First Blood - Shot Breakdown

1. A road that winds off behind a cabin. Rambo enters the road and walks towards us. Camer PANs once he is at a MS to an over the shoulder shot of him looking R-L to a small plantation.
2. MCU of Rambo looking at the plantation R-L. Background looks a little bit cheated.
3. Rambo's back, same as we left off in shot 1. He walks R-Lto the plantation, then at a fire pit starts walking L-R.
4. Rambo comes into a WS of a Lady hanging laundry from L-R.
5. Reversal, Rambo moves L-R towards the lady looking to camera Right.
6. MS of Lady at clothes line looking R-L. Girl leaves R-L.
7. MWS of Rambo. Girl walks past him, into and then out of frame R-L. Dolly with Rambo as he walks L-R, Dolly under the clothes line into a two shot of Rambo and the Lady. The Tree and Rambo act as Vertical thirds. The shoreline and Mountain act as horizontal thirds. Rambo is on the Right, the Lady is on the left.
8. CU Rambo looking L-R.
9. CU Lady looking R-L.
10. CU Rambo looking L-R.
11. CU Lady looking R-L.
12. CU Rambo reaction over her dialogue looking L-R.
13. CU Lady looking R-L continuing her dialogue. Continuity: She puts on an orange towel twice.
14. CU Rambo looking L-R.
15. Original two shot. (The Lady is putting up the wrong towel). Rambo walks out of frame R-L.
16. WS Rambo walks away from CameraR-L.
17. Disolve to MWS of Rambo walking down the road L-R.
18. Disolve to MWS of Rambo walking down the raod L-R.
19. Sign of Hope. The frame of the border makes a frame within a frame. Rambo walks into Frame L-R.
20. MWS of Teasle coming out of the station. Dolly back and PAN as he surveys the town. He walks off R-L.
21. Wide shot of teasle walking down the stairs R-L and tilt down with him. PAN over with him as he goes to his car. Dolly back a little and PAN as the car pulls out. The Car moves R-L.
22. Dolly back with Rambo as he walks L-R.
23. Car drives R-L, short PAN.
24. Rambo reaction Low angle as he moves L-R on a MCS.
25. PAN with the car as it moves R-L over to Rambo. Rambo is looking L-R. It is almost as if we are panning into Rambo from what we thought to be his POV.
26. Low angle MS of Rambo. Looks like Teasle's POV. Rambo is in center frame looking L-R.
27. MCU of Teasle at eye level looking R-L at Rambo. Continuity: The car did not pass by teasle as it passed by Rambo in the previous shot.
28. MS of Rambofrom low agle looking L-R.
29. MCU Teasle at eye level looking R-L.
30. MS of Rambo from a low angle looking L-R. He walks out of frame L-R.
31. Car is on street moving towards camera on a downward angle L-R. PAN with the car as it passes by and becomes a reversal, moving away from the camera on an upward angle still moving L-R.
32. Inside car, CU of Teasle looking R-L. The axis is between them.
33. CU Rambo looking L-R.
34. CU Teasle looking R-L.
35. CU Rambo looking L-R.
36. CU Teasle looking R-L.
37. CU Rambo looking L-R.
38. CU Teasle looking R-L.
39. CU Rambo looking L-R.
40. CU Teasle looking R-L.
41. CU Rambo looking L-R.
42. CU Teasle looking R-L.
43. CU Rambo looking L-R.
44. CU Teasle looking R-L.
45. CU Rambo looking L-R.
46. Wide shot of bridge. The car comes across it from L-R. Two trees act as vertical thirds.
47. MWS of the other side of the bridge. The car drives into the shot from L-R. Tilt up with Rambo as he gets out of the car and PAN back with his so that he is always in the possition of the vertical third. The Car drives away from L-R. The car comes back into the background. Rack focus to the Car (though there seems to be a deep depth of field). The car drives out of frame R-L. Rack focus back to Rambo just before the car leaves frame.
48. Car moves towards us R-L over the bridge. The Bridge's railings are acting as thirds. In Background Rambo turns around and looks R-L. Car leaves frame R-L.
49. MS of Rambo as he looks R-L, takes a look in the other directio, then walks out of frame R-L.
50. EWS as Rambo walks towards us across the bridge slightly R-L.
51. Teasle in car at eye level We are slightly in front of him, as if the camera is mounted where the drivers side mirror should be. He looks R-L then begins to turn and look L-R.
52. Rambo walks towards us slightly R-L. Th car enters R-L moving away from us. Dolly back as car pulls back in front of Rambo moving R-L. Track over as Teasle gets out and grabs Rambo in a two shot where Rambo looks L-R and Rambo looks R-L.
53. CU Teasle looks R-L.
54. CU Rambo looks L-R.
55. CU Teasle looks R-L.
56. Insert CU shot of Teasle grabbing his own gun at slight high angle. We can tell it is his gun because It is on screen right as is Teasle's face.
57. CU Rambo looks L-R.
58. CU Teasle looks R-L.
59. CU Rambo looks L-R.
60. CU Teasle looks R-L.
61. CU Rambo looks L-R. Rambo walks L-R.
62. Rambo walks L-R to the car and we PAN with him. Teasle continues to look R-L. Teasle walks R-L to search him. We track and tilt down with Teasle. Tilt up as Teasle finds a knife and is now looking L-R to Rambo as he is now behind him. Track back as Teasle walks back facing R-L.
63. Teasle and Rambo enter the station from L-R. Dolly forward with them as they enter the booking area.
64. Reversal. Teasle and Rambo walk L-R towards the desk as the Camera PANs and Dolly's back. Galt is introduced in the shot. He looks at Rambo L-R. Teasle walks away L-R.
65. CU of Rambolooking R -L. Teasle walks off screen L-R in the background.
66. Slight high Angle of Galt using knife on the left side of the frame. The shot is not very close to the axis as though it were a disconnected POV.
67. CU Rambo looking R-L. He turns and looks L-R.
68. A Cop with his back to us opens a gun Cabinet.
69. Rambo, towards the right of the frame, still looking L-R. Mitch escorts him L-R.
70. Rambo and Mitch walk L-R. Galt enters and they walk in to the valt nuetrally.
71. CS of feet walking down the stairs nuetral. PAN as they go R-L, then L-R. PAN and track to see them through the stairs.
72. Rambo, Mitch and Galt go L-R into the shot. Rambo looks L-R, Galt looks R-L.
73. CU Rambo looking L-R.
74. Slight high angle of MS Galt looking R-L.
75. CU Rambo looking L-R.
76. Cut away of a window inside a door frame. Walls used as thirds. It is like a frame within a frame within a frame. The window is to the right.
77. CU Rambo looking L-R.
78. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
79. Fast zoom into the window.
80. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
81. Zoom into the window from a bit closer.
82. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
83. Zoom into the window from even closer.
84. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
85. Zoom into the window from closer yet.
86. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
87. Flash frame of window.
88. Flash frame of cross hatched bamboo bars.
89. See cross hatched bamboo bars. fast zoom into Rambowho is below the bars in a pit in the ground.
90. Rambo's POV looking up through the bamboo bars as Vietnamize dumping buckets of sewage onto the camera until it is black
91. CU Rambo looking L-R.
92. Slight high angle of MS Galt looking R-L.
93. MCS Rambo looking L-R beside Mitch, who is looking R-L at Rambo.
94. Tilt up as Galt stands and looks R-L.
95. MCS Rambo looking L-R beside Mitch, who is looking R-L at Rambo.
96. MS Galt looking R-L.
97. MCS Rambo looking L-R beside Mitch, who is looking R-L at Rambo.
98. MCS Galt looking R-L.
99. MCS Rambo looking L-R beside Mitch, who is looking R-L at Rambo. Batton enters from R-L
100. MCS Galt holding batton, looking R-L.
101. MCS Rambo looking L-R.
102. MCS Galt looking R-L.
103. MCS Rambo looking L-R. Mitch walks off R-L.
104. MCS of Cop trying to print Rambo. Dolly back. Galt enters R-L. Teasle enters L-R. Teasle looks at Rambo L-R and Rambo looks back at him R-L. Slow dolly in.
105. Transition shot of shirt falling into the frame on the bed in a dutch angle. Dolly back and tilt up to a normalized MS of Rambo. Rambo turns and looks R-L. Rambo is hit and he falls out of frame. Galt looks R-L.
106. MCS of hand holding a spraying hose as a transition shot. PAN over to the corner where Rambo is being hosed down in a MS facing slightly L-R, on a short sighted frame.
107. WS of Man holding hose, Galt and Mitch looking Left to Right. Mitch stands in a doorway. A barred window shows a man in the background through that frame. Here we see foreground middleground and background action.
108. MCS of Rambo getting hosed. Now he is facing us but still looking L-R.
109. WS of man spraying water L-R with Galt and Mitch.
110. We see a cell door in fromt of us, and behind it on a slight angle is the door frame. Rambo and Mitch enter from R-L. We dolly with them. Once they stop Rambo looks L-R.
111. Officer comes through a doorway towards camera from L-R with shaving kit while the other man wraps up the fire hose. Tilt down to the razer and shaving kit.
112. Slight low angle Rambo and Mitch at the left side of the frame looking L-R. Eyeline is even further from the axis. The door they just walked through is behind them. Shaving copenters frame right so we see a CU of his hands and the shaving kit out of focus. Galt enters R-L.
113. Rambo is heaved up onto a bamboo cross in Vietnam. MS looking R-L.
114. MWS of Galt holding Rambo in front of the cell door. Mitch leaves R-L. The shaving kit is still out of focus in the forground. Rambo looks L-R.
115. MS Rambo is on Bamboo cross looking slightly L-R on a slightly low angle.
116. MS Galt struggles with Rambo and pulls him towards the camera and out of frame L-R.
117. Empty frame of shower area. Rambo and Galt enter the frame L-R. Mitch and the shaving cop enter frame L-R. Galt and Rambo look R-L while Mitch and the Shaving cop look L-R in a MS.
118. Rambo and Galt on a MCS of Galt getting Rambo's arms. They both look R-L. see a little bit of the shaving cop in the foreground-very soft focus.
119. CU of Shaving copsharpening razor. Slight high angle, and on the left side of the frame. Slight tilt up.
120. CU Rambo looking R-L with very soft focus razor in the foreground.
121. Flash several times from CU Rambo looking R-L to MCS of a Vietnamize soldier looking straight at the camera.
122. CU Rambo looking R-L. Razor comes into shot on upward angle from L-R.
123. MCS Vietnamize soldier brings his sword into the shot with an upward angle from L-R.
124. CU Rambo looking R-L with razor in front of him on the same angle.
125. MCS Shaving cop looking L-R.
126. CU Rambo looking R-L with razor in front of him on the same angle.
127. MCS Vietnamize soldier bringing sword out of bottom of the frame R-L.
128. MS Rambo on bamboo cross as knife cuts his chest from L-R.
129. CU of Rambo looking R-L with Razor in foreground. Rambo backs out of frame. Shaving cop moves into frame.
130. MCS Rambo pushes Galt back R-L. See the full arm of the shaving cop. PAN over with Rambo.
131. MWS Rambo lookings R-L, beats up cops. Shaving cop looks L-R.
132. MS shaving cop flies to ground at the cell door. No prisoner is here now (continuity).
133. MCS of wall. Rambo flies in from L-R slamming Galt against the wall.
134. WS Rambo swings Galt around at first looking R-L, and starts to swing at Mitch R-L with slight Camera movements.
135. MCS Rambo swingw fist at camera looking R-L.
136. Handheld MCS Mitch is in frame, Rambo's fist flies in and he follows L-R.
137. MS Galt grabs night stick inside the frame of the cell looking L-R. Hand held.
138. Hand held MCS Rambo looking R-L. He moves into an anti-frame.
139. Handheld shot of Galt and Rambo. Prisoner in cell watches. Rambo looks R-L and Galt looks L-R. Rambo swings around to lookL-R and now Galt looks R-L.
140. MWS Reversal. Rambo looks R-L. Galt looks L-R, then spins so they both look R-L.
141. Rambo looks R-L, Galt looks L-R. They move L-R.
142. CU bars. Rambo and Galt come into the frame R-L. Rambo looks L-R.
143. Reversal, Rambo looks L-R. Shawving cop enters L-R.
144. MWS Rambo looking L-R, flips shaving cop. Camera tilts down. Rambo goes to Galt and faces him L-R.
145. MCS Rambo looking R-L as he hits Galt.
146. WS cop comes through cell frame. Rambo Kicks him from L-R, then swings him around. Rambo faces R-L and the cop faces L-R.
147. MS, Rambo faces R-L, cop faces L-R, Rambo tosses cop through window.
148. WS Teasle comes down stairs towards us L-R. Ladder in the foreground, landing as a horrizontal third.
149. MWS Teasle enters cell doorway R-L. Rambo enters R-L.
150. WS cops in station reacting looking L-R.
151. MWS under stairs, Rambo runs up L-R, Camera tilts up.
152. Cop opens door and Rambo enters L-R, pushes cop R-L. Camera dollys, gets a bit behind and PANs.
153. WS Rambo throws the cop through the window R-L in slow motion.
154. MS cop gets up and reacts looking R-L. He leaves frame R-L.
155. Cop enters R-L. Rambo comes L-R and kicks him. PAN over to cop falling.
156. Rambo runs out of frame L-R.
157. Shot of hall and Lester. Rambo runs in R-L.
158. MCS High angle Rambo elbowing Lester in the face. Starts to get up R-L.
159. MWS Rambo gets up, Tilt up, looks R-L, then leaves L-R.
160. High angle Lester on ground.
161. Rambo runs out of building R-L. PAN with him. He leaves frame R-L.
162. Rambo enters frame R-L.
163. MWS Rambo looks R-L, grabs guy off bike, leaves frame L-R.
164. Enters MWS of bike L-R, and drives out R-L.
165. Shot of street. Rambo enters R-L.
166. Slight dutch angle of Police station in a WS. Tilt down with Galt. Teasle heads off R-L.
167. People on the street move out of the way as we see Rambo diving the bike on the sidewalk towards us R-L.
168. Low angle cop car drives by R-L, slight PAN with it to a hault.
169. Rambo drives towards us R-L. Slight camera tilt.
170. Cop car pulls out R-L on the same street but closer. Camera PANs.
171. PAN with Rambo on the bike moving away from us R-L.
172. Cop car moves towards us R-L.
173. Rambo comes through a Chevron gas station R-L towards us, and leaves L-R. Cop car comes R-L, PAN with him as he goes L-R towards us, then out of frame.
174. Rambo nuetral on road through the windshield of the Cop car.
175. EWS Rambo flies over jump at railway tracks moving L-R towards us.
176. Profile shot of Rambo flying over thr tracks moving L-R.
177. Rambo flies away from us L-R and lands.
178. Low angle, cop car flies over the tracks L-R.
179. Cop car flies into shot L-R over head, Rambo is in the distance.
180. Rambo rides L-R towards us followed by the cop car by the H-Tree. Slight PAN as they leave L-R.
181. Rambo and Cop car come towards us L-R.
182. MCS Teasle driving cop car lookinf L-R.
183. Rambo driving towards us.
184. High angle shot Rambo enters L-Ras we track. Cop car enters L-R.
185. MCS of bike and Rambo's feet moving L-R. track with him on a slight high angle. He leaves frame L-R.
186. PAN with cop car moving L-R.
187. High angle MCS looking down at Rambo's feet on the bike. Tilt up to his face.
188. MCS Teasle driving car L-R.
189. Rambo speeds past us L-R and Cop car follows.
190. Rambo drives towards us L-R and leaves the frame L-R. Teasle enters the shot. PAN with him.
191. Empty road. Cop car comes up and over it L-R.
192. MCS Teasle in car looking sloghtly L-R getting banged up.
193. Rambo drives briefly R-L, then L-R towards us. Cop car enters in bacvkground. Short PAN with Rambo.
194. Reversal of Rambo landing the jump L-R.
195. Cop car jumps over fence L-R.
196. PAN with Rambo L-R. Start and end with static shots.
197. Start static on Cop car, PAN with it L-R. The tripod looks like it was very loose. it almost looks handheld.
198. Rambo comes down hill towards us L-R. PAN with him.
199. WS of cop car coming to bush L-R.
200. Low angle of cop car coming to the edge of the hill, nuetral.
201. CS Teasle in car looking L-R.
202. Rambo comes towards us L-R. Thick grass in the foreground. PAN with him.
203. EWS Rambo driving away L-R. Cop car enters in foreground.
204. MCS TEasle in car in car lookinf L-R.
205. EWS Rambo dissapears, cop car leaves L-R.
206. Fast track beside Rambo as he drives L-R. There is lots of stuff in the foreground to make the speed look higher.
207. Cop car comes towards us on a downward L-R. Fence as thirds. Slight PAN.
208. CS of cop car smashing thtough fence L-R.
209. WS cop car finishes mashing thfough fence and drived L-R. PAN with him.
210. Rambo's bike, we only see the wheels coming towards us R-L, then L-R.
211. Cop car comes L-R. PAN with him.
212. MCS Rambo, just upper body as he drives L-R. Track with him.
213. See mud trenches and bike wheel facing R-L.
214. EWS Rambo drives up trench R-L, cop enters L-R. They both drive L-R.
215. MCS Rambo's upper body as we drive with him L-R.
216. CS Teasle driving L-R.
217. Rambo comes over hump towards us L-R, Cop car follows. the road lline as the horizontal third.
218. WS, slight high angle, Rambo comes L-R, as does the cop. Road line as Horizontal third.Crane down as the car crashes.
219. Rambo pulls up towards us L-R. He stops as the vertical third a tree is the other. Rambo turns and looks R-L.
220. CS of Teasle's ruined, upside down car. Teasle climbs out looking L-R.
221. WS of the back of Teasle's car. He gets up and looks L-R at Rambo who drives away. Short PAN.
222. PAN with Rambo as he drives uphill L-Rand falls R-L.
223. MCS Rambo. He falls into frame R-L. Some camera movement.
224. EWS Teasle comes towards us L-R.
225. MCS Rambo looking R-L, then runs out of frame L-R.
226. WS Rambo runs L-R out of frame.
227. WS Rambo runs away from us L-R across rocks. He then starts to head R-L.
228. Teasle enters MWS L-R. Camera PANs and TILTs withg him. He is anti-framed looking L-R.
229. Empty frame wuth bike. TILT up.
230. Teasle looks L-R not quite as anti-framed.
231. WS Rambo climbs up towards us R-L. Dolly back and TILT with him. PAN over and colly back as he gets into the truck. He runs out of frame R-L.
232. EWS of Junk yard. Rambo enters L-R. PAN with him, TILT down. Dolly back as he comes around the truck. PAN and track with him as he moves L-R.
233. WS Cop cars enter L-R.
234. EWS of Teasle coming towards us slightly L-R. Cops enter from L-R. PAN with Teasle on a low angle. Teasle looks R-L.
235. Empty frame. Rambo swoops up R-L. Low agle TILT and PAN down to knife. Rambo leaves R-L.
236. High angle shot of Rambo walking upstream (and therefore up the mountain) R-L. Track with him, TILT to an almost normalized shot, then PAN/ TILT with him. TILT up above him to the mountain top.
237. Close to ground. Dogs enter L-R. Track with the dogs.
238. High angle of police team moving L-R. TILT PAN and dolly back.
239. Rambo comes R-L. He moves from below a high angle to where the camera is at a low angle. TILT and PAN.
240. Cops come R-L uphill towards us. Tree in foreground as vertical third.
241. Rambo moves up towards us R-L. PAN as he goes L-R. He ends nuetrally. but slightly L-R.
242. MWS cops. Log lying down in foreground as horizontal third. Trees in Background as vertical thirds. Men move R-L. Tilt and Crane up and dolly over with the last two guys. on the alst frame a tree in the foreground is on one third, and a tree in the background is on the other.
243. Rambo runs down the hill towards us L-R. PAN with him. He leaves R-L.
244. WS Rambo runs to cliff edge R-L. ZOOM out, dolly back and TILT down.
245. High angle. Rambo looks R-L. Another reaction to dogs. He runs out L-R.
246. EWS Rambo runs up mountain L-R.
247. WS High angle, Rambo runs L-R towards us.
248. Rambo's POV uphill as Policemen come towards us R-L.
249. MCU Rambo looking L-R on a slight high angle.
250. High angle WS Rambo looking L-R. He turns and leaves R-L.
251. EWS of Rambo running R-L across the mountain top. He then goes L-R.
252. WS high angle Rambo moves towards the bottom of the frame R-L.
253. Low angle MWS of Rambo looking L-R over cliff.
254. Rambo's POV. a Dutch angle of the river and tree below.
255. Low angle MWS of Rambo looking L-R over cliff. He then climbs over.
256. Slight high angle Reversal, Rambo climbs over the edge of the cliff. Mildly shaky track in to show a bit of what he's climbing into.
257. EWS low angle Rambo getting onto the cliff face.
258. Hellicopter comes into frame above trees L-R.
259. Cops walk down hill R-L. Dolly and PAN.
260. See Galt with shotgun looking out of the hellicopter.
261. EWS of mountain as Rambo climbs down the face. He is looking L-R.
262. MCS of Rambo on the rock face. We seem to have jumped the line as he is now looking R-L.
263. MWS, low angle Rambo slips down the rock face.
264. Low angle, rocks fall down the cliff.
265. TILT down with rock falling down cliff.
266. Rambo falls into frame on a CS. TILT up. He looks R-L.
267. Rambo's POV of a dutch angled river below, closer than the last POV.
268. MCS of Rambo on the cliff facing L-R.
269. Brief dolly with hellicopter L-R.
270. EWS Rambo on cliff face looking R-L.
271. MCU Rambo looking R-L.
272. Reversal MS Rambo looking R-L at the hellicopter.
273. MS Galt in hellicopter looking L-R.
274. MCS Rambo looking R-L.
275. MCS Rambo's hands sliding along the ridge.
276. MCS Rambo looking R-L.
277. MS Galt fires gun from Hellicopter. Handheld.
278. MCS Rambo looking R-L as the rock beside him is hit.
279. WS Teasle and other cops come in looking R-L. Background, middleground and foreground action are seen in this frame. Brief TILT.
280. MCS Helicopter Pilot through windshield looking R-L. This is one example of seeing action through frames.
281. MCS Galt aiming gun L-R.
282. MCU Rambo looking L-R in foreground, with the hellicopter in the BG.
283. MS Galt aiming L-R.
284. Reversal, Galt looking into Helicopter L-R. Handheld.
285. MCU Pilot looking R-L.
286. Nuetral shot of Galt aiming gun slightly L-R.
287. MCU Rambo as the rock is shot. Helklicopter in BG.
288. MCS of Rambo's feet loosing grip.
289. A Rock falls down the cliff.
290. MCU Rambo gets grip. Hellicopter in BG.
291. MS Galt loading gun looking R-L. Handheld.
292. Teasle standing frame right looking R-L. He walks off R-L followed by others.
293. MCU Rambo with hellicopter in BG.
294. WS Galtaims gun at us, slightly L-R. The Hellicopter moves closer to us.
295. MCS Rambo, rocks get hit. He looks R-L.
296. CU Galt looking L-R
297. CU Rambo looking R-L.
298. Dutch angle of Rambo's POV of a tree.
299. CU Rambo looking R-L.
300. CU Galt aiming L-R.

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