First Blood
This time he's fighting for his life.
Country
Production
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$125 212 904
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Buzz Feitshans, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna
Camera operator
Andrew Laszlo
Composer
Artist
Wolf Kroeger
Audition
Editing
Joan E. Chapman
Whole Team (84)
Whole Team (84)
Short description
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sylvester Stallone asked for $3.5 million for the role, but the film's producers persuaded him to agree to $2 million. He received another $1.5 million from the film's television broadcast rights.
- Sylvester Stallone disliked the first version of the film so much that the actor even wanted to buy the tape and destroy it. He subsequently agreed with the producers to have his face appear as little as possible in the film – this reduced the runtime by half.
- An alternative ending was filmed in which Rambo committed suicide. However, test screenings showed that audiences found such an ending too depressing.
- Despite the film's reputation for being excessively violent, only one person actually died during filming.
- Differences from the book: In the book, the cave where Rambo was hiding was filled with bats. In the film, they were replaced with rats. The scene with which the film begins, where Rambo visits his fellow soldier, is absent in the book. In the book, the helicopter pursuing Rambo explodes. Rambo kills the pilot with a rifle shot. In the book, Teasle participated in the Korean War. Rambo sees a medal in his office that can also be seen in the background in the film. Later, this fact, in Trautman’s opinion, became decisive in the confrontation between the sheriff and Rambo. In the film, Rambo only wounds the sheriff’s deputies with his ingenious traps. In the book, however, these scenes are more grim and violent. They all die at his hands, and a powerful surge of rainwater washes their bodies down the ravine. Only Teasle survives, fleeing rather than being released by Rambo as shown in the film. After the rescue in the book, Teasle constantly experiences discomfort in his chest. He only wants to go far enough to catch Rambo. Even Trautman asks the sheriff to rest, seeing his paleness. In the film, Trautman states that he personally trained Rambo and oversaw his actions in Vietnam. In the book, it is explained that Trautman was the head of the training school and Rambo hadn't even seen him before that, only heard his voice. The ending of the story is almost completely changed in the film. In the book, a shootout takes place in the town center, in which Teasle is killed and Trautman shoots Rambo. In the book, when Rambo runs out of the police station, he is completely naked. And clothing is given to him by moonshiners who were hiding in the forest.
- Rambo could have been played by Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, and John Travolta. Here are the reasons for their refusal of the role: Pacino wanted to portray a completely insane veteran, so the film company rejected his candidacy. Hoffman refused the role due to its violence and played a woman in "Tootsie" (1982). Eastwood stated that he was busy. Stallone didn't allow John Travolta into either the first or second film in the series, not wanting to share the glory. Rumor has it that Travolta couldn't forgive him for stealing a role, and then filmed him in movies that turned him into a caricature, such as "Staying Alive" (1983).
- The initially planned budget of $11 million was significantly exceeded. The total cost of the film amounted to almost $17 million, due to the fact that the filming process lasted one month longer.
- The film was shot in several provinces of British Columbia: Pitt Lake; Pitt Meadows; Golden Ears Provincial Park; Hope; Port Coquitlam; North Vancouver. Many scenes are composed according to the golden ratio, which adds to their expressiveness.
- Gene Hackman was considered for the role of Sheriff Teasle.
- Lee Marvin was a candidate for the role of John Rambo.
- "Rambo" is the name of an apple variety – it was, according to the author of the original book, the apple variety that gave the surname to the main character.
- Nick Nolte, Chris Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, and Michael Douglas turned down the role of Rambo.
- The machine gun used by Rambo in the fight scene with Teasle is an M60.
- The film is based on David Morrell's novel "First Blood," written in 1972.
- Filming took place from November 16, 1981, to April 16, 1982.
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