For example, the average man can jump maybe twelve feet across a gorge, and the stunts had me leaping maybe three hundred feet or more, so situations like that had to be pared down and still then were fairly extreme By the way, the 2nd unit crew that filmed the majority of the action was extraordinary.
If he's embarrassed by his early films No, in the early films, I have to admit I enjoyed watching them, only because they were completely carefree and devoid of any movie-star acting tricks, simply because I didn't know any. So it's fun to watch a natural performance without any ego attached.
I particularly enjoyed working on Capone , because it was like the cheesy, mentally challenged inbred cousin of The Godfather On Burgess Meredith I remember the way Burgess played the scene with me in the apartment in the first Rocky , and I had never seen such great character work up close.
He was just eating me alive with his intensity and nuance. I asked him how did he do that, and he said, "Because I'm a better pretender than you are. The biggest child usually wins. I love Joe Spinell and considered him a dear friend and would do anything for him. We had met when I had one or two lines in Farewell, My Lovely He was truly one of a kind, but he had some very deep personal problems on the set of Nighthawks and became distant.
It was around that time his mother also passed away, who he lived for and Joe was never the same. You're getting the crap beat out of you and trying to think about camera placement at the same time. And another thing, in Rocky III the pace is going to have to be quickened. It shouldn't be more than 90 minutes long. In the first two films, Rocky dictated his own pace. This time, like with any heavyweight champion, his pace is being dictated by the people around him.
And we'll have a lot of action and be conservative with the dialogue. And also I hope I get out in one piece. For Rocky II , I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. The mouthpiece saved my teeth. For this one, basically what I need is a mouthpiece for my whole body. On Paradise Alley being re-edited "I'll never forgive myself for the way I allowed myself to be manipulated during the editing of that film. There were a lot of scenes in there to give atmosphere and character, and they wanted them out just to speed things along.
They removed 40 scenes, altogether. I put 10 of them back in for the version shown on TV. For example, the whole sequence of the soldier without legs, sitting in a bar eating peanuts. Most successful art reflects the exact ideas of the viewer - whether or not the viewer knows it, of course. Paintings that endure are paintings that inspire people to say, hey, that's the way I feel; those are the colours I see in my dreams.
Even abstract art depends on that. When you get right down to it, Rocky said exactly the same things to a 5-year-old that it said to adults.
There was nothing complicated about it. On stunts "The way they usually do it is they show you the double taking the hit, and then they cut in for a close-up of the actor's face. It's so phony you can smell it with the cable car sequence in Nighthawks for example, it's so phony to show some stuntman hanging from a cable and then cut to the inside of the car and it's me coming in the window. You have to do it on one unfaked take so the audience can see the actor is really doing it.
I was originally thinking in more grandiose terms - the Coliseum and everything - but Rocky III should end with more than a fight.
It should end with Rocky's life coming full cycle, The way I imagine it, after the fight, he's riding home in a cab, with the roar of the people chanting 'Rocky!
And he just drops over dead. In other words, he has achieved everything possible and he dies when he's on top. I don't think people want to see Rocky when he's I don't know if I'll go with that ending, and him dying. But I know I'll have to film it. I'll have to shoot it for myself, whether or not I use it. This table we're sitting at is directly above my room. That's all the farther I want to go.
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussels sprout sandwiches, my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt. Now, working with John Huston , I'm biting my lip to keep from giving suggestions. There's a misconception that I can't work with other directors.
With Huston, he's so into it, he sits back, you don't even think he's working, he's so smooth, but all the time the incubation process is taking place. And he lets you come to him with input if he doesn't like your suggestion, you get a single 'no' and that's it. On doing stunts in Nighthawks "I take those chances for myself," he said. I have a fear of heights that borders on mania. I had to do something like this once in my life. So there I was, hanging feet up over the East River, with the wind blowing me back and forth and the constant danger that if the steel cable hit something it could shear in two.
The day before, see, a guy had jumped off the bridge we were working next to. We all saw it happen. He hit the water and exploded.
His body broke into several pieces, and the current was so fast that this was the 59th St. Bridge and they pulled the remains out of the water seven minutes later at the 20th St.
I saw that, and had to go up the next day. There was a fireboat down below with two divers in it. I made the mistake of calling them 'lifeguards. They were there to retrieve my body, if necessary. If you see the movie and look closely, you'll see that I'm holding a knife in the scene. My theory was that if I fell, the cable would make me sink unless I could cut the harness loose.
After I saw that guy hit the water like it was cement, I changed my plan. The knife was to plunge into my heart a second before I hit. On John Huston "There are some directors you just almost automatically jump at the chance to work with. On getting into shape for Victory "My waist is down from 33 to 29 inches, I run every morning, I'm trying to look a little gaunt. I thought Rocky was tough, but I've never trained so hard. I thought soccer was a sissy sport until they kicked the ball into my stomach and I crossed the border into Austria with hematomas on both hips.
We all really only want one thing. To be happy, and to achieve total fulfillment on all conscious levels. People are nuts about Rocky. The first movie just opened here in Hungary recently. You should have seen the posters: I'm in the ring with my hat on, I look like some kind of clown. And yet, the other day we went to the Hungarian-Austrian soccer game, and coming out of the stadium I thought our car would be mobbed.
If I'd have gotten out of that car, I would have been goulash. There's a price you pay. Working in this business, I've met some of the champions, and tried to figure out how they do it.
Training for Rocky , I boxed with Muhammad Ali. Learning how to play soccer What's next? I need a little quiet. Maybe chess with Bobby Fischer. I got into a lot of trouble with the first interviews I started giving after Rocky came out," he said. I come over with a pretty big opinion of myself, and I said a lot of things that were supposed to be funny but weren't. I got the critics down on me and they retaliated by attacking Paradise Alley Call it insatiable retribution.
I've been working on it. People have seemed to notice it. My energy level is just as high, but I can be more impersonal about myself. I'm learning to take life at face value. Instead of my greed, my demands, I'm turning things over to fate. I was always so serious about everything!
Who was I trying to impress? I brought a lot of trouble down on myself. If you're too envious, too hostile, it all comes pouring down on you.
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. All basic laws are very simple. Working on Nighthawks , for example, I spent 15 weeks in almost, total seclusion in my hotel room, between scenes. Those were the most stressful moments of my life.
There had to be another answer. Not drugs: They're a psychological elevator. They move you up, they move you down, but they don't move you ahead. I finally just realized I was taking everything so damned seriously that I was wrecking my own peace of mind. I had to learn to let go. On Russell Mulcahy directing Rambo III I remember calling him from an editing room and telling him what a wonderful job he had done. He answered back in a bored fashion "Why thank you darling.
He went to Israel two weeks before me with the task of casting two dozen vicious looking Russian troops. These men were suppose to make your blood run cold. When I arrived on the set, what I saw was two dozen blond, blue-eyed pretty boys that resembled rejects from a surfing contest. Needless to say Rambo is not afraid of a little competition but being attacked by third rate male models could be an enemy that could overwhelm him. I explained my disappointment to Russell and he totally disagreed, so I asked him and his chiffon army to move on.
Nighthawks was a very difficult film to make namely because no one believed that urban terrorism would ever happen in New York thus felt the story was far fetched. Nighthawks was even a better film before the studio lost faith in it and cut it to pieces. What was in the missing scenes was extraordinary acting by Rutger Hauer , Lindsay Wagner , and the finale was a blood fest that rivaled the finale of Taxi Driver But it was a blood fest with a purpose.
The stunts in the film were pretty extraordinary because they were invented along the way. Running through the tunnels of an un-built subway station was very dangerous, but exciting and we were only given one hour to do it. So that made for an interesting evening. Hanging from the cable car was probably one of the more dangerous stunts I was asked to perform because it was untested and I was asked to hold a folding Gerber knife in my left hand so if the cable were to snap, and I survived the foot fall into the East River with its ice cold 8 mile an hour current, I could cut myself free from the harness because the cable when stretched out weighed more than lbs.
I tell you this because it's so stupid to believe that I would survive hitting the water so to go beyond that is absurd. So I actually thought the smart move would be to commit hari-kari on the way down and let the cards fold as they may. Several years later this cable did snap while testing it on a lb bag of sand.
On The Hungerford Massacre 'I carry the can for every lunatic in the world who goes crazy with a gun. In fact Rambo is the opposite of people like Ryan. He is always up against stronger opposition and never shoots first. Murderers are always saying, "God told me to kill" or "Jesus ordered me to kill" - so should the rest of us stop praying? There are always sick people out there who will hang their illness on to your hook. Well I mostly keep the memories of the films that were enjoyable to do close to my heart, such as the Rockys, Paradise Alley , F.
I must tell everyone right now that originally the director was supposed to be Mike Nichols, that was the intention and it was supposed to be shot in New York, down and dirty with Dolly and I with gutsy mannerisms performed like two antagonists brought together by fate.
I wanted the music at that time to be written by people who would give it sort of a bizarre edge. Believe it or not, I contacted Whitesnake 's management and they were ready to write some very interesting songs alongside Dolly's. But, I was asked to come down to Fox and out steps the director, Bob Clark. Bob is a nice guy, but the film went in a direction that literally shattered my internal corn meter into smithereens.
I would have done many things differently. I certainly would've steered clear of comedy unless it was dark, Belgian chocolate dark.
Silly comedy didn't work for me. I mean, would anybody pay to see John Wayne in a whimsical farce? Not likely. I would stay more true to who I am and what the audience would prefer rather than trying to stretch out and waste a lot of time and people's patience.
His replacement was more attuned to comic pop culture so the film had a dramatic shift into a more light hearted direction. I would be insane not to work with such a brilliant filmmaker. I was hoping to work with Quentin in his new Grindhouse film, but unfortunately Rocky and Rambo duties prevented that from happening.
Once you've been at the helm of a film and understand the basics of filmmaking, you watch other directors with an educated eye. Its like if a film is going out of control, you want to contribute and quite often, a director resists any help because it usurps his power. I can understand this.
I remember my first day on Judge Dredd when Danny Cannon had been chosen as the director. I knew there was going to be difficulties in communication between actors, director and crewmembers, and that's exactly what happened. So I believe the film reflects that lack of unity. If he'd do anything from his films differently I would've played Oscar incredibly cynical like the original French version and I would've gone back to my original premise of Rambo III , which was more in keeping with the theme of Tears of the Sun , but set in Afghanistan.
If he was asked to appear in Terminator Salvation No, that has never happened and I believe that's sacred ground for Arnold and would be an insult to encroach on his territory. The worst film I've ever made by far Or My Mom Will Shoot In some countries - China, I believe - running Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot once a week on government television has lowered the birth rate to zero. If they ran it twice a week, I believe in twenty years China would be extinct.
On writing Driven I'd gone through - and this is not bragging but showing my inadequacies in being able to get it right - about 25 drafts. And of those, about 20 were about this one man's journey, myself, through this film, and all his trials and tribulations.
He'd fallen from a great height career-wise. He was a drunkard with all these problems and accidents because he and his wife Cathy, who's played by Gina Gershon , had this very tumultuous relationship.
Laughs I'm giving you a little biographical hint here. And he just started to come apart. So he was brought back as kind of like how people should never be. It's like taking kids who are truants and then taking them to prison to see where they'll end up and scaring them straight. So I was brought back to basically prove to young Jimmy Bly how he should never be, as a bad example. And then the more we worked on it, it became the dark side, a little seedy, and I didn't know where the upside of it was ever going to be.
So we began to reduce his role and make it more of an ensemble, so he's just there as a guy who did his job, wasn't very spectacular, would race like hell, sometimes he'd win, sometimes lose, but he had a certain work ethic code, that old school that could be applied to Jimmy. So that all made it more ensemble, and then in the editing we reduced it even more.
I originally had a relationship going with the reporter. But that began to de-emphasise the other people, so we put that on the back burner. On changing Rambo 's title "You know Lionsgate jumped the gun on this. I just was thinking that the title John Rambo was derivative of Rocky Balboa and might give people the idea that this is the last Rambo film, and I don't necessarily feel that it will be.
He's not an athlete, there's no reason he can't continue onto another adventure. Like John Wayne with The Searchers On Adrian's death in Rocky Balboa "In the original script, she was alive," reveals Stallone, I thought, 'What if she's gone? On Driven A lot of it's autobiographical. Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors.
It's all the same kind of situation. And you realize that you can't always be No. You just can't be the guy in front all the time. So what you can do is lend support to, and help and nourish and encourage someone else. So it's like your experiences live on in someone else. If you can find some young actor and you can say, 'Listen, don't do this and don't do that and avoid this and that,' and share your experiences, and he does succeed, you can say, 'You know what, I kind of contributed to that.
Laughs Unfortuantely I did. On which films he wished he hadn't done Let me think It was far better received than I ever thought it would be. Being naive, I thought I was basically doing a film to while away the summer. The most important scene was going to be cut for lack of money [Rocky's prefight crisis of confidence, when he confides to Talia Shire 's Adrian, "I can't beat him.
Who'm I kidding? All I want to do is go the distance. They were literally packing up the equipment. But I stood my ground. So they said, 'Okay, you only get one take, no angles, no coverage.
On Rocky II "Once you've tasted success, to follow that up is almost as interesting. Of the Rockys, it was kind of overlooked, but I think it was one of the better written ones. Everyone had their characters so down, all I had to do was say, 'Action. On Paradise Alley "Also one of my better performances. The character I play is kind of distasteful, but I never worked more on trying to catch the Damon Runyonesque speech pattern. I loved directing.
It just seemed to go naturally with my hyperactivity. Again - I use the word a lot - there was that naivete. But that's what was special about the early years before I became the old pro. The acting was very naturalistic because we were really winging it, and I didn't know any 'cinema tricks. That was the beginning of me understanding that I'd been typecast as Rocky On First Blood "I thought it was going to be the end of my career.
The book was interesting, but I thought he was such a psychopath, it would never fly. Every day I worried. When we saw the first cut it was devastatingly bad. My agent said, 'Maybe we can buy it back. Again I went back into my life. Sylvester Stallone Actor Writer Producer.
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Burn Hollywood, Burn. The Lords of Flatbush. Lock Up. The Specialist. Farewell, My Lovely. Rambo III. Rocky II. Demolition Man. Get Carter. Monaco Forever. Spy Kids 3: Game Over. Avenging Angelo. Eye See You. Rocky Balboa. Paradise Alley. Bullet to the Head. Reach Me. The Expendables. The Expendables 2. Escape Plan. Grudge Match. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Sly took the company on location to the interior of Brazil and the city streets New Orleans, filming over just a few short months.
Born in New York City, Stallone attended school in suburban Philadelphia where he first started acting and also became a star football player. He then spent two years instructing at the American College of Switzerland in Geneva. Returning to the United States, he enrolled as a drama major at the University of Miami and also began to write. Stallone left college to pursue an acting career in New York City, but the jobs did not come easily.
By , Stallone had auditioned for almost every casting agent in New York and had gone on thousands of acting calls, with little success. During this period, he turned more and more to writing, churning out numerous screenplays while waiting for his acting break.
The opportunity first came in when he was cast as one of the leads in The Lords of Flatbush.
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