> Be Sylvester Stallone > Facial nerve damaged during birth causing partial face paralysis & slurred speech > Bullied for his looks & speech at schools couldn't focus on studies expelled multiple times & moved between many foster homes > Moves to New york to pursue acting but producers reject him due to his average looks & slurred speech > To survive he cleaned lion pens in zoos, ushered in theaters and even had to sell his dog Butkus at one point > Saw a match between Muhammad Ali & the Underdog Chuck wepner. Wepner a nobody gave the champ the fight of his life. > Got inspired and wrote the script for rocky in three days. Studios liked the script instantly but sylvester had one condition he will play rocky > Studios wanted a known face they offer him $350,000 for his script but sylvester refused there was simply no way he would budge > Finally studios agree to give him a shoestring budget of $1 million to work with hoping he'd fail but sylvester showed up everyday using steadycam and busy streets to keep costs low > On release Rocky made $225 million a phenomenon, got ten oscar nominations and won the academy award for best picture. It also turned sylvester into a overnight star. A fairytale on both reel and real this is the story of both Sylvester & Rocky