During the Beirut hostage crisis in 1985, Reagan said that “after seeing ‘Rambo’ last night, I know what to do the next time this happens”
IN “FIRST BLOOD”, David Morrell’s action-thriller novel from 1972, John Rambo returns to America from Vietnam, where he fought in an elite Special Forces unit. Afflicted by post-traumatic stress disorder, he attacks the local police when they try to detain him and flees to the mountains. After a manhunt, in which officers and National Guardsmen die, Rambo hopes to meet an honourable end. His former captain shoots him in the head.
The subsequent “Rambo” films gave American audiences a chance to re-fight the Vietnam war and emerge with their national pride renewed. In “Rambo: First Blood Part II” the hero is recruited by his commander to rescue prisoners of war left behind by the American government. At the time of the film’s release, the idea that there were still American soldiers in Vietnam was a fringe theory—it was officially debunked by a Senate Select Committee in 1993—but the film treats it as fact.
“Rambo III” followed in 1988, with the protagonist teaming up with the mujahideen in Afghanistan to save a friend kidnapped by Soviet forces. The most expensive film ever made at that time, it was a flop in America compared with its predecessors. Reagan was in his last year of office; the idea of out-and-out victory had become more complicated over the course of the cold war. Rambo’s on-screen alliance with rebel soldiers was a prelude to a new, murkier global era.
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