{"id":5235,"date":"2012-10-22T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2012-10-22T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:51:44","slug":"ted-kotcheff-rambos-alternate-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/22\/ted-kotcheff-rambos-alternate-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kotcheff: Rambo&#8217;s Alternate Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2012\/oct\/100712sly_kotcheff1.png?resize=475%2C325\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong>On <strong>October 15, 2012<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/2012\/10\/ted-kotcheff-wake-in-fright-director-interview\/page\/3\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Complex Pop Culture posted an interview with Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Here&#8217;s a tidbit: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">We shot the suicide ending, and then Sylvester came up to me and said, \u201cGod, what we&#8217;ve done to this character, he jumps off cliffs, he\u2019s chased by dogs, he\u2019s shot and he has to sew up his own arm. After all of that, we&#8217;re gonna kill him?\u201d One thing about Sly, he always had a popular sense of what audiences wanted to see. I said, \u201cWe&#8217;ve always conceived of it this way.\u201d He says, \u201cDo you want to come back here three months from now when the distributor asks for a happy ending?\u201d I said no. [<em>Laughs.<\/em>]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8211; Craig<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 15, 2012, Complex Pop Culture posted an interview with Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood. Here&#8217;s a tidbit: We shot the suicide ending, and then Sylvester came up to me and said, \u201cGod, what we&#8217;ve done to this character, he jumps off cliffs, he\u2019s chased by dogs, he\u2019s shot and he has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-107","category-first-blood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1mr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}