[BIRTHDAY ARTWORK — 15-MAY-2020]Commando (1985)Directed by Mark L LesterOn my birthday (15 May) this year, I thought I’d do a drawing of a movie that's very close to my heart — the 1980s action classic, “Commando”. I watched it dozens of times as a kid, it was the first movie of @schwarzenegger’s that I saw (I think when I was in 5th or 6th class). I became a fan of his because of this movie, and it is a total blast.It is not the best of Arnold’s movies, but, definitely one of the most entertaining ones, thanks to all the jokes and one liners, courtesy scripter Steven E deSouza. Arnold is Col John Matrix, a retired Special Forces solider. Deposed dictator Arius has Matrix’s daughter kidnapped, in order to make him assassinate the President of the South American country Val Verde. Matrix must rescue his daughter within 11 hours.I rewatched this now and had a huge grin on my face throughout. Such an easy movie to watch – the 90 minutes pass by very quickly.I am very thankful to have grown up with movies like this one, “Predator”, “The Terminator” and “Total Recall”. They don't make them like they used to! Here are a few facts about the movie – • Composer James Horner would go on to make music scores for movies like “Titanic” and “Avatar” but I became a fan of his because of his music score for “Commando”. It is so catchy and awesome.• Val Verde is a fictional country, and was used in “Die Hard 2” as well, with General Ramon Esperanza being from there. So, can one assume the movies take place in the same universe?• There is a Director’s Cut for this movie which reinstates about a minute and a half of footage (I’ve seen it, but the film is great as is).• Story writer Joseph Loeb III is Jeph Loeb, who would go on to work in comics, notably, “Batman: Hush”. • Alyssa Milano who stars as Matrix’s daughter Jenny would go on to become a big star, and Peter Quill’s ship in “Guardians of the Galaxy” (the Milano) is named after her.I drew Schwarzenegger as Matrix from the movie. This was done with 0.5mm 2B pencil on A6 sketchbook and scanned. #534 / 15-May-20
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