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Ep. 260: Make Haste Slowly
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Last Action Heroes
The Last Action Heroes by Nick the Selmy A. is a book about the heyday of the 1980s action movie stars, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Seagal, Jean Claude Van Damme. The reason why that ended it was we're very used to spectacle right now in a post Jurassic Park world that are delivered via special effects. So these super muscled guys were in some sense a spectacle. It was just, it's larger than life. Nowadays we get the spectacle by having really cool special effects done by computers. But when you kind of do that, how do you make a movie larger than life? You put larger than life people into it and blew things up.
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