Sylvester Stallone Research Paper

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Sylvester Stallone
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“Nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you can hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward, that’s how winning is done.” Sylvester Stallone lives his life as an actually life example to the advice he gives in Rocky Balboa, as he has started his life in tough situations, and grown into an american icon. Sylvester Stallone, aka Rocky Balboa, aka John Rambo. He had a difficult childhood with with his younger brother, Frank. After his parents divorce, he spent time in foster care, and eventually ended up in Philadelphia with his mother and her second wife. After expulsion from several schools he attended a school for …show more content…

He had a few uncredited roles in the years to come, but had a much bigger role playing a tough guy in The Lords of Flatbush. Stallone showed an interest in writing, where he got started working on the screenplay for a rough nobody, trying to make it as a boxer. Sylvester Stallone had $106(Contemporary Artists Online), in his bank account and still refused to sell his screenplay Irwin Winkler, and Robert Chartoff for 350,000 dollars (Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation). A quote that show this philosophy comes up in a Rocky movie said by Rocky. “If you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth.” This is what Sylvester did. Stallone wanted to star in the movie as Rocky Balboa. So he gave the rights to these two producers and he would star in a soon to be box office hit. Rocky was huge for a variety of audiences. It had one academy awards as well as pulled in 117 million dollars in the box office. After a few duds from Stallone, he would create Rocky II, not as successful, but still a big stepping stone in Sylvester Stallones career. After the third Rocky, Sylvester knew that he could not create one to top the first. He started changing direction to a movie called First Blood. Sylvester Stallone is John Rambo, as a vietnam war veteran treated poorly, and taken to jail, he breaks out and uses his skills …show more content…

This story has really follows a lot of peoples difficulties. It Shows a poor person among a poor group of people. It shows that you can come from the lowest to the top as many real life examples have taught us. Rocky goes through a lot of loss. He loses all of his money, so he is back to square one. He loses his wife. This can be helpful for a lot of people that are going through these kind of experiences. He himself has also experienced these things in real life. He was poor. He had to go through a rough childhood. Also, on July 13, 2012, Sage Stallone, the son of sylvester died. These are challenges that many, many people have to go through every day. These movies that he has done, really show the life of a common person and can be very positive to people watching

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