This book guarantees that you will be in a great mood after reading it

Film journalist Nick de Semlyen’s hilarious journey through the golden age of the Hollywood action film industry from the 1970s to the early 1990s to the present day offers both silly stories about the lives and reports from the stars, is an insightful insight into the world behind the birth of flash films and their popularity.

Nick de Semlyen, «The Last Action Heroes». Photo: book

«The Last Action Heroes» begins in May 1990 at the Cannes Film Festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone dance the waltz, assisted by a mass of star-struck party guests. After decades of bitter enmity, the two biggest stars had finally made peace. Or were you? Or where did it start?

In this hilarious book, Nick de Semlyen answers these questions and many more, and describes how the troublemaker genre that took the world by storm was born in the depressed America of the late 1970s after the Vietnam War. In addition to the two first and greatest action legends, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the book includes the adventures of six other colorful stars who sailed to Hollywood in their wake: rediscover the flying fighting machines Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan, the ‘dark and sexy tough guys Dolph Lundgren and Steven Seagal, and machine gun pranksters Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis.

Written with great heartfelt humor and empathy, “The Last Action Heroes” offers both entertainment and interesting facts and guarantees that you will be in a great mood when you put the book down.

2023-12-07 08:40:54
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