![]() I think on its terms, the film works very well. But in my heart, what I wanted to be was a novelist. thesis on Ernest Hemingway and was starting my doctoral dissertation on John Earth. Specializing in American literature, I'd finished my M.A. "All that said, you know, movies and novels are different train tracks. David Morrell - Rambo 1 - First Blood Introduction In the summer of 1968, I was 25, a graduate student at Penn State University. 2 hours ago &0183 &32 EvenFirst Blood author David Morrell was a fan, calling Rambo the first time that the tone of my novel First Blood has been used in any of the movies. ![]() there isn't really a lot for him to work with. If it weren't for Brian Dennehy's brilliance. "Clearly, in the movie First Blood, Rambo was emphasised, and the police chief is kind of reduced. The point of my novel was that were these polar opposites, and they had equal time, equal pages in the book. "They also minimalised the police chief's character. ![]() "The ending is very different," Morrell said. In the book, Rambo dies, and while the movie did shoot an ending that saw the character killed, his fate was changed in reshoots. The film of First Blood made significant alterations to Morrell's original story of a Vietnam War veteran embarking on a rampage after being hassled by local police, most notably the ending. ![]()
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