88. The "First Blood/Rambo" Franchise
In which film did U.S. Army Col. Samuel Trautman respond to the statement by Sheriff Will Teasle, "Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo?" by stating, "God didn't make Rambo, I made him"?
From Quiz In Which Movie or Sequel Did That Happen?
Answer:
First Blood
It all started in 1982 with the film "First Blood". The character John Rambo, a troubled former U.S. Army special forces Vietnam War veteran, afflicted with Post traumatic Stress Disorder was introduced.
Rambo, a loner, wandered into the quiet town of Hope, Washington, and is shortly thereafter arrested by the local sheriff as a vagrant.
While being processed by the local deputies at the sheriff office, Rambo is abused by the staff because of his failure to speak or cooperate. When one deputy attempts to dry shave him while he is being restrained by other deputies, Rambo experiences a flashback from when he was being tortured after being captured by North Vietnamese soldiers, breaks free, injures several deputies, and escapes.
Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), who was not present during the assault, organizes a search for Rambo in the woods surround the town. The tactics used by the deputies proved to be no match for the skills of the experienced special forces trained Rambo. Rambo attempts to convince his pursuers that they are no match for him, using non-lethal means to show their inexperience.
Teasle, while at the search command post and perplexed as to how one man could seemingly defeat his trained deputies, laments, "Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo?"
The reply comes from Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna), a recent arrival to the command post. "God didn't make Rambo, I made him". Trautman, attired in his military uniform further explains the Rambo was trained to be a killing machine.
When questioned by Teasle as to why he was sent by the army, Trautman replied, "I don't think you understand, I didn't come to rescue Rambo from you, I came here to rescue you from him". Trautman further explained that Rambo was an expert in guerrilla warfare, an expert in using weapons and his bare hands to engage his enemies, and that he was trained and conditioned to ignore pain and weather, to live off the land, and "eat things that would make a billy goat puke".
Rambo eventually turned himself in to Col. Trautman after causing a little additional havoc on the corrupt law officials and small town, and survived to fight another day ... specifically in three movie sequels.
Sylvester Stallone starred as John Rambo in four action/thriller films:
"First Blood" (1982), Rambo: First Blood II" (1985), "Rambo III" (1988), and "Rambo" (2008).