Category: 2011

Sly as Rocky

Craig / / 2011, Rocky

On July 1, 2011, Who2 posted a piece titled, “From the Movie Archives: Vincent Camby Slams ‘Rocky'”.  The piece then quotes Camby who said…

  • Mr. Stallone’s Rocky is less a performance than an impersonation. It’s all superficial mannerisms and movements, reminding me of Rodney Dangerfield doing a nightclub monologue… Throughout the movie we are asked to believe that his Rocky is compassionate, interesting, even heroic, though the character we see is simply an unconvincing actor imitating a lug.

The article goes on to say that Roger Ebert compared Sly’s performance in “Rocky” to that of a “young Marlon Brando” and that “Sylvester Stallone got the last laugh, in any case: Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture, and Stallone was nominated as Best Actor.”

You can read the whole piece and see a Rocky photo gallery by clicking over to the original article.

 

Robbi Rodriguez and Jack Carter

Craig / / 2011, Craig's Sly Art, Get Carter

Robbi Rodroguez did a Rocky sketch for me at last year’s Heroes Convention.  When I saw that Robbi was going to be at Heroes again this year and was taking commissions early, I asked for an iconic black and white piece of Sly as Jack Carter.    Robbi knew eactly what I was looking for and came through like a champ with the piece above.  I was totally blown away.

You can see more of Robbi’s art here and here… and definitely again here at the SZ in the future.

 

Sly Looks Like Weaver

Craig / / 2011, Antz

On June 23, 2011, Film School Rejects took a look at “8 Animated Characters That Look Disturbingly Like Their Voice Actors.”  Sly was mentioned for his role in Antz.  Here’s what they had to say…

  • Sylvester Stallone – Antz

    Does Sylvester Stallone look like an ant or do ants look like Sylvester Stallone? This is the question that has plagued humanity since late 1998.

    Stallone played Weaver, the beefy best friend of Woody Allen’s Z, in Dreamworks Animation’s Antz and they didn’t have to stray to far from the actors hexagonal cranium to make him fit the bill.

    Good thing too — most Italian men prefer playing uncles.