Just how many of Arnie’s films have been in the action genre? More or less all of them, right? I took to IMBD and found all the films he has starred in (it’s 28 ignoring cameos) and found out what the esteemed site describes as their genres. I then visualised the results in a vaguely scientific way (it’s his career formula after all) to see if any patterns could be spotted.
And yep, 23 films or 82% of his career has been in action. If it’s not action it’s because he’s deliberately playing against type in a comedy, or in his first credit, a family film. More precisely it’s mainly the action-thriller sub-genre (12/23) followed by 6/23 in the action-sci-fi segment. Thus by this assessment the most typical Arnie films are the action-thriller-sci-fis of the Terminator series. Though being his most famous films, obviously you didn’t need me to point that out…
27 October 2013