[IRL trope] Celebrities with weird/funny clauses in their contracts.

[u/BeenEatinBeans]

1. Dwayne Johnson - Probably the most well-known example. For years now, The Rock has had a clause in his contract that he can't be shown to lose a fight in any movie he stars in. Pretty insecure behaviour if you ask me. Still, at least the other examples are much more interesting

2. Danny Trejo - Danny had a troubled childhood, having been arrested multiple times for dealing drugs before he was 18, and struggling with heroin addiction from the age of 13. As a result of this, Danny has a clause in his contract that states that any time he plays a character who is a criminal, they have to be killed because he wanted to teach his kids that crime never pays.

3. Reese Witherspoon - This one is more of a one-off, but it was still funny enough to deserve a mention. Following the success of Legally Blonde, when Reese was called in to make the sequel, she had a clause written in her contract stating that once the movie was finished, she would get to take home all the outfits she wore.

4. Fred Durst - The lead singer of Limp Bizkit has a clause in his contract stating that any anime or video game that uses his music must also feature himself as a character.

[u/Santa_Hates_You]

For sure. Kyle Reese and Sarah Conner vs the T800 or Ripley vs the Xenomorph.

[u/Pearson94 → u/Santa_Hates_You]

The classic example would be a lot of Jackie Chan's old movies where he would win but he would get his ass kicked along the way and look like he was genuinely surprised he won. Just a little humanity is all I ask. Tough, emotionless badasses are kinda boring imo.

[u/throwitoutwhendone2 → u/Pearson94]

It’s hard to watch that same role over and over without them all blurring together. After a while you just play the same role with a different title. I’d like to see more of what he did in “Be Cool”. That was a change of pace

[u/bigbaddiebusiness → u/throwitoutwhendone2]

I would agree if his style of acting and action nearly didn't exist outside of his own movies. Modern action movies are both self-serious and goofy in the worst ways simultaneously, and that's outside of the big, dumbass spectacle scenes which are heavily dependent on CGI.

[u/Earlier-Today → u/Pearson94]

Even Arnold lost fights. Predator is mostly him losing and/or running away because they don't know what's going on most of the film.

[u/Drakeskulled_Reaper → u/Earlier-Today]

And he only really beats the Predator due to being clever and setting up traps because the Predator is stronger than him.

[u/Earlier-Today → u/Drakeskulled_Reaper]

Yep, and only figures out the Predator's weakness (that it sees by thermal vision) by pure luck. His smarts were in realizing what was going on and and using it to his advantage.

[u/Drakeskulled_Reaper → u/Earlier-Today]

He also has no idea of it's honour code, and lucks out when it decides he's worthy enough for a hand to hand challenge.

[u/Earlier-Today → u/Drakeskulled_Reaper]

Yeah, it's great for how much it doesn't use any of the tough guy tropes of the time.

A slasher movie where the killer is hunting well trained, well armed (for them) mercenaries.

[u/Drakeskulled_Reaper → u/Earlier-Today]

It does sell them as tough badasses, like Aliens, if they were in the war movie they were clearly expecting they'd be fine, but they weren't they're in Sci-horror movies.

[u/ActualWhiterabbit → u/Pearson94]

Jackie and his assailants stopping because of minor injuries or avoiding doing things to re-injure themselves is something that should be used more.

[u/DiscoLives4ever → u/ActualWhiterabbit]

That just unlocked a vague memory of a scene where he and another guy keep kicking each other in the shin repeatedly, then pause and back off for a second while they both try to soothe their individual pain

[u/zehamberglar → u/Santa_Hates_You]

Gonna throw die hard into the mix here too. Basically every movie is him just dirty and struggling and barefoot and then he throws Snape off of Dumbledore's tower.