Rambo: Primitive Living Stops at the Wrist….
There are certain celebrities in Hollywood whom I call the “Tammy Wynette’s” of watch collecting. They tend to “Stand by Their Brands” - if you know what I mean…
Sylvester Stallone loves Panerai so much that he wore one in his last movie “Rambo” where he played an ex Vietnam vet living in the jungles of Laos - where he lived happily and primitively off the land.
In the movie he forged his own tools - lived in a bamboo hut with no electricity and farmed his own food. He made money by transporting people up and down a snake infested river on his sorry little boat which looked like it could have been handmade with the tools he forged. The engine on the boat always broke down and like a South East Asian McGyver - he fixed it with the tools he forged by hand.
Everything had a purpose in Rambo’s life. If he killed a snake, he skinned it, ate the meat and made a headband out of its skin, while selling its venom to local witch doctors for 20 Kip. A true self sustaining lifestyle.
After watching this movie for 20 minutes I started to realize that here is a guy who could truly live off the land, horse-trading with other locals to meet the basic life needs. I started to question how much money the character John Rambo really needed to live his life and came up with this:
50 yr old boat with engine: $200
Hand made hut: $100
Cargo pants made in Laos: $10
Tank top made in Laos: $2
Panerai Submersible watch: $8000
For everything else…There is Mastercard!
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