He doesn’t stop there though, and does his best to make the former soldier feel as unwelcome as possible. "You know, wearing that flag on that jacket, looking the way you do, you're asking for trouble around here, friend," Teasle tells Rambo. The Sheriff notices Rambo heading into town with a bag over his shoulder and his olive-drab fatigues hanging open, and offers him a ride through to the other side of the city. It’s easy to forget the complications and tensions behind the first meeting in the movie of decorated war veteran John Rambo and small town Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy). When the eponymous novel was released in 1972, the deeply divisive conflict that was that war hadn't even ended yet. When Rambo hit in 1982, the Vietnam War was still fresh in the memory of many Americans. But Rambo didn't start that way, and Stallone delivered on the promise the role offered. ![]() We remember Rambo as another one of the silly over-the-top action heroes of the 80s, right along with Arnold Schwarzenegger characters like Dutch (Predator) and John Matrix (Commando), and we remember Sylvester Stallone as a caricature of himself, a slurred voice and dazed eyes.
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