Stallone says `Rambo' film inspiring students
LOS ANGELES (AP) - February 4, 2008 "Either live for something, die for nothing - it's your
choice," the 61-year-old actor-director said Saturday in a phone
call from Paris, where he is promoting the movie, the fourth in a
series.
"Students have now used this film as a rallying point and are
using the quote, thinking maybe the American military will
intervene and save them," he said.
"Rambo" has the disaffected Vietnam vet John Rambo trying to
find missionaries captured by Myanmar soldiers, who are shown
razing villages and killing civilians.
Myanmar's military crushed pro-democracy protests led by
students and Buddhist priests last year.
Stallone filmed "Rambo," which has yet to be released in Asia,
on a river bordering Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.
He issued a challenge to the ruling military.
"If they think this movie is a fantasy, I welcome the
opportunity to let me come over there and walk around the country
without armed guards following me every inch of the way," he said.