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The cop says to the detained vigilante avenger: "What do you call that: 125 murders in five years?" Then the: "Work in progress."
Threatens the CIA boss the daring investigator: "Do not step on anyone's feet!" Says the: "I do not step on feet - I kick in the ass!"
The resistance fighter discovers that his wife has been spying on him for the other side for years. Behind her back, she reaches for a weapon and smiles and smiles: "Darling, be sensible, we're married!" He shoots her and says, "Consider that as a divorce."
Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Three action movie legends, three flat jokes - from "The Punisher", "Missing in Action 3" and "Total Recall".
Thigh Knockers, Roundhouse Kicks and Exploding Helicopters - in no other decade were they as inseparable as in the 1980s. Action movie heroes like Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone no longer just had to be tough and inexorable, but also kalauerkompetent: Previously had counted rather the quantity of downed meavers alone, it was now the gags with which they commented on their violent demise.
License to sayings
King of this new discipline became an exceptional athlete from Austria. Arnold Schwarzenegger whispered laconically in 1984 in "Terminator": "I'll be back" before he thundered through the wall of a police station in a car. In 1985, in "Commando", he piped a villain by piping to a boiler and calmed "Yes, let steam off!" As steam streamed out of the pipe. And he coined the immortal "Hasta la vista, baby!" In the early nineties in "Terminator 2". Schwarzenegger was the undisputed Mr. Universe of the One-Liner.
But her film career did not owe the extra-cool macho slogans "Arnie". They became the hallmark of a screen hero two decades earlier - thanks to a British double-zero agent with the license to sayings. In 1962, James Bond launched his unprecedented rogue hunt, retaining a constant over 24 feature films and changing lead actors: the proverbs that Bond celebrated before and after the killing of criminals as unperturbed as his martini.
"He's probably burned a fuse," teases 007, as killer Oddjob dies in "Goldfinger" (1965) by electric shock. Or "Bon Appétit!" After Bond hit a villain in the Piranha Basin in 1967 in "You Only Live Twice".
Perhaps the most absurd is Roger Moore's "Lives and Let Die" in 1973 - in an equally absurd fight scene: Kananga the super villain attacks him with a knife, both beating each other, falling into a shark tank, wrestling underwater. But even before a shark can attack them, Bond presses his opponent a compressed air cartridge in the mouth. It blows Kananga in seconds like a hot air balloon, it shoots out of the water into the air - and explodes. And bond? Short commented: "He has always been a pretty bloated guy."
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