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Sly thinks actors have the ability to reach out and actually tell a story that has an impact on someone’s
life.
"At 10 years old I was very thin and non athletic, I had insecurities, a broken family, everything. And at the
time I would watch Hercules starring Steve Reeds, who was physical perfection. What he did in this mythology was so heroic,
so noble that I thought, ‘my gosh this movie is about hero worship. It’s the humble man rising above and taking
on the enemy, pulling their temples down, sacrificing himself.’ From that moment on that type of character mesmerised
me and you’ve seen that in Rambo and Rocky; it’s all a manifestation of what I saw as a kid. It’s very important
what you put out there".
But action films are not
easy, as you must speak with your body. It’s extremely difficult, very tiring, very draining and sometimes dangerous.
Although some people dismiss action stars as secondary actors, the truth is if you do action and take it very seriously and
put yourself in uncomfortable, dangerous situations for months, you take pride in it and hope it’s appreciated as an
art form (and it usually isn’t).
Sly thinks
that some people never really understood Rambo." A certain faction dismissed Rambo as a violent tool for the right wing. Whereas
Rambo was never anti-government, [he] worked on his own, received no financial remuneration and was always in the business
of extracting prisoners at the cost of his own life. I did not understand the criticism. His was much more of a martyr position
than one of being proactive; he was never proactive. He was happy to stay in the jungle. If you noticed, every time they came
to him. But that is not the way it was interpreted"."I always tried to explain that Rambo is a reject, he walked away from America, he lives in the jungle in Thailand,
he doesn’t want to be part of it, he’s America’s
lost son. Rambo was there always as an independent, but he was made into an enemy of the poor, he was a war machine and when
negotiations fail you sent in Rambo to destroy and that was totally wrong. Rambo was alienated by his own country and always
lived outside of its borders, so he was America’s
drifter, that’s why that character might come back again. I’ve always liked that character because it had some
political overtones".
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