The unofficial biography of Arnold

It’s all the same how to get together to play cards or sit at the stand of the bar ... I don’t need to go to the men's company somewhere in the evening. ”After training, he went to breakfast with a group of bodybuilders, and Arnold paid for everyone who joined him. He often went to Patrix Roudhaus, where he could be found in one of the four offices about half a dozen.

Bill Fishler, who invariably gives Arnold an eggs of three eggs with onions and tomatoes - a specially prepared dish, the recipe of which, according to rumors, was compiled by Aurelia. Venis, the area, still populated by a somewhat strange place for the headquarters of the convinced Republican, as a third-party observer could notice. Even when he and Maria are at home, lunch is delivered from the restaurant, unless, of course, Arnold fry meat on open fire, after which he washes the dishes.

At the same time, Arnold usually prefers fish and chickens. He also loves cheese, but tries to do without it, as without other dairy products. The only concession that he makes himself is cigars. On the day, Arnold smokes two black Cuban cigars "Davidoff" worth $ 25 apiece. During the interview, the interview “Playboy”, he warned the journalist Joan Goodman that the interview would continue until he smokes a cigar.

Before pregnancy, Maria Arnold rested with her, playing tennis, and Maria invariably won. They also rode horses: Maria - in the English saddle, and Arnold preferred to saddle the horse as it is customary in the Wild West.

Sometimes they went skiing to the Espen, where Arnold has a close friend - Magnat Dick Beter, stopping there at the Jerome Hotel. In Espen, Arnold loved to go for breakfast in Venerestv, enjoying the truly Austrian Mulesley. Arnold's homeland remains close to his heart. Although his mother visits him in California at least twice a year, he spends his best time in Austria. In the year, he went there four times: first - to shoot the "red heat", then - together with Maria, then again with Maria, Testem and Mother -in -law, Sargent and Unis Schravers, and finally alone.

Close one day, during his third visit to his homeland, after Alfred Gerstl made all the necessary preparations, Arnold, Aurelia, Unis, Gerzhent and Maria, in the leased Mercedes with a hired driver, made a short trip from Graz to Tal. There, Limousine stopped at the house in Tallinak. Arnold grew up here. Walking around the rooms, Arnold talked about cold, poverty, hungry nights and dreams of his childhood.

David Andervalt was at about the same age as Arnold, when he started his Odyssey, raising the bar for the first time and surrendering to his first dream. Today, David is sleeping in the same room where Arnold once sees the same in front of him as Arnold, the ruins of the old castle, goes to the same school, and learns a lot of what Arnold learned once. Schwarzenegger asked him the question of whom David wants to be when he grows up, but he did not find what to answer.

Then Aurelia intervened, telling the story of how the ten -year -old Arnold, being asked about his desire, proclaimed: "I do not want to be anyone. I want to walk around the world with a hat, a stick and a monkey." The underwear who knew that he had achieved incomparably more, looked at Arnold in amazement. In the year, Arnold visited Tal twice, and his fellow villagers were beside themselves from the honor they rendered.

Schwarzenegger is their only celebrity, and they, like bees, curled around him, full of reverence and love. The Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt once wrote a play - in the screen version it was called the "visit" Actors Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Kuinn - about a peasant girl who, as a teenager, was pregnant, was expelled with a shame from the village. Fifty years later, rich and famous, she returns to the village and persuades her fellow villagers to track down and kill a person from whom she became pregnant and who then abandoned her.

Listening to, as the inhabitants of Talys say about their Arnold, some of whom once despised him, you can not get rid of the impression that during one of his visits he, as the heroine of Dürrenmatt’s play, will be able to convince them to go for everything. And not that Arnold in his soul burned hatred and a thirst for revenge. Can this happen to him - the winner -triumph always and in everything?

Nevertheless, his visits to Tal had to bring him a huge joy. After all, he was well aware of how far he went, how much he reached, how high ascended, going through self -torture, training, as obsessed, throughout his youth and fulfilling the task of making life to make life in a full bowl.And his contemporaries remained there below, on earth and live everyday life: they go to the cinema, appoint dates to the girls, and remaining balanced and ordinary.

At separate rare moments, he expressed these feelings of superiority and satisfaction. In Schlading, during the filming of the initial episodes of the "red heat", an old friend Franz Hormann came to him. Arnold, covered by a flash of nostalgia and warm feelings, recalled him on the sidelines and admitted: “Do you remember that in those old years you played and have fun, but I did not.

I just did that I trained. But now my turn. Now I can do everything that you did then and that I have never had time for me. Now I can enjoy life.” It was not in his recognition - even if you strain the imagination - not a grain of gloating. Arnold's approach to life resembled the position of the great novelist, cherishing the idea that the character he created is limitless in time and will become an eternal legend.

For Arnold always created himself, sculpted from a small unloved loser boy, floundering in poverty. He created a masterpiece that is recognized all over the world and to which everyone admires. And yet, perhaps, only returning to his origins, he truly assesses the greatness of his achievements and enjoys what came of it. Only in comparison can he taste the sweetness of victory.

Epilog Arnold Schwarzenegger became the Hollywood legend, the "great Gatsby" of our day, a man who created himself, whose unshakable faith in success allowed to conquer unthinkable peaks in search of ways to realize his chosen fate. His charm, intellect and talent brought him everything that could wish for his heart: wealth, power, flattery, money, success.

But is he happy? Or, maybe he is afraid of the morning, the need to write an essay again, or a terrible prospect that his father will again exhaust him with a red pencil? Now that he conquered his universe, does he still speak with his own past at the final stage of the struggle: “Yes, so far everything is good, but what will happen next year? What else can Arnold be desired?

And who will he ultimately become? In the year, during one of the rare outbreaks of introspection, he said:“ People are surprised how much I have changed, but I am all the same. I never walked from a hammer. I am always the same, regardless of where I am and with whom. I felt great ten years ago and I feel great now. I fully realized myself ten years ago - in work, and in finance, and in my relations with people.

And now I'm not retreating. Sometimes I even have to slow down. At times, I am too accelerating and starting to take those around me intolerantly. I expect from everyone that he will admire me all the time. I expect too much from people, but I really have nothing to change in myself. There are no big disappointments in my life. I would not like to live anyone else. I do not belong to the number of people who, folding, analyze the current situation.

This is the worst that can be in life. "