E167 | SLY - How Slyvester Stallone become a living legend (Documentary)

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SLY is a work of art, it doesn’t only tell a story of legendary award winning; film director, screenwriter and action hero of the 80’s and 90’s “SLYVESTER STALLONE.”. He has a career that spans over five decades. If that’s that make you a GOAT, I don’t know what will. it somehow makes him immortal and mortal at the same time.
The documentary shows, the vulnerabilities of a living legend.it shows his character not the role he played on motion picture but the man. The man behind the lens, the man before the words a written. In his purest moments. It brings out his true essences. The arrogance, the pride, the humility. The human not the millionaire and Hollywood mogul. But just a guy who had a dream, who work hard to make his dream a reality. It’s beautiful.

Its tear Jucker when you realise how much nonsense Hollywood movies have fallen.
it’s no longer about heart, passion and making relatable stories. It about making movies flashy and making tonnes of money. Story telling is a dying heart. And it’s a wonderful to learn or to experience that Sly wrote, directed and produced, some of his great’s moments on the big screen.
To believe in yourself even when the odds are pinned against you. When they mock, ridicule you, trip and push you. That you keep on believing.
For me that’s really the message of this documentary and that no matter how successful you become it will always amount to nothing unless you have family and friends. Because ultimately that’s what really matters. The people we love not the things we love.
So, to me “Sly’’, IT brings out his soul, it gives a detailed description of how much Sylvester Stallone gave it order to bring exceptional characters like Rocky Balboa and John Rambo to life. I only wish the documentary was longer.
When I look back at my childhood, I look back with great fondness. It brings me to tears when I think that my father introduced to this wonderful world of movies. So, watching this and seeing sly talked about the trails and the huddlers he had to jump and cross to make these wonderful stories.
I think about my father and the VCR, the tapes he rented from blockbuster and those movie rental joints. The anticipation of waiting for Friday and the weekend because we had no electricity. So, we powered the television with a generator.
Slyvester stallion. He was so good. I couldn’t separate him from the characters, we’d say, things like (while growing in fact some people still do that to this day.) “The new Rambo movie or rocky movie just came out” even though he was playing a completely different role, he was RAMBO. HE WAS ROCKY. with a whole different story line.
he embodied the characters. So, much that they become real. You could almost touch them, while they were on screen. These are the types of films that resonate with the audience so much that, we become so involved in the story, you cry, laugh, jump with joy and you be enraged.
whenever the character expresses an emotion. Its almost as if you were there with them. Like you part of the story somehow. I think that’s what made Stallone so renowned. To make it even sweeter he wrote and directed it. Wow. Man was …. No man is talented.

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