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Sylvester Stallone is one of the biggest stars in action movies and has several classics in that genre, but now he revealed which is one of the films he is most proud of having made. This is “Rambo” from 2008the fourth part of the saga about ex-soldier -and Vietnam veteran- John Rambo.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Stallone spoke about his experience on the tape: “Rambo IV is the best action movie I’ve ever done because it’s the most truthful. It’s about Burma – now Myanmar – where they’ve had a civil war for 67 years… I was criticized because the film is very violent. And it is violent. It is awful. They are children being burned alive. That’s what makes civil war worse than anything else. It’s your neighbor suddenly killing you. I was so happy with that movie and I never thought it would hit theaters. I thought, ‘They’re never going to show this.’”
Sylvester also gave details about a particularly shocking scene in the film.: “In Rambo IV I wanted to show what a .50 caliber could do to a human being. We take a dummy and fill it with 200 pounds of beef. I thought: ‘When I shoot, it will knock the mannequin down.’ There were no bullets in the gun, it was just the compression force on the shell. But he turned the mannequin into mist. He blew it up. Then I turned the .50 caliber on a row of bamboo trees and it literally cut them in half. And all this without bullets!”
The actor (currently promoting the series “The Tulsa King”which will be released in Paramount+ on November 13) He spoke again about a misunderstanding that has existed among the public for four decades: “Everyone assumed that John Rambo is from the Conservative Party. President Reagan put up a picture like Rambo was a Republican, and I was like, ‘Uh-oh,’ Rambo is totally neutral.”
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