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He might have reduced to little more than a single-word catchphrase in recent years, but the career of Owen Wilson<\/a> has been long and multi-faceted. <\/p>\n While best known for his work in the comedy realm, through films like Zoolander and The Wedding Crashers, Wilson has also done some more serious work. And, of course, he\u2019s a favourite of Wes Anderson, having worked with the director on his very first feature film, Bottle Rocket, and has appeared in a large majority of the auteur\u2019s work.<\/p>\n One genre you wouldn\u2019t immediately associate Wilson with, though, is action. It\u2019s hard to picture the blonde-haired funnyman chasing somebody down with a gun or crashing through a wall in a supercar, but he\u2019s not totally unfamiliar with the art. Whilst they had a comedic edge to them, the \u2018Shanghai\u2019 series he did with Jackie Chan undeniably contains action elements. He\u2019s also appeared in some legitimate shoot \u2018em ups, such as John Moore\u2019s Behind Enemy Lines and John Erick Dowdle\u2019s No Escape.\u00a0<\/p>\n All of this makes him more qualified to discuss action movies than you might think. When Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> asked the star for some of his favourite films, he came straight out of the gate with an absolute classic \u2013 the late Ted Kotcheff\u2019s<\/a> 1982 post-Vietnam war extravaganza, First Blood.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember going to see it with my brothers and a friend and we loved it so much we went back the next day and saw it. I think it was just incredible,\u201d he revealed. \u201cIt had kind of a great sort of beginning with Brian Dennehy. He kind of picks up Stallone, Rambo, and he\u2019s like, \u2018Here, let me give you a ride to the edge of town.\u2019 And Rambo\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m not bothering anybody. I\u2019m just walking.\u2019 He goes, \u2018Yeah, we don\u2019t want any trouble here, and let me just give you a ride and we\u2019ll just drop you off here.\u2019 And he drops him off and then is turning and he\u2019s driving back, and he\u2019s looks in the rearview mirror, and there\u2019s Rambo\u2019s turned and walking back into town\u201d.<\/p>\n Wilson added: \u201cIt\u2019s just a great kind of existential hero because why couldn\u2019t he have just walked through that town? Why did that sheriff have to pick him up and kick him out of town, because he wasn\u2019t bothering anybody?\u201d<\/p>\n First Blood, based on the David Morrell novel of the same name, is the first film to feature Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. It has been championed not only for its compelling action sequences but also for its framing of the lead character as a PTSD sufferer. It\u2019s not all storms of bullets and big explosions, although there\u2019s plenty of those too if that\u2019s your thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n