After dozens of changes to the screenplay, production and cast, in 1982 ‘Cornered (Rambo)’ finally arrives on screens all over the world, an adaptation of the highly recommended novel signed by David Morrell, starring a Sylvester Stallone anchored to the laziness of the aftermath of a saga, ‘Rocky’, which was then in its third installment. Undoubtedly, the actor needed something new, different and refreshing for his career, and here he found the best possible solution.
10 curiosities about ‘Cornered’
1 Send noses
While filming the Jailbreak scene, and quite by accident, Sylvester Stallone broke his nose Alf Humphreys, which is why the actor appears throughout the film with a bandage in the area. Interestingly, Rambo’s character in the original novel also broke a policeman’s nose at the same point in the story.
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Two favorite
In a more or less recent interview on the Graham Norton show, Sylvester Stallone confessed that ‘Cornered (Rambo)’ is your favorite movie in the seriesadding that I wouldn’t change a thing about her. Smart guy.
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3 Voluntary Changes
Both Sylvester Stallone and the film’s producers have made that clear they wanted to change Rambo’s personality in his leap from novel to big screen. In this sense, they decided to replace the psychotic killer profile he had in the book with one closer to loneliness, disorientation and trauma.
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4 Pacino option
In some of the moments before the project launched, Al Pacino himself was a more than serious option to star in ‘Cornered (Rambo).’ However, the acclaimed actor decided to turn down the offer when his request for the character to have a much more explosive and crazy attitude was denied.
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5 talks
In the beginning, Sylvester Stallone Asked $3.5 Million To Star In ‘Acorralado (Rambo)’, but the producers of the tape told him they could only reach 2 million. In any case, the actor got the desired amount by earning one and a half million from sales in the television arena.
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6 Negative first impact
The first version of ‘Acorralado (Rambo)’ lasted, mind you, about three hours. And it completely horrified Sylvester Stallone, who He claimed the film was so bad it made him sick, even doubting it would be able to destroy his career.. What did he do? Try to buy all the footage and destroy it. Finally, failing to achieve this drastic goal, he asked the producers to cut a large part of his presence on the tape and give more space to the rest of the characters, thus obtaining a simply perfect 93-minute edit.
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7 author’s word
David Morrell, author of the original novel adapting ‘Rambo (Rambo)’, he stated that he liked the film better than his own book.
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8 brandy stuff
Although he spent a good number of days in sleeveless shirts shooting in freezing temperatures, both in the air and in the water, Sylvester Stallone never got sick while working on ‘Rambo’….until someone offered him a sip of brandy. he shot it down
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9 excess drafts
Before arriving at the final version Signed by Sylvester Stallone himself together with Michael Kozoll and William Sackheim, the screenplay of ‘Cornered (Rambo)’ had had, nothing more and nothing less, that 26 drafts.
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10 looking for the Colonel
The legendary Kirk Douglas was going to play Colonel Trautman… until he had a major conflict with the script, which is why he dropped “Cornered (Rambo)” at the last second. After this abrupt firing, the film crew began looking for a tall replacement, first trying to hire Rock Hudson to, after his refusal, offer him to Richard Crenna, who he accepted the offer a week before filming began. In fact, the actor had to relentlessly ask the script supervisor to tell him his lines until he could memorize the script.
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And it is that, without a doubt, we are faced with one of the most inspired and memorable films of Stallone’s entire professional career, a truly astonishing film in its dramatic complexityin its ability to deliver a first-rate spectacle with minimal elements and in its essence as a visceral and ferocious western.
A film that hasn’t aged one iota since its premiere, full of scenes that have remained in the memory of several generations of viewers. John Rambo has come to survive. His enemies and the passage of time. Totally stainless classic.
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