What's behind the huge hit "Cliffhanger" that brought Stallone back to life?

Challenge the Cliffhanger

I thought that the story about his fear of heights was just lip service, so when I asked Stallone what he had done in `` Rambo ,'' he jumped from a high place without doing any stunts and got injured. It turned out that the trigger was a scene in the movie.

``In ``Cliffhanger,'' far from overcoming my fear of heights, I had to constantly be at high places, so my brain was completely paralyzed by the concept of fear.The act of hanging was important, so I started training to improve my grip strength. Starting from the beginning, there was no need to create beautiful muscles that were just for show, like in `` Rocky '' (1976) or ``Rambo.'' By sharpening the body, the training menu focused on inner muscles, where stamina is important. I did it.

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When preparing for the role, I had to train a lot for Rocky 4 (1986) when it came to enduring the thin air and cold, so I didn't have any problems with it, but I had no problems with shooting running in a snowy mountain where my footing was unstable. No matter how many times I tried it, it was still difficult. I had heard from Mario Cassar that Arnold had left all the dangerous scenes to stuntmen in The Terminator 2 , so I decided not to use stunts unless it was a dangerous part that I couldn't do myself, and director Renny Harlin told me that Arnold left all the dangerous scenes to stuntmen. Even though I was told to stop, I performed it myself.

By the way, Wolfgang Güllich, who was in charge of my stunts for the climbing scenes, sadly passed away in a car accident after filming had finished, but when it was reported that the accident occurred during filming, I was shocked at the irresponsibility of the media. We saw it as negative press for ``Cliffhanger''. ”

The road to completion was full of twists and turns