Rambo: First Blood

Trivia: Originally there was an alternate ending shot for the film in which Rambo killed himself, however, this was found too depressing and the script was changed for him to survive.

Scrappy

Trivia: 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."

J I Cohen

Trivia: After deciding to perform one of the stunts himself, Stallone broke a rib, much to the displeasure of director Ted Kotcheff. The shot however remained in the film. (The last sequence where Rambo falls through the trees.)

Scrappy

Trivia: At the beginning while John speaks with the lady showing a pic, he mentions several names like Bronson, Ortega, Westmore and Danforth - those belong to the production members.

oswal13

Trivia: When Rambo escapes the local jail, he slide-kicks and then elbows a sheriff's deputy in the face, leaving him lying on the floor screaming in pain. Sylvester Stallone accidentally broke the stuntman's nose in that take and the stuntman's screaming is real. The producers used the footage in the final film.

Trivia: Craig Huston, assistant to the director, played the small role of the police radio operator.

oswal13

Trivia: The piece of canvas wore by Rambo as a suit was owned by Stallone and he still has it.

oswal13

Trivia: A couple of yells from the film were taken and used by the arcade game Golden Axe.

oswal13

Trivia: In a deleted scene on the First Blood Dvd, Rambo is sitting by the fire when he begins to experience a flashback to a bar. The bar scene shows Rambo's encounter with a woman, with whom he was romantically involved. The background music playing in the bar, bears an uncanny resemblance to "Sunshine of your love" by Cream. The song has a few minor differences, but the progressive of the song is the same.

SickleandHammer

Continuity mistake: 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.

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Question: I actually have two questions about this film. Firstly, does Rambo actually kill anyone in this film? Dennehy doesn't die and he didn't kill Galt so was there anyone else? And secondly when Rambo arrives at the cliff face, why didn't he simply run to his right or left? The police were only coming at him from behind (and even if one of them came from the side, Rambo could have used his skills to get past him). So why did he feel that going down the cliff was his only option?

Gavin Jackson

Chosen answer: No he doesn't kill anyone. He didn't know if he was surrounded or not and if he did encounter one from the side they might have shot him.

Grumpy Scot

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