We're just about to dive into Noirvember but before we do... we've decided to kick off a new series of audio commentaries for the Rambo franchise, starting at the obvious place: Ted Kotcheff's initial instalment, First Blood (1982). Joining us this time (and for the rest of the films in this franchise as we get to them over the next 6 months or so), Sammy from The Gentlemen's Guide to Midnite Cinema podcast.
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Sammy suggests that this film is possibly one of the most influential films of the last 40 years, and when you consider the sheer volume of one-man-army style action films since the 80's - in fact, the whole "action hero" phenomenon that Stallone and Arnie pioneered and which continues today with the likes of Jason Statham - that's a lot of cinema which can probably be traced directly back to this film. Having said that, First Blood is arguably incompatible with the rest of its own franchise. John Rambo became a symbol of America fighting back, of the American political entity exerting its will within the wider geopolitical environment - a right wing fantasy of moral superiority as somehow exemplified by violence. But in this first film, America itself is the problem - John Rambo is instead a post-traumatic powderkeg thrown into a society with little compassion for those it sacrifices in the name of American imperialism. Although a first rate action flick, First Blood has a lot on its mind, is what we're trying to say.
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