Boxing as a screen topic was thought to be a financial whirlpool. Gone were the days when an inspiring movie about a real life boxing hero might be expected to bring in money. Stallone had one other stipulation that added to his struggle to get the movie made; he wanted to star as Rocky Balboa. But he was virtually an unknown at the time. His previous work on film had been limited to mostly uncredited walk-ons. When he finally found an interested party in making his script into a movie, the powers that be considered several well-known names for the title role, including Burt Reynolds and James Caan.
Or Robert Redford, another actor who was considered to play Rocky. Maybe Reynolds or Caan I could see, but Redford? Yet Stallone as adamant about his position and eventually prevailed. The background story in getting Rocky to film is inspirational enough, but the movie is one to really make people want to stand up and cheer.
It is a feel good movie that can make the viewer want to get up and go out and beat the odds on his or her own personal endeavors. He spent his free time painting and writing poetry, but his real dream was the silver screen. By the time he was 18, he knew he wanted to act. Stallone studied drama at the American College of Switzerland and then at the University of Miami, but then abandoned school to pursue a career in New York City.
By his mid-twenties, he was getting by on odd jobs like cleaning lion cages and ushering at movie theaters. The bit parts he did manage to land were few and far between. Once, when funds were short, he took a role in an adult film to keep from living in a bus station.
When Stallone landed bigger parts, it was because his drooping, stone-chiseled face made him the perfect heavy Subway Thug No.
By , the year-old actor was desperate for something bigger, so his agent sent him to the L. Dejected, Stallone had his hand on the doorknob when he turned and made one last pitch. The script Stallone turned in was an underdog tale, the story of Rocky, a streetwise palooka who gets an unlikely opportunity to fight the heavyweight champion of the world. But the story of how the film itself got made is even more improbable.
Earlier that same year, a boxer named Chuck Wepner had silenced the world. Pitted against the heavily favored Muhammad Ali, Wepner landed a blow that knocked Ali down. Though Ali ultimately knocked out Wepner in the 15th round, Stallone was riveted by those moments in which it seemed like Wepner stood a chance. When he sat down to write a screenplay, it took him just three days to dash it off. Stallone centered his story around Rocky Balboa, a club boxer plucked from obscurity and eager to go the distance.
Completed artwork should reflect thoughtful ideas to show how the selected hero demonstrates heroic action and creates positive social change. Accepting Ongoing Submissions! From the spoken words of influential leaders, to emotionally powerful lyrics in a song, heroic audio is all around us. Rocky Balboa is one of my favorite heroes.
To me he is a hero but in different ways from other super heroes. He doesn't save the world or have super powers but he does have most of the same qualities of a hero but more realistic. Rocky wasn't born with super human strength but worked to get where he got. He started out working really tough jobs and long days for little money. We can relate to second chances. That is the universal appeal of this movie.
Smith Goes to Washington : the little guy fights the special interests and wins. Start over again, maybe you win, maybe you lose. You fall off the horse, you get up and climb back in the saddle. The Big Country shows Gregory Peck doing just that, eventually taming the wild bronco.
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