> Be Sylvester Stallone
> Facial nerve damaged during birth causing partial face paralysis & slurred speech
> Bullied for his looks & speech at schools couldn't focus on studies expelled multiple times & moved between many foster homes
> Moves to New york to pursue acting but producers reject him due to his average looks & slurred speech
> To survive he cleaned lion pens in zoos, ushered in theaters and even had to sell his dog Butkus at one point
> Saw a match between Muhammad Ali & the Underdog Chuck wepner. Wepner a nobody gave the champ the fight of his life.
> Got inspired and wrote the script for rocky in three days. Studios liked the script instantly but sylvester had one condition he will play rocky
> Studios wanted a known face they offer him $350,000 for his script but sylvester refused there was simply no way he would budge
> Finally studios agree to give him a shoestring budget of $1 million to work with hoping he'd fail but sylvester showed up everyday using steadycam and busy streets to keep costs low
> On release Rocky made $225 million a phenomenon, got ten oscar nominations and won the academy award for best picture. It also turned sylvester into a overnight star.
A fairytale on both reel and real this is the story of both Sylvester & Rocky
@litlraspberi@HitmanSixActual “Trans people are killed daily because of republicans and transphobes. Same thing with Homosexual people. They’re also killed daily.”
She posted constantly about how her 3rd world Muslim boyfriend wasn't at all like the stereotypes. Turns out he was a scammer who drained her for all she was worth, then brutally murdered her after an argument. He then fled back to the nation he said he needed asylum from
@gopherwendy@Guns_UpViking@LongTimeHistory Yes. If you want to live in or even visit another country, the bare minimum you should do is get proficient in the language.
I don’t intend to visit Italy until I can speak adequate Italian.