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The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Action Heroes

The Art of Manliness

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The Appeal of Action Heroes

All of these action heroes came from poverty and also very adverse backgrounds. They all had to work incredibly hard to get to where they were. And so I think that might have given them a bit of grit. A lot of them had really tough upbringings and difficult relationships with their fathers, like you say in lots of cases. There was this kind of relentlessness and drive that they had for real that I think then translates into the movies.

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