Tuesday, October 2, 2007

GOD DIDN'T MAKE RAMBO, I MADE HIM!: Haven't the Burmese people suffered enough that we now receive news from Southeast Asia that Sylvester Stallone is making Rambo IV set in Burma?

At least Sly's done his research:

The "Rambo" script, written long before the present Myanmar uprising, features boatman John Rambo - the Vietnam War-era Green Beret who specializes in violent rescues and revenge - taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Myanmar. The character "realizes man is just a few paces away from savagery when pushed."

"I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and they said Burma was the foremost area of human abuse on the planet," Stallone said.

Soldier of Fortune is a fantasy rag. And it's probably no more harmful to the human spirit that that body of work that lies just blue of Penthouse, and each is about as authoritative of its subject matter. But I'd sooner ask Bob Guicionne for relationship advice than rely on SoF for a catalog of human rights abuses.

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