Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, Thal, Austria. Photograph courtesy of the author.I’ve never cared for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not about his muscles nor about his films, his political career, or his motivational speeches. Until recently I thought this lack of interest stemmed from generational affiliation. While my father, like so many growing up in the Americanized West Germany of the 1970s and ’80s, adored the shirtless poster boys of Ronald Reagan’s Hollywood, I’ve always preferred the more broken intellectual heroes of a cinema that looked critically at the American Dream. I remember how my parents sold me Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky (1976) as a film about what love and dedication means, and The Terminator (1984) as a display of desirable masculinity. During my childhood, in the 1990s, Schwarzenegger’s films used to be broadcast on German television all the time, especially during holiday season, and I grew up watching titles like...
- 2/1/2024
- MUBI
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man of three careers. His first one, bodybuilding, began not in southern California but in the village of Thal, Austria, through which I passed on a scorching summer day in June 2022. His childhood home has been turned into the Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, which hosts a range of Arnie memorabilia on the first and second floors.
After doing some press ups on Arnold's lawn and a few dumbbell rows in his hallway, I posed by a statue of the Austrian Oak as Peter Urdl, Schwarzenegger's childhood friend and the former Mayor of Thal, took my photograph. Thoroughly inspired by all of this, I...
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After doing some press ups on Arnold's lawn and a few dumbbell rows in his hallway, I posed by a statue of the Austrian Oak as Peter Urdl, Schwarzenegger's childhood friend and the former Mayor of Thal, took my photograph. Thoroughly inspired by all of this, I...
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- 7/13/2022
- by Jack Hawkins
- Slash Film
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