First Blood

The film First Blood Part II continues the story from the film First Blood, which is based off the character John Rambo, a discharged green beret who struggled assimilating into society after his service in Vietnam. The director of First Blood Part II, was a man by the name of George Costmatos. The director, before the production of First Blood Part II, was a well-known international actor, but was not a well-known director in the United States. Costmatos received much recognition from his role

1. For this Psychological Disorder assignment, I chose to write about John Rambo. John Rambo is a character, played by Sylvester Stallone, from the movie Rambo: First Blood. In the movie John Rambo suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 2. The American Psychiatric Association created a recently updated version of the DSM-5. This provides the information to see if a patient reaches any of the criteria. The criteria include: - Exposure to death or threatened death - Re-visiting the

obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.” In the culture of men, it is something that has to exist if masculinity is desired. In the culture of the world, violence exists to create change. While Fight Club and First Blood involve violence in unique and fluctuating forms, all the books and movies use it as a means for change. Then, there is Fight Club. The narrator starts off as a uniform white collared business worker who is a consumer in every means. His apartment

as misunderstood people. I will be taking a look at how the directors of “Rambo: First Blood” directed by Ted Kotcheff, and “American Sniper” directed by Clint Eastwood, wanted us to think about soldiers. I will also be looking at the songs “Hero Of War” by Rise Against, and “War Pigs by Black Sabbath”, and how they wanted us to think about them, and how the connect with each other. In the movies, Rambo: First Blood, and American Sniper, both John Rambo and Chris Kyle, are trained soldiers. They

masculinity in the 1980’s was unique because the goal was to rebuild the white American man. Ultimately, curating the rebirth of the white American male within the Reagan era pushed to iconize the white American male as the finest version of men. Rambo First Blood: Part 2 begins by presenting the image of a broken man. A man who seems to have lost everything and is now I jail because of it. Rambo seems docile a without hope. Rambo’s commander comes to him with an opportunity to return to his former glory

dangerous events knowing that dangerous can be so hard to watch and be in. Feeling scared triggers the body to protect self against danger is natural. People who are diagnosed with PTSD feel frightened even when they're not in danger. In the film ‘First Blood’ we see that when Rambo was getting held back it triggered a moment of the time, he was held back when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. When he had the flashback

Devin Minix September 25, 2017 Assignment #1 Rambo: First Blood The 1980s in America was a time when the country was struggling with tough issues and the aftermath of the Vietnam war. The overall view was that America could no longer involve itself anymore conflicts and general confrontations across the globe. With this in mind as we look back at the 1960s, we see a completely different world. We see an America that is knee-deep in the battle of a lifetime, fighting an enemy of unknown power and

decisions to prove that the nature of war is destructive. Similarly to Ted Kotcheff, Weir is also making a commercial film, so it shares similar conventions with First Blood, which is also a commercial film. Kotcheff’s relies heavier on technical elements, such as close-ups and explosions to grab the viewer, as demonstrated in First Blood. His use of close-ups on Rambo’s face and body “directs the audience’s attention to the significance of his actions” (5, p.29), which in turn makes the viewer feel

salvage his masculine identity. A key component to Rambo's identity is his muscular physique, and this becomes more apparent in Rambo: First Blood part II. This film provides an observation into a place, where men can turn at a point of crises, their bodies. Whether wounded, or pushed to extremities, the performative body of the white man is a dominating feature in First Blood part II. Although Rambo’s body absorbed punishment and wounds during the film, his body still exudes the myth of an unbreakable

has a negative effect on the people and the societies involved. These texts provide examples of the negative effects of war and how it has impacted soldiers lives; ‘Hero of war by Rise against’, ‘Dulce et decorum est by Owen Wilfred’, ‘Rambo - First Blood by Ted Kotcheff’ and ‘The Patriot by Ted Kotcheff’. All of the soldiers in these texts are suffering from ‘emotional scarring’ as a result of what happened during the war. There are many different negative effects of war, such as post traumatic