Top 10 Action Movie Clichés
The Cliché: A true badass doesn't blanche in the face of an explosion. He doesn't even bother looking at them. Instead, he simply strolls away, letting the heat of the blaze gently singe his neck hair as he stares into the middle distance. Flinching? Flinching's for pussies…
Examples: Tom Jane has this down pat in The Punisher, sending two different mobsters sky high on two separate occasions, not bothering to look around at either of them. Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek look impossibly cool in Desperado, having tossed a couple of grenades through a book store window. In fact, Banderas loves an unflinching stroll, nonchanently leading a group of refugees away from a collapsing mine in The Mask Of Zorro.
The T-1000 takes it to the next level in Terminator 2, strolling out of the middle of an explosion as though it were the most natural thing in the world. That thing eats clichés for breakfast...
If It Was Real Life: It's up to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg to flag up the absurdity of this cliché in The Other Guys, when an explosion sends them flying to the tarmac. "How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them?" says Ferrell. "There's no way! The movie industry is completely irresponsible for the way they portray explosions!"
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