I was going to do a film called The Driver, and they were gonna offer me a fortune for that, so much money back then, and I wanted to do Paradise Alley for about one tenth of it. The failure of Stallone's Rocky follow-ups hit him hard
So it’s that crossroads moment where you have to say, ‘I’m gonna go for it.’" 5. But I knew that if I gave it away my life would’ve been over. The first scene was a very dramatic one at the dock and they said, ‘Maybe we could keep on him on for a while…’ And that’s how it happened. "So they said, ‘Okay look, we don’t want you but we’ll take you.’ But there were about five clauses in the contract so they could fire me during the first week. I really had to say, ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to go for it.’" You talk about crossroads… And I know if I took the money – which was probably a million dollars, maybe a bit more now – I could’ve been very, very, happy, no question, but I would’ve hated myself. That’s about five times as much in today’s money. ‘You gotta do it, I’m telling you, you’ve got to do it,’ my wife was saying. So I went home and it was so hot… I remember it was really bad, the heat, that my wife got a nosebleed because it was so hot in this apartment in The Valley." I had just sold my dog because I couldn’t afford it, and here’s $60,000 offered to me. We can do this.’ For the first time they said, ‘How much more can you type?’ Adding, ‘But we don’t want you.’ So I say no and went home. "They read the screenplay and said, ‘This is pretty good. Oh, you're the one who's making the mistake.I had just sold my dog because I couldn’t afford it, and here’s $60,000 offered to me for a script. Oh you're the one who's making the mistake. I'd never make the mistake of bringing this subject up again. That's enough! Trautman, I'm gonna forget this conversation ever took place.Īnd if I were you. start the war all over again? You wanna bomb Hanoi? You want everybody screaming for armed invasion? Do you honestly think somebody's gonna get up on the floor of the United States Senate, and ask for billions of dollars for a couple of forgotten ghosts? and you're doing the same thing all over again.Īnd what the hell would you do, Trautman? Pay blackmail money to ransom our own men and finance the war effort against our allies? What if some burn-out POW shows up on the six o-clock news? What do you want to do. The same as it always is! Money! In '72 we were supposed to pay the Cong four-and-a-half billion in war reparations.
Oh Trautman, I still don't think you understand what this is all about. He was just supposed to take pictures!Īnd if those pictures showed something they would have been. Now if your warrior had gone in and done what the hell he was supposed to do, we'd be out of this clean and simple. We're talkin' about a nation here! Besides, it was your hero's fault.
Who the hell do you think you're talking to, Trautman?Ī stinkin' bureaucrat who's tryin to cover his ass! Rambo goes in, a decorated vet, he finds no POWs, the Congress buys it - case closed! And if he happens to get caught, nobody knows he's alive except you and your computers. You had your suspicions, and if you suspected then you're sort of an accessory aren't ya?ĭon't ever count me with you and your scum! It was a lie wasn't it? Just like the whole damn war, it was a lie! What are you doing? Do you know what the hell you've done?ĭon't act so innocent, Colonel.
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