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Cobra (film)

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This article is about the 1986 film. For the 1925 film, see Cobra (1925 film). For the anime film, see Cobra (manga).

Cobra
Cobra poster
Directed by	George P. Cosmatos
Produced by	Menahem Golan Yoram Globus
Written by	Novel Fair Game : Paula Gosling Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Starring	Sylvester Stallone Brigitte Nielsen Reni Santoni Brian Thompson Andrew Robinson Art LaFleur Lee Garlington
Music by	Sylvester Levay
Cinematography	Ric Waite
Editing by	James R. Symons Don Zimmerman
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Cannon Films
Release date(s)	May 23, 1986 (USA)
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$49,042,224 (USA) $160,000,000 (Worldwide)
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Cobra is a 1986 action film directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni and Brigitte Nielsen. The film, written by Stallone, was loosely based on a novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, which was also filmed under that title in 1995; it also arose out of Stallone's original ideas for the film Beverly Hills Cop. He had wanted to make a less comedic, more action-oriented film. When he left that project, Eddie Murphy was brought in to play the lead role. Cobra was a modest hit at the box office, but was widely panned by critics for its cartoonish violence and cliched plot.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Video game
4 See also
5 External links

Plot

Marion Cobretti, a rough Police officer with a reputation for doing "the dirty work" is called in to a hostage situation at a grocery store when negotiations fail. Cobretti kills the gunman himself after infiltrating the building, but before his death the criminal mumbles of a "New Order" in the world: a group of supremacists who believe in killing the weak and leaving only the strongest and themselves to live and rule the world. The event at the supermarket is connected to a string of recent and seemingly unconnected acts of violence that have broken loose in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to the general public, these murders are the work of the same supremacist group that the supermarket gunman spoke of. After witnessing several individuals (and the Order's leader) at the scene of one of the murders late at night, Nielsen's character becomes the target of the group, and the only witness to their crimes. She is placed under the protective custody of Cobretti and his partner. After several attempts are made on their lives, it is decided that it would be safest that they relocate from the city. Shortly after venturing out into the countryside, and Cobretti becoming romantically involved with the witness, one of the Order's leaders (who was posing as a police officer) reveals the location of Cobretti, the witness, and Cobretti's partner. The Order sieges the small town that the three were staying in. Cobretti and the witness escape in a Dodge Ram pick-up truck assuming his partner is dead. After the truck becomes severely damaged, the two bail out into a lemon grove and escape into a nearby factory. Most of the Order has been killed or disabled by Cobretti at this point, and only few follow them. After eliminating every member aside from the leader, a huge muscle bound type played by Brian Thompson, Cobretti and the leader engage in a hand-to-hand duel inside the steel mill, ending with the Order's leader being impaled and burned alive by Cobretti. In the aftermath, Cobretti's department has arrived and begun clean-up of the town, the Order is all but eliminated, and the ending credits begin with Stallone and Nielsen climbing onto one of the many motorcycles left by the Order and riding away.

Trivia

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Cobretti has often been compared to other fictional rogue or maverick cops who indulge in extreme acts of violence, including Dirty Harry and Mad Max. Two of the actors who were in the original Dirty Harry, Andy Robinson and Reni Santoni, also had roles in this film.
The 1950 Mercury seen in the film is one of Sylvester Stallone's personal vehicles. Several replicas were built for the scene where it was crashed beyond repair.
Two Plymouth Volares are seen in the film - one driven by Gonzales (his Volare is seen having a Dodge emblem on the hood when he is T-boned by villains in a Ford F-series), and the other was the villain's getaway vehicle.
The submachine gun Cobretti uses is a 9 mm JaTiMatic with a laser sight and his sidearm is a M1911 pistol with custom ivory grips.
Sylvester Stallone famously turned down the lead in Beverly Hills Cop in order to adapt and star in Cobra. Beverly Hills Cop was subsequently rewritten as a comedy in order to accommodate its new star, Eddie Murphy.
To celebrate the success of the film, Sylvester Stallone was given a pair of AC Cobra as a gift by the production company, one of them was a rare 427. Stallone shortly sold the cars off.
In the 2004 Spongebob Squarepants movie, the opening scene parodies the opening scene in Cobra as Spongebob arrives at the Krusty Krab in a 1950 Mercury. When he gets out of the car the camera shows only his feet getting out of the car just as Stallone does in Cobra, and Spongebob is wearing a pair of boots with Cobras on them.
The power ballad "The Touch", performed by Stan Bush, was originally written for this movie, however, the record company instead used the song in Transformers: The Movie.
When Cobra returns to his apartment early in the movie, he curiously places his daily newspaper onto the grill, and cuts a piece of pizza in half (parallel to the crust) with a pair of scissors. These actions, which appeared unusual, were not scripted and were improvisational actions on the part of Stallone.

Video game

Ocean Software released a video game in 1986 to coincide with the film's release. The game a side-scrolling action game where the player controls Cobretti as he tries to defeat the cult of the Night Slasher and protect model Ingrid from their wrath. Released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC, the game is well-known for its music score and its high level of difficulty. Due to a rush to get the game out in time for the film's release, there was no final boss programmed in to end the game; Once the first three levels are completed, the game repeats.