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I'm standing in the tiny town of Hope, B.C., population 6,100. Standing in front of the town I should say, because the whole place is behind me and out of sight in this shot.
It always looks like this, every time I come here. Hope is at the south end of the Fraser River canyon, and it's a two hour drive from here to Vancouver. The water in the Fraser is very low in this shot. At certain times of the year, this is a raging river.
Hope is a great place to stop for a break before driving into the mountains - or if you've just come down from them and are on the way to the coast. I stop here on every road trip into the interior. The first shot is from 2014.
Above is another shot, this time from 2016. See what I mean? It always looks like this! So what's this bit about Rambo?
In the visitor centre which is right behind me in these shots, they've been playing the movie Rambo First Blood on a loop since around 1982. That movie was shot here, and I suppose it was the most exciting thing that ever happened in this town. There was a famous scene in the movie where the town sheriff (Brian Dennehy) drives Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) across a bridge and dumps him outside the town limits. Rambo of course walks straight back into town. Tourists used to stop for photos at that bridge for years before it was finally torn down.
I watched the movie again after many years just to see the shots taken around Hope. The entire movie was basically shot up in those hills where the scenery is out-of-this world spectacular.
Hope is a town with a serious drug problem and not a lot going for it outside of the scenery. I don't know all that much about the place so I shouldn't put them down... I just think perhaps it's time to turn off that damn movie and get on with something else!
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