In the Mind of Will Teasle | Character Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2022
- In this entry we’ll be taking a closer look at the mind of Will Teasle from Rambo First Blood.
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Teasle and his goons were an accurate depiction of a small town sheriffs.
An accurate depiction of some cops in forces all over the world.
Had he taken Rambo to a diner and given him a ride, this would have been a 20 minute movie
Yeah. I saw the movie last night abd kept thinking how all the mess at the end could have been avoided if Teasle wasn't an ass.
Sheriff Teasle's arrest of Rambo was no doubt the last straw for Rambo
Agree with all but one point.
A cop who has no emotional issue would try to find Rambo using radio if it were an option. If Troutman were in communication with Rambo on the radio and you weren't sure about the colonel, you would certainly use him if you could.
In the books we know that Teasle is a Korea war vet, a war pretty much forgotten by the rest of the world while Vietnam vets are getting all the attention so that's what fuels his animosity towards Rambo. I like that the movie doesn't explain Teasle's vendetta, he's just an ignorant small town Sheriff.
Great video of an unappreciated character. Stallone and the Rambo franchise totally jumped the shark after the first film, and then degenerated into nuking the fridge with the recent ones. But First Blood was fantastically nuanced.
I don't think Teasle ever had any good intentions from the second he saw Rambo. He was being an asshole from jumpstreet.
Thank you so much!
The book told so much more about Rambo and Teasle’s POV. They both question their actions but in the end assume they’re in the right. Also in the book, Rambo managed to get two hamburgers at a diner and is taken out of town twice but after coming back to town on the third time, Teasle arrests him for vagrancy. He never calls Rambo by his name even after learning it and his background from Trautman, simply referring to him as “The Kid.” The book was much bloodier than the movie with Rambo going on the offensive during the Sheriff’s chase killing all the deputies and Teasle’s father figure Orville. Teasle also was dealing with a harsh divorce. Neither was fully in the right or the wrong in the novel.
The movie conveyed this through acting and dialogue
The book also shows us that Teasle hated Vietnam veterans for making the US look bad, not only for losing the war but also because of the stories about the atrocities commited by them in Vietnam.
Rambo is more broken down as well, sometimes feeling like he's a feral animal reacting to what's happening around him more than a person. He is quite bloodthirsty as well.
The movie was fantastic, but it was also very Hollywood- making clear distinction of who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. Why? Hollywood needs a hero and a villain. The book on the other hand portrayed both as being way more blurred than that.
I'll always love the film, but the book was done better.
Another thing we need to understand is, Teasle's environment is a small town. Small town culture is different than big city culture. Things that fly in big cities due to the massive population don't in small towns, where someone "different" sticks out like a sore thumb. Long time cops and titled officers have developed a sort of 6th sense or gut feeling. They sense when someone is "off", which Rambo certainly was. You can't blame him for zeroing in on him. He violated rights with Rambo, but in some ways you can understand his motive. Like I said, he's a mix of good AND bad. The biggest sin Teasle had was pride. He didn't know how to compromise or descalate because he HAD to be right and "knows" what's best for his town. You find that trait a lot in law enforcement. And you need that trait sometimes, but the best police know when to be proud and when to relinquish a little.
@@sharonpopolow6874 In the book, Teasel has the taste for city life when he was a cop in Louisville
@@sharonpopolow6874Regardless of Rambo’s motives, a Police officer swears away his right to opinions and pride when he takes the oath to uphold the constitution, and with it, your rights. The moment that oath was violated, he became an enemy to the people, and the state. There is no gray area when it comes to violating others rights while in a position of power. Teasel was a straight up bad guy. Rambo on the other hand, was definitely more gray than “good”.
Rambos actions; illegal but justified.
In the movie, yes. In the book, not so much.
Another great analysis, I always saw Will Teasel was simply the epitome of the abusive sheriff and lawman who simply saw no limit to his authority and no one to answer to how he did his job. Thus, eventually running into someone who would give him a wake up call not to take his power and authority for granted and that the consequences can be possibly deadly as Rambo was proven to be. I'd like to recommend other characters you might like to do: Thomas Burns from Surviving the Game, Barney Cousins from The Vanishing, and Mitch Leary from In the line of fire, and or Sgt. Tony Meserve from Casualties of War.
To me what makes Will teasel work as a villain he thinks he the good guy had he left Rambo alone maybe offer to take him for a meal and helped him maybe Rambo never would've gone Ramage on him and his police force as his actions did more harm than good
Where the 1st 3 Rambo's connected to Nam & were great the last 2 we're NOT
Kinda felt if they had done a second one the right way i would've seen Rambo getting help in a mental institution where He retells his events of the war to his doctor and how it effected him and having it played in flashbacks as i think this would've worked better as a sequel than one that came across more cartooney and having Rambo gun one guy down in a over the top style
Willam Teasle is the archetype of the authoritarian, arrogant, egotistical, corrupt official. He was the blueprint of other vile cops like Alonzo Harris, Walden Norton, and Vic Mackey.
This is guy is one real bad cop gone worse. I would love to see a video of Steele the villain from Balto.
@3:40 another thought I have on why Teasle doesn't like Rambo is that it may not just be because of prior bad experiences with vets, but with Teasle's need to impose his will, he knows Rambo is not one of the citizens of "his" town who already understands to not question his authority. Because of that, Teasle may view any outsider as a threat to the importance of his status as he sees it to be.
Teasle to me was the epitome of abuse of Authority.
A couple of points here. Teasle's comment about the flag on Rambo's jacket is aimed at pointing out that it is at odds with his otherwise scruffy appearance, ergo he is disrespecting the flag. Also there is no way Rambo is going to seek out Teasle to complain about Police brutality since it was Teasle who made the arrest in the first place, an officer who has shown he is more than wiling to bend the rules when his authority (or ego if you prefer) is questioned. Teasle doesn't open fire on Rambo in the canyon, one of his men does and then everyone else joins in, it's Teasle who orders his deputies to cease fire, add to that the fact that Rambo didn't have to throw the rock which panicked the Pilot into losing control resulting in the death of Gault. Finally, Troutman knew that the radio conversation was a means of tri-angulating Rambo's position so Teasle's force can surround and capture him and he had no problem with it. But a very interesting video of a man whose arrogance and hubris know no bounds.
Sheriff Teasle was hostile and unfriendly towards Rambo. His arrest of Rambo was unjust, and he abused his power and his authority as a police officer. He allowed Arthur Galt to brutality torture and mistreat Rambo triggering Rambo's PTSD and causing Rambo to go berserk. If he had allowed Rambo to stop in town for something to eat, it wouldn't have happened.
To be honest Teasle was lawful neutral- lawful evil cuz he did say not to shoot multiple times.
It was his deputy Galt who started the mess, but Teasle refused to hold his friend accountable
A very big deal that goes unmentioned on many occasions is that Rambo, finding a good friend of his from the war has died. This may also be the last of his battalion aside from Rambo who is dead. Now these soldiers in Vietnam were sent to a human meat grinder. Far way to many died in this conflict, and our government did not consider this a war. It was merely a policing activity yet so many died. Now throughout the movie we understand Rambo has PTSD. This is due to him being captured and tortured by the Vietcong, and seeing many of his very good friends in his unit die, and most probably, in very horrific ways. And Rambo sustained his terrible PTSD with very extreme and vivid flashbacks, ntm watching his good friend very violently dying. So in Rambo's mind, and this runs very true. Rambo and his lost comrads died for the freedom of our country and that includes the town that Tessel is the sheriff runs. However taking such loses and going over to Vietnam to fight a vicious army in their backyard with so much human loss. Rambo believes that they fought for the freedom of the ppl of this town and America in general to protect the freedom of this country. So in Rambo's eyes and in truth he has done nothing ntm this is a free country that Rambo had fought, lost all his friends, and was tortured for the freedom of the USA. And by that fact, nobody should be able to tell him that he should be able to tell him what town he can and cannot go into ntm he was not bothering anyone in the town, or at all for that matter. So Rambo believes that this is a free country, and this sheriff should just let him be and roam any town he likes. So that's what he does, bothering nobody. So the sheriff nor anyone else should have any say over what town or city that Rambo decided. And as long as he wasn't bothering ppl, which he wasn't. It's a free country that Rambo had seen many of his good friends die to protect that freedom. And in a free country you can go to any city or state that he desires. And this sheriff is in fact wrong by throwing him out of this town. As this town is not and never was his town, he just works for this town, and Rambo knows this. He's not trying to cause any trouble with the sheriff. Rambo is just merely exercising his rights as a US citizen. A citizen that went to war for our country and went through hell and back losing probably every good friend he had left in that war. However in the sheriff's eyes this is his town. The reality of this is that it's more Rambo's town than this sheriff's. Ntm there was no reason to kick him out of any town in ty he US, as he wasn't causing trouble, ntm the US is a free country that Rambo had fought for. And that's the whole main idea of "First Blood".
If I remember correctly, in the book it is stated that Rambo and that last guy were the only two survivors of their battalion. Also, he died of cancer caused by agent orange, which only makes Rambo hate and distrust his government - an thus, authorities - even more than he did up to that point.
Hey listen, you got lots of good things in there, but please for the sake of all that's holy on this earth- break up your comments into paragraphs when it gets that long.
He kept pushing and pushing
Great video!
Miles Quaritch from Avatar next?
I remember when First Blood came out in late 1982, cops all over America were complaining that the movie made them look like the bad guys and had the audiences rooting for Rambo. Sadly, yours truly has experienced, first-hand, countless harassments by cops that were incredibly similar to Teasles behavior in the movie.
So have I. By law illegal, but the badges look the other way when they're the felons and law breakers.
Billy russo from the punisher Netflix series
7:16 the happiest I've ever seen him
Rambo gave Teasle some great advice, ' Let it go '
Teasel was such an ass throughout the movie. It all boiled down to just pushing Rambo's buttons and getting under his skin just because of Teasel's abuse of power, but I believe what really started it was Teasel saying to Rambo "We don't want you in this town", that's what set Rambo off. The only one that had the balls to stand up to Teasel was Trautman. Trautman even warned Teasel that Teasel didn't know what Rambo was capable of or what he can do, but Teasel didn't heed the warning.
Another way of looking at it: Teasle is ‘Bad dad’ vs Troutman (‘good dad’).
Yes i like will as villain
Next time do the joker 2008 dark knihgt
Another thought: it likely wouldn’t have mattered to Teasle, but I wonder if Rambo would have said “I traveled across the country to see my last living friend. He died of cancer. I don’t know what to do right now. I am very alone”
you should cover Al from Trip With The Teacher (1975)
Will teasel was warned that Rambo was too much for him to handle, but he can't accept the truth.
He should have let trautman and the state police handle him since they would have let Rambo calm down and then pick him up.
Teasel caused the town to be in ruins due to his own arrogance, ego, rage, and pride
I have the feeling he wasn't treated well in his early life, so he used his position to rectify his abusive upbringing, unwittingly following in his fathers footsteps
@@AbrasiousProductions that was a poor choice for him.
Teasle was a Korean war veteran. (In the movie it is never mentioned Only in the book, but in the cut out scenes of the extended scenes you can see his Medals standing right behind his office desk)
So he was in a similar position as Rambo before.
He was the classic Superior officer who didn't accept ignoring orders and that is exactly how he behaved.
He treated Rambo in a similar way some commanding officers would sometimes treat inferior Soldiers.
With the
'i say what you do and when you do it !! Don't you dare to question a direct order !!'
So and that's what got them into that situation.
Teasle's own military background and him wanting to be the one person that gives orders to everyone.
That is what caused his whole behavior.
I would say Teasle is an anatogonist but not a villian or evil.
I will say that Will Teasle is a representation of the evil of law enforcement in America, even today.
Throughout the film, he showed all of the Dark triad, representing the three main traits of evil.
Narcissism: characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and a lack of empathy.
Machiavellianism: characterized by manipulation and exploitation of others, an indifference to morality, lack of emotion, and a strategic focus on self-interest.
Psychopathy: characterized by continuous antisocial behavior, impulsivity, selfishness, callous and unemotional traits (CU), and remorselessness.
He abused his power and authority, wrongfully/falsely arrested an innocent man (Rambo), violated his rights, broke the law, had his officers torture and abuse him, and tried to murder him. And at the end, Rambo got imprisoned. Although, we don't know what happened to Teasle, the most likely outcome would have been he got away with his action due to being protected by qualified immunity, and for we know, he probably would continue to still abusing his power. A story of where the bad guy wins.
That’s a great breakdown. Worse thing is as you said, he probably got off with a slap on the wrist, although he did suffer some personal injury from the fall.
@@inthemindofavillain
True. And maybe he could've suffered spinal injury from it too, and be confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life. Making it a life prison sentence in his own broken body. (another outcome Teasle could have suffered in the end).
Also, thanks. I got introduced to the Dark triad from a Star Wars analyst video by The Stupendous Wave about Palpatine/Darth Sidious titled "Palpatine is Actually WAY WORSE Than you Realize: Tier List", and he mentioned in the video about the three traits of evil of the Dark triad to describe Palpatine. And after researching it, I thought it'd be appropriate to use that to tell how Will Teasle and his deputies displayed all three of these traits during the events of the film.
In fact, you can also research the Dark triad and maybe use it to further analyse villains in future videos if you'd like.
Oh. I also have some villains you should do videos on.
Dean Walcott from Patch Adams, Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Tempest Shadow from My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Prince John from Disney's Robin Hood, Dawn Bellwether from Zootopia, and Warden Drumgoole from Lock Up.
A top classic in my favor you were right what everything you said
Lillith from the chilling adventures of Sabrina
I disagree with 3:30 to 4:00. In the movie, it is not clear to Teasle that Rambo is a veteran until they are in the glen. In the book, Teasle himself is a Korean war hero and DSC recipient. In the movie, the medal can be seen in a frame on his desk. Teasle also expresses regret upon hearing over the radio that Rambo is a medal of honor recipient.
@ 6:02 when I went through the academy for the Department of Corrections, one of our instructors used a phrase that could either apply to Corrections or Police officers. That phrase was "contempt of cop". The basic definition of that is when an officer feels that because they are the one wearing the badge, they are superior to the people they deal with in their respective line of work and any defiance of that authority gives them the right to "punish" that person whom they feel is guilty of it in any way they see fit, even if that includes inappropriate criminal charges. In Teasle's case, there's no one for him to answer to. The same could be said for Sgt. Galt. An example of that is when they had Rambo down to commit him to jail, Galt gave David Caruso's character of Deputy Rogers a lot of grief when he was trying to interject some reasoning into Rambo's defiant behavior. Galt was taking it as a personal attack on his authority as Sergeant in that situation.
Great point, it’s truly a nasty trait for a person to have, and a harrowing experience for their victims.
If you ever wanna try your hand at other police villains, could you do Dennis Peck from Internal Affairs or Abel Turner from Lakeview Terrace?
@inthemindofavillain, can u do one on Sean Nokes another lawman who is evil from "Sleepers".
He should've just "Let it go". But instead, he doubled down.
Great video.
Please do Miles Quartitch from Avatar.
i think will was corrupt from the start worst of him came out later
No, not at all. There was nothing in the movie to imply that and I don't remember anything from the book to validate that, either. He was a small town sheriff who basically looked at the relationship with his town as a shepherd with his sheep. His biggest sin was pride. He didn't know how (or want) to compromise, concede, or descalate.
In the book, you see things from his perspective, too. Each chapter alternated from the perspective of both main characters.
If I can remember, he gets bad vibes from Rambo upon meeting him, I forget whether it was a diner, gas station, or walking- long time ago. He wasn't far off from the truth. The movie downplayed Rambo's not so lovely traits, like they downplayed Teasle's good traits. Neither man was completely good or evil.
If you do any anime villains
Got some good options
Z-One from Yu-gi-oh 5ds
Leviathan from Appmon
Lucemon from Digimon frontier
Pain from Naruto
The theme is basically god complex
Did you say anime characters with a god complex without mentioning Kira from Death Note?
not a villain, your average cop.
Can't help myself but imagine William as my ideation of Larry Flynt, the gayfather❤of mine🌐👉👌
Lot of cops like that IRL too , You ever seen a video on utube when a smaller cop pulls over a higher ranking Sargent and then the Sargent goes nuts using his rank and power trip to get the law bent for his infraction. Its harder for them to get away with these days due to cameras being more common.