Balboa we're talking about. Okay: a scrappy underdog everyone has written off delivers the performance of a lifetime and finds itself triumphing over some of the biggest names of its time – nope, that's Rocky the film.
Let's try this again.
This particular story about an underdog who surprises everyone to find himself being hailed as one of the greatest in his profession is about Sylvester Stallone, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe on Thursday for reprising his most iconic role in the Rocky spin-off Creed, which Stallone called an "unexpected honor" in a statement. His last Globe (and Oscar) nomination came in 1976, when the original Rocky hit theaters.
So if you heard the soft, familiar strains of the ever-inspiring Rocky theme playing in your head when you read the Italian Stallion's name on the list of nominees this morning, you're not alone.
After all, the Stallone of 2015 is a far cry from the actor who blew audiences away with his gritty, layered performance as a boxer scraping his way to contention. Thanks to a long string of commercially and critically disappointing films (he's been nominated for Razzie Awards 20 of the last 30 years), most audiences had written Stallone off almost completely, and were apprehensive about seeing him return to the metaphorical ring in Creed.
But Ryan Coogler's film – along with both Stallone and Michael B. Jordan's powerhouse performances – reminded movie fans everywhere why they loved rooting for Stallone in the first place: he's an underdog.people
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