I remember reading First Blood and The Park Is Mine when the books came out. This was the beginning of the unhinged Vietnam vet genre. Hollywood claiming the fake moral high ground by making both stories into movies.
Hollywood was helmed by Vietnam era draft dodgers. They had personal motivation to justify their moral and physical cowardice by wacking on Vietnam Vets. I remember going to parties in the 70s and learning to avoid mentioning my service. The media depicted us all as crazy bombs ready to explode and a lot of people truly were frightened of Vietnam vets. Everyday it seemed there was some story about some crazed vet every day.
>>I remember reading First Blood and The Park Is Mine when the books came out. This was the beginning of the unhinged Vietnam vet genre.
Movie-wise, ‘The Deer Hunter’ came out before ‘First Blood’.
IMHO the scene at the end of First Blood, with Rambo crying about coming home and being spat on and called baby killer, put the blame back on the left, including the military hating media.