Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren tricked the media into pondering they had been feuding to advertise Common Soldier.
The Cannes Movie Competition has a storied historical past of notorious moments. We bring to mind Brigitte Bardot in her bikini, Spike Lee threatening Wim Wenders with a baseball bat then dropping the Palme d’Or, good-looking a lot the entirety Lars Von Trier has stated or finished…However one who truly stuck the media’s consideration was once when Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren went at it at the pink carpet, with public below the affect that the Common Soldier co-stars and Ecu macho males had been truly at each and every alternative’s throats. Seems, it was once all only a gag for the click.
It’s something that Common Soldier was once even being represented on the Cannes Movie Competition however every other fully that it wasn’t even screened! Because it was once, in spite of a minor presence at the Palais des Fairs, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi motion flick wasn’t a part of any screenings as it wasn’t whole. As such, it wanted some difference promotion. So loose it to the Muscular tissues from Brussels to concoct a plan that might give Common Soldier a modest spice up in exposure forward of its summer time 1992 premiere.
As JCVD instructed Arsenio Corridor of the staged Common Soldier spat at Cannes, “The movie was complete but not cut yet…So I was in Cannes in Dolph. So I call his room, I say, ‘Dolph, we have a problem: we’re here, we have no movie to show…So let’s do something special. Remember when Sly and Arnold were dancing in Cannes [in 1990]? What about you and I…having a friction on the steps of the red carpet…So he said, ‘Yeah, that’s a good idea.’ So we push around each other and we made all the news in Cannes.” When Corridor pressed JCVD if he truly made up all the pink carpet fight, he showed, “It was free publicity. I’m a businessman.”
Rumors had been abound that JCVD and Dolph Lundgren didn’t get alongside life making Common Soldier so after they faked to journey at it life the likes of David Lynch, Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman had been ready to peer if they’d tug house the Palme d’Or, it was once simple to shop for. And the stunt paid off, with Common Soldier opening at #2 and happening to be a fan favourite within the catalogs of each stars.
