…in the new Rambo, it is a matter of denouncing atrocities wherever injustice happens or in John Rambo addressing the horrible incidents in Myanmmar (Burma)…It is necessary for me to denounce atrocities! The last Rambo had too much action and it was not very believable. John Rambo contains a lot of action and I know that it is risky in this state of my career, but I want John Rambo to come back to his origins – his revolutionary side…
- Sylvester Stallone, quoted in an interview about the upcoming Rambo film. More information on Rambo’s battle with the tatmadaw is available from the New Mandala archive.
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1 amateur // Jul 6, 2007 at 1:47 am
I wonder how Stallone defines “action” and “revolutionary” as to the viewer it looks pretty much the same. And neither case is believable.
In the politically very incorrect corner of the mind though, it is a (illicit) pleasure to imagine one guy smashing the Tatmadaw.
2 Tara // Jul 6, 2007 at 11:47 am
Wait, but, doesn’t Rambo go into Burma to save the white people? His comments would seem to imply that he thinks obliterating a man with a truck mounted machine gun is ‘beleivable’.
3 Grasshopper // Jul 6, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Aren’t revolutionaries tewwowists? (or is there an exemption if theres also a revolutionary diversification contained in a power point presentation!?)
Has the Junta created any propaganda films?
4 aiontay // Jul 6, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Grasshopper,
Haven’t you been paying any attention?!? You’re not a terrorist unless Bush says you are, and Bush isn’t going to declare “Rocky” a terrorist.
5 Grasshopper // Jul 6, 2007 at 11:54 pm
But Aiontay!, I must protest! If one were a surrealist and envisaged why a bush would call a person a terrorist, it would undoubtedly mean Rambo is one; because of his machete wielding jungle clearing antics!
6 aiontay // Jul 7, 2007 at 10:51 am
You’re right Grasshopper, the Bush administration is rather surreal.
7 Thai Chat // Jul 10, 2007 at 5:59 pm
One may criticize the movie feeling it’s not art, but anyway,
it sheds light on the state of Burma.
A movie such as Rambo is likely to have a wide public.
So we may hope that it will raise people awareness of
the poor state of Karens and other minorities in Myanmar.
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