So the action of Commando wasn’t all new to me.” Schwarzenegger: “I was in the Austrian army and was a tank driver. He also, for no apparent reason, teams up with an air stewardess named Cindy. This he does by setting a timer on his watch – it beeps loudly in close-ups, but never when he’s sneaking up on people – and slugging his way through a rogue’s gallery of henchmen. But soon dastardly types, taking orders from a deposed South American dictator, have kidnapped Jenny, giving Matrix just 11 hours to find her before she’s executed.
Once a Special Forces warrior, John Matrix now lives in the mountains with his daughter Jenny, enjoying such idyllic pastimes as chopping wood, hand-feeding deer and discussing Boy George (“Vhy don’t dey just call him Girl George?”). He didn’t break a sweat running a state, and he didn’t break a sweat handling a dildo then.” “I eat Green Berets for breakfast.
Was Arnold embarrassed about the dildo? Not even slightly. I knew other actresses were stumbling, because the character was supposed to shrug and say, ‘It gets lonely on the road.’ I thought that was so lame, so when my turn came I screamed and said, ‘That’s not mine!’ It got me the part. My first reading with Arnold was this weird scene where he pulls a dildo out of my handbag. Rae Dawn Chong (‘Cindy’): “The part was written for a Caucasian actress, so I knew I had only one shot. But nothing clicked, until Rae Dawn came along.” Man, we saw every actress in Hollywood: Sharon Stone, Brigitte Nielsen, you name it. Lester: “For the love interest, we auditioned lots of girls. I read many magazines that deal with soldiers of fortune. Schwarzenegger: “I read many newspaper articles and books about commando fighters. He’d say, ‘I vonder vere Villy vent on Vednesday,’ And I’d go, “Okay, let’s change that to, ‘Frank was furious on Friday.’” We even spent time running lines so he wouldn’t inadvertently get a tongue-twister. I said, ‘Are you doing a musical next?’ He said, ‘Dat’s very funny, Steven, but voice control is important for all performance.’ He took it all very seriously. He is also a fighting machine that will not stop until his objective is complete.”ĭe Souza: “One morning I walked into Arnold’s house for a script meeting and heard this noise: “Mi-mi-mi-mi-maaaaaa!” He was taking a singing lesson. I had only done Conan and Terminator, but now I got to play a gentle, loving father. I do this picture.”Īrnold Schwarzenegger (‘John Matrix’): “Commando was a big step forward for me. I’m not a robot from the future or caveman from the past. Then he stood up and said, ‘I like this part. I quickly went, ‘Hey, I do all the greats… Want to hear my Cary Grant?’ He laughed. Then I got to the bit where Matrix says, ‘Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied’, and I realised I’d accidentally slipped into my cocktail-party impression of him. Then I drove to his house and acted it out for him.
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Not the movie they made!”ĭe Souza: “I revamped the story to suit Arnold’s bigger-than-life persona. **Joseph Loeb III (writer, original draft): **“Our story was about an Israeli soldier who has turned his back on violence. If you find a movie for him that can be done for under $12 million, I’ll greenlight it immediately.’ We did a marathon reading session of every action script on the lot and decided that Commando, by the guys who’d written Teen Wolf, was the one.” His first day on the job, he said, ‘This guy Schwarzenegger is a phenomenon. Steven de Souza (screenwriter): “Barry Diller had just become head of 20th Century Fox. Mark Lester (director): “It’s the granddaddy of action films as we know them today. Once you’ve gone* Commando*, there’s no going back.* "You're a funny guy, Sully. There are ludicrous villains, glaring continuity errors, saxophone riffs on the score and a wildly inappropriate power ballad at the end, featuring the lyric, “I am a mountain, surrounded by your love.” It’s the most pleasurable of guilty pleasures, and today still commands a legion of devoted fans. He can carry an entire tree on his shoulder, pick up a phone booth with a person inside it, and jump off planes in mid-air without getting a scratch. How supremely daft is Commando*? Well, the hero is called John Matrix.
Instead, lightning struck and the silliest, most relentlessly entertaining action epic in history was created. A 1985 vehicle for up-and-coming star Arnold Schwarzenegger, it could have been just another mindless B-flick. Your average cult movie is black-and-white, involves dwarves and/or talking rabbits, and isn’t much fun to watch on a Saturday night.
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