![]() ![]() I can still remember the poster and video sleeve, which offered nothing more than an image of Schwarzenegger, dressed in combat fatigues and armed to the teeth, staring straight down the lens with cool resolve.Īll of this strongly implied that Arnold would spend pretty much the whole film running around dressed as a soldier, probably killing bad guys in a forest somewhere. The marketing for Commandowas one of the great teases of the mid-1980s. De Souza (who’d later write, among other things, the classic Die Hard) shifted the tone to suit Schwarzenegger’s heroically buff image, with some zinging one-liners to match – not least the superb quip, “Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied.” Loeb and his writing partner Matthew Weisman originally envisioned Matrix as an older, more out-of-condition character – Nick Nolte and former Kiss rock star Gene Simmons were considered – but when Commandowas picked up as a Schwarzenegger movie by producer Joel Silver, the tone began to change. The original screenplay was co-written by Jeph Loeb, who’s best known these days for his comic book writing – Batman: The Long Halloween and Hush– and being the head of Marvel TV.Īlong with a draft of Teen Wolf, Commandowas among the first things Loeb ever wrote – at the time, he was still in his 20s and trying to break into the movie business. Strangely, Commandowasn’t written as a larger-than-life Schwarzenegger vehicle, but as a film about a weary soldier forced into battle following the kidnap of his daughter. Commandoisn’t meant to reflect reality it’s about a hulking brute of an ex-soldier who can rip up a telephone booth and hold it aloft with a bad guy still rattling around inside it. But Commandois well aware of how crazy it is the early scene where Matrix and his daughter feed a deer is beyond parody precisely because it’s served up with such a knowing flourish. Those without an appreciation of ’80s action cinema might write Commandooff as one more example of late Cold War jingoism, and it’s fair to say that it probably wouldn’t have existed without the likes of First Blood to pave the way for it. Along for the ride is air stewardess Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong) who flies Matrix around in a plane and says what the audience is thinking (“I can’t believe this macho bullshit!”). He also is obviously not human.Instead of doing as he’s told, Matrix takes a flying leap from a jumbo jet in mid take-off and starts murdering his way towards the villains’ lair – a heavily-defended mansion on a remote island. Maybe he has some lower density stuff along with some titanium or something. So, what is he made of? Aluminum has a density around 2700 kg/m 3 and titanium has a density of 4500 kg/m 3. This would give Arnold a density of 1750 kg/m 3. Using his "fake weight" of 250 pounds and his real weight of 440 pounds (since I only need the ratio, it doesn't matter if I use the ratio of weights instead of the ratio of masses), I get that Arnold's density is 1.76 times the density of a human.Ī good value for the density of a human is about 1000 kg/m 3 (about the same as water - humans just float). ![]() Using this, I can solve for Arnold's real density. So, if I assume they used his correct volume then the following should be true: The volume of Arnold is more difficult to disguise. Clearly, whoever made this fake page used Arnold's volume and the density of a normal person (about 1000 kg/m 3) to calculate an expected mass. According to Wikipedia's Arnold page, his (obviously fake) weight is listed at 250 lbs. So? I am going to calculate Arnold's density. If I use the edge of the cliff to add up the torques, I get the following two equations (oh m c is the mass of Arnold-commando and m s is the mass of Sulley)ġ99 kg is like 440 pounds. Where ra is distance from Arnold's center of mass to the edge of the cliff and rb is the distance from Sulley's center of mass to the edge of the cliff. I have replaced the stick-figures with balls. Here is another picture with some distances in it. So, you can pick any point to look at the torques. For the torque equation, if it is not rotating about a particular point, it will not be rotating about any point. There are no forces in the x-direction, so that condition doesn't really matter. If they are in equilibrium (and from the movie, it looks that way), then two things must be true (for this case): The other two forces are the gravitational force on Arnie and the gravitational force on Sully. It would act on the system at the edge of the cliff. If I assume Arnie is holding Sully just to the point where they are both going to fall, then there would just be one force on the Arnie-Sully system from the ground. ![]()
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