Posted on 10/15/2022 6:45:47 AM PDT by algore
It was Rambo-mania in the town of Hope, British Columbia, as stars from the film, their family members and fans gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most iconic action movies of all time last weekend.
The district of Hope, a town with a population of less than 7,000 situated amid the Cascade Mountains around two hours east of Vancouver, doubled as the fictional town of Hope in Washington State for the 1982 movie.
Filming of the Sylvester Stallone classic began all the way back in November 1981 and lasted until the following April.
The movie spawned four sequels, the most recent of which, Rambo: Last Blood, was released in 2019, to mediocre reviews.
One of the organizers of the event, Brian McKinney, told DailyMail.com: 'The First Blood concept really has evolved into this cult like thing. Apparently, there are close to a billion fans of the 'Rambo' franchise.'
The festival ran from October 7th until 10th. Among those who visited were Patrick Stack, who played Lt. Clinton Morgan, Stephen Chang who played the Viet Cong commander who causes much of Rambo's trauma, as well as the family of Brian Dennehy, who played the notorious Sheriff Will Teasle.
During the celebrations, a statue of Dennehy in character as Sheriff Teasle was unveiled
In total, around 3,000 people showed up for the anniversary celebrations.
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What fun! The movie was great and set the standard for the ‘shoot-em ups’ that followed.
Huge following in Asian countries.
Saw an advert for a new movie with him in it where he plays an enforcer or whatever for mob I think. Only heard bits and pieces of the commercial for it.
Rambo is the movie where sparking bullets made their debut.
I would like to think the restaurants and hotels appreciate these people ‘descending’.
Brian Dennehy was there.
LOL, I thought he was dead.
First Blood was actually a well written movie with a good story arc, and character development.
Oh, double flaming horsehocky! That damn movie was the ultimate expression of the mythological "Vietnam Vet Goes Nuts" theme pushed by Hollywood during and after our war. It was and is complete crap - and insulting to boot.
The special effects were hokey, the characters cartoonish, and none of us, anywhere ever imploded like that.
It's capped off by starring Sylvester "I hid out teaching in a girl's school in Switzerland" Stallone.
Complete voyeuristic, comic book crap.
Says you and not most people.
Have a good day.
Back in the day, I read ‘First Blood’, and ‘Alien’ before the movies were released.
Both movies were true to the novels.
I honestly didn’t know they were books as well. To be fair, I saw them as a kid first.
“ Both movies were true to the novels.”
First Blood ended with Rambo being killed by the Colonel.
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Stallone did indeed hide out in Switzerland during the war, teaching Skiing at that girl’s school, I believe.
Brian Dennehy
The award-winning actor has raised red flags numerous times during his career for falsely claiming he served in Vietnam. While Dennehy was a Marine for four years, he was never in combat during the Vietnam War, a fallacy he admitted in 1998.
“I lied about serving in Vietnam and I’m sorry,” Dennehy is quoted as having said. Writer B.G. Burkett, who made a career of unmasking phony military service claims, outed Dennehy in his book “Stolen Valor.”
Alien wasn’t based on a novel. Alan Dean Foster did a novelization, which being based on the script damn well better have been close. But Dan O’Bannon wrote is based really only on his previous work. It is, as he put it, Dark Star as a horror movie.
My buddy was lifelong SF. Came in right as Vietnam ended and didn’t get sent. He says exactly what you did about the movie and Stallone.
It certainly painted our image of specops for a generation.
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