Stallone: ​​Rocky How many are needed for an Oscar? – Journal SUN

It’s a bit as if it were 2015 the new decade of 1970. After the acclaimed return of “Star Wars,” a new chapter that reminded him of the first trilogy movies, started in 1977 by George Lucas, Ryan Coogler, a filmmaker born ten years after the debut of the first “Rocky “wants to take us back to 1976, the year of the creation of the legendary boxer from Philadelphia. “Creed”, the movie in which this young Californian director Sylvester Stallone returns in the role of Rocky, the debut December 31, 2016 and arrive before this year-end sure to look perfect. A post-christmas gift for anyone who thought he would never see it, and that does not come alone. It is that Stallone, who first appears as Rocky in a film that does not have its name in the title and that was not written by him, returned in force.

The proof is that once was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe, something that had only happened with the first “Rocky” of 1976. And the nominees are not yet known for the Oscars but the name of Stallone is already everywhere. The cover of “Entertainment” the week of the premiere of the film in the United States emphasizes the “official return to the ring Rocky Oscar”. In GoldDerby, specialist site in predicting the winners of the golden statuettes, the actor’s name appears at the top of the lists. Recalling 1976, one of these two years that we do not drop out at this end of 2015: the truth, writes the “Variety” is that this return of “Rocky” Stallone was even better than that first time

A “Rocky” at age 69 could be the perfect opportunity to Stallone fail. And Stallone to hesitate to do so. “I was totally against … Was not see this character to be brought to this field,” he told “Los Angeles Times”. “But then my agent said.” For a guy who made Rocky, you are being a bit sissy ‘”

And even though Stallone gave us another Rocky. “I’d be tempted to say that this is [your] best job in the ever-screen,” writes Kristopher Tapley, co-editor of the same magazine awards section, noting how Stallone managed to give new depth to the character in which we were falling in the last 40 years, a film that is true not only for it but also for the role of Michael B. Jordan, as Adonis Johnson, son of Apollo Creed. Creed that names the film and needs no introduction. Who does not remember the black boxer who fights Balboa at the legendary 1976 film of the fight? And “Creed”, now speaking of the film, is a way to re-edit this fight and this time, now Rocky out of the ring, in the role of Mickey (Burgess Meredith), to train his son than his rival (and friend) Apollo He died without ever knowing. But the rest is all there. The same house, the same streets, the same ring, the staircase, and the same spirit, which, like JJ Abrams in “Star Wars,” Coogler is keen to keep “Creed”, which we see as when we got back to the house of a old friend many years later. Thirty-nine years later, to be precise.

“My father was a big Rocky fan. And he was getting old and was sick and I had to process this and tried to pass him with this idea about his hero, “said the young Californian filmmaker who became known as” Fruitvale Station “(2013), and now also by be the person to whom the world thanks for having managed to convince Stallone to put on the gloves again, just one more (though now Rocky put on very little gloves). The result was “Creed”, another movie to tears (there was some “Rocky” that is not?), With “certain amount of nostalgia from the past and future of headquarters,” writes the site “Screen Crush”.

In short, another movie to prove that 40 years ago franchises continue to operate in 2015, with all the necessary adaptations. This then is a Rocky long away from the ring, returning to train the son of his legendary opponent Apollo Creed, which already can not hold the pads in practice (no wonder Stallone has hesitated to accept the role in what is likely to be even last time) but still is Rocky.

A red spiral notebook

flawlessly us by 70s to go back to prehistory first “Rocky” Stallone wrote by hand on a red spiral notebook (which, incidentally, has now been taken to auction, with bidding base of $ 250 thousand) and what would become one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history – in 40 years, generated close to 4 billion dollars. An industry in which, nevertheless, the star of “Rocky” and “Rambo” series not earned him the laurels he could with the first, says not die in love, as he admitted in an interview with “GQ” in 2010. In the same interview also said that, after having created “Rocky” had to fight for that Hollywood did not take his lead. 39 years later, Stallone back in the role of actor, to compete for awards.

When in 1977, “Rocky” beat “Taxi Driver” in the race to the Oscar for best picture, and she has also won the statuettes for Best Editing and Best Director (John G. Avildsen yet because Stallone just spent the director of his own films from “Rocky II” in 1979), Sylvester Stallone, creator, screenwriter and lead actor in the film, went home empty-handed.

Then it was 39 years and five films by Ryan Coogler decide resurrect Rocky and Stallone having reinvented in a job that you can return to give the possibility to recover the statue which then lost to Peter Finch ( best leading actor in interpreting Howard Beale in “Scandal in TV”). And it can bring the recognition that the industry has always refused him.

If in January again be nominated for the biggest film awards, will join a very select group of players with two Oscar nominations for his portrayal the same character, which to date have included only five names: Al Pacino (Michael Corleone with), Bing Crosby (Father Chuck O’Malley), Paul Newman (Eddie Felson), Peter O’Toole (King Henry II of England) and Cate Blanchett (Queen Elizabeth).

It gives even want to quote Rocky on how to build a win (in “Rocky Balboa”, 2006, the last “Rocky” Stallone performed, wrote and performed as a character principal): “It is not about how hard you hit: it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. “