Sylvester Stallone , of its true name Sylvester, Enzio, Gardenzio Stallone (born the July 6th 1946 with New York), is a Acteur, Scénariste and American Réalisateur , famous above all for its roles in films known as " of action " with dominant dramatic like Rocky or Rambo .

Youth

Sylvester Stallone did not have an easy childhood. Badly considered by his father, it is returned from 14 schools in 11 years and is elected by his comrades like the " more likely to finish on a chair électrique". Before boring in the cinema, it multiplies the odd jobs.

Career

the years galère

Sylvester Stallone studied the dramatic art with Miami. Of return to New York, it off appears in several parts Broadway. Its first steps with the cinema are very minor roles. As example, it makes also a pornographic film, the Italian Standard , a film obstructing to carry in a catalog of films and that producers will arise after the success of Rocky for surfer on the wave of success of the actor. The major part of its other roles confine it in short appearances of hooligan, as in Bananas where it chahute poor a Woody Allen. It also makes some appearances in televised series like Kojak , but its career seems at the dead point.

It is during these years that Stallone writes the scenario of Rocky , the history of a poor boxer who sees himself offering the chance of his life the day when the world champion of boxing proposes to him to face it on the boxing ring. Its history is inspired by a boxing match to which it assisted as a spectator and who put at the catches large the Mohammed Ali with an unknown boxer, Chuck Wepner.Contre any waiting, this last resisted and gave a counterpart baited to the great champion. Conscious that the role of Rocky Balboa, with the image of the combat against Apollo Creed for its character, can make rock his life, Stallone refuses to sell its script if it does not obtain the guarantee to play the part titrates. The producers made assemble very high the biddings to buy this script but they wanted a star confirmed on the poster: Initially, the role was proposed with James Caan, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds or Ryan O' Neal. The little of experiment of the actor discourages more than one producer.

the revelation

It is finally in 1976 that it obtains win and that leaves Rocky carried out by John G. Avildsen. Turning is an exploit because it was buckled in hardly a month and with a ridiculous budget. With the image of its character, Stallone is found propelled on the front of the scene, the film being an unhoped-for success and taking down ten nominations with the Oscars. Ultimately, the film gains 3 Oscars, of which most important, that of best film of the year. Universal history of Rocky, that of the " petits" who affirm themselves and are carried out through courage but also thanks to the nudge in the right direction of the destiny an allegory of the American dream - fact summons of being born a myth from the modern American cinema and works also a dimension except standards with its interpreter.

Stallone will find the character of Rocky with five recoveries, in 1979, 1982, 1985, 1990 and 2006. Stallone wrote all the scenarios of the saga and carried out Rocky II , III , IV and the sixth shutter, heading Rocky Balboa . The series of the Rocky presents a parallel disturbing between the career of the actor and the boxer who embourgeoisent both with the passing of years: small the " is left; tocard" lost of Philadelphia to evolve to a superstar monopolized by its image (the eye of the Tiger) even a spearhead of American patriotism in full revival of the cold war (Rocky IV where he faces a boxer of the Soviet Union). The series loses in freshness what it gains in spectacle and also in receipts, since the successive episodes do not cease improving the scores of the boxoffice, going until the 300 million dollars collected in the world by the 4th episode. Only the 5th shutter will come to disturb this success story, because of a return to the sources and a scenario of the decline of the boxer who will run up against the fans accustomed to the triumph of their idol.

the action man of the heighties

In 1982, Stallone interprets in Rambo the other role which will mark its career: that of a veteran of the Vietnam without fixed residence which is taken in influenza by a sheriff of province which does not want to see in “its” city the symbol of America which lost. Stallone will take again the role of John Rambo twice (1985 and 1988). Rambo 4 is currently in project for an exit in 2008.

Rambo is really the role which devotes it superstar world cinema: its character of warlike veteran becomes an icon and causes true a " Rambomania" , so much so that its look is adopted by terrorists and guerillas a little everywhere in the world. The character, and especially his exploits, are skilfully exploited by the government Reagan, whereas the Cold war knows its last sudden starts. Rambo, and especially its second episode, give again pride with American still bandaging the painful wounds of the " bourbier" Vietnamese: not only the film breaks with a catalog of films accée on the denunciation of the American madness in this war and the horrors made by the troops of the Uncle Sam (Apocalypse Now, Voyage at the end of the hell) but in more unfolding of film-Rambo locates and releases from the soldiers held in the jails vitenamiennes-gives the impression to the public opinion that this new American hero avenges with him only a dishonoured country and that it gains the war lost by the bureaucrats. Therefore Rambo, and consequently Stallone occasion, become to some extent the image of proud and nationalist America of the heighties and cause many reactions of rejection or mockery, very sharp in France with the Puppets of information, where the puppet of Stallone represents America, and at Null the.

Stallone is the superstar action films at that time but the roles of Rocky and Rambo marked the spirits and its career so much that the other films of Stallone in the years 1980 did not really go, even if it were tested with several kinds: the police thriller with " Falcons of the night " , the historical film with With us the victory (1981), the musical comedy with Rhinestone (1984), the police comedy with Tango and Cash (1989) or even the prison film with High security (1989) without forgetting action film police with Cobra (1986) (the public and the critic however tend to attach the majority of these films at the end credits " film of action" , which explains partly why Stallone was often shown to always make the same type of film).

the one time end

In the Years 1990, Stallone leaves behind him the characters of Rocky and of Rambo.Voulant to tear off itself with the yoke of these two characters, it tries (to go on the traces of its rival Schwarzenegger but without success) to bore in the comedy, with the Muddle is in the bag and Arrête or my mother will draw . Its coast falls and Stallone crosses first hard times. It is his/her friend but competitor of always, Schwarzenegger, who becomes the star of the boxoffice but at that time also emerges a new generation of hero of actions (Steven Seagal, Van rams, Bruce Willis) who renews the kind and walks on his punts bands.

Having retained the lesson of these failures, it then decides to return successfully to the Cinéma of action, while playing in films like Cliffhanger, tracking at the top , Demolition Man , the expert , or Daylight . These last years, its role which marked the critic the most was offered to him by James Mangold in 1997, with COP Land . It incarnates there a sheriff weak and bedonnant of a small town of police officers held by the Maffia. It takes 20 kilos for this role and astonishes by many observers.

the crossing of the desert

Copland does not obtain however that a success of regard. Consequently, Stallone crosses a not very profitable period again: it connects the commercial failures with films like Driven (2001), Get Carter (2001), D-Tox (2002), Avenging Angelo and the Masters of the play (2004). The actor ages while having crossed the 50 year old bar. Especially, the type of films which made its glory passed from mode: the bodybuildés fighters yielded the place to the superhéros Comics, to the numerical adventurers of worlds or to the experts of the Martial arts. Much then regards it as finished and definitively classified actor " has been".

Rebirth

However, after long last years to try to convince of the producers, " Sly" reconsiders the front of the scene in 2006 with a sixth shutter of the saga Rocky : a project which seems foolish for much and which started even its batch of mocking remarks.

However, Rocky Balboa , deliberately centered on nostalgia and a return to the sources of the first episode, enables him to join again with critical success and the first places of the boxoffice. Stallone knew to touch the public by taking account of its statute of star déchue and growing old. New projects are profiled thus at the horizon, like a fourth and ultimate shutter of different sound saga worship, Rambo , and the realization of an old dream, a filmed biography of its writer fetish, Edgar Allan Poe. The old lion thus did not finish howling….

To note that Sylvester Stallone is also realizer: he produced the shutters II, III, IV and VI of the saga Rocky like the Tavern of the hell (1978) and Staying Alive (1983) with John Travolta, the continuation of the Fever of Saturday evening . He is also the scenario writer or the Co-scenario writer of all the films which he put in scene and several films that he interpreted without to have carried out them, to start with the series of the Rambo .

In 2004, it presents on NBC an emission of TV-reality The Contender in which one sees the daily newspaper of boxers who fight to become the best of them. In France, the emission was diffused by Canal+.

Catalog of films

Actor

Scenario writer

Private life

Sylvester Stallone was married three times:
  • of 1974 to 1985, with Sasha Czack, of which it had two wire: Wise Moonblood (born in 1976) and Seargeoh (born in 1979, suffering of autism);
  • of 1985 to 1987, with the actress Brigitte Nielsen;
  • since 1997, with Jennifer Flavin, of which it had three girls: Sophia Rose (born in 1996), Sistine Pink (born in 1998), and Scarlet Pink (born in 2002).

He is the brother of the singer and actor Frank Stallone, born in 1950.

In addition, their father, Frank Stallone Sr., were married four times and became the father, during his last union, of Dante Stallone (born in 1997), of which the difference in age with the elder one of his/her half-brothers is of more than 50 years. (Source on Yahoo! Australia, but this very anecdotic news had also been diffused on various French-speaking audio-visual mediums in 1997)

Various anecdotes and remarks

  • Sylvester Stallone appears in Taxi 3 , where he interprets the first passenger of Daniel (Samy Naceri), although he is not credited with the credits with end with film.

  • It was the bodyguard of the grandson of the emperor of Ethiopia Hailé Sélassié, at the end of the years 1960

  • He is a large modern art and art lover, in particular. He devotes itself to painting at his lost times.

  • It is terribly afraid of the vacuum, which did not make easy the turning of Cliffhanger .

  • It holds the record of nominations and victories to the Razzie Awards, kind of anti-Oscars " récompensant" according to their organizers worst actors and worst films. Néamoins it was also nominated twice with the Oscars for Rokcy I and Rambo I.

  • In the Puppets of information , its puppet represents the symbol of the absolute power American or religious (Commander Sylvestre, Monseigneur Sylvestre,…)

French voice

In the French version of its films, Sylvester Stallone is always doubled by Alain Dorval.

External bonds

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