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Jack Reacher does not need to prove himself as a hero at this stage. Through 29 pounds and what is now nearly three seasons of the “Reachder” series of Prime Video, the character has proven that it was very short time the American action hero Archetypal, sending armies of enemies with ease and integrating the kind of blows which would suffocate the less heroes. He is a former itinerant military police officer with an unshakable commitment to justice and chivalry which always has one step ahead of those who dare to cross it. Fans know the formula and the seller provides many and many times.
But there is no doubt that this particular American hero is indebted to those who preceded him. Although it clearly shares a lot in common with other contemporary characters, such as John Wick unstoppable, it is also clearly the modern equivalent of action heroes linked to the muscles which proliferated in the 1980s. The main actor Alan Ritchson – which is undoubtedly about to become one of the best actors of action of all time – is also close to 6 inch 6 inch fraud and 250 pounds of 6 inch and 250 Lee Child popular books that we are likely to get it, and the show does not try to play its imposing physique – as demonstrated in the last episode of season 3.
In episode 6, Reacher is again revised shirt, accusing the agent DEA of Sonya Cassidy, Susan Duffy – one of the best things to “come to date – to sneak on his impressive figure while he changes the combination. But the episode also pays tribute to one of the most popular action stars of the 80s with an action sequence that could be its most direct reference to a spiritual predecessor Jack Facher to date.
Rambo is one of the greatest action heroes of all time
Apart from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone is the quintessence of the Action Hero of the 80s – mainly thanks to his “Rambo” franchise, in which he played the Vietnam War Vétnam Vetteran. In 1982, “First Blood”, based on the novel of the same name of David Morrell in 1972, we were presented to the soldier back from Stallone in a story that in fact described that John Rambo killing anyone, mainly because Stallone was worried that all the murder in First Blood “would ruin his career and that Hope, Washington, the National Guard and the State patrol in a distant forest.
Alas, Trautman does not save anyone from John Rambo’s skills. As a former green beret, the hero of Stallone does a short job of everyone sent after him, at some point, painting his skin to blend into the foliage and eliminate a whole team of national guard troops without killing a single one. When “Rambo First Blood: Part II” from 1985 arrived, however, the character would abandon his aversion to death, as evidenced by a sequence which saw a rambo covered with mud emerging from various forest surroundings to send a team of Soviet troops. In his review for the Los Angeles TimesMichael Wilmington described the scene as well:
“The air smells with sweat and tangled foliage. A squad of Soviets is looking for a man, a piece of walking of slaughter and revenge […] One of the soldiers stops with a pure mud slope. Suddenly, the mud stir. The mud breathes. The mud is angry with the Soviet in the maraud. The mud reaches the hand with a fawn mud arm, erases the invader and sends a hunting knife deeply in its chest. “”
In addition to the image of Rambo brandishing a giant machine gun, Rambo “The Mud -Man, Battalion of One” has become emblematic of the character – a soldier so fit for the jungle war that he essentially becomes one with the landscape. It is the one to which “Reacher” pays tribute to his latest episode, and it is a hell of a tribute.
Return pays tribute to John J. Rambo in episode 6
In “First Blood”, Colonel Samuel R. Trautman describes his former soldier as “the best, with rifles, with knives, with bare hands. A man who was formed to ignore pain, ignore the time, live from the earth, eat things that would vomit goat.” It would not be a bad description of Jack Reacher, who, as a former military policeman, is trained to do everything that the most elite soldiers can do – but better.
In episode 6 of season 3, we see how PROWER adapts quickly to the type of situation in which John RAMBO found himself so frequently. After his blanket exploded at the Zachary Beck manor (Anthony Michael Hall), the hero of Alan Ritchson must escape quickly, which he does in a generally explosive style by driving a plow through the Manor terrain, which flows almost on Paulie by Olivier Richters, the handsman Holking who makes him look small.
Once free, however, the plow broke down and the seller is forced to retire in the woods, where he is quickly followed by henchmen working for the villain of the season, Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee). It is then that we obtained what scan a complete tribute to Rambo and his jungle war skills, with Reching painting his body with mud and eliminating each member of the successful Squad. Returning the allusion all the more obvious is the fact that he uses a dagger for many of his victims, a bit like John J. Rambo himself. At one point, he even emerges from the forest behind the team leader and, in the words of Michael Wilmington from Los Angeles, “sends a hunting knife in his chest”.
There is nothing in this sequence which necessarily makes the Rambo link. Rechound does not pronounce any famous line of the Stallone franchise, and there is no Bandana in sight. But everything is almost certainly inspired, at least in part, by the franchise to which Jack Reacher and its creator Lee Child are surely indebted.
We almost had a first blood -style final in episode 6
The forest sequence of episode 6 of season 3 of “Reacher” is one of the best action parts in the series to date. We have seen the deputy Dole out the pure barbarism against whole prison gangs – in what remains one of the best fights of “rewier” – but his tactical guy killing it in this episode reveals more about the diversity of skills of man and his ability to adapt to any situation at any time. It is also a tribute fully worshiping to “Rambo” films, and once Reachder finished by eliminating Xavier Quinn’s hench, the allusions “Rambo” seem to be ready to continue.
For a second after the forest sequence to see, it seems that the episode will end with a confrontation between Reching and Paulie, at the last dead end of the Rambo against sheriff in “First Blood”. The highlight of the very first film “Rambo” saw the hero of Sylvester Stallone fighting with the Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) in the small town of Washington at night. In episode 6 of “Reacher”, after sending Quinn’s henchmen, Reachade escapes in the local city where he hides in a local laundromat. Meanwhile, Paulie follows him in the city and for a second, while Quinn’s Henchman examines the small deserted town illuminated only by brilliant windows, it seemed that Reacher and Paulie were ready to reconstruct the final confrontation of Rambo under the darkness of “First Blood”.
Of course, in this original film, John Rambo breaks down following his SSPT of the Vietnam War, but Rewier would not be taken in the process of snuggling up under pressure. Paulie returns to the Beck manor and we left while waiting for the final fight between him and Reachère. But when this battle arrives, it will certainly be one of the strengths of this season – a bit like the tribute to Rambo of this episode.
