he couldn't recognize me as his son. Now, the question is do I hate him? Not entirely, more like I pity him, do I miss him? No, I don't. Am I proud that he tried fighting for his country? Yes, but I wished that one day, he would understand that he did everything he could but he was never home with me growing up in the 90s, he was either working with computers or out flying, this was before he retired and started chain smoking.
An hour after Jim Minarik was discharged from the army, two persons spat on his olive, drab uniform as he walked along a street in Oakland California. Just returned from Vietnam and having no civilian clothes, Minarik wore his uniform again that night when he chose a good San Francisco restaurant to celebrate his: safe return stateside. He was denied entrance to the restaurant, and told that he was a war criminal. That was on Dec. 10, 1968, and Minarik solved the problem bý purchasing a civilian suit. "It was not a very good welcome back to America." the former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division said yesterday.
Washington Post 6-2-71
Its a myth. It was a meme of the time, everyone heard someone who's friend's cousin got spit on. Reporters looked for exact specific instances and couldn't track any down.
@@vorpalrobot Can you read? Jim Minarik is an example of an exact specific instance.
It was in the Washington Post 6-2-71.
@@cyclone8974 yeah they look into those sources and it's still all hearsay.
@@vorpalrobotYou’re a pot stirring kid-fucker.
As someone raised by a Vietnam vet who had 5 kids and I’m one of the 6 he adopted; stories of disrespect being shown towards returning veterans are all true actually as it happened on multiple occasions to my father yet he kept his cool and simply responded to hate with kindness.
Newer audiences to this film, having heard about the character and/or the franchise for years, are in for a shock when they get to this part of the first film, the best of the series. It's in a class all by itself because of this scene. It sets itself apart from every other "action" film of it's time.
The sequels miss the entire point of the movie.
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As an Afghanistan veteran I personally cried when we pulled out. I knew all those people would be slaughtered. They knew while the Americans were there they’d all be fine. As soon as we left all hell broke loose.
This scene always gets me.
One of Stallone's stellar acting performances.
Stallone is definitely not just about muscles, gun shots and punches. He's a great actor. Rocky 6 has 3 great emotional scenes, one of him teaching his son a lesson, another of him talking to the boxing committee, and another of him venting to Paulie about the "stuff in the basement", this last one made me cry. Great actor!
I had a good friend, force recon, scout. He's a great guy, but self-destructive. Smokes a lot of weed. Says it helps, because while he's high, he can't smell his friends burning. This wasn't Vietnam, it was Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan. Nothing ever changes.
One of those rare occasions when the movie gets it better than the book. This was a powerful message for how wrong the Vietnam era veterans were treated. In the war, by the government, by their own countrymen, when most of them were draftees, not voluntary forces. They get home, trying to do the best they could, turned away most everywhere they went... and even still, to this day, held up and used as a prop for political clout.
Actually, most Vietnam veterans were volunteers, not conscripts. Most WW2 vets were conscripted though.
Basically, this was the scene that was the message to everyone of what every soldier from Vietnam was going through.
Sure, there were some bad apples in the military, but the sheer lack of empathy from the public... something in short supply, even today.
But you know, all John Rambo wanted was just something to eat. And a puffed-up sheriff was playing gatekeeper.
I love how this movie went from major badass action to very depressingly real
Stallone should have won at least one award for this monologue.
As someone who used to really struggle with PTSD, I'd say this is pretty accurate. You're always tense, on guard, startled easily. Those memories...they cling to you like a parasite. Haunt you every day, all the time, in your sleep. A certain smell, sound or touch can instantly pull you back into *that* place; wherever it was, whatever happened. People look at you differently, they don't understand why you are this way. It is hell. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Exactly my wife can't understand sometimes why I am so paranoid..why I never sit with my back facing a door...why I have to be able to see my surroundings at all times..Why I am always observing everything everyone does around me...why I am paranoid about making sure everything is secured and locked constantly...it isn't pleasant in the slightest. Like you said you get the "why are you like this??" Response to these behaviors and you can't even begin to say why....
I was recently waiting at a bank to speak with loan an officer, there was a Vietnam vet sitting across from me. We got talking and he told me he had, had 13 operations that he had caught some shrapnel, and they could not get all of it out he still had some in him and spoke of how painful it was sometimes, he walked with a cane.
He explained how he still had nightmares and had to moved out of his home because he was afraid, he might hurt his wife, he said they trained me to kill and kill quick.
This was & still is the best of the Rambo films.
In Top 10 action films of all time
To all of those reactors who said "he just needs somebody". Youre somebody.
As long as we keep the important stories alive, we are all somebody.
As much as Stallone is known for being an action hero, at heart he's really drama actor underneath all those muscles.
This is one hell of a great scene. Makes me tear up because of what Vietnam veterans actually came back home to.
It hits so hard when he says,”And nobody would help!”
My father was in the 4th marine division in WW2 and was in the battle at Iwo Jima. He was there 10 days before he was hit with shrapnel from a mortar and almost lost his left leg. I can't imagine the horrors he witnessed In those ten days which probably felt like ten years. He, and the other men and women who made it home from that war, were at least treated as heroes. The way the returning vets from Vietnam were treated was absolutely disgusting and an insult. You may not agree with a war some vets have to serve in, but they're human beings just like you and should be treated with respect. You may think you know but you will NEVER know what they've been through and experienced. Thank you to all veterans.🇺🇸
Sometimes it's easy to forget that Stallone is capable of some damn good acting if the script is good enough.
He wrote this part of the script.
Stallones best performance of his entire career was this scene, you cant convince me otherwise.
"Congratulations!", they said, "You've got what it takes!"
They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes
They took a clean-cut kid
A d they made a killer out of him is what they did.
- Bob Dylan
I would never hate a soldier for fighting in an unpopular war. They sacrificed their time in the military to get better just so they can protect our country, but they are honor-bound to follow orders of their superiors. It is not their fault they fought people they were told were our enemy because that is what they are trained for. Of course, there are situations that they should question the legality of, but an entire war? They can't fight against the call.
This is why you don't mess with a broken soldier.
Exactly you will never know what they would do next
This is what War actually does to people who served and it truly is sad.
I see that line getting censored. "Back here I can't get a job [CENSORED] cars!" The actual line is "Back here I can't get a job, parking cars!"
In the original screenplay Col. Trautman kills Rambo after this monologue rather than comfort him.
Because he knows Rambo is a dangerous weapon that he can't control anymore.
Wow, as sad as it is, this ending would've been more profound and realistic. Thanks for telling us.
@@SadScientist1 It's also the only form of protection he can really offer Rambo. A quick merciful death versus the long slow paranoid crawl to death the civilian prisons would have offered Rambo. The second movie pictures Rambo being taken to military prison, which wouldn't have happened as Rambo's crimes are all within the civilian world which would have meant Rambo would been thrown into one of the worst max security prisons in the country, probably killing quite a few people but ultimately probably going ever more insane from the extreme PTSD and constant paranoia before finally getting murdered sometime in the long years he'd have gotten for all the killing. If I remember correctly Trautman is supposed to sort of wipe his face after shooting Rambo before telling the cops outside it's over. Meaning he's broken up about killing Rambo, but can't do anything else because of the two issues, Rambo's uncontrollable now and Rambo will only end up going to a place that will just be torture for him until he dies.
In the book he does kill him.
@@412meatwad Thought so but it's been decades.
Honest to god Sly should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this movie. Which the exception of Creed and Rocky 1 this is his best performance of all time. The final scene when he talks about how horrifying the Vietnam War was still makes me cry to this day.
Also he very wisely had the ending changed as well as him killing no one directly. In the original book First Blood Rambo actually completely snaps and goes on a killing spree and the book ends with Colonel Trautman shooting and killing Rambo like he was putting down a rabid animal. But Stallone in his amazing foresight knew this character needed sequels so he encouraged the director and the studio to have him kill no cops or guardsmen and have him arrested instead of killed off.
They keep bleeping out that line when he says, "I can't even get a job PARKING cars!"
I think this guy who did the mashup did it, and I think it's just he mis-heard it is all. Eh.
Some veterans suffer in silence.
I'm a USMC vet myself, but I never saw true combat. My dad DID see combat........two tours of duty in Vietnam, also as a Marine. Growing up, I was aware of Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, documentaries about vets, seminars about PTSD while I was on active duty, etc). But I always had the impression that my dad wasn't affected. In the last year, I've found out that for the last 54 years, my dad has slept with a gun under his pillow. He's startled easily by loud noises. He still has nightmares about jungle warfare. Most of the typical problems.
I always felt "lucky" that my dad didn't suffer like others did. To know that he has been suffering all of these years while telling no one is very painful for me.
For all of you who want to know what Vietnam was like I have a friend who was in Vietnam. He said to see Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and The Boys of Company C.
I agree with you 100%! The Boys in Company C is severely underrated.
Everyone censored him when he threw the gun. He said word for word, " I cant even hold a job parking cars!!" Lol why is it censored?
Maybe they thought he said 'fucking' cars?
Because many people think he's saying "f***ing" instead. What kind of job do they think involves someone f***ing cars?! 🤣
@@OnTheWall81 Ask an OF girl. I'm sure they could answer that.
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Stallones finest acting performance. Highlights the plight of veterans who came home from Vietnam and were treated terribly by the nation and all the PTSD that most soldiers suffered from, where nothing is over and the memories and things they experienced continued to haunt them all.
My grandfather was in WWII and was captured and held in Germany for almost 2 years as a POW. He NEVER talked about it, very rare if he did.
Wow, he would've experienced some nasty shit. Not as bad a being a prisoner of the Vietcong, but still..
@aaronbarlow4376 that had to be horrible to.
People think Rambo is an action movie when it's really about PTSD and the horrors of what war can do to the mind of a person on the field.
It should have gotten far more awards for what it tried to get the world to know about
At the time, there was no diagnosis for PTSD. Vers were considered crazy and locked them up. There were no programs, no groups, no one to do anything for anyone. Vets also had a hard time getting and keeping jobs because of the PTSD. Just wasn't a good time for vets.
This is a reality for most military veterans in the US . We are the highest homeless and suicidal rates and it’s a situation I’m going through now . Lots of civilians don’t understand what we go through and it’s hard to hold down employment and most don’t care or are disrespectful especially this younger generation .
Stallone had an amazing one-two punch to the start of his career with Rocky and First Blood.
if something happened and he died after that he would be remembered as one of our greatest actors.
I think this was Sylvester Stallone's best role, if only for the last ten minutes; he did a phenomenal job.
I saw Rambo 2 before First Blood. I was shocked by this scene because Rambo 2 was a straight up action flick with bits and pieces of the originals heart. And his breakdown at the end reaching for Trautman was my first glimpse at PTSD and what it can do to a person. Years later it’s still a powerful scene in a powerful movie.
They don't make movies like this anymore. Greatest!
for those wondering what punishment he got, see First Blood part 2, it wasn't good. sentenced to 30 years hard labor. He gives an equally moving soliloquy at the end of it too (I've heard that veterans in the theaters were giving standing ovations).
He got offered the medal of honor and rambo said he didn't want it, he wanted his country to love him as much as he loved his country.
@@NicholasSarsby Before that Trautman said "don't hate your country" and Rambo replied, "hate it? I'd die for it" Besides he already had a CMH.
As a kid when I 1st watched this movie with my brothers & my cousins. not one of us cried.All we wanted was that knife he had
This movie is so misunderstood by so many boomers as a big, manly movie without "all that modern bullshit". But conveniently forget the movie ends with him breaking down, crying, and saying the war was the worst thing that ever happened to him and he can't adjust to civilian life.
His best movie, period.
I grew up in the 80s and of course we knew about Vietnam. But still it was seen in bits and pieces, in photos and maybe a few movies. We saw homeless Vietnam vets on the roadside with cardboard signs and we still somewhat subconsciously disregarded them as "crazy" I think. So the societal abuse and dismissal of their service continued long after the war was over. This was before we knew the term PTSD or the psychological toll that wars take on our veterans. It continues today with our recent war vets obviously. History continues to paint the picture of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If we focus and learn about how these countries have changed in the succeeding years of wars we seemingly "lost", there are positives shown thought the passage of time. Vietnam suffered greatly in the hands of the communists after we left. Look at Afghanistan now, the Taliban is now restricting the rights of all men, now that we have left. Iraq is a fairly stable country now. Incidentally, William Calley who was convicted for My Lai massacre died earlier this year. This one incident did the most to tarnish the service of others.
Please never forget what our Soldiers and Veterans have done for this country. They will always be heroes to me!
For anyone who never saw the sequel. Rambo ended up in prison, with a very long sentence. A particular prison that Trautman did his best to keep him out of. No extensive therapy of any kind. Just left to mostly deal with things on his own.
In the sequel, Rambo gets chosen for a propaganda mission that he believes is an early rescue mission for POWs. If he agrees to go on the mission, he gets a full pardon. Trautman returns. But Rambo soon suspects something is wrong. But he goes on the mission anyway.
Also, in the original ending to the first Rambo film, Trautman is holding a pistol as Rambo has his breakdown. At the end, instead of going in for the hug, Rambo rushes in, grabs the weapon and shots himself. Ending his own existence.
trautman shoots rambo in the alternate ending
@@bloodlinefilms
No, Rambo grabs the weapon Trautman is holding and shoots himself while Trautman still has the weapon in his hand.
@ would have sworn there was at least a few feet between them rambo was by the filing cabinet rambo gets up kinda fast or rushes him. the only part they reuse in the 2008 movie is rambo taking a 45 to the guts so i may have retroactively reframed it.
@@bloodlinefilms
Likely that. Rambo rushing in close and grabbing Trautman's hand with the gunshot going off was so incredibly sudden and unexpected. Unfortunately, a more realistic ending. But Hollywood loves leaving things open for sequels.
@ i think they showed it to the test audience and people sympathized with him so much they rejected the bummer ending. same thing happened with clerks to compare apples and oranges.
The movie that proves Stallone can act. Of course there are others, but for people that thinks he is only an action star, this is the movie to show there is more
There's also Cop Land.
My grand father was in WW2 we all found out when it showed up on his obit. Never talked about it and never told a soul.
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The fact that this all started over a sandwich. Rambo 1 was such a excellent piece of cinema before they turned it into an 80s action franchise.
The first reaction video of JustTrustAsh’s channel I ever watched was Rambo-and it was Hannah’s sweetness and empathy for Rambo at the end that made me subscribe. 💜
Rambo First Blood is fantastic Movie Forever ❤
As a vet who suffers from PTSD. This was real. Alot of us think and feel this way
This ending wasn't the original ending where Rambo gets arrested. It was the second ending they shot and was the ending that made in theaters the real ending, which was from the book as well, yeah this movie is based on a book where Rambo tells Colonel Trautman that he can't live a normal life since society would never accept him and gives him a gun saying you created me you kill me then he begs him to shoot him but the colonel until Rambo forces him to pull the trigger killing him but the producers, as well as the test audience, hated that ending so they changed it where Rambo gets arrested you can see this ending on the DVD as an alternate ending, but that ending was the original ending in the book and movie.
Punctuation. PLEASE.
@@todderickson2435 No one asked you.
@@todderickson2435👀🤣😂☠️☠️
Stallone was the reason they changed the ending. He wrote that entire part of the movie himself.
The performance from Stallone at the last few minutes of this movie was awesome!
As I see in the comments, I am also the son of a Vietnam veteran. Though he never went this far, my father was never the same after. This is hard to watch.
Man it's punishing to watch this scene nine times in a row.
Watching the Colonels confusion always gets me. He has only ever seen Rambo as a bad ass tough soldier he trained, he honestly looks like he doesn't know what to do when he sees him break down. Old story though, they only train you for the war, they don't train you for after.
In a few clips, when Rambo says “parking cars”, the word “parking” was silenced. Did the censors think that he said “fuc-king”? If they did, that means that they thought that he said “I can’t even hold a job fuc-king cars!”
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prolly cus it souds like hes saying cant get a job at a fuking garage
This was an incredibly powerful scene. Many people consider Stallone's acting skills as laughable, some thinks he does a really good job. Whatever the opinions are about it, Sly really did an amazing performance in this entire scene. It was very raw, emotional, and just gives you goosebumps.
Honestly one of the most important scenes in any action movie and the best part is that we weren’t expecting it. It gave this whole movie a new purpose for its existence and it screamed into our faces the horrible reality for those who came back from Vietnam. Did it make up for all the mistreatment and silence those Vietnam vets got when they did what they had to do to get home? No, but at least we now listen.
It grinds my mgear when people say Stallone isn't a good actor. he's amazing
They always cut out the part when he says "I can't hold a job PARKING CARS!" 😅😅😅
I operated and repaired the most advanced surface radar on the planet. Was qualified as a master helman to drive during underway replenishments, anchoring, mooring, straight transits. I spent 6 months looking for work before getting hired at home depot to push carts and load cars.
Of any movie, this scene is the hardest for me to watch.
Our father struggled for years with his nightmares and trauma! 😔
It took decades to get the help he needed to confront those memories 😢
Sadly this was true for a lot of Vietnam Vets. It wasn't just the protestors making them feel despair coming back home, it was often times family too. Society at large turned their backs on the soldiers. The self deletion rate and homelessness is the highest amongst veterans from that war. Even the VFW wouldn't even recognize them, as they called it the Vietnam "conflict" instead of war. Our country and culture did those men dirty. Add to that the PTSD (real PTSD, not the ones tiktok 304s claim to suffer from), trauma, drug addiction, mental illness, etc. It's horrifying to think about. God have mercy on us for how we treated them. Stallone delivers this message in his epic and heart breaking performance here.
What i found really interesting about Rambo's figure is that people, mostly men of course, sees him as the "embodiment of masculinity", like how "real men" supposed to be, supposed to act, the man that's not afraid of nothing, the "one mans army", and THIS SCENE shows Rambo the way he really is deep down inside, a traumatized man, a man that was trained to not be afraid, to fight, to "act like a man", and in this moment, THE WAY I SEE IT, he shows how men, how REAL MEN supposed to be, as someone who's not afraid to show his real emotions, his weaknesses! The "fighter Rambo" is the one that guys see as a role model, when in fact this scene's Rambo is the one who they should look up to!
speaking as a combat veteran he hit this spot on i cant watch this scene at all without breaking
This film is probably more relevant now today than its ever been ...amazing movie
Rambo is one of those movies you jusr can't replicate. Stallone's performance in this is one of a kind.
Everyone says "thank you for your service" to vets of any war, my old man said if you ever see a vietnam vet, do not thank him for his service (you can if you want but) tell them "welcome home", because no one did when they came back, the few i said it to were so greatful and happy, they shook my hand, i continue that gesture to this day...welcome home vietnam vets, thank you!!!
I thank Vietnam vets, because as a different era vet, I know people overcompensate us, for their guilt over them.
Vietnam veterans have always and always will be my heros. I remember being at LAX. I seen a soldier pushing another soldier in a wheelchair. He had no legs. When they got outside there were protesters, calling them baby killers and spitting on them. I was 9 yrs old and that was the first time I remember being so angry at the world.
Another Well chosen segment from a memorable video. That video and Rocky really started it for Sky. Btw, happens to be my first name from 61 years ago.😊
For all the reviewers, I feel your pain the first time I saw saw this scene. It really gets to the heart. It's the study of many Vietnam Vets who suffered from PTSD and mental breakdowns .
PTSD really became visible with the Vietnam War.
In previous wars, the soldiers retuning home, the journey could take weeks or months. During that travel time, soldiers had the opportunity to decompress and share their experiences with others (usually men in their unit and/or other units aboard the ship) who also understood their pain; basically, the best form of therapy for them. We saw this with the return of WWI and WWII veterans, but that doesn't mean it worked with everyone.
With Vietnam, returning vets didn't get that. Most were flown home, a trip that would take hours (not weeks or months) so there was no time to decompress. And they'd be lucky if they were sent back home with anybody they knew. If not, they were on their own with the trauma.
I learned a story about one of my relatives (Reginald Hart, 3rd Army Infantry, 30.cal Gun Crew, Gunner) back in WWII from my Dad, of 12 who'd served. My dad managed to track down a member of his unit and wrote to him. The letter sent back told us of one time my relative (Hart) and he were in a bombed-out house, using it as a machine gun nest.
The letter said that it was dark and raining, but eventually they could hear Germans coming up the road. The man wrote simply, "He waited until the shadows were barely visible, probably no more than 15' or 20' in front of us, and he must have widowed 20 to 30 German women that night."
No one in our family ever knew this, until we had gotten the letter.
I have another relative named Cleavland O. Petty, from Tennessee. If you've ever watched the series Band of Brothers, you might've heard of him.
Fantastic performance by Stallone, you feel the turmoil of his mind.
One of the best monologues ever. Stallone shows his class! 🎉
Lots of vets say this is the realest portrayal of being back home for too many of them.
"Some men can leave war behind, but for many it follows them home."
This is ptsd man . Filmed & acted so well x
For years my father would smoke cigarettes while he took a shower. I Didn't realize to much later in life what he was going through.
Trauma described as scars and bruises. PTSD is literal anatomical dismemberment. No comfort or outside love can heal that, only self love.