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First Blood (1982)

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• Factual errors: Colonel Trautman mistakenly wears a U.S. Army Special Forces *crest* on the patch of his "green beret". As he is an officer, he should be wearing the insignia of his rank, i.e. a silver eagle, on his beret patch. The error was corrected for the next two films in the series, Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988).
  
  
• Continuity: In a chase scene, the parking light lens pops off the sheriff's car when it hits a bump and is back in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When John is escaping from the police station on a motorcycle, chased by sheriff Teasle, the police car gets very dirty but in later scenes it is all clean again.
  
  

• Continuity: Rear view mirror in sheriff's car.
  
  
• Continuity: Rambo is hiding on the hillside above the road waiting for an opportunity to jump onto the canvas top of the last truck in the convoy. As that truck approaches the canvas sides are unrolled and "down". Seconds later when he jumps on top, the canvas is rolled "up" halfway. Seconds later as the same truck in shown going down the road the sides are back down.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Rambo jumps onto the top of the army truck, a landing pad can be seen underneath the canvas.
  
  
• Continuity: During the initial chase with the motorcycle, the sheriff's car's rear right hubcap disappears and reappears several times.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of the cameraman can be seen on the other side of the roof when Teasle first climbs up onto it for the final showdown.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Ramp can be seen when Rambo jumps over railroad tracks with motorcycle.
  
  
• Continuity: Before going through a police roadblock, the windshield of Rambo's vehicle is cracked by gunfire. After the roadblock, the bullet holes disappear.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Deputy Gault is seen to be wearing buckskin-colored cowboy boots while seated in the helicopter. However, when he falls out, the stuntman is wearing low-top black shoes with white socks. His hair is a different color from Galt's, too.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Rambo is racing down the pavement on the motorcycle, shouting "get out of the way" to terrified pedestrians, his mouth indicates he is shouting "fucking move it".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the bike/patrol car chase in the beginning, Rambo rides a Yamaha XT 4-stroke bike - the sound effect is that of a 2-stroke.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the Sheriff lets Rambo out of the car and pulls away, the boom operator and cameraman are reflected in the side window of the police car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rambo is running from the police, just before the jump to the tree, he has a decent amount of stubble on his face, which is why the cops wanted to shave him earlier. When he comes back from seeing the cliff, there is a close-up of his face and he is clean-shaven.
  
  
• Continuity: The white markings on the front of the truck that Rambo drives during the chase, change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Rambo steals the 2 1/2 ton truck. It has an M60 machine gun in the back. Rambo jumps the cop cars with the truck. The truck lands and the tail gate flips open with no gun. When the truck drives away the tail gate is up. When Rambo stops the truck he gets out and the M60 is just sitting in back with ammo ready to grab.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Rambo is driving truck over the bridge road block towards the end of the movie, it is daylight. When he reaches the town which is not that far from the bridge, it is dark.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rambo falls through the trees after jumping off the cliff, he becomes caught (impaled) on his left arm. He hangs for a few seconds by his left arm before the branch breaks and he falls the rest of the way to the ground. When he rolls over, he is clutching his right arm, which is covered in blood.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During his conversation with Sheriff Teasle (just before the "body bags" comment), Col. Troutman's mouth movements are slightly out of sync.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Rambo is driving the truck and pushes the cop car into the path of the broken down car, the explosion starts the second the cars make contact. In the next shot during the fireball, the two cables that held the static vehicle in place are visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When the sheriff follows Rambo into the woods, Rambo surprises him and shoves him against a tree and cuts his left cheek. Throughout the rest of the film, the cut is on his right cheek.
  
  
• Continuity: When John holds the knife to Teasle's throat in the woods, the placement of the knife changes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the end scene, with Rambo and the Colonel in the police station, Rambo is talking about how he came home from the war and was met by protesters at the airport and he makes the comment "So I come back from the war and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting, calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap". However, when the audio says "crap" at the end, his mouth can clearly be seen forming the word "shit".
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Camera visible in far left corner when the drug store explodes.
  
  

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