You actually relied upon your body to tell the story. “Up until that time action was a car chase, like Bullitt or The French Connection, a film all about ’intellect,' and verbal this, and verbal that,” he recalls. “The ‘80s was a very interesting time, because the definitive action guy had not really been formed yet,” Stallone, introduced as a talking head, tells the camera.
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“I was on a roll,” Schwarzenegger recalls of his action movie hey-day, beginning with The Terminator through the likes of Commando, Predator and The Running Man, “but something was off.” Cue a clip from Sly Stallone's action blockbuster heavyweight, First Blood. “The very thing that made me who I am today was the very thing that destroyed him.” Action movie rivals Sylvester Stallone and Schwarzenegger couldn't “be in the same room” as one another
“Nietzsche was right: that what does not kill you will make you stronger,” he says. He was much more delicate of a person by nature.”īy comparison, Schwarzenegger feels that the same treatment that he suggests led to his brother's death made him strong in adulthood.
Schwarzenegger blames their upbringing for his brother's death, stating that Meinhard “started drinking because our upbringing was very tough.” He continues, “The brutality that was at home, the beatings that we got from our parents sometimes - all of this I think he could not sustain. Universe fame, he learned that his brother died in a drunk driving incident. In 1971, as Schwarzenegger was ascending to Mr. So there was the kind of strange violence.” We would wake up and, all of a sudden our hearts were pounding because we knew that meant he could, at any given time, strike my mother or go crazy. “There was the kind father, and other times when my father would come home drunk at three in the morning and he would be screaming. “There was a kind of schizophrenic behaviour that my brother and I witnessed at home,” Schwarzenegger recalls. He describes him as a “tyrant,” who forced he and his older brother, Meinhard, into competition to “earn breakfast.” His father even turned one Mother's Day into a competition of affection, making the siblings compete over flower picking. I think there were times where my father really struggled.”īorn two years after the Second World War ended, Schwarzenegger strikes an understandably less forgiving tone when he recalls the oppressive nature of his father's household.
He touches on the subject in the first episode of the docuseries: “He was buried underneath buildings, rubble, for three days, and on top of that, they lost the war,” Schwarzenegger tells the camera of his father's wartime experience.
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