The eternal debate. Who’s cooler, Schwarzenegger or Stallone?

Terminator, John Rambo, Conan the Barbarian, Rocky… The most brutal and ruthless to enemies action heroes were embodied on the screens by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. So who is cooler? The question is rhetorical, but it does not lose relevance.

Perhaps, for boys from the 80’s and 90’s there was no more fundamental dispute. All the more in favor of each can easily bring ironclad arguments.

Sports and physical data

In terms of physical data, Arnie surpasses his friend and colleague Sylvester. Schwarzenegger is taller by 8 cm and in his youth was noticeably heavier. In terms of sports achievements, Stallone also can not stretch with his vis-a-vis. Arnold came to the movies thanks to bodybuilding, where he had no equals. Austrian bodybuilder five times won the title of “Mr. Universe” and seven times won the competition “Mr. Olympia”. Stallone in his youth was fond of boxing, but to the success of Rocky Balboa and did not get close to the success of Rocky Balboa. Nevertheless, Sylvester’s combat training is still better than that of bodybuilder Schwarzenegger.

The beginning of a career in the movie

In the movie both heroes debuted in 1970. Arnie starred in the film “Hercules in New York”, where the entire movie was held with a bare torso, but the starting work of Stallone is associated with a piquant detail: his first experience of filming was a pornographic movie “Italian Stallion”.

Sylvester unlike Arnold received a full-fledged acting education. Since the age of 14, he played in the theater, and then graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Miami. Schwarzenegger at the same time served in the Austrian army, after which he worked as a fitness trainer in Munich, but Stallone from military service safely “otkosil”.

Already after the choice in favor of cinema, the best bodybuilder of the planet had to take acting lessons. First of all, to get rid of the terrible German accent and get roles with long dialogues. In addition, for filming Arnie had to lose weight to look more natural on the screen. Widespread popularity as an actor, he had to wait 12 years – until the release of “Conan the Barbarian”.

Stallone’s golden hour came six years earlier, and the colorful young man did not rely on luck, and took fate into his own hands. Sylvester wrote the script for the first “Rocky” and agreed to sell his movie studio for only one dollar. Naturally, provided that the main role will go to the writer himself. Daring plan for a novice actor worked, for which he has been nicknamed “Sly” for life, literally translated as “cunning”.

Filmography and awards

Stallone’s movie career turned out to be more fruitful. At the moment, Sly starred in 76 films, and in the track record of Arnold 56 roles. First, Sylvester was considered a more versatile actor, which allowed him to star in comedies and dramas more often. Secondly, from 2003 to 2011 Schwarzenegger almost did not work in the movie, as he was governor of California.

In terms of the number of movie awards, Sylvester is also ahead. After “Rocky” he was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe both as an actor and as a screenwriter, and almost 40 years later the same role brought him a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for the movie “Creed: The Rocky Legacy”. At Schwarzenegger of serious awards only “Golden Globe” in the category of debut for the little-known movie “Stay Hungry” in 1976.

True, there is also a fact in Stallone’s career that says that not all of his works were masterpieces. Sylvester is the absolute record holder for the number of nominations for the Golden Raspberry Anti-Award. 31 times he was among the nominees and had 11 victories, and in addition was recognized as the worst actor of the XX century. Arnold is not the most pleasant award also did not pass by – 8 nominations and the title of “the worst loser for 25 years”.

Money and fame

If in terms of acting Stallone can be recognized a little more successful, then in global fame is far ahead of Schwarzenegger. When Stallone’s whole life is tightly connected with the movie industry in all its manifestations, Arnold is still the idol of all bodybuilders in the world, and at the same time made a successful career in business and politics. Exact data on the state of the heroes of action movies in the public domain is not available, but in 2019 experts estimated the capital of both about $ 400 million.

Movie murders

And in conclusion, probably the most objective criterion for comparing the two mega-cool actors who became famous thanks to the merciless destruction of villains. So, Stallone for a long screen life has already taken the lives of more than 550 people. Schwarzenegger cleared the planet of 509 villains. At the same time, the number of screen killings on average for the movie leads Arnold, and the record for the extermination of movie wickedness in one picture belongs to Stallone – in the fourth part of Rambo, he “put” 236 enemies.