Bruce Willis was the savior of the world in the 1990s

Bruce Willis is a famous actor who embodied the archetype of the world savior during the 1990s thanks to several science fiction productions. He traveled through time in Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam, escorted an alien in The Fifth Element by Luc Besson, and commanded astronauts facing a meteorite in Armageddon by Michael Bay. These big-budget films allowed him to chain together cinematic successes with a conquered audience.