![]() Oh, and make sure you're the more attractive one.Īlso, it helps if you’re the funnier one, too. Advice: When you expand your horizons to comedy, play a fraternal twin. Taken from Arnold's film Conan the Barbarian. Advice: Always take a role (instantly, without a moment's hesitation) that allows you to answer the following to the question "What is best in life?" A: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Always a good thing for the would-be action-movie star to be the obvious better choice in a romantic triangle. Complete with cheesy mustache, false bravado, and mid-life crisis ride, Paxton's character was cringier than M*A*S*H's Frank Burns. Enter Bill Paxton as a car salesman trying to seduce her. True Lies was Arnold's first foray into spy movies (in Raw Deal he's an FBI agent, not a spy), and his work as a secret agent puts a strain on his marriage to Jamie Lee Curtis. Advice: If another character is vying for the affection of your movie wife, make sure he's a total fool. Though Arnold didn't follow this advice from Terminator 3 onward, there's no doubt that Terminator 2: Judgment Day was a huge leap in quality from The Terminator, thus cementing Arnold as the number one action-movie star in the world. Taken from Arnold's film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Advice: Make sure your sequel is better than the original. As heavily muscled body-building life coaches, their constant promise to "pump you up" was taken directly from the documentary that introduced Arnold to the world (as a multiple Mr. ![]() Advice: Do things on film worthy of an SNL parody.ĭana Carvey and Kevin Nealon famously created the characters Hans and Franz on Saturday Night Live as parodies of Arnold (they were also his distant cousins -Arnold even appeared with them on the show). And let's just say without getting too spoiler-y, Arnold got his revenge for Caan's critique. So how did Arnold respond? He approved of Caan being cast as the villain in his film Eraser. Legendary actor James Caan once criticized Arnold in an interview, saying, in essence, that Arnold was an effective action-movie automaton, but not a REAL actor in any serious sense. Advice: When an actor criticizes you, hire him to be the villain in your next movie. But arguably, the best catchphrase of any action hero is Arnold's "I'll Be Back," originally uttered in The Terminator, and then in fifty thousand of his movies afterwards, till it went beyond a caricature of itself to something outside the galactic boundaries of annoyance to a place almost sacred. William Shatner had, weirdly, "I've Seen the Past and It Works" (from T.J. Stallone had "You're the Disease and I'm the Cure" (from the film Cobra). Advice: Get a kick-ass catchphrase.Ĭlint Eastwood had "Go Ahead Make My Day" (from the film Sudden Impact). Whereas Stallone's Rambo was able to take down helicopters with a bow and arrow, Arnold was able to launch multiple men into the stratosphere with a simple grenade. When Stallone's mega hit Rambo: First Blood Part II established a high bar for paramilitary action movies, Arnold responded with Commando. Here, in no particular order, is what we came up with: Advice: When throwing a grenade, make sure at least three men go flying when it explodes.Īrnold and Sylvester Stallone had an infamous rivalry for action movie star supremacy in the eighties. In it, he gives an "inspirational tour" through his "toolkit for a meaningful life." In anticipation of this title, we decided to study his films to give advice to would-be action-movie stars on how to choose their roles. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new self-help book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life is releasing October 10.
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