The 1980s rivalry between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone is the stuff of Hollywood legends, but the two action stars have mended some fences now that they’re not competing at the box office every year.
Stallone even makes an appearance in the new Netflix documentary “Arnold” to praise his former enemy for reinventing the action genre.
He recalled that the action film landscape that the two men entered was dramatically different from the one that they created together.“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone said.
“Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection.’ A film all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that.”Once the ’80s came around, humans replaced cars as the primary drivers of action in these blockbusters.
Stallone credited Schwarzenegger with being one…
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