Ohhhhh, yeah. I remember that ad. At the time, I probably didn’t realize it was associated with a religion. I just knew L. Ron Hubbard as a bad sci-fi writer then. And I don’t think the stranger aspects of Scientology (Xenu and all that stuff) were common knowledge then.
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I’d assume that it was an unironic statement by someone who worships performative strength, like the people who paste Trump’s head onto Rambo.
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That film was so long ago that I always hear Rimbaud in my head when someone says Rambo. Enivrer vous!
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That is deliberate.
Morrell also felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work, A Season in Hell, seemed to him “an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering”.[4] Furthermore, an Arthur J. Rambo was an actual U.S. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned.[5]
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I just assumed the name was an anglicisation of Rimbaud if it’s ever spelt like that in the wild.
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If you are missing Sylvester Stallone…
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Really not (I did enjoy Rocky and Paradise Alley when I was a kid but haven’t actually seen any of the other Rocky or Rambo movies. Even as a child I noped out of that shit).
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