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. But this happily ever after send-off would have been more believable if an earlier scene hadn't been cut from the movie.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. He then boards the helicopter with Cindy and his daughter. But his lover? I guess the final scene is a tell-tale: the sight of Cindy waiting for him by the helicopter prompts Matrix to emphatically decline an invitation to return to the Army. I recognized that, as the film progresses, Cindy becomes a willing accomplice who appears to want to help a desperate father get back his daughter. "He didn't break a sweat running a state, and he didn't break a sweat handling a dildo then."Īnd that's how Rae Dawn Chong became Arnold Schwarzenegger's lover in "Commando."ĭidn't catch that plot point? Honestly, the first few times I saw "Commando," it didn't hit me that John Matrix and Cindy had become lovers. For some reason, that particular scene didn't make it into "Commando." Is it possible that Arnold Schwarzenegger was embarrassed by pulling a dildo out of a woman's bag? "Not even slightly," Chong said.
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