Rambo 4 will have sadistic evil Asians aplenty
by guest contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers.
Rambo must face off against the movie’s main guy Pa Tee Tint, the evil, sadistic Burmese major. Ah yes, another villainous Asian military figure. I’d raise a bigger stink about the stereotype, but unfortunately, the character is probably a close approximation of some of the real-life figures from the region. Also in the movie, according to the casting call, is a guy named “En Joo,” one of the mercenaries on Rambo’s team. Neither his description, nor his fate in the story (spoilers!), is very encouraging:
En-joo: The fifth member of the quintet of mercenaries. En-joo is a barrel-chested former South Korean trooper, an expert in explosives who barely speaks during the mission to rescue the missionaries. Expert at assassination by garotte, En-Joo flees the compound after Lewis and Reese wrongly declare the missionaries to be dead, and winds up dying in battle when the three mercenaries are cornered and shot to pieces. Lead;
No word yet on who will play either character. Keep an eye on this one… How many faceless, machine-gun toting Asians will Rambo The One-Man Army kill in this movie? Can’t wait to find out. You know, it just occurred to me that I was way too young to be watching Rambo II when I saw it with my friend, back circa 1985. Edward, what were your parents thinking?
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Rob wrote:
I’m sure the South Korean will trade his life for the white man because white lives are worth more than Asian ones.
If you saw any type of Rambo movie, you’ve seen them all. It’s like the 80s all over again.
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 10:45 am ¶
Ariah Fine wrote:
I’ve been thinking about stopping watching all violent movies. Because of this above and many other reasons.
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 8:09 pm ¶
justin wrote:
I only have an accurate memory of the first movie, but I always thought Rambo was kinda cool.
Without the effect that movie has had, the way people think about the Vietnam war tends to play out along socio-economic lines. I’m thinking about that movie ‘Casualties of War’, it has a common narrative where an educated white man is confronted by and fends off a mob of low class or southern bullies and the powers that be are only complicit because they choose to turn a blind eye. Rambo has elements of that but he’s more complicated. Instead of an educated white man he is like an interstitial agent. Rambo is meant to be half Cherokee, u kno? (dum dum dum)
I am a child of the south east asian conflict and I think for my parents generation Stallone struck a really important chord. When I think of other successful movies in that genre they seem to be trying to cross Rambo with Rocky, as in American Ninja and the Kickboxer series. Maybe I’m reaching too far and projecting too much but I am feeling optimistic.
Posted 05 Jan 2007 at 12:02 pm ¶