Enneagram personality is applied psychology, dividing people into 9 types, of which the No. 3 achievement type, the No. 7 happy type, and the No. 8 leader type belong to the high-energy personality type, they like to rush to the front of everything, and the more ostentatious personality type. Today, let's talk about the legend of Stallone, the representative of the No. 8 leader type:
Stallone was born in 1946, but when he was still in the womb, doctors asserted that the child could not survive, and even if he was born, he was disabled and could not live to be 20 years old. Fortunately, his mother insisted on giving birth to Stallone.
Because the midwife used midwifery forceps to clip it out of the womb at that time, the nerves in its face were damaged, and outsiders looked at the left half of his face as if he were paralyzed, and his speech was not good.
As a teenager, Stallone suffered a lot, because of his unruly personality, he was often beaten and bullied by hooligans, his parents divorced, he lived with his father, and he was extremely lacking in maternal love at a young age.
When he was about 20 years old, he determined his hobbies and career plans, asked his father for some money, and went to a drama training class in Switzerland to study acting, screenwriting and directing.
After completing his studies, he traveled around the United States, because he had no fame, he could only run dragon sets everywhere, just like Zhou Xingchi did in those years, and was insulted and bullied. Often eat the last meal without eating, there is not much money to rent, just in the park, subway station and other public places to spend the night.
The year 1975 was Stallone's lucky year, when he was 30 years old and God gave him a chance.
One day, he happened to see the match of the boxing king Ali live on TV, and was deeply attracted and moved. After reading it, he couldn't sleep with excitement all night, so he wrote a script story about boxers in one fell swoop.
However, after writing it, he began to find investors in Hollywood, which has more than 500 film companies.
He went to visit one by one, and as a result, so many film companies, none of them matched his script.
He was not convinced, and visited again, still no one was willing to invest in him.
He is still not discouraged, do not believe that so many film companies have not been able to see?
Therefore, he memorized all the details of the script story, remembered the background of the characters clearly, and made a third visit.
God wants you to succeed, first let you hit the south wall three times, Stallone three times to visit nothing, or no boss is willing to invest in him.
Stallone collapsed, and for nearly a month he spent drinking to dispel his sorrows and live a life of anesthesia.
After another month, after a drunken drunkenness, he suddenly woke up, so he revised and perfected the problems and details in the script, and began the fourth round of investment visits the next day.
God pity, this time there is finally a boss who likes the theme of boxing, sees that the script has also optimized a lot of content, and expressed his willingness to invest $1.5 million.
Stallone, on the other hand, suggested that he had to play the male lead himself. The boss smiled as soon as he saw his crooked eyes and said how can you be worthy of the protagonist like this, in order to ensure the box office, I still have to ask a famous male number one.
Stallone said word for word, if I can't be the protagonist, the script will not be given to you.
The boss was stunned, thought about it again and again, and was reluctant to have such an excellent script, and finally had to agree to Stallone's request to be the protagonist.
In this way, Stallone started his debut film with $1.5 million in angel funds, and self-directed and self-acted to complete the filming of the film.
Unexpectedly, in 1976, this self-directed and self-starred film won three Oscars (Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Picture) in one fell swoop, and the box office grossed more than $125 million.
This movie was Stallone's first film, Rocky.