The Hollywood action hero’s appearance at the Toronto Film Festival coincided with the Netflix career-spanning documentary ‘Sly,’ from director Thom Zimny, closing the festival.
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He also talked about getting a job as an usher in a cinema house after college to do more than take tickets at the turnstile. He got an education in movie-making. “Watching those films over and over and over, you get to see the magic. You realize, here comes that scene again. And then I said, I can do better than that. And then I realized I couldn’t, okay,” Stallone recalled.
But he persisted and used the movie theater and his job as an usher as screenwriting 101. “I just wrote about what I knew. I was writing about this little kind of mentally challenged guy who happened to have a lot of heart,” Stallone said of his early Rocky Balboa character as it came into shape in his mind and on the page.movie, about an underdog boxer in Philadelphia, for Friday night and outdoors near to Roy Thomson Hall on King Street.
His longevity in Hollywood as an actor, writer and producer goes back to 1976 and covers over 50 films that together grossed about $3 billion at the box office. Stallone expressed surprise at clips of early TV appearances during the 1980s to market his early“Truly, I have to apologize. My ego was so out of control,” he said after a brief British TV appearance played on the big screen behind him.
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