Rambo films was my getting know about David Morrell. However, obtaining of a book contained author’s written debut First Blood and novelization of the second and the third movies on Vietnam veteran was more than fifteen years ago by one guy from gym who hated anti-Muscovy in these flicks and me for pro-American by having exaggerated perception. He liked Morrell’s original First Blood, can’t stand a second novel and dropped reading of a third one. He offered me the book as gift. I accepted.
First Blood is separate from adaptation and it has well in own way but a composition is not so good. A film does perfection with a story. Morrell turns character into psychopath going on killing spree while a movie brings highly more of acute speaking on unacceptance Vietnam veterans and it demonstrates background of that period. A writer in conclusion of his book loses fervor in writing. Rambo takes dynamite which enough for explosion not one but many town’s buildings and he does it without anybody’s meddling.
I never accepted writing novelization of movie because a fine flick will make you to understand while quality of such literature has potboiler writing and a lot of lifeless characters. Morrell did adaptation by basing on early versions of scripts in which can convince that Stallone achieved impeccable with movies which came in theaters. These unseen parts were needless. Inner thoughts, which were in main hero’s head, in Rambo: First Blood Part II are disrupting and against of character. The end of novelization of Rambo III does abrupt conclusion. Rambo, colonel Trautman and Afghani people were on foot and were chased by many helicopters and then these machines disappeared. I did reading again more than once for get convinced that I didn’t miss. No, it was so that the writer created situation in which he didn’t give solution.
Reading of adaptations of flicks Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III were only for see a no necessity of such writing.
I wanted to know other David Morrell’s books. Eventually, when I was doing observation, describing of Extreme Denial put on a first place in reading. The author brings a smooth-written text while for these seen somewhere twenty read pages he frequently doesn’t forget to make a brief fact of places which a character crosses. You think here on writer who did homework well but, as any fine novelist, he was supposed to know that he shouldn’t put all collected knowledge and research in his writing. However, Morrell in provided backstory on own site indicates that hero lives in same city as he (and that was not at a single time in writer’s books.) and, moreover, a protagonist has a house address in which author lives.
Recognizing that main personage can see from far that a woman doesn’t wear bra and he admits that fact at a second time when she is in different T-shirt doesn’t bring wrong because it’s personality of hero. I can’t admit when David Morrell decided to give an uninformative detail that her breasts made movement which can be only in pulp fiction. But he already made plot is with no of commonsense. A protagonist, who works in CIA, has an inept agent who was put on assignment because his influential father. His this colleague makes contact with people who makes assumption on believing that their classmates are terrorists. More absurdity will reveal that they are these people who committed these explosions actually. Logically, Morrell was supposed to learn on intelligence work. A book’s plot goes to that an unprofessional agent kills his arrived father by accident while terrorists escape. I did turning of pages for find out that that agent joined ran away group for revenge the lead character who, of course, will find love and will unite with her in final strokes. I don’t want to take Morrell more.
