#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH SCRIPT MOVIE#
#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH SCRIPT SERIES#

Philadelphia has a statue of his character Rocky placed permanently near the museum, and he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH SCRIPT SERIES#

Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. In 1977, Stallone was the third actor in cinema to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. In the films, Rocky is portrayed as an underdog boxer who fights numerous brutal opponents, and wins the world heavyweight championship twice. Stallone subsequently found gradual work as an extra or side character in films with a sizable budget until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor and screenwriter, starting in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful Rocky series (1976вЂ“present), for which he also wrote the screenplays. After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush. Rocky went on to receive nine Oscar nominations and got three wins, including Best Picture and grossed over $200 million.Sylvester Enzio Stallone ( / s t Й™ Л€ l oКЉ n/ born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, ( )July 6, 1946) is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker.

IвЂ™ll never experience a moment like that again.вЂќ

So I walked down three flights of stairs out of the theatre and everyone from the theatre were standing there waiting for me. And I just sat there, as everyone left the theatre, and I couldnвЂ™t believe it. The fight scenes seemed to be listless, as the response was. Stallone told Michael Watson, вЂњThe laughs werenвЂ™t coming where they were supposed to.

#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH SCRIPT MOVIE#

The theater was packed but the movie was playing terrible. But the real test was when it was screened at The DirectorвЂ™s Guild, in front of 900 industry types. When the movie started getting screened around Hollywood, it started to get a positive reaction from the crowd. One million dollars was an extremely low budget for a film, even in the 1970s. They came in under budget by using family and friends in the cast, handheld cameras, and only using one take to film most of the footage. The producers eventually relented and gave Stallone one million dollars to make the movie, starring himself. I may be totally wrong, and IвЂ™m going to take a lot of people down with me, but I just believe in it.вЂ™вЂќ So this is one of those things, when you just roll the dice and fly by the proverbial seat of your pants and you just say, вЂIвЂ™ve got to try it. and it does very very well, IвЂ™m going to jump off a building if IвЂ™m not in it. So I knew in the back of my mind that if I sell this script. You really donвЂ™t need much to live on.вЂ™ I sort of figured it out.

Stallone said, вЂњI thought, вЂYou know what? YouвЂ™ve got this poverty thing down. Remember that he had no car, $106 in the bank, and sold his dog to pay the bills. They offered Stallone $360,000 for the script, with the condition that he wouldnвЂ™t play Rocky. They were looking at Ryan OвЂ™Neil, Burt Reynolds, and others to play Rocky Balboa.

Stallone was an unknown actor at the time and other Hollywood types would be a much safer bet at the box office. They read the script and loved it, except for one thing: They didnвЂ™t want to have Sylvester Stallone play the main character, Rocky.

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