The United States in the 1970s was in a downturn.
Everyone is like the emptiness and malaise after taking drugs, and it feels like life is very desperate.
In such a situation, the emergence of a movie has rekindled the hope of life for many people.
This movie is —
Rocky
The film "Angry Bull", which competed for the Oscars in the same year
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
It's all boxing themes as well;
However, because he told the story of a desperate boxer, he was ruthlessly pushed out of the ring.
After all, Oscar will never play the role of mending the knife.
So it was Robert De Niro who won the best actor that year;
And the one who won the best picture was "Rocky."
"Rocky" also made a person -
Sylvester Stallone
Rocky is Stallone's first self-written and self-starred film.
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The film was released in 1976 and grossed $225 million that year;
And took away the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director;
Stallone was also nominated for Best Actor and Best Screenplay.
It took him only three days to write the script for Rocky.
Inspired by a boxing match, the little-known boxer actually fought with the boxing king Ali for 15 rounds.
Stallone took the script of "Rocky" and ran all over Hollywood, encountering 1855 rejections.
A director who had rejected him more than 20 times finally gave him a glimmer of hope.
Eventually, MGM bought the script for Rocky.
But one of stallone's conditions for selling the script was —
He himself must be the protagonist of the film.
The routine of traditional inspirational films is as follows:
A man with an unknown name but a dream, everyone looked down on him and thought he would not succeed, but he never gave up.
After a series of montages, he succeeded.
Make you feel that the world, as long as you work hard, there is nothing you can't do.
Stallone's Rocky is not like this.
He was just a plain man.
The reason why this movie was so intense at the time was because it limited a person's ability, but let a person burst out of his ability to the greatest power.
Not in the final stage of the game, the sensational heroine appeared on the side of the scene, and the male protagonist was full of blood and resurrection in place, which was the most commendable part of the film.
Stallone created a character image that was different from traditional inspirational films;
Although in the final analysis it is the American dream.
Life is so desperate, what to do if it is unchanged, then go to see "Rocky".
"Rocky" made a total of six films.
From 1976 to 2006, a full thirty years of hard work.
Although the quality of the next few films is uneven, Stallone has firmly consolidated his position as a screenwriter and actor.
Stallone was born in the slums of New York, USA;
And because of the doctor's mistake during his mother's delivery, it caused him to be paralyzed in part of the muscles of the left side of his face.
He became an idol of a generation by his own ability;
Created a model for a generation of action movie stars.
In real life, he is also an artist.
After becoming famous, he also insisted on creating paintings and held solo exhibitions in Switzerland, Miami and St. Petersburg.
But his life has not been smooth sailing ever since.
He is a regular visitor to golden plums.
On stage at the Golden Plum Awards, Stallone was more numerous than Ben Affleck.
Stallone has been nominated 31 times.
And a total of 10 times.
In 2000, he also won the title of the worst actor of the decade.
But this year, he's back!
Shame on this movie!
Quiddi
Also known as Rocky 7
Directed by Ryan Coogler;
Stallone is one of the screenwriters.
This time, a new name was changed, and it was intended to transfer the main characters of the series from Rocky to Quiddi, which was equivalent to completing a commitment.
The elderly Rocky, retired from the ring.
The son of his former biggest rival, he found Rocky and wanted Rocky to train him.
This man is Quiddi.
It is also the dream of boxing flowing in the blood.
When Quiddy was a child, he began to fight, as if fighting was his mission from birth.
Quiddi's father, Rocky's rival and friend, died in the ring that year.
So his mother strenuously objected to Quiddi's return to her father's path.
The routine of the film is the same as the previous ones.
Love lines and boxing dream lines, developing at the same time, to the end of the cross.
If the previous "Rocky" series relied on Stallone's muscles and play to support the scene;
Then in "Quidditch", Uncle Fish saw a different Stallone.
This time, he gave up the boxing scene he was best at and changed to literary drama.
Probably also because of the age problem, Rocky, who was brave and good at war, could not fight.
Honest and old, can you still eat?
Yes!
In the end, Stallone single-handedly cultivated the son of the once greatest enemy.
So this movie is the real "Rocky" sequel.
Stallone won this year's Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Quiddy."
It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor;
Moreover, he has been nominated for the Golden Plum (Worst) Award 31 times, and this year he was shortlisted for the Redemption Award of the Golden Plum Award.
The Redemption Prize was only established last year.
The purpose is to reward actors who have won the Golden Plum Award, but have become more and more courageous.
Stallone, born in 1946, is 70 years old this year.
A man can turn over again when he is 70 years old, uncle Fish believes, this is the most inspirational story.