The actor best known for action films is in director Julius Avery’s new film, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video
He is currently engaged in the biggest media and legal battle of his career, charging the franchise’s copyright and property rights to social media. rocky from producer Irwin Winkler, Sylvester Stallone accepted the challenge to win another fight. It wants to reproduce the popularity it has achieved in theaters on digital platforms, transforming the concept of “action film” into a synonym for millions – no more than tickets sold, but subscribers. This Friday, 26, takes the first step by launching the Samaritan superhero thriller.
Directed by Julius Avery, who puts the eternal Rambo in the shoes of a street sweeper with superpowers. And, in parallel, the 76-year-old star prepares to launch the first star series of her entire career, Tulsa kingpromised by Paramount Plus for November, where a mobster lives.
“I am used to characters in flesh and blood who do not fit the patterns of reality we know, no matter how human they are. Characters who cannot escape altruism and mask solidarity in its essence. 29 years old, because I need to honor and respect my age “, says Stallone to Estadio in a webinar he gave via Zoom about Samaritan’s heroism.
In 1995 he played the most famous vigilante in British comics, Judge Dredd, under the direction of Danny Cannon. In 2017, he returned to flirting with comics playing the lead mercenary Stakar Guardians of the Galaxy – Vol. IIby James Gunn, with whom he has Suicide squad (2021), voicing King Shark Nanaue. But now, with Julius Avery, Sly (as he is nicknamed in the US) brings to the Amazon grid a figure closer to the classic concept of “hero”: the garbage man Joe, who squanders his super strength to save a boy from a gang. .
“Joe is a modern Hercules, a boy with enormous physical strength, who exposes the boundary between what it means to embody good and what it means to embody evil. Analyzing Rocky, we note that the boxer played by Mr. T in the third film (Clubber Lang) has evil in his eyes, in his ways, like Ivan Drago, in the fourth film. But that’s not what we’re looking for here, but creating a new universe from scratch, “he says stallionwhich launches the fourth and final volume of the franchise in March the Expendables, greeting the character Barney Ross. “Marvel and DC have been very happy to compose their dramaturgy. But here, when an old man gets hit by a car and is unharmed, regenerating, you have to convince the audience of who he is.”
There is a direct connection between Samaritan And Shaneby George Stevens (translated here as Brutes also love). This connection is given by the relationship between Joe (Stallone) and boy Sam (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) in the mold of what the 1953 western did with Alan Ladd and little Brandon De Wilde.
In the storyline filmed by Avery, Sam believes that Joe is a masked crusader named Samaritan, who disappeared after a fight with his nemesis, Nemesis. From there, he will do whatever it takes to convince the war-weary boy he so admires to protect the townspeople of him again. But a drug lord with the air of a populist leader, Cyrus (Pilou Asbæk), will take the energy club used by Nemesis and use it to become a symbol of banditry.
“There is no greater torment than defeat and Joe finds himself in a situation of failure where, every day, he wants to erase a memory. He is like that until Sam shows up and becomes his second chance, his redemption. “, defines Stallone. “This movie is a kind of Rocky with superpowers. There is fantasy, but there is a man recreating himself, recovering himself, with a new beginning.”
Not all in the script Samaritan it’s as good versus as bad as it sounds. But how the film brings Stallone closer to the gray areas of the human condition seems to have been central to the exercise of brutality he faces in. Tulsa king. The Paramount + series is inserted as new The Soprano Family and follows the story of New York Mafia boss Dwight “The General” Manfredi, played by Sly.
Stallone was awarded in Cannes in 2019, on the eve of the launch of Rambo: Until the end, where he cited his greatest influence in the conception of his heroic verve. “I was a kid when I saw Steve Reeves playing Hercules and there I realized the importance of taking care of the body and having a strong silhouette. And that’s where I saw a unique hero model.”
Source: Terra
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