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Acting only took him so far after he finished college, and it was mostly to dead ends.
What famously followed, of course, was his writing of the Rocky Balboa story.
(So much of his dialogue was actually kept that he was even later given a writing credit.)
Indeed, one hardened substance earns another.
From wherever you stand, few can deny the power and potency of its final scene.
as news cameras flash around him.
(It may have also helped tenderize that meat quicker.)
One of cinemas most inspired training sequences (maybe even just for those one-handed push-ups, Stallone!)
as our mean-streets boxer Rocky inches closer to the prize of fame and fortune.
Mickey soon leaves humiliated by the exchange.
This moving gesture breaks the cycle of hatred and abandonment, seeing Mickey become a new proxy father figure.
Theres even a political consciousness in there too.
Boxing and fighting runs in his blood, so its a duty he feels he must live up to.
Nighthawks(1981)
Wigging out
Okay, wig.
Stallones, that is.
As the killer creeps closer, DaSilva spins around with his gun cocked to take the terrorist down.
But ultimately not before DaSilva finally slays him.
(In both senses!)
Emptied out and truly broken, Stallones final monologue inRambois a masterclass and one of his finest moments.
Nothing is sacred even wearing tassels and duetting with Dolly about getting frisky between the sheets.
Credit where credits due, people.
Not even in a supermarket.
Indeed, with biting retorts like that, no surprise he wrote the script himself!
Unfortunately, no glove, no love: Sarahs glove comes loose, and she plunges to her death.
The drama is heightened by the overhead aerial shots and frenetic camera work highlighting Stallones upturned face.
The fact that Sarah is Gabes friends girlfriend makes it more demoralizing and haunting for him to face.
Come for the drama, stay for masculinity in crisis.
These are just some of the acting titans Stallone opted to star opposite in the 1997 police dramaCop Land.
Like Adrians past pleas inRocky II, Robert implores his father to not go through with it.
… Its about how hard you cangethit and keep moving forward.
This final fight sees him with somethingreallyto prove.
Stallone and these old fellas now look out for each other.
