Rambo III - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Rambo III or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Rambo III

[ruby]

This was noted by the Guinness Book of World Records (1990) as to being the most violent film. It was noted with 221 acts of violence and over 108 deaths.

[jesse]

Victor Banerjee passed on this film.

[michele]

With its $63 million budget, this was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.

[jessie]

The Soviet Spetsnaz troops are wearing the same "Hollywood knock-off" camouflage pattern outfits as seen on the Soviet paratroopers in Red Dawn (1984) (an approximation of the Soviet KLMK pattern, supposedly based on poor black and white photos of the genuine uniforms in use).

[kristen]

One of the next projects Stallone was involved in after Rambo 3 was an adaptation of Don Pendleton's The Executioner novels. Between 1988 and 1990 different scripts were written for the film, by writers such as Hilary Henkin, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, and even Stallone himself. It was going to be produced by Carolco and Joel Silver and directed by William Friedkin, and Stallone and Cynthia Rothrock were going to play partners, with him being more of a unpredictable wildcard while Rothrock's character was the one who is more calmer and cool headed. However due to Friedkin hating the script they wanted to use and arguments between him and Stallone, he left the project and soon after that it was cancelled.

[steve]

Although it has been claimed that the film was banned in parts of the UK after the killing spree of Michael Ryan, and that he was inspired by the Rambo movies, neither was in fact the case. A scheduled screening of the original First Blood (1982) was pulled from UK television (as was a screening of Nevada Smith (1966)), leading the UK's 'Daily Mail' and other media outlets to assume a direct link that never existed and which quickly became a popular urban legend. The film was heavily cut by the BBFC (by 1min 25secs for theatrical release and 3mins 3secs for home video), primarily for knife violence and cruelty to animals, but never banned. The DVD release has all the cuts reinstated apart from a two second shot of animal cruelty, in this case it being a horsefall.

[wallace]

The knife in this film is the first in the series to not be designed by Arkansas knifesmith Jimmy Lile. The blade was designed by fantasy knife designer Gil Hibben and is two inches longer than the one in [Rambo: First Blood Part II](/category/5525/rambo-first-blood-part-ii) (1985) and three inches longer than the knife in First Blood (1982). The knife is also the first in the series to not be of a survival knife design, although Hibben did produce a hollow handle, sawtooth survival knife. It was used during the first few days of filming: Rambo can be seen using it to pry up a mine in the minefield scene. A closeup of the final design plunging into the sand was filmed later to begin the scene. Jimmy Lile did build a prototype bowie knife roughly similar to what Hibben eventually produced (now being reproduced by knifesmith Vaughan Neeley), but Stallone rejected it, showing Lile a Hibben design more like what he wanted. Not surprisingly, Lile suggested he use Hibben himself.

[darrell]

In this movie, in keeping with proper, albeit subtle, continuity, we see Rambo's scars from First Blood (1982) (the scar on his right arm, caused by the fall through the trees) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) (the small scar right above his left cheek, caused by the heated knife scraped by his eye).

[riley]

Richard Crenna later appeared in "Hot Shots 2: Part Deux", which is a parody of the Rambo series. Before taking the part, Crenna approaches Stallone for his opinion and blessing - something Stallone was more than happy to give.

[ronnie]

The character Masoud (Spyros Fokas) is a reference to Ahmad Shah Masoud, a real-life leader of the Afghan resistance against the Russian occupation, minister of defense of Afghanistan (after the Russian occupation ended) and later again a leader of the resistance, this time against the Taliban regime.

[oscar]

During filming, Sylvester Stallone had a close call with a spinning helicopter rotor blade. In fact, had he been struck, it would have certainly decapitated him. Stallone laughed off the near miss with the quip "at least I'd have saved a fortune on haircuts!"

[addison]

The problems that the Russian forces faced with American Stinger missiles supplied to the mujaheddin fighters, as described in this movie, were very real, and accounted for the downing and destruction of hundreds of Russian helicopters during the real war. The missile was used again by Pakistan against better-flown Indian aircraft and gunships in the 1999 Kargil War but only accounted for 1 kill out of several hundred launches.

[aaron]

The film is considered to be the Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Down Under (1987) of the Rambo series. Rambo goes to Afghanistan to rescue Col. Trautman as well as aiding the Mujahedeen rebels fight back against the Soviet invaders holding Trautman captive.

[ken]

At 102 minutes this is the longest film in the 'Rambo' series (especially considering the total screen time of production logos and end credits is almost 5% of that 102 minutes).

[christina]

To date, this is the only film in the series where Rambo isn't tracked with dogs in Rambo: Last Blood he wasn't tracked by dogs either.

[ethel]

John Rambo's horse also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as Indiana Jones' horse.

[russell]

The 2nd and last film in the series which Rambo battles Russians.

[harry]

The other helicopter disguised as a Russian gunship was really an Aerospatiale/Eurocopter SA 341/2 Gazelle (also modified as the title helicopter in the movie Blue Thunder (1983)), of British/French design. The four fighter aircraft seen at a distance in the beginning are IAI Kfirs of the Israeli Air Force.

[brent]

Sylvester Stallone asked for a Gulfstream jet (cost: $12 million) as part of his pay for the film. He got one.