Whosoever said that only teachers, lecturers and professors can teach us the real meaning of life, didn’t know about the existence of action movies. Wondering why we say so? Well, skills like hanging from a helicopter, holding to our composure even the enemy tries to demean you and taking violent adventures and escapades head on are a few skills only action movies can teach us. From the likes of Stallone, Lundgren, James Bond to Seagal and Schwarzenegger, these pantheon of great action stars can teach us many great things about life. They are:
You do not need to resort to violence to blow your enemy away: Taking cue from the body of work of the lovably dangerous Jackie Chan, resorting to AK-47s to blow your enemy away isn’t how life works. Just a little bit of martial arts mixed with some heart-stopping stunts and the weakness of your opponent’s strategy can totally make you win the game. Police Story and Rumble in the Bronx showed us how hand-to-hand combat is the real deal. All hail the legendary skills of martial arts!
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Always have something cool to say while planning ahead: Gathering from the Schwarzenegger’s enviable track record, he is someone who has the guts to utter words like “You are fired!” while firing a missile from a Harrier Jump Jet towards a terrorist. Not to forget, how if you have just killed a crocodile, tell its corpse “You’re luggage”. Not only this, you should always be ready to plan ahead, while having the momentum to improvise at the last minute!Fame can be too good to be true too: Remember the famous King King movie where Kong was totally living a happy life on the Skull Island. It is only after he become famous, so to say a celebrity, that things took the ugly turn. Under the public spotlight and a public figure status in New York city, he was scrutinised and fear upon. We bet he would have had a peaceful life back in his island!
The things you own end up owning you: Fight Club movie was all about how an insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. Key lessons we learn from Fight Club dialogues are:
- You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
- The things you own end up owning you.
- Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
- It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
With great power comes great responsibility: Acquiring power is a great feat. But it can either make us better or destroy us. Peter Parker in Spiderman chose the latter by becoming Spiderman, a crime-fighter who swings from one building to another helping people who need help most.
