“Rambo” is considered one of Sylvester Stallone’s best films. However, a certain Quentin Tarantino is not a fan of this 80s classic!
Released in French theaters in 1983, the first Rambo is considered by many to be one of Sylvester Stallone’s best films. But for the always very critical Quentin Tarantino, who recently announced that he dreamed of directing his own version of Rambo with Adam Driver in the lead role, this is not the case!
Why doesn’t Quentin Tarantino like Rambo? Because, as he explains in his book Cinema Speculation And as noted by the ScreenRant sitethe film is too watered down compared to David Morrell’s book (First Bloodpublished in 1972), in which the character of a Vietnam veteran, pushed to his limits by a local sheriff, becomes a killing machine.
In Cinema SpeculationQuentin Tarantino criticizes the film Rambo for being part of the Hollywood movement of the 80s which, according to him, did not take risks, unlike that of the 70s. More specifically, the filmmaker regrets that this decade has reduced the complexity characters to make them more likeable to the audience.
Quentin Tarantino, in remarks relayed by ScreenRant, declares that “Complex characters aren’t necessarily likeable. And interesting people aren’t always likeable.” And the American director noted that the film adaptations of the time, which were too moralistic, gave the impression of having “emptied” the original works of everything that made them alive.
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