Arnold Schwarzenegger is almost inseparable from his role as the Terminator in the Terminator Franchise. Although The Terminator is one of his rare villain characters, Schwarzenegger’s best-known action roles are usually muscular heroes like Conan the Barbarian, Hercules and Chief Dutch Shepherd in Predator. Even when Schwarzenegger began to play more diverse characters, starting with the comedy TwinsIn which he and Danny DeVito play long-lost twin brothers, the characters still highlight his status as an action movie star, his physical strength, and his way of switching between stoicism and cheerfulness.
Director Joel Schumacher thought Mr. Freeze’s lines in the Batman and Robin script were unbelievably hilarious.
Schwarzenegger’s action movies are, at one point, almost a genre of their own. Most of them include the same features, such as huge weapons, Schwarzenegger’s signature one-liners, and at least one scene where he drastically outsizes an opponent. The Terminator Franchise includes all these elements, also giving audiences the phenomenal Sarah Connor (originally played by Linda Hamilton), ever more formidable robots to fight, and iconic styling choices. According to Rotten tomatoes, The Terminator Is Schwarzenegger’s best movie, with a 100% positive ratingWhile Batman and Robin is his worst. However, the films still share something in common.
Arnold Schwarzenegger played the villain in his best and worst movies
Schwarzenegger has no regrets about playing Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin
Schwarzenegger’s unforgettable T-800 robot appeared in the first movie of the Terminator Franchise. Although Schwarzenegger only has 58 words in The Terminator, This worked in context, making the Terminator more menacing. While it was defeated at the end of the movie, Schwarzenegger reprized the role in Terminator 2Which allowed him to add something unexpected: character development. The broken villain Mr. Freeze is already an established character in The Batman Franchise, however Batman and Robin was seen as campy and ridiculousGet only 12% Rotten tomatoes Rating. Usually cast as the hero, Schwarzenegger only played a villain in these two movies.
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Although Mr Freeze is given a tragic backstory in which he tries to find a cure for his terminally ill, cryogenically frozen wife, Batman and Robin Director Joel Schumacher thought Mr. Freeze’s lines in the script were uncomfortably hilariousFind yourself reading them with Schwarzenegger’s voice. According to Schwarzenegger in ‘The making of Batman and Robin‘ Schumacher told him that he would not direct Batman and Robin Unless he played the character, and luckily for Schumacher, Schwarzenegger agreed to play Mr. Freeze. Although the movie was widely panned critically, he said he did not regret playing the character.
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Mr. Freeze may have played to Schwarzenegger’s Terminator strengths
To use a Negro-worthy word, The Terminator and Mr. Freeze are polar opposites. Kyle Reese’s description of it is still one of his scariest quotes The Terminator:”It cannot succeed with it, it cannot be reasoned with. It feels no pity, no remorse, or no fear, and it absolutely will not stop…ever…until you’re dead.” The Terminator is an emotional killing machine, while Mr. Freeze’s human emotions have turned him into a villain. He is so focused on his grief for his wife and his determination to find a cure, that he is willing to freeze Gotham City if he has to.
The 1960s Batman joined in his absurdity, but Schumacher tried to be wise Batman and Robin In a serious action movie while keeping the original camp feel, and it didn’t work, especially after Tim Burton’s dark re-imagining of Gotham City. Schwarzenegger isn’t the worst Mr. Freeze, and his casting might have worked if Schumacher had taken a lesson from The Terminator. Swap his much-radical outfit for a more minimal look and trade in an overload of mediocre words Fewer but more quotable lines could have made the most of a rare villainous role for Schwarzenegger.