If you’ve never seen Sylvester Stallone sing country music, you should quickly discover the comedy “Rhinestone”, in which he plays the legendary Dolly Parton. A real curiosity in the filmography of “Sly”.
We forgive Sylvester Stallone everything. Whether he plays in L’Embrouille est dans le sac or Stop or my mother is going to shoot, comedies on the edge of the nanar, or whether he sings country in a very rough way. Yes, yes, he sings country! If you don’t see what it’s all about, then you don’t know Rhinestone, a little UFO in the filmography of the bodybuilder star.
Released in theaters in the United States in 1984, between the first two parts of the Rambo saga, Rhinestone tells how a country music star (Dolly Parton, a true legend of the genre) tries to convert an eccentric New York taxi driver ( Sly) to his discipline, this in order to win a bet.
In Rhinestone, Stallone, who is currently recounting his rivalry with Schwarzenegger on Netflix and who is about to shoot the sequel to one of his greatest films, therefore sings very badly, we agree on this point. But it’s his role that wants that and therefore makes it possible to watch this improbable film with fun and tenderness, unlike the Academy of Razzie which awarded him the prize for Worst Actor for his performance.
It should be noted that “Sly” preferred to play the main role of Rhinestone and sing some country melodies on the screen rather than playing in the comedy adventure In pursuit of the green diamond. A losing choice, Rhinestone, after an already chaotic production due in particular to Stallone’s desire to rewrite the film, having been a bitter failure at the box office.
Far from the country universe of Rhinestone, Sylvester will once again play the big guns in Expendables 4, in theaters on October 11th. A muscular domain that the actor, there is no doubt here, perfectly masters.
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