MARTÍNEZ: That's Nick de Semlyen, author of a new book called "The Last Action Heroes." In it, he focuses on eight action stars - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan.
And you have Chuck Norris recreating Vietnam but actually winning. And then these action stars arrive, and they were bringing something else to the table. NICK DE SEMLYEN: I think a lot of it was to do with the climate at the time, with America just had Vietnam, Watergate.
There were big blockbusters that really leaned into a lot of things, including the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
In the 1980s, the action in action movies went to a whole 'nother level.
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