Michael Sylvester Stallone became the third actor in history to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay and Best Actor at the same time. Before him, only Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles had achieved this. As a young man he made porno movies, for which he earned the nickname "The Italian Stallion," and his first "real movie" was a countercultural LSD movie. In search of himself, he cleaned lion cages at the zoo, danced naked on Broadway and even considered a career as a burglar. A great man, able to work even with broken ribs, and a hell of a contradiction!
Today he turned 75 years old.
An exuberant father and mother astrologer is no reason to get discouraged
Sylvester Stallone's father Frank Stallone Sr. was from Sicily. He came to the United States to realize the American dream and become a hairdresser and stylist. Admittedly, he didn't have a very refined personality for a refined craft. Frank was rowdy, liked to drink and changed mistresses endlessly. Sylvester, in a sense, inherited his traits. In his youth, he was uncontrollable, often arranged fights, and in old age he was in several sex scandals: in 2001, 2021 and 2021, three women accused him of sexual abuse. However, the prosecutor's office then refused to initiate criminal proceedings.
Stallone's mother, Jacqueline Leibofish, was even more extraordinary person. She was an astrologer, a dancer and a promoter of women's bodybuilding. Also, her ancestors were from Odessa, and in the 1980s she saw Mikhail Gorbachev. If not for his mother and her desperate attempts to instill in Sylvester a love of art, he probably would have ended his days in the electric chair, as his teachers at school prophesied.
Tattoo from the TV series "Volchok".
The hero of the movie Derek has an original symbol made of intertwined Alpha, Beta and Omega. The meaning of the image is the variability of being, cyclicality, when Alpha can turn into Beta, and Omega become Alpha. Triskelion means development and victory, symbolizes water, earth and sky. The image on Derek's body with clear solid lines can be interpreted as reincarnation .
...As well as innate "ugliness" and exclusion from the 14 schools.
Known fact: Stallone's facial expression is the result of a facial nerve injury. True, it is less well known that he got it while giving birth: his parents were going through lousy times at the time, and Jacqueline was giving birth in a cheap hospital in Hell's Kitchen, a New York neighborhood known for gangster movies. The midwife reached for Sylvester with forceps and damaged his face. His lip, jaw and tongue were partially paralyzed.
All his childhood and adolescence had Stallone hard: peers bullied him because of the strange voice and facial expression. He himself answered them aggressively: constantly fighting and violent hooliganism. He threw arrows out of class windows, set fires, and even stole crosses from the nuns at the Catholic schools where he was sent. In all, Sylvester changed about 14 schools, until his mother, on the sly side, put him in a school in Switzerland.
You can be a model of masculinity and still be a sophisticated man
Stallone in the background of one of his paintings
In the Swiss school Stallone found himself on the stage - he began to play in amateur productions, and after returning to the States, he enrolled at the University of Miami, where he studied dramatic art. He continued to perform on stage and afterwards - until he became a superstar, soaring to the top thanks to "Rocky."
Stallone is a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, whom he has dreamed of making a movie about for decades. It was Poe who inspired him to start writing the script for "Rocky" - Sylvester did it in a dark and sublime mood. As he worked, he asked himself: "What would Edgar Allan do if he were me?" "Rocky" is certainly a strong work, but not sure something like this could have come out of Poe's pen. Stallone's other hero is Leonardo da Vinci. From him he took the image of a versatile "Renaissance man" and his love of painting. Surprisingly, Sylvester is also an artist. At least once he sold his own painting for $90,000.
Meaning
All three tattoos of Sylvester Stallone are made in the same style, acquiring a common composition. The colors used are bright and the images are amazingly realistic.
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- The original image appeared a portrait of the actor's wife Jennifer Flavin on the right shoulder, surrounded by three open rosebuds. They have been married for almost 20 years. The roses symbolize the three girls born of this union: Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet. The second name of all the daughters is Rose.
There is another colorful tattoo on the shoulder of her left arm, the meaning of which is more intriguing. The green eyes clearly belong to the actor's wife. The meaning of the other elements is unknown. We can assume that the horse symbolizes fidelity, and the skull - belonging to one woman until death. But while this is just a guess, Sylvester Stallone did not comment on the tattoo.
The actor's back was adorned by a large-scale tattoo made by Fjeff Kogu. This tattoo master is popular among the stars. The image of a fallen angel in the image of a woman is surrounded by tongues of flame, a skull and a dagger. The drawing looks quite aggressive and strong.
Tattoos of Sylvester Stallone look harmonious and spectacular. It is possible that more images will appear on the actor's body.
It is better to be in a porno than to rob
In the early years after university, when Stallone moved to New York, the profession of actor did not bring income. To somehow make ends meet, he worked part-time, doing the most unexpected work: cleaning lion cages at the zoo, cut fish heads in the factory - and of course, starred in porn.
In 1970 he was driven to the point where he was sleeping at the bus station and was seriously thinking of starting to rob for food. Luckily, thanks to some acquaintances he got an "acting" gig - an adult film shoot. "The choice was either do this movie or rob somebody. I was at rock bottom, it couldn't get any worse," says Stallone himself. He was paid $200 for his participation in the porn film "Party at Kitty and the Herd" - the whole work took two days. He was able to pay for lodging, but for many years could not get rid of the nickname "Italian stud," which stuck to him when the story with porn in the press (this happened after the release of "Rocky").
Tattoos from the TV series "Vikings."
The movie is based on the Scandinavian saga of Lodbrok. The hero's body is covered with images on the Nordic theme, which is popular at the moment. The characters in the series apply tattoos for ritual purposes - to gain patronage in battle, to intimidate the enemy. Originally Vikings had tattoos in the form of runes, ornaments and patterns, which became more and more numerous with age.
The only way to succeed was to be as stubborn as Rambo... and not too picky.
While making odd jobs to get by, Stallone not only kept his acting career going, but also worked hard at rocking out. He wanted to look cool, but he had no money even for a place to live. Sylvester began his first workout at the city dump, where he pulled everything he could find: brake drums, bumpers, car steering column, cinder blocks, and things like that.
Over time, both exercise and stage appearances began to pay off. Even shooting porn went to good use: Stallone was noticed and taken for one of the roles in the erotic Broadway production Score, in which he played 23 performances at the Theater Martinique. And then began and the first shooting in real movies.
By the way, few people know that Stallone's first two films were countercultural drama The Square Root about life of acidists and Woody Allen comedy "Bananas". In the latter, Sylvester played an evil dumb goon, who harasses the main character in the subway. Woody Allen found him suitable because of his strange facial expression and muscularity. It turns out that it was the midwife's mistake, insane stubbornness and training at the junkyard that led him to the movies.
Sylvester Stallone tattoos - interesting facts about the history of the drawings
In various films, Stallone repeatedly appeared with temporary tattoos, as required by the script, but later on his body began to appear and permanent tattoos. In a short period of time, three colored tattoos appeared on his nearly perfect torso. They were all done in the same style and sort of complemented each other. The colors that were used in the creation of these tattoos, amazingly bright and realistic, the color scheme chosen perfectly.
First on the body of the great actor appeared a tattoo of a beautiful woman - his wife Jennifer Flavin, surrounded by three coral-colored coral roses. The tattoo was performed on Stallone's right shoulder. There are no coincidences in her choice. She and her wife have been married for more than 20 years and this happy union has produced three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet. The middle name of each of the daughters is Rose.
Stallone has another tattoo in color on his left shoulder. The desire to decipher the true meaning of this tattoo overcomes many fans of the actor. He himself does not want to give any comments on the subject. The tattoo consists of three, connected parts - its center are the green eyes of a beautiful woman, apparently, the wife of Sylvester Stallone, also depicts a horse with a red mane and a skull, presumably symbolizing that now until his death, the actor plans to live his life with a woman. But all this is just a guess.
Another tattoo the actor has on his back. It is also done very organically and the colors blend in with each other, as well as with the colors of other tattoos on his body. This tattoo represents a fallen angel-woman in tongues of flame, next to which is a skull and dagger. This is a very powerful, aggressive drawing, which is simply breathtaking, as, in fact, all the film works of the brilliant actor.
It is quite possible that Sylvester Stallone will have new tattoos, which will be no less original and attractive. On such a beautiful body drawings look wonderful, the age does not play any role. Perhaps everyone dreams of looking like this at seventy years old.
Photo of Sylvester Stallone tattoos from 07/27/2017
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Broken ribs are no reason not to work!
After the resounding success of "Rocky," Stallone's career took a downturn: new films were passé, prospects floated away. So when he got the lead role in "Rambo", he clung to it with the desperation of a barbarian.
In one scene Stallone broke a few ribs, but continued shooting. So in some scenes he is not acting, but actually suffering from terrible pain. Other actors also suffered: for example, during the scene of the prison break Stallone accidentally broke the nose of the actor Alf Humphries, hitting him in the face with his elbow. Coincidentally, the same thing is done by Rambo in David Morrell's original book, although Stallone probably didn't know that. Humphries wasn't happy, but giving in to the general mood, he didn't whine either and endured out of his last strength.
THE MOST MEMORABLE TATTOOS IN WORLD CINEMA
The body of Ryan Gosling's character in The Place Under the Pines (2012) was covered in a lot of tattoos. After the movie came out the actor admitted that he was against the number of tattoos, but Derek Cianfrance (Derek Cianfrance), director of this crime drama, forced Ryan to appear on the screen just like that.
In Mark Lester's Little Tokyo showdown (1991) the body of a Yakuza boss, the role of which went to actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, is entirely covered in a traditional Japanese tattoo, indicating his membership in and loyalty to the clan.
In Christopher Nolan's Remember (2000), the tattoos were of vital importance to the protagonist: through them, the man, suffering from a rare form of amnesia, received messages from his memory.
This was the only way he could cope with the highly unusual disease.
In Unstoppable (2010), Barney Ross, the hero of Sylvester Stallone, has a raven on his back, sitting on a huge skull. In real life, Sly has a more delicate drawing on his back, although the skull is still there.
In the movie "Cape Fear" (1991), actor Robert De Niro (Robert De Niro) played a man who lives only a sense of revenge.
His back was decorated with a tattoo in the form of a bowl of scales.
Michael Scofield, the protagonist of the television series "Escape" (2005-2009), the role of which went to actor Wentworth Miller (Wentworth Miller), tattooed on his body a plan of the prison from which he decided to arrange the escape of his older brother, an innocent but sentenced to death.
In the Swedish adaptation of the detective novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), actress Noomi Rapace played Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the tattoo.
In 2011, a Hollywood adaptation of the same name was released by director David Fincher. The lead role went to actress Rooney Mara.
In Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997), the wrist of Milla Jovovich's character Lilou bears the director's imaginary representation of the four elements. The same symbols are inscribed on the elemental stones that the characters in the film are searching for.
The body of the gypsy, the colorful character of Brad Pitt in the movie "The Big Cush" (2000), was covered with tattoos.
On the shoulder of every werewolf from the vampire saga "Twilight" (from 2008), in particular Jacob played by Taylor Lautner (Taylor Lautner), is a tribal tattoo, which is a circle with two wolves in the center. It should be noted that the idea for the tattoo only occurred to Chris Weitz, the director of Prospect, during the filming process.
During the filming of Alpha Dog (2007), the filmmakers did not pay much attention to the selection of tattoos. For example, the characters on Justin Timberlake's left hand indicated "skating.
In the comedy Nine Yards (2000), Bruce Willis' character Jimmy "Tulip" Tadeski is given an exquisite tulip tattoo.
The cross on Sean Penn's (Sean Penn) back in the movie Mystery River (2003) was not only a symbol of faith, but also belied the hero's capacity for revenge.
The main character in Hitman (2007), based on the game series of the same name, got his name, Agent 47, from the last digits of the barcode tattooed on the back of his head (640509040147). The role of Hitman was played by actor Timothy Olyphant.
Actor Robert LaSardo ("Death Race," "Criminal Liaisons," "Leon," "Waterworld") will be remembered for his tattoos in any movie starring him.
In the movie "Desperado" (1995) actor Danny Trejo (Danny Trejo) showed his real tattoos. What is noteworthy is that they were all made in places of detention.
In American History X (1998), a film about Nazis, Edward Norton, nominated for an Oscar for his leading role, wears a huge swastika on his chest.
You may also notice that some of the members of the skinhead group in the film are tattooed with the initials "D.O.C.", which is a combination of the first letters of the gang's name, Disciples of Christ.
The tattoos on Tom Hardy's muscular body in 2010's The Fighter were a symbol of his dark past.
In Constantine: Lord of Darkness (2005), Keanu Reeves, who plays exorcist and medium John Constantine, casts a spell by combining the tattoos on his arms. They form the alchemical symbol "Sphere of Perfection," also found in occult texts as the "Red King," a sign that grants protection to its wearer.
Ray Park's spectacular character from the movie "Star Wars. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) was a memorable character.
Matthew Fox, who got the role of Jack Shepard in the television series "Staying Alive" (2004-2010), got a tattoo long before filming began. At first, the filmmakers wanted to hide it with makeup, but then they decided to incorporate it into the plot. According to the plot, the tattoo means "He walks among us, but he's not one of us." In fact, it's a line from Mao Zedong's poem "Changsha" (1925).
Actor Viggo Mortensen got tattoos in the movie "Vice for Export" (2007) to create the image of a Russian thief in law.
Tattoos on the arms of Angelina Jolie in the film "Wanted" (2008) by Timur Bekmambetov indicated a strong character heroine.
However, and on the back of the heroine Jolie viewers also had something to look at.
Actor Johnny Depp left himself a tattoo of Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series (from 2003) and still wears it to this day.
Hardly any guy is happy to find a tattoo of "Sweetie" or "Dude" on his back after a raucous party. And that's exactly what happened in the movie "Where's My Ride, Dude?" (2000), starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott.
One of the most truly memorable tattoos in cinema. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the film "Hesher" (2010)
George Clooney's memorable body tattoo in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
Jared Harris' character in The Mysterious History of Benjamin Button (2008) simply adored his body art.
The main characters in the film Saints in Boondock (2000) are two brothers, played by actors Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus. The brothers have tattooed on their arms the words in Latin - "Veritas" ("Truth") and "Aequitas" ("Justice"). These are their principles of life - the only laws they obey.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in The Scorpion King, 2002.
It was a sin not to recall the menacing Mike Tyson-style drawing on Stu's innocuous face, played by actor Edward Helms, as a result of the Vegas 2 stag party extravaganza (2011). Completely undesirable, but no less impressive, the face-painting was memorable to viewers for a long time.
The most intimidating is probably the huge tattoo of the maniac Dolarhyde, played by Ralph Fiennes, which bore the same name as the film Red Dragon (2002), of which he was the main antagonist.
Mickey Rourke is dotted with tattoos in real life. But in the blockbuster "Iron Man 2" (2010), his character Ivan Vanko literally has no empty space on his body.
Soviet cinema also had its share of memorable tattoos. Of course, the first place goes to Docent (Yevgeny Leonov) in the immortal "Gentlemen of Fortune" (1971).
Especially impressive is the portrayal of a skeleton on the shoulder of a respected authority.
And Nikola Pitersky (actor Roman Filippov) was also not without the viewer's love.
And of course, everyone remembers Stanislav Chekan's character in Gaidai's comedy "The Diamond Arm" (1968) and his tattoo "Misha" on his fingers.
It takes a life to steal a woman from Schwarzenegger and marry "Redheaded Sonya"
In 1985, Stallone married actress Brigitte Nielsen, known for the movie "Redheaded Sonya," where she starred. The marriage did not last long - only two years, but the story came out bright. During filming, Brigitte hit it off with Schwarzenegger, and, according to both, they "had sex all the time they weren't filming. Then Stallone showed up out of the blue and stole "Red Sonja" from "Conan. Decades later, no one regrets anything, the actors do not hold grudges against each other. It was the '80s, and everyone was laughing as hard as they could.
Sylvester Stallone Rambo.
Stabbing ice meat and running dozens of miles: the birth of Rocky
Seeing that directors did not offer him decent scripts, Stallone decided to write his own. The inspiration for him was boxing. Even being in the creative search and torn between work and filming, he never gave up and continued to train regularly.
March 24, 1975 Stallone, like many boxing fans, went to the fight between the legendary Muhammad Ali and little-known boxer Chuck Wepnerom. Ali was the clear favorite, but, contrary to expectations, Wepner managed to send the champion to a knockdown. And even though he lost in the 15th round, that fight was one of the decisive ones for his career. And also for Stallone's career as a screenwriter. When Sly returned home that night, he locked himself in his room and wouldn't let anyone in. And four days later on his desk was already lying ready-made "Rocky" script.
The story of an unknown boxer from the slums, which fate gives a unique chance to become world champion, Stallone made a true idol, especially in the eyes of millions of teenagers. But for the opportunity to play this role himself, he had to fight. Stallone offered his script to Chartoff-Winkler Productions. The story of Rocky Balboa is so impressed with filmmakers that the author was dishonored for his 350 thousand dollars - a fabulous amount at the time. But the studio has set a condition: the main role must play another actor. Stallone was not satisfied with this arrangement. He said he would accept a fee of 20 thousand, but only if he was given to play Rocky himself. In the end the parties came to an agreement - although the budget of the film was severely cut.
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But the success of the picture surpassed all expectations. "Rocky" earned at the box office $225 million, received three Oscars ("Best Picture," "Best Director" and "Best Editing"), as well as the Golden Globe (nomination "Best Drama") and many other film awards. Inspired by this success, Stallone took on a sequel to the story of Rocky Balboa. Subsequently, viewers saw four parts of "Rocky" - in 1979, 1982, 1985 and 1990. It should be said that all pictures have a similar structure, and therefore their stories are fairly predictable, and yet each new part of the audience watched with bated breath, sometimes cheering for the main character in times stronger than the real boxers in the ring.
Here it is worth paying tribute to Stallone: he did everything he could to make each film truly thrilling and astonishing. Shooting process was for him a real test: every day the actor ran dozens of miles, hammers on the frozen carcasses, wiping the blood on his knuckles, learning to keep the blow, and endlessly getting in the face. On smoking had to forget forever - at the beginning of filming because of shortness of breath Sly could not last in the ring and five minutes. But in any scene he did not use an understudy, did everything himself.
It would seem that with the release of the final part of the "Rocky" in 1990, the iconic character of Stallone retired. But, as is often the case with successful franchises, he returned again after a while. In 2006, the sixth installment was released, in which the 44-year-old Stallone played an aging, retired boxer who has to step back into the ring. And nine years later, in 2015, the creators of "Rocky" released several more films in which the main character was the son of Balboa's former opponent and mentor, "Creed" and "Creed 2."
