{"id":5860,"date":"2013-05-05T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2013-05-05T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T15:01:11","slug":"new-stallone-bullet-to-the-head-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/05\/new-stallone-bullet-to-the-head-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stallone “Bullet to the Head” Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On May 2, 2013<\/strong>, the St. Augustine Times<\/strong> posted Sly Stallone: The Bullet to the Head Interview<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits: <\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

KW (Kam Williams, interviewer): Let me start by asking what interested you in Bullet to the Head?
\nSS: Well, I liked the idea of a very simple story with a dark morality. There\u2019s humor in that later on, but you start with the basic idea that you have two total opposites having to work together for a common cause who you know are going to have to take each other out at the very end, at least that was the original premise. I also really liked the idea of doing it with Walter Hill after the first director bowed out. That made the project especially enticing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SS: Yes, and also because he\u2019s kind of gone down the same path as I did. There was a period when I was pretty much untouchable for about 8 or 9 years until I got a big break with Joe Roth when he helped produce Rocky Balboa. That was a big, big, long shot. Everybody thought it was a joke, but it worked. [Chuckles] I think there\u2019s a lot of music left to play in a lot of these old instruments. And I felt that Walter Hill is a pro at this genre, yet he\u2019s not getting the opportunity. So, when I saw the opportunity present itself, I decided, \u201cIf he does the movie, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d And it worked out that way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

KW: Larry Greenberg asks: How did you develop your character, Jimmy Bobo?
\nSS: I decided to approach it this way. I, Sylvester Stallone, am really not much like Rocky. Rocky is a much more ethical, moral person than I am. [Chuckles] He\u2019s really a great guy. And Rambo is a much darker person than I am, and much more reserved and withdrawn. I thought, let me try something different. What if I, Sylvester Stallone, were transported into the world of hit men? In other words, what if I were the hit man but just played myself. So, that\u2019s the way I approached this character. I wanted to be as casual and comfortable with the character as possible. I said, if Sylvester Stallone were a hit man, this is how he would be. So, pretty much what you see up there is Sylvester Stallone as a hit man. Rather than trying to create a character that was different from me, I tried to make the character the same as me, and just add the story. I don\u2019t know if that makes sense to you. It\u2019s like as if you were going to play a hit man and asked me, \u201cWhat do I do?\u201d And I went, \u201cNo, no, you Kam, you just have to play yourself.\u201d It would be your personality, but you would play a hit man. That would be an interesting choice. That\u2019s different. That\u2019s unusual. So, this was the first time I\u2019ve ever said, \u201cLet me just be myself, but pretend I\u2019m a hit man.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

KW: Is there a message you want people to take away from the film?
\nSS: That a tiger never really changes his stripes and that Jimmy Bobo is what he is, without regret. But he\u2019s not an amoral person, since he only takes out, as he puts it, \u201cthe hard to get at stains.\u201d That his job. He takes out the trash. In effect, he\u2019s doing a service. He\u2019s a people person. He removes the bad people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 2, 2013, the St. Augustine Times posted Sly Stallone: The Bullet to the Head Interview.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits: KW (Kam Williams, interviewer): Let me start by asking what interested you in Bullet to the Head? SS: Well, I liked the idea of a very simple story with a dark morality. There\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-bullet-to-the-head"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1ww","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}