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07-06-2017, 06:15 AM
Sylvester Stallone isn't being too sly about this 'Rocky' villain's return
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Sylvester Stallone, a movie star who uses third-person hashtags like #SylvesterStallone and #rockybalboa in his own Instagram posts, is about as subtle as a clanging bell. It's why we love him — and it's also why when he's trying to be coy, it winds up being adorable.
And **where in his oeuvre does the Stallone storytelling sledgehammer pound more heavily than Rocky IV, which Stallone directed, wrote, and starred in, making him solely responsible for its heavy-handed patriotism, heavy-handed revenge narrative, and very heavy-handed villain, the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago.
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And **where in his oeuvre does the Stallone storytelling sledgehammer pound more heavily than Rocky IV, which Stallone directed, wrote, and starred in, making him solely responsible for its heavy-handed patriotism, heavy-handed revenge narrative, and very heavy-handed villain, the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago.
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