Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone turned 75 yesterday and news on the first draft of Best Picture winning Rocky revealed that the film was much dark , in fact so dark his then-wife Sasha Czack hated the character.
In a previous interview about his iconic boxing film that his first take on the character was all wrong., Stallone commented,
“The character was very dark. As a matter of fact, he throws the fight at the very end,” Stallone said. “And Mickey [Burgess Meredith] himself turns out to be this very angry, racist man. And the reason Rocky throws the fight is because he doesn’t want to be involved in this kind of world. He says, “I would just rather be who I was and just have all this hatred around me and so on.’”
It’s safe to say that version of the film may not have won Best Picture.
