Like many children of his time, he found a refuge in fantasy, his hero was Superman. He spent his afternoons watching the Man of Steel series starring George Reeves.
One day he put on a cape and jumped from the roof of his house, landing on the ground breaking his collarbone. Her father gave him advice that he would later include in the script of Rocky: “You were born without much of a brain, so you better start using your body.”.
So it was that during his adolescence Sylvester (who called himself Mike), began to train with a broom and cement blocks, in addition to always having a dictionary at hand to learn new words. When she wasn’t exercising she recited poems from Walt Whitman to improve your diction.
Sylvester Stallone and his participation in a porn movie
In the early 1970s, to pay for drama classes, he had to work as an actor in a pornographic film called “The Party at Kitty and Stud’s”. Stallone would declare to the magazine Playboy that economic necessity forced him to make that decision, since at that time he only had twenty dollars in his bank account.
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“I had two options, to participate in that movie or to steal from someone, because I was really desperate. Instead of committing a crime, I worked two days for 200 dollars and I was able to leave the bus station.”
rocky’s birth
At the age of 30, he wrote and starred in Rocky, a drama about a boxer who traveled from the streets to glory thanks to his ability to withstand blows. It was a world event that nobody was willing to bet on, but Stallone, like his on-screen alter ego, resisted.
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The inspiration for the role that would change his life was born from a fight between Muhammad Ali Y chuck wepner, a boxer who out of sheer courage put himself in trouble and resisted until the last round facing the best boxer of all time. The victory went to Ali, but for those who watched that match, Wepner was the moral winner, as he proved that a nobody could bring the best of all to his knees.
Stallone was inspired, and the script was ready in just over twenty hours. This is how the story of the famous “Italian stallion” was born.
The producers Irwin Winkler Y Robert Chartoff They even offered him $350,000 for the text, but they didn’t even want to hear about the possibility of considering Stallone as Rocky. They preferred weighty names like those of Robert Redford either Ryan O’Neill, true stars of the time. The actor’s stubbornness gave them no respite and in the end they agreed to give him the main role in exchange for paying him only $35,000 for his story. The result is already known.
The success of Rambo and Stallone as an action hero
In 1982 he created another myth of contemporary cinema, the former Green Beret traumatized by the Vietnam War John Rambo (who is also celebrating his birthday today, in his case 75 years old), in Rambo: first blood and the then president ronald reagan he adopted it as a symbol of the new American empire.
Critics acclaimed his performance, stating that it had given him a more human aspect than the character originally had in the novel of the same name on which the film was based.
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Apart from the sagas of Rocky Y Rambobetween his films more blockbusters are found Cobra from 1986; over-the-top from 1987; lock-up from 1989; cliff hanger from 1993; The specialist 1994, co-starring Sharon Stone Y james woods; assassins from 1995 together with Antonio Banderas Y Julianne Moore.
The fall and return of Sylvester Stallone
In 1997 he got the leading role in Cop Landbeside Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta Y Harvey Keitel. She put on about fifty pounds to play an overweight, mediocre cop in the state of New Jersey. His performance was well received by critics and considered the best performance he has given since Rocky in 1976.
From then on, a string of notorious failures in critics and at the box office would follow, the industry and the public seemed to turn their backs on him after years of success.
In the year 2000 the Razzie (Worst Film Awards) gave him an honorary award as the worst actor of the century. And in 2002, after the failures of Get Carter, driven Y D Tox, his management agency (CAA, the most powerful in Hollywood) fired him. He was 56 years old.
Rocky Balboa in 2006 and John Rambo in 2008, written and directed by him, earned him good reviews and, more importantly, attracted people to the movies. Stallone was surprised to discover that the majority of his viewers (average 30-year-olds) belonged to a generation that had grown up watching his movies on TV and admired him free of prejudice or elitism.
With this boost, Stallone decided to take advantage of his renewed popularity to launch a new franchise.. And this time he would not play a loser, he would be a leader and he would also give work to many actors from his golden age who had been relegated.
With The Expendables (2010) and its subsequent sequels, would be accompanied by actors such as: Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, and Chuck Norris among others. A festival of testosterones that pointed to nostalgia, but that also brought many forgotten action movies of the eighties and nineties back to the forefront.
Critical acclaim for Sylvester Stallone
The momentum gained made him return once again to the role that opened all doors for him: Rocky Balboa. This time it would not be him who gets into the ring, he would be a luxury secondary put at the service of a new generation headed by Michael B Jordan in the role of Adonis Creed, son of the beloved Apollo Creed, first a rival and then a friend of Balboa.
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the name tape believe It was a general success, the public and the specialists saw a brilliant performance by Stallone as the hero tired but always ready to give a little more. For his interpretation, Stallone won the Golden Globe to the best supporting actor, the ovation was generalized, the industry that had beaten him so many times stood up to applaud the veteran actor.
Stallone and painting
For the past 55 years, Stallone has used painting as a creative feedback process in relation to his acting career. The actor’s paintings are “full of action” and expressiveness like his films and, on the other hand, they are subtle and with multiple layers of meaning, in addition to the use of styles such as surrealism, expressionism and abstraction.
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”That’s what I like about painting, it’s the only true communication you can have. Writing can be manipulated, painting is the fastest and purest translator of the subconscious. When something happens inside you and you capture it on the canvas, it is difficult to fake it. The canvas is number one for me when it comes to conveying feelings”, Stallone expressed some time ago in an interview. Stallone has an Instagram account where you can see his work: @stalloneartwork.
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