Arnold Schwarzenegger has been the Governator of California since 2003, but that was not when he launched his political career. There was a movie released a decade before he was elected that predicted his rise into government, even up to being President. That move is Demolition Man and it has been one of my favorite cult films of the 90's since around the late nineties. I was pretty amused when Schwarzenegger ran for governor, and won, as he began following in the footsteps of the "prophecy" set out for him.
Before I go any further let me summarize the premise of the movie. Silvester Stallone was an amazing cop in the 20th century, The Demolition Man. He has an enemy, Simon Phoenix, played by Wesley Snipes, Phoenix is the self proclaimed drug lord of neo-apocalypic south LA (this is what the director thought LA was like in the 90s...). Stallone apprehends Snipes, they get cyrogenically frozen as their prison sentence, but something goes wrong. In the year 2032, both of them are unfrozen and duke it out in a future world, reminiscent of Mr. Rodger's house. In the future Stallone is reinstated as a cop to apprehend Phoenix again, which is how he meets another cop, played by Sandra Bullock. Now, I will give you the scene this post regards, as you have the proper context to make sense of it without seeing the movie.
In this scene, Bullock is trying to catch Stallone's character up to date on all the happenings since he was frozen. To quote the scene in Demolition Man:
Stallone: "Hold it! The Schwarzenegger Library?"
Bullock: "Yes, the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor in your time?"
Stallone: "Stop! He was President?"
Bullock: "Yes. Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the passing of the 61st Amendment…"
Remember, this movie was released in 1993, which means it was probably filmed mostly in 1992. That means a full decade before Schwarzenegger ran for office. I am left with a few theories: Theory 1, Schwarzenegger has known for YEARS that he wants to be involved in government, and this was a tongue in teach reference to it. Theory 2, they were taking a complete stab in the dark, and make a funny joke about someone Stallone probably knew from making other action movies. Theory 3, the film makers had no idea Schwarzenegger wanted to run for office, but inadvertently set a prophecy in motion, which will only end when Schwarzenegger is President.
Who knows, either way I am greatly amused.
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Firstly, I've heard somewhere but am too lazy to verify that Arnold's goals since he was in Austria his goals were to 1) Go to the States 2) Be a body builder 3) become a movie star 4) Marry a Kennedy and 4) Become President...he's got 3/4 so far!
ReplyDeleteSecondly, that movie was cool!! Wasn't there a cyber-sex scene...where like, they were wearing headsets and sitting like 5 feet away from each other? and McDonalds was the only food? and no one used toilet paper?? the future rocks!
Taco Bell is the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, you were close, but in the future there is no McDonalds.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that about Arnold, he's making good progress towards his goal.