"Rambo: Last Blood" - What is the essence of John First Blood, considering the series that has been running for nearly 40 years? A comprehensive explanation of the First Blood series!

Rambo: Last Blood synopsis

John First Blood, a former soldier of the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the Green Berets, survived the Vietnam War. After returning home, he suffered from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), but as a legendary fighting machine, he threw himself into battles all over the world. Now First Blood has returned to the US and is living peacefully as a "family" with his old friend Maria and her granddaughter Gabriella, while running a ranch in his hometown of Arizona. However, Gabriella, who found out that her biological father who abandoned her was in Mexico, went into a dangerous place alone, despite First Blood's protests, and was kidnapped by a human trafficking cartel. Burning with rage, First Blood mobilizes all his skills as a former Green Beret and begins preparations for battle to rescue his beloved "daughter" and take revenge on the gang.

Sylvester Stallone is a Hollywood icon who remains at the forefront of action movies. His character John First Blood, who could be considered his other half, returns for the first time in 11 years in his latest film, "Rambo: Last Blood"! We looked back on the four films in the far-reaching saga of the "First Blood" franchise from a trivia perspective that only CINEMORE can provide, and looked into the highlights of "Rambo: Last Blood," which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 2, 2020, and the essence of First Blood, the rare action icon.

Index

• "First Blood" (1982) A real-life rebel hero with the scars of war
• First Blood: First Blood Part II (1985) A professional fighter returns to Vietnam to fight for his countrymen.
• "First Blood III" (1988) First Blood wanders to a new battlefield!
• First Blood: Last Blood (2008) - A man discovers his true nature in a brutal battle
• "Rambo: Last Blood" (2019) And he returns to his "one man army"!!
• What does Stallone think is the essence of First Blood?

First Blood(1982)
A war-scarred, rebellious real-life hero

First Blood trailer

Director: Ted Kotcheff 97 minutes

John First Blood, a Vietnam veteran, visits Hope, Washington, to search for a missing friend. However, he is humiliated by Sheriff Teasle (Brian Dennehy), who is suspicious of his appearance, and he is detained without any justification. First Blood is then treated as an exclusivist by the local police, which leads to an unwanted rebellion.

This film, which is the starting point of First Blood, is based on the suspense novel " One Man Army " published in 1972 by David Morrell. The story was inspired by the Vietnam War reports and anti-war riots in the United States in 1968, and was inspired by the former soldier and actor Audie Murphy, who had a glorious military record but suffered from PTSD after his discharge. The original title "First Blood", which means "preemptive attack", symbolizes the conflict between two former soldiers, First Blood, a Vietnam War veteran, and Diesel, a Korean War veteran, and succinctly expresses the suffering of First Blood, who awakens his closed warrior nature.

"I was at the very bottom of the list of actors to play First Blood," said Sylvester Stallone, whose irreplaceable personality and performance that captured raw emotion resonated with viewers, and First Blood became his hit role along with the Rocky series (1976-). His steely physique and Jerry Goldsmith's melancholy theme song, among other outstanding elements, further spurred First Blood's iconic status.

Above all, when the film was released in 1982, America was coming to terms with the failure of the Vietnam War and empathizing with the plight of suffering veterans. First Blood was born in such an era, and he was praised by people as a real-life hero with the scars of war and a down-to-earth character who paid tribute to those who had lost everything in the fierce fighting in Vietnam.

First Blood: First Blood Part II (1985) A professional fighter returns to Vietnam to fight for his countrymen.