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Tom Vaughan @storyandplot - Every now and then, people talk about FIRST BLOOD but confuse it with its sequels. They are very different animals.
FIRST BLOOD is a smart, hard-hitting character piece. An unflinching and unflattering portrait of so many elements of American society.
The casting is impeccable, top to bottom. The screenwriting is top-notch. This scene is a prime example of both.
The insincere smile, the veiled threats. The contained anger.
The action may be a little tame by today's standards, but it's not really an action film. Maybe a drama with action.
In the end, it's hard to see it as anything other than a tragedy. An angry rebuke to the arrogance of power and how most of us just want to look the other way.
It still fascinates me how we can tell such entertaining stories about these things.
I love this movie.
The sequels are just entirely different things (That said, I did like #4.)
https://x.com/storyandplot/status/2027484722146705745

Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas - My fellow Texans, my poor old Texas heart is hurting this evening. I am still out in West Texas. I am wearing my "Bob Willis is Still the King" T-shirt when a (roughly) 35 year-old woman and her husband stopped me and asked who Bob Wills is. Of course, I kindly explained who he is, then asked where she's and her husband are from. She said "I was born and raised in Beaumont and he's from Dallas." I could only inwardly shake my head. Where have I gone wrong? Where have we, collectively, as a society, failed? What are they teaching kids in school these days?
https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/2027571960532898224

Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas - Traces of Texas reader Jeanne Mason graciously submitted this nice photo of her mom, Verda Iellene Jordan, and other car hops at work at Byrd's Drive-In in Houston sometime during the mid-1940s. That's Verda on the far left, wearing the Hoss Cartwright-looking hat. Byrd’s Famous Hamburger Stand was located at 1935 West Gray in the Bayou City. Best of all, they served Grand Prize beer. Who would like to see a return to car hop outfits like this? We're replaced so much of the whimsical with the merely functional.
Thank you, Jeanne. Wunderbar!