Rambo: First Blood Part II

charisma and emotionally independent. “We watched movies at night. War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on, with the aid of a generator or sometimes a car battery. We all wanted to be like Rambo; we couldn’t wait to implement his techniques”(Beah,p.g121). Ishmael brainwashed his mind,he only wanted to kill and kill, the violent movies weren't helping it made it worse because he wanted to act like “Rambo”which really is not a great

The use of irony is prevalent in literature throughout time. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, exhibits a first hand experience as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone Civil War and the events experienced by those who lived through it. The novel has an ironic undertone when analyzing his actions not subjectively but objectively. When looking at his actions in comparison to normal society it reveals the irony that is written in the lines of the novel. Although he was raised in this environment, objectively

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 are at the peak

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

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 shell

First Blood, a surprising accurate representation of Post-traumatic stress disorder Part I- When I saw that First Blood was on the list of acceptable movie choices I was a bit shocked, for two reasons. One was that, one of my favorite movies was on the list. Two, that John Rambo, the main character, did suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder. It had not occurred to me that the main character had a disorder. After watching the movie another time knowing this, I began to see the symptoms of his

Sylvester Stallone: Rambo (2008) The Sylvester Stallone: Rambo (2008) film, the three main points of this paper are going to be, plot summary, a biography of the main character Sylvester Stallone, and information about the film and its own summary from beginning to the end of the film. Former Soldier, John Rambo, lives in Thailand. He makes a living capturing and selling snakes, also taxiing people up and down the river he lived by. When a group of missionaries comes to ask John Rambo for a ride up the

enemies was an unquestioned myth since 1945. In the first part of his book, Engelhardt writes “Between 1945 and 1975, victory culture ended in America. Its decomposition through those years of generational loss and societal disillusionment to Vietnam, which was its graveyard for all to see”(Engelhardt, 10). Engelhardt goes on to show how the generation of Americans that grew up during the triumphant times of military victory in World War I and II created a “triumphalist” culture that set the stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7YmojUJagk Despite this trend towards escapism type films, important social issues continued to be addressed through film. Many films focused on problems of romance, family, gender, and sexuality. These are all parts of life radically changed by the social revolution of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Old fashioned screen romances and Cinderella stories like an Officer and a Gentleman and Flashdance, respectively tried to avoid these social changes and were

will be talking to you today about what happened when Ishmael became a child soldier. Ishmael has been changed many ways on his transition from a normal kid to being a child soldier. In one example Ishmael was brainwashed by watching Rambo movies,