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In the scene when the gas station blows up, watch the cars parked in front of the "Kool Lights" advertisement. These two cars explode (for no obvious reason, by the way) after the police officers have gotten out of their cars. They run away from the explosion and leave their police cars behind. Next shot, the same two cars in front of the ad explode again. See more...

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In the introduction to the 1988 Hodder Headline edition of the novel First Blood, author David Morrell says that he got the name Rambo from both a variety of apple, and the writer Rimbaud: "A French author's name and the name of an apple collided, and I recognized the sound of force." See more...

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In the scene in the police station, where Rambo was about to get shaved, he had a flashback of the vietcong guy slicing his chest up. The vietcong guy was noticeably speaking Japanese instead of Vietnamese. [Herve Attia on Youtube did an interview with Stephen Chang, the "vietcong torturer" and he stated that he was speaking Cantonese. What he said was "answer me or I will kill you".]
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While Rambo is being asked his personal information in the basement of the police department, look for a young David Caruso (Lt. Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami) as one of the deputies in an early film role. [How is this trivia? He's onscreen quite clear and obvious to see. Interesting cameos can be considered trivia, but this is neither interesting nor a cameo.]
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This movie occurs somewhere in the extreme NW. We know this because when the sheriff drops off Rambo after giving him a ride at the beginning, he says that Seattle is due south. Why then do so many of the characters talk with southern accents? The fat deputy and the hound handler are the 2 most noticeable, but there are many. Even accounting for immigration, this seems to be a mistake by the director. It's probably meant to be in a stereotypical hillbilly backwater town, with the accents confirming this, but inexplicably it's the Canadian border. [He actually says Portland, not Seattle, putting it much further south than the Canadian border. And there are many people in rural areas like this one that grow up speaking with a "drawl", besides the south.]
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When Rambo, Trautman and Kern exit the shot-up police station at the film's conclusion, a sign stating "Hope Rotary Club Past Presidents" can be seen: not something that would usually be in a police station. [Not usual, but certainly not impossible. Someone in the police station had a connection to the Rotary Club, and decided to hang the sign there.]
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After chasing the sheriff's posse out of the woods, Rambo kills and eats a wild boar, despite a dearth of wild boar in western Washington. [Just because they are scarce does not mean he could not have caught one.]
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When Rambo jumps off the cliff, he cuts his left arm on a tree branch and he screams in pain. Later on the ground, he is sewing up his right arm. [The continuity is correct. Watch it again in slow-mo if you have to but when he screams in pain you can see it IS his right arm he cuts, not his left.]
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During Rambo's speech at the end, he says "calling me baby-killer and all kinds of vile crap". You hear him say "crap" but if you read his lips you can tell he actually said "sh*t". [I was watching this and i think that this problem is on the TV version. Since they can't just allow movies dropping the F bomb and saying Sh*t, they had to edit it out so it is TV appropriate.]
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After Rambo crashes over the police road blockade with the army truck, he drives back to the town with relative ease. Why didn't the police chase Rambo back to the town? [Many things are apparent that can easily account for this. (1) Rambo was presumed dead thus most of army personell had already left. (2) Rambo injured most of the town's police officers and hence they were not on duty. (3) Rambo did crash into the blockade and hence those vehicles could not give chase. The crash would have destroyed any radio/communication device they had.]
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At the beginning, Rambo goes into town to visit someone he served with in Vietnam named Delmar Berry. Rambo shows his wife a picture of the "Baker Team" back in Vietnam and lists the people in the picture, including the names Westmore and Bronson. When Colonel Trautman is trying to contact Rambo on the radio, he identifies the "Baker Team" and reads off a list of names that doesn't include Westmore or Bronson. [Even if Colonel Trautman didn't name all members of the team, he named enough to let Rambo know it was really him.]
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When Rambo goes berserk in the downstairs jail of the Sheriff's office, he systematically pummels each of the 4 or 5 officers before making his escape. Since when is it police code to not be armed in the presence of violent prisoners? If even only one of the officers were armed, Rambo would have been taken out in 2 seconds. This inconsistency is especially glaring since these officers were backwater yokels who probably did not follow any code of ethics, considering they were practically torturing Rambo down there. [Take a close look at the sign on the wall right behind Rambo's head when Deputy Galt asks Rambo for his name: It tells officers to lock their guns away on entering the cell block area, so they're just following orders. Furthermore, before freaking out, Rambo behaves in a very passive, almost shy manner, saying nothing, moving slowly. He surely doesn't cooperate, but he's not violent either. The cops even take off his handcuffs, unsuspectingly. It's quite plausible they thought they could handle the guy without taking additional security measures because they didn't consider him a threat at all prior to his fit. Once the rampage starts, however, he takes them all by surprise. He's so fast that even the armed officers upstairs (Teasle, Balford, Lester) cannot stop him.]
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In the scene where John Rambo is escaping from the jail, he is seen leaving with his knife although he is never shown getting it from the locker (which was locked). [Rambo's knife was never put in a locker; Teasle gave his gun to a policeman to put in the locker, but that was all. You see Rambo pick up his knife from another policeman's desk.]
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