Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Proves He's Perfect For Rambo
Quentin Tarantino's authorial preoccupations have some surprising overlaps with the themes of the Rambo franchise. There are distinct parallels between the worldview of the Rambo of the series' earlier films and that of the protagonist of Quentin Tarantino's most recent movie, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino's interest in a First Blood remakemakes even more sense when additional factors are considered.
Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), the protagonist of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, feels as though his values are out of step with the society in which he finds himself. Hippies, who purportedly abhor the sort of violent acts he enacted on-screen when he was a successful film actor (despite some of them aiming to kill him, his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his wife Francesca Capucci (Lorenza Izzo), and his neighbors Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and Jay Sebring (Emile Hirsch)) walk the streets of 1969 Los Angeles, with their counter-cultural values beginning to affect the sort of movies that get made. This has led to a lack of desire among young moviegoers for movies starring violent, retrograde dinosaurs like Dalton, and a concomitant drying-up of offers for him to star in major motion pictures.
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Similarly, when John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is introduced in First Blood, the initial installment in the Rambo movie franchise, he is a man who feels that the values for which he once stood have been rejected by mainstream US society. He has risked his life for his country in the Vietnam War, only to come home and find himself unemployable and protested against by the sort of hippies also detested by Once Upon A Time In
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