Sylvester Stallone
Introduction
“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
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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
Samuel L Jackson has then came to appear in many great movies such as Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, A Time To Kill, One Eight Seven, Shaft, Coach Carter, Star Wars and many others. He has also been nominated for many of these and has received many awards for a lot of these films. He is still acting and does not seem to be thinking of retirement any time soon. He truly is a great example of a great actor who rose to fame in the time of blaxploitation and also an inspiration to all those with addiction problems as someone who was able to overcome his problem and make something of himself.
was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield where he ran away another
Gladiator. Dir. Ridley Scott. Perf. Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. Dreamworks L.L.C and Universal Studios, 2000. DVD.
“Raging Bull” (1980) is not a so much a film about boxing but more of a story about a psychotically jealous, sexually insecure borderline homosexual, caged animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece of a film drags you down into the seedy filth stenched world of former middleweight boxing champion Jake “The Bronx Bull” LaMotta. Masterfully he paints the picture of a beast whose sole drive is not boxing but an insatiable obsessive jealously over his wife and his fear of his own underling sexuality. The movie broke new ground with its brutal unadulterated no-holds-bard look at the vicious sport of boxing by bringing the camera into the ring, giving the viewer the most realistic, primal, and brutal boxing scenes ever filmed. With blood and sweat spraying, flashbulbs’ bursting at every blow Scorsese gives the common man an invitation into the square circle where only the hardest trained gladiators dare to venture.
No black school was available locally so he was forced to move. He said "Good-bye" to his adopted parents, Susan and Moses, and headed to Newton County in southwest Missouri. Here is where the path of his education began. He studied in a one-room schoolhouse and worked on a farm to pay for it. He ended up, shortly after, moving with another family to Fort Scott in Kansas. In Kansas, he worked as a baker in a kitchen while he attended the High School. He paid for his schooling with the money he earned from winning bake-off contests. From there he moved all over bouncing from school to school. "College entrance was a struggle again because of racial barriers."2 At the age of thirty he gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
Philadelphia, one of the toughest cities in America. So an inspirational series of movies of a boxer who comes from rags to riches seems to fight right into the city. Rocky balboa is a boxer from Philly, who trained and overcame impossible odds in every movie. Although he didn't win every match, he taught the viewers to not back down from anything. The movies started in 1976 with Rocky continued until 2006 with Rocky Balboa, which is the 6th movie of the series. Creed, which is a spin-off of the movie was released in 2005 and Creed 2 plans to be released the summer of 2017. All the movies have similar scripts, with Rocky training the entire movie to beat the “bad guy” or the antagonist of the movie.
He experiences prejudice from Canadians, found his father dying away and dealing with Blue-Scar Wong. These problems can cause stress, anxiety, addiction to drugs and possibly mental illness. "Living in my time is enough of a burden right now. I have found my father only to watch him die" (pg. 138). If I were him, I might had exploded. The pain was unbearable. My connection to this experience is that my beloved grandmother died one month ago before I was born. As a baby, I cried for 100 days. Every single day.
After making an estimated $4 million in the ring, Robinson spent himself into destitution by the mid-sixties. Then he reinvented himself by getting into show business -- acting and even singing. But he would al...
On Friday, once again there was a reason to shout cheers to Philadelphia's favorite fictional son, as the American actor and film director Sylvester Stallone, donned in robes, fedora hats and even boxing boots, while costumed enthusiasts shouted repeatedly "Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!" Sylvester Stallone, who is famous for his Hollywood action roles, particularly as the boxer Rocky Balboa, the titular role of the seven films of the Rocky series, goes one more round as the character Balboa, in the spinoff of director Ryan Coogler's upcoming American sports drama film "Creed." Before he joins Adrian, Apollo and Paulie in that great squared circle in the sky, Stallone wanted the role to match with the original character.
Due to a leg injury, baseball was no longer possible. He then turned to his real passion music, and decided to pursue a musical career (Brenchley, 2003, DVD). Throughout his musical career, he earned many titles “Mr. Dynamite” and “The Godfather of Soul” are known as the hardest working men in show business. His demeanor at times was often that of a tyrant, generous nature, tolerant, or at times demanding. He was the greatest entertainer during his time.
Rocky II is a movie that is from 1979 but has lived on through the ages. In this movie, Rocky and Adrian start a family. They get a house and a car and have a baby on the way. This reckless spending leads Rocky to need a job. He attempts to get a job where he is behind a desk, but he is unsuccessful.
Director Martin Scorsese brilliantly portrays the life of billionaire Howard Hughes. Hughes was considered the richest man in the country and possibly the world (Katherine Ramsland). He had inherited his wealth first through his father’s business and then film making and aviation. Martin Scorsese accurately depicted Hughes’ image, health problems, airplanes, and the Brewster Senate Hearings with few inaccuracies.
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Kickboxer portrays the story of a kickboxer who learns Muay Thai because of a vendetta. The movie starts with Jean’s character- Kurt watching over his older brother as he wins the heavyweight title in kickboxing. After having won the title, his brother yearns for more recognition which leads him to join a competition in Thailand. Upon arrival, the brothers are quickly faced with the fact that they aren’t facing their routine kickboxing partners but rather the Martial art of the area that is Muay Thai. Kurt’s older brother steps into the ring against a contender by the name Tong Po, who is named the champion of Thailand. The fight ends abruptly, after the brother
In the big city of New York there always exist those who push the envelope a bit, and stretch the law. One such man played by Michael Douglas makes money buying and selling others' dreams. He is a stock speculator; but one that succeeds based on illegal inside information. As he puts it "I make nothing, I own" Released in 1987, Oliver Stone's Wall Street is a representation of bad morals and poor business ethics in the business world. It also shows the negative effects, bad morals and poor business ethics can have on society. The film revolves around the actions of two main characters, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) and Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Bud is a young stockbroker who comes from a working-class family and Gekko is a millionaire who Bud admires and wants to be associated with. Wall Street points out how wrong it is to exchange morality for money. Gordon Gekko reflects this message, and yet receives a standing ovation at a stockholders meeting after delivering his "greed is good" speech. The underlying theme of the movie is that greed is not only not ethical but it lacks moral substance in today?s society.