Artigo Revisado por pares

Rambo: From Counter-Culture to Contra

1985; Telos; Volume: 1985; Issue: 64 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3817/0685064143

ISSN

1940-459X

Autores

R. A. Berman,

Tópico(s)

Cinema History and Criticism

Resumo

Abstract In an era where bad film stars become reactionary politicians, political films which are equally bad may be something we will just have to live with. So after the Nicaraguan occupation of Smallville in Red Dawn, Ricky goes to Vietnam in Rambo. This box office hit of the summer appears to confirm all the claims of leftist criticism regarding the ideology of Reaganism. Above all, it represents the revisionist history of the Vietnam War, won on the battlefield but lost by politicians who capitulated to the totalitarian pawns of Moscow, who in turn continue to imprison and torture unnumbered POWs, the ten lost tribes of the far right.

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