#have in the first place...clinging on like a desert plant. deep roots and tough exterior make for a strong rebel force...
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Rambo III (1988)
#this is from right after the russian attack on the mujahedeen camp#it's such a very important scene and i love that these movies take time to show the result of destruction and peoples' reactions to it#these aren't just action movies or war movies they are like. films. and i am deeply in love with them. i don't think there's a better way#to talk about these things from this perspective.#but what was i saying - oh yes#he and the mujahedeen and the russian defector yuri were barely able to destroy one helicopter. the other one retreated.#he was caught off guard because for one moment he thought he could think of lighter things. grim reminder that he can't let himself forget#for a second where he is and why. the destruction is made more extreme by just how little these people (soldiers and children and refugees)#have in the first place...clinging on like a desert plant. deep roots and tough exterior make for a strong rebel force...#but no plant can survive firebombing. or napalm for that matter. because that's the other half of this.#again he's reminded of everyone he lost. the last time he worked alongside soldiers he could trust was in vietnam with baker team#and they're all gone now. and these people who have offered to help him do so as much out of good will as out of pure desperation for some#way to survive and come out victorious...not for the sake of victory or the honor of independence but just to prevent the slaughter of#their own people.#i keep getting off track because of the plight of the mujahedeen and the afghan people at this time#john was barely able to prevent the russians from destroying the entire camp right there. he can't save everyone and he knows that. but it#still weighs on him. still haunts him. he knows that he's lucky to get out of combat alive himself. he knows that as important a role skill#plays it is still ultimately all up to luck.#he's tired. it never ends. dragged back into the same situation in another country. he'll risk his life for trautman without question#because it doesn't mean all that much to him. but he won't risk anyone else's if he can help it.#rambo iii (1988)#rambo iii#john rambo#sylvester stallone#rambo#it's a long road#i was so worried i'd run out of tags...#action
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