Sylvester Stallone says he was forced to step up and direct Rocky II because absolutely nobody else wanted the job
"I ended up directing it, not because I wanted to direct it, nobody wanted it"
"And they said, what do you think? I go, oh, I'll take a shot at it, sure"
"That's why Rocky 1 and Rocky 2, it almost looks like the same movie. I borrowed the same style because I wanted to sort of blend in"
"it's this constant transforming into something that the audience can relate to"
"where he says, don't ask me to stop being a man. You're a woman, I'm a man, this is what I gotta do... And I knew everyone could sort of relate to that"
Antes de Rocky virar lenda, Stallone lutou pra sobreviver. 🥊 #EuSouORocky conta a história real por trás do maior sucesso de 1976, vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme. Estreia dia 19 de novembro, só nos cinemas. Já anota na agenda!
Antes de Rocky virar lenda, Stallone lutou pra sobreviver. 🥊 #EuSouORocky conta a história real por trás do maior sucesso de 1976, vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme. Estreia dia 19 de novembro, só nos cinemas. Já anota na agenda!
Someone sent $0 worth of a dog coin to a man who didn't ask for it. He turned it into the largest crypto donation in history.
> In August 2020 an anonymous person calling himself Ryoshi launched Shiba Inu with one quadrillion tokens
> It had no investors, no VCs or a press release.
> His plan, written in something he called a "woofpaper", was to send 50% of the entire supply directly to Vitalik Buterin.
> He just sent him 500 trillion SHIB tokens to his wallet without warning.
> His reason was: "There is no greatness without a vulnerable point. As long as VB doesn't rug us, $SHIB will grow and thrive."
> He intentionally made the co-founder of Ethereum the single largest holder of his memecoin as a marketing strategy without ever telling him.
> Vitalik woke up one day with 50% of a dog coin sitting in his wallet and had no idea what to do with it.
> By May 2021 those tokens were worth over $1 billion.
> He donated 50 trillion SHIB to India's COVID-19 relief fund
> Worth $1.2 billion at the time it was the largest crypto donation in history.
> Then burned 410 trillion of the remaining tokens, destroying $6.7 billion in a single transaction
> Saying he didn't want to be a "locus of power" in a dog coin project.
> SHIB pumped on the news of the burn.
> In May 2022 Ryoshi deleted every account, every blog post, every trace of himself and disappeared.
> His last words: "I am not important, and one day I will be gone without notice. Take the SHIBA and journey upwards frens."
> Nobody knows who he is. He never sold a single token.
The coin he built reached a $40 billion market cap. None of it was supposed to work and all of it did.