“Rambo 2: First Blood” shows a much different perspective on the Vietnam War than we have seen in the past. The main character, Rambo, is seen as this macho man and all he knows is war. I felt that this movie was more focused on keeping the viewer happy, with its action pack and romantic twist. It did show a few valuable ideas about the military and the war in general. The movie shows how at some points in the war the military was not putting the safety of their soldiers first. They were more concerned with the image that the U.S. Army was giving off and the strong reputation they have to keep. Throughout the story we keep hearing the term, and this could relate to the new movie that he is in, expendable. This means that the government doesn’t necessarily care about your livelihood.
Rambo doesn’t necessarily have the job many veterans had. He has to go in search of POWs. It seems that this was chosen to make the storyline more action packed. This was the first movie we saw that emphasized we were the losers in the Vietnam War. Unlike Deer Hunter, this movie makes it clear when it gets brought up in a question “if we can win this time.” It is important to not take the scenes as literarily what happened during the Vietnam War, although it does have good dialogue.
Overall, this movie showed how focused Sylvester Stallone movies can be on action and less on events that actually happened. The dialogue can help show a different side of the war than we are not use to seeing through the movies we have watched. This is a good example of a film that might have the plot of a war that actually happened, but it is solely made for entertainment purposes.
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