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[Felgraf]

You know, it occurs to me that there ARE action-heroey types in real life (without the "I HAVE A PENIS" bits, perhaps), in that if you made a movie of some of the things they did, most people would assume you were making shiat up.

Granted, most of those action-heroey folks are *Gurkha's*, but still.


Like this dude, at 35 year old man who fought of forty armed (some with GUNS) train robbers with a kukri.



[url]http://xnepali.net/a-gurkha-soldier-who-fought-40-train-robbers-to-be-felicitated-in-the-republic-day-of-india/ [/url]

If people made movies of this guy, or a few others, would we assume they were patriarchal action movies because they were "Manly men doing things that were deemed manly"?
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[TheJabawack]

The problem is, I think, that even if we use real 'badasses' the movie will probably still come out as a typical action movie.

There would probalby be all the typical tropes related to this kind of movie.

The movie probably wodn't show us that the protagonist is areal-life action-hero, but it would show us that the protagonist is a real-life action hero because he is a man.

As a side note this discussion remembered me that it has been a while since I have gone looking at the badass of the week. There are lots of stories about women who did things that would put even the biggest action hero to shame.
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