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>we literally praised and exhalted the Mujaheddin in a Rambo movie I thought this was a photoshop and wasn't actually in the film?
by remarkEon 5y ago
>we literally praised and exhalted the Mujaheddin in a Rambo movie
I thought this was a photoshop and wasn't actually in the film?
- reducesuffering 5y agoCorrect
- Intermernet 5y agoThe script to Rambo 3 has three mentions of Mujaheddin in it. Two of them are in the following section: "What you see here, are the Mujahedin soldiers, holy warriors. To us, this war is a holy war. And there is no true death for a Mujahedin, because we have taken our last nights, and because we consider us already dead. To us, death for our land and God is an honor. So, my friend, what we must do is to stop this killing of our women and children. If getting this man free, so he can tell to the free world, and tell what happens here, is necessary then of course we will help." I'm not sure if that's praising or exalting, but it wasn't damning in the context of the movie. My favourite (and probably most prescient and ironic) quote from the movie is: "You can't defeat a people like that. We tried. We already had our Vietnam! Now you're gonna have yours!"
- pjc50 5y agoThe specific message is indeed a photoshop, but the film was broadly pro-Mujaheddin as it was anti-Soviet. As was The Living Daylights, in which the Mujaheddin led by an Oxford-educated Afghan help James Bond destroy a rogue Soviet drug-running operation.