{"id":7264,"date":"2014-10-12T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2014-10-12T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T12:40:39","slug":"how-cliffhanger-and-first-blood-were-affected-by-test-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/12\/how-cliffhanger-and-first-blood-were-affected-by-test-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;Cliffhanger&#8221; and &#8220;First Blood&#8221; Were Affected by Test Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2014\/oct\/101014dengeek_cliffhanger.png?resize=500%2C349\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On <strong>October 10, 2014<\/strong>, <b>Den of Geek<\/b>\u00a0posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.us\/movies\/test-screenings\/240053\/51-movies-and-how-they-were-affected-by-test-screenings\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>51 Movies and How They Were Affected by Test Screenings<\/strong><\/a>.<b>\u00a0 <\/b>Two of<b> Sly&#8217;s <\/b>movies,<b><em> Cliffhanger<\/em><\/b>\u00a0 and<b><em> First Blood<\/em>\u00a0 <\/b>made the list.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>CLIFFHANGER<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Interesting one, this. In the trailer for Renny Harlin&#8217;s 1993 hit\u00a0<em><strong>Cliffhanger<\/strong><\/em>, Sylvester Stallone is seen jumping from one cliff to another. It&#8217;s a 40 foot leap, and when test audiences were presentated with this, they guffawed. The reason? They just didn&#8217;t buy it could be possible. As such, the jump was re-edited &#8211; ironically needing the help of some CG work &#8211; to make the jump appear shorter. Nobody guffawed. It made it to the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2014\/oct\/101014dengeek_firstblood.png?resize=500%2C267\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>FIRST BLOOD<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Another ending story this one, and in this case, Sylvester Stallone probably owes the test audiences of his first\u00a0Rambo\u00a0film a cut. In the original story, John Rambo perished at the hands of Trautman. This is also what happens in the novel upon which\u00a0Rambo\u00a0is based.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the test audiences were not happy with this, and demanded that Rambo lived. Sylvester Stallone duly obliged, along came a new ending, and when Rambo went on to be a huge hit, the sequel &#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>First Blood: Part II<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; followed shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Stallone is getting to work on\u00a0<em><strong>Rambo 5<\/strong><\/em>. Every time he does a balance enquiry at his local brand of NatWest, he must do a silent grin to himself&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 10, 2014, Den of Geek\u00a0posted 51 Movies and How They Were Affected by Test Screenings.\u00a0 Two of Sly&#8217;s movies, Cliffhanger\u00a0 and First Blood\u00a0 made the list. \u00a0 CLIFFHANGER Interesting one, this. In the trailer for Renny Harlin&#8217;s 1993 hit\u00a0Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone is seen jumping from one cliff to another. It&#8217;s a 40 foot [&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":[38,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cliffhanger","category-first-blood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1Ta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}