Rambo: First Blood Part II

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Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo: First Blood Part II movie poster
Directed by	George P. Cosmatos
Produced by	Buzz Feitshans
Written by	Characters: David Morrell Story: Kevin Jarre Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone James Cameron
Starring	Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna Charles Napier Stephen Berkoff Julia Nickson-Soul
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith Peter Schless
Cinematography	Jack Cardiff
Editing by	Larry Bock Mark Goldblatt Mark Helfrich Gib Jaffe Frank E. Jiminez
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	May 22, 1985
Running time	94 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$44,000,000 (est.)
Preceded by	First Blood
Followed by	Rambo III
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Rambo: First Blood Part II Released on May 22, 1985, is the second movie in the Rambo series. It has Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) released from prison by Federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing and the government can sweep the issue under the rug.

The movie, which had an enormous budget of $44 million, became a huge box-office success.It was the second most successful movie of 1985 in North America after Back to the Future. This film captured the attention of President Ronald Reagan and he applauded Stallone for portraying Rambo as a symbol of the mentally handicapped in the U.S. Army.

The movie was also criticised for being a mindless action film and it was selected as worst picture at the 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards. It also topped the categories worst screenplay (by Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron),best"original" song ("Peace in Our Life").

Rambo: First Blood Part II was directed by George P. Cosmatos, who later directed the movie Cobra with Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen. He had previously been known for directing the 1976 movie The Cassandra Crossing with Sophia Loren, Richard Harris and Burt Lancaster.

Rambo: First Blood Part II follows First Blood and is followed by Rambo III.

Taglines:

• They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail. But they made one mistake. They forgot they were dealing with Rambo.
• No man, no law, no war can stop him.
• What you call hell, he calls home.
• To win war you've gotta' become war.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Influences 3 Awards and nominations 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Plot

Rambo, with the assistance of a local woman, Co Bao (Julia Nickson-Soul), finds American POWs in Vietnam and tries to escape with one. During the extraction, Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier), in charge of the operation, orders that Rambo be abandoned, and all documentation of POWs be destroyed, which became much to Colonel Trautman's (Richard Crenna) dismay. Trautman started to criticize Murdock for what he had done, but Murdock ignores him. Rambo is taken into captivity by the Vietnamese soldiers, and tortured by the Russian army. With the help of Co (who is later killed), Rambo escapes, nearly destroys the Vietnamese and Russian armies, and flies back to Thailand with the rescued POWs. He then threatens Murdock to find the remaining POWs, or Rambo will find him. In the end, Rambo tells Trautman that he deeply wants his country to love him as much as he loves it.

[edit] Influences

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Many things from Rambo: First Blood Part II (and the Rambo series in general) inspired parts of the Metal Gear Solid series. For instance, the scene where Rambo parachutes into the jungle and in the process loses his weapons and gear is similar to the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 3. Rambo also confronts russians in a jungle where he was sent in by himself on a secret mission ala MGS3. Rambo is tortured with electricity and will not submit; a scene depicted in Metal Gear Solid. The MSX portrait of Colonel Roy Campbell from Metal Gear 2 was based on Col. Samuel Trautman from the Rambo movies as well. According to Hideo Kojima, the creator of the MGS series, the two greatest influences for the main character of Solid Snake are Rambo and Snake Plissken from Escape From New York.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, Flippy, a green war veteran bear from Happy Tree Friends, contains several references to Rambo in his character.

[edit] Awards and nominations

Golden Raspberry Awards:

• Won:

1. Worst Picture
2. Best Screenplay

1. Best "Original" Song (Peace in Our Life)

• Nominated:

1. Best Supporting Actress (Julia Nickson)
2. Best Director (George P. Cosmatos)
3. Best New Star (Julia Nickson)

[edit] Trivia

• During the early 1980s James Cameron wrote three screenplays simultaneously: The Terminator, Aliens, and the first draft of Rambo: First Blood Part II^{[citation needed]}. While Cameron would continue with The Terminator and with Aliens, Sylvester Stallone eventually took over the script of Rambo: First Blood Part II, creating a final draft which differed radically from Cameron's initial version [1].

• The producers of the movie considered that Rambo would have a partner in the rescue mission of POWs. The producers allegedly wanted John Travolta to play Rambo's partner^{[citation needed]}, but Stallone vetoed the idea^{[citation needed]}.

• A novelization was written by David Morrell, author of the novel First Blood, on which the first Rambo film was based.

[edit] External links

• Sylvester Stallone Official Website
• Rambo: First Blood Part II at the Internet Movie Database
• Full synopsis at Moviecheat.com
• Boxoffice information
• Official scan photo Rambo First Blood

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