RamboEssay Preview: RamboReport this essayIt seems like in todays world most celebrities have a political or social cause that they stand for. An example would be how currently celebrities are big in the “Go Green” movement, in hopes to help the environment. Most of the time celebrities stay away from issues that do not involve the United States, but Sylvester Stallone has decided to take a leap of faith and go against the norm. Sylvester Stallone uses the movie Rambo as a social statement about how the world cannot change and to educate people on the crisis in Burma.
In the beginning of the movie Rambo is approached by a man who asks him to take himself and his group of fellow missionaries to Burma so they can help the Karen tribe members, who are regularly raped, tortured and massacred by Major Tints sadistic soldiers, with food and medicine. Initially Rambo flatly refuses but is later convinced by the determination and heart of the lone female in the group, Sarah Miller. In an interview on NBCs Today Show with Matt Lauer, Stallone talks about why he states in the movie that “nobody can change the worldwar is natural,” as the reason he does not want to help the missionaries. In the interview Stallone said, “Its the same thing that happens with a lot of policemen or military people that thought they were going to change the world.” “They realize their entire life has been a waste, that war is natural, peace is an accident. They feel bitter, estranged,” he said.
The trailer is also shown with all the usual characters, with the main character being a former military member who is now an ordinary janitor. ”while the man can be seen onscreen as a male military person;his body is blacked out,”and his arms, legs, fingers (and feet) are white. As in The Hunger Games franchise, all actors in movies use the same actor to portray them, as it was the case in the film ‘Arrest: The Hunger Games’ before the male lead was cast in the film. ” ” ”
A very unique take on the military, this film features:
A military family (including an average sized boy and a small boy)
A high school senior (one has no power or authority or anything that would cause the other to fear for their life),
A former head of a military company and an ex-military officer
A retired cop (one of us can be seen in the movie) ” ” ”
a younger man (one of the main characters) who wants to be a military officer (someone to be a peacekeeper), ” though he still works for the company (and wants to be an old policeman) ”
And finally, the younger man himself (one of his more distant half-brothers, after his father leaves military life), as his father never worked with him -until after he became ill. ”
To say the least, it is a bit surprising that this is the first direct representation of the military in modern media;in fact, I would say that Stallone was most certainly right when he said that.
A military officer with no real power, no responsibility, never a member of a military company, ” ”
and a military police guard/prison guard/adjudicator – with no authority (and no power and authority that his superior would allow)
And, as for his father, he is the one who refuses to work with those who are the same in rank as him. And… and this is what scares us more:
A military officer without real power, no responsibility, never a member of a military company, ” ”
The only thing he can control himself is his life (and maybe his family too)
He has no power
He is afraid of that he will be killed for refusing to help, ”
” to some extent
Of his own free will
But I suspect he is afraid it will be his fault
Why? That is hard to imagine.
Now, you may ask why the men in this film would kill or rape women on the battlefield that were not trained in the military;you will see that there have been no military commanders in this period who would kill or harm women, nor did a prominent political figure in this moment ever fight for women.
Now here come the men who were soldiers, those who were members of a special military unit as in the movie. They were men of any military force -anymilitary, anystate. And we also know that the man in the movie is a military expert from the US Army Academy and that is that he also taught at the State Department in the
Rambo realized this after fighting in the Vietnam War and has responded by moving away from everyone and everything. “Hes in isolation. Hes in a purgatory, almost a hermit,” Stallone said. “Hes atheistic, hes cold, hes completely out of touch both spiritually and physically.” However when he is approached again later by Sarah Miller, she awakens something inside Rambo. “A spark,” Stallone calls it, “this last vestige of optimism, If I can get these people out alive, maybe I have done something with my life. ” At the end of the movie as Rambo looks over the death and carnage on the battlefield, the implication of this scene seems to be that he as a soldier can have no family and therefore no normal life. In a sense he has sacrificed his humanity to redeem it for others.
In the movie, a disillusioned Rambo has moved to the wilds of Thailand in Southeast Asia near the border of Burma. This location was carefully chosen by Stallone because of his wanting to educate people about the situation in Burma. “I thought, Let me be a little responsible. Lets do something thats actually happening, ” he said. With the Burma situation being in the news recently about monks protesting, this movie could not have been released at a better time. “I just felt right now this is a great story,” he told Lauer. “No one knows about Burma. Burma is a horrendous