{"id":1368,"date":"2017-03-02T02:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninzio.com\/univero\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:00:41","slug":"the-invincible-stallone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"THE INVINCIBLE STALLONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sylvester Stallone<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the most famous American Movie stars. With characters like Rocky and Rambo he is a household name in the hearts of millions. But his life wasn\u2019t as easy and comfortable as people think it to be.<\/p>\n

During birth, a wrong gynaecological procedure caused Stallone to have a one-sided paralysis. At school, his middle class being and his facial paralysis became a thing for others to make fun of.<\/p>\n

He started bodybuilding because he wanted to frighten those who bullied him<\/h4>\n

Slowly he started thinking of a career in movies.Around 1974, he had a pregnant wife, a dog that he very dearly loved, a lot of bills to pay and no success in his movie career.<\/p>\n

What he still had was a belief in his dream that he will make it big. Soon a time came when he went broke. He was heavily under debt.<\/p>\n

Restless, anxious, stressed and still loaded with hope that he WILL make it big.<\/p>\n

Things got so bad that he had to sell his wife\u2019s jewellery and ended up homeless. Sleeping at the New York Bus station for days.<\/p>\n

The cold American winter forced him to choose between electricity and his dog. He stood outside a liquor store and sold his dog for $25.<\/p>\n

The Incident that changed it all<\/u><\/strong>: Two weeks later, on TV he watched a boxing match between Mohammed Ali and Chuck Wepner. That match was like a flash of divine inspiration\u2026<\/p>\n

For the next 20 hours he sat and wrote the script of what today is a cult movie, ROCKY<\/h4>\n

In the words of Stallone, \u201cAfter nearly 1500 rejections\u201d, he got a production house to offer $125,000 for the script. Despite the poverty, pains, pregnant wife and lost dog\u2026 His dream was to STAR in the movie as the MAIN LEAD.<\/p>\n

In an era when heroes were super handsome men and spoke fluently, a body builder with a facial paralysis that made him stammer while speaking made Stallone the wrong choice for any role.<\/p>\n

The studio bluntly rejected his offer\u2026 And Stallone went back home with another failure. A few weeks later, the studio offered him $250,000 for just the script, and not him.<\/p>\n

He refused.<\/p>\n

Soon they offered $350,000 for the script but not him.<\/p>\n

At that time everyone was pushing him to accept. It would be MAD not to do so. He was making a fortune.<\/p>\n

He still refused<\/h4>\n

The Defining Moment<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0– Someone in the studio really loved his script, and as fortune favours the brave. They finally accepted to give $35,000 for the script and have him as the lead star.<\/p>\n

The rest as they say is history!<\/p>\n

The movie was made for $1 million and went to make around $200 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Direction and Best Film Editing.<\/p>\n

Stallone became a \u201cbankable\u201d hero with his movies making billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

And what did he do with the first $35,000?<\/p>\n

He stood outside the liquor store, where he sold his dog, for 3 days. Identified the man who had bought it, and finally got him back for $15,000.<\/h4>\n

AND IN THE WORDS OF ROCKY BALBOA<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0:<\/h2>\n

\u201cLet me tell you something you already know. The world ain\u2019t all sunshine and rainbows. It\u2019s a very mean and nasty place and I don\u2019t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain\u2019t about how hard you hit. It\u2019s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That\u2019s how winning is done!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sylvester Stallone\u00a0is one of the most famous American Movie stars. With characters like Rocky and Rambo he is a household name in the hearts of millions. But his life wasn\u2019t as easy and comfortable as people think it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,23,1],"tags":[24,30,31],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-programming-language","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-apus","tag-travel","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulbhatnagar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}