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I never saw the sheriff as a straight up villain. He was more just a guy who wanted to keep the "riff-raff" out of his town and was a little too heavy handed with the way he went about it. The deputy was just cut from the same cloth. And Rambo was dealing with issues that he couldn't deal with which made him dangerous. Rambo wasn't a bad guy but more your standard 80's anti-hero.I think the sheriff was pretty obviously a villain, and his psycho deputy a completely unambiguous monster, while Rambo was a deeply troubled man. I always found it weird when people considered these movies "fascist" when they were clearly opposed (under the overarching actual action movie that is fun to watch part) to the bullshit that got us mired in Vietnam with no actual plan for victory or even an idea what victory would entail.
Beyond that it is a commentary on the fuckup that was Vietnam.
Still Russtard is unoriginal when it comes to things. He sees what others have done and says, "I can do that too".Tbf, both are based on real people, and the Sobibor movie that predates Russell's script focuses on Itzak Lichtman as the main character, not Chaim Engels as in Russell's version