The simple version of the rise of Sylvester Stallone's fame is that the young actor wrote "Rocky" and threw himself in the lead role, making himself a Starvar overnight. Indeed, 1978 Playboy The interview began with a reminder of how, with that 1976 film, Stallone "burst into the American film scene as a Roman candle". As is so often the case with these things, however, Stallone did not transform his life overnight - he struggled to break for some time.

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That same interview with Playboy also detailed detailed as "he spent many years waiting for his career wings", which was not just a metaphor. Stallone's acting career in front of Rocky consisted of what he plays what he called in the BBC since 1977 Interview Being a "atmosphere". That is, after moving to New York in 1969, he spent years as an additional, playing "the guy who was drunk that was strengthened in the gutter" while supporting himself working as a cinema user and cleaning the cage of the lions at the Central Park Zoo.

It was not until 1972, he began to write, blackening the windows of his small apartment and writing with a candle to remain unaware of whether he was out of day or night out. By that point, Stallone gave up acting and given his experience in the industry, it is not difficult to see why. Stallone will act in some frivolous things after his career has taken off, perhaps He was most memorable in a terrible comedy by his rival Arnold SchwarzeneggerBut things were much worse in the "rocky" years. By 1972 But at least that was a major role, unlike his other projects of the same year, which included a role in the movie "M*A*S*h" which could be the smallest part of Stalon ever.

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Before "M*A*C*n" became the legendary CBS series, the most famous for today, it was a 1970 film based on Richard Hooker's 1968 book "Mash: A novel for three Army doctors". Directed by Robert Altman (who later made his not wanting the television series "M*A*s*n") very clear)The movie starred The late Donald Sutherland Like Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hokiki" Pierce Runior along with Eliot Gould as Captain Johnon Francis "Trapper Johnon" McNeonir and Tom Score as Captain August "Duke" Forrest, all who worked as a medical staff at the Wituari Surgery.

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The three stars have gained a bit of a bit of a career in the film, which was a great success and also helped Altman establish himself as one of the most exciting filmmakers of the growing movement in New Hollywood. Not only did "M*A*S*h" become the third highest film of 1970, critics were impressed, with Hollywood reporter"Son Mahoni has praised the film as" the best American comedy since "Some like that hot", "Mr. Roberts" of the Korea war, the 1970 graduated and film expected by director Robert Altman for a short time. "

Then, then, Sylvester Stallone was pleased to be part of such a family film. Well, he would have been if he had a role even a little bigger than the "soldier sitting on the camp table" - unravoided, I could add.

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Since Rocky has become a huge success and has begun Sylvester Stallone's career, he quickly established what became his second -largest Chinese franchise by acting as Johnon RAM. Rambo in the films "Rambo". The inauguration film in that saga, "The First Blood" in 1982, saw him depicting a veteran in the Vietnam war, which, persecuted by his experiences as a military prisoner, returns to the United States who are actively hostile to his presence - at least in the small town of Haw. Rambo's films It will become subsequently fiercely as bombastic as they continued, but will not deny that Johnon Rambo himself has become a Chinese icon and one of the most famous action heroes of all time.

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However, in 1970, Stallone had to be satisfied with playing "a soldier sitting on the" Camp "table in" M*A*N*n ", the role he saw on the screen for a literal second after Donald's" Haki "arrived at the camp. Interestingly, his face is seen wearing a green beret (check it on the left side of the picture above), and Johnon Rambo was a former green Barrett.

A Newoux Times The 1970 piece said that the accessories had been paid "a minimum of $ 29.15", suggesting that this was approximately what Stallone had earned for his time at "M*A*C*". Given that he would soon spend his nights on the port's bus terminal, it sounds like desperate at the time. Meanwhile, Robert Altman seems to have had no memory of the younger sly that appeared in his film. Talk to Review books in Los Angeles In 2014, Eliot Gould recalled how Stallone talked about his role "M*a*s*n" years after the fact:

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"Sylvester Stallone, who I have met only a few times, said he did not admit that he was once an additional movie, but admits he was additional in" M*A*s*n. " And when I told (Robert Altman) he said: "No. I don't accept that Sylvester Stallone was in my movie.