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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Director Steven Caple Jr. joined stars Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan on Wednesday in an AMC theater in New York for the world premiere of "Creed II".
Then on Thursday, he brought the film to Cleveland. After a screening at the Valley View Cinemark, Caple was supposed to answer a few questions, shake a few hands, and then go to a party.
Instead, Caple, who grew up near the West Side, chatted and kissed his bear across a line that had formed at the front of the house under a gigantic screen. In this picture, Jordan was talking about Adonis Creed – shirtless, kneeling in a boxing ring, his head thrown back into a silent primitive roar.
At the world premiere the night before, Caple had worn an elegant dark suit. Her style of greeting the hometown crowd was more relaxed: a beige hoodie and strategically torn jeans.
Caple locked Joe Tarantowski, his film teacher at Baldwin Wallace University, into a warm, warm embrace, and marveled at the size of his son. He posed for photos with family and friends. He praised the cast and crew members of "The Land," 2016's independent film that he had written, directed and shot in and around his former Cleveland hangout.
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The members of the promotion team who had organized the screening tried in vain to speed things up. After all, it was a school night. At 9:00, the vault was closed at midnight. If Caple does not leave in the next 15 minutes, he will have less than an hour to celebrate. He comes from the city that never sleeps, from the city that has nine good hours.
Earlier, when the night was still young, Cleveland Cavaliers' DJ Steph Floss presented to Caple and Cleveland film commission chairman Ivan Schwarz. Before handing over the mic, Floss confessed that he had cried six times during "Creed II" – three times more than he had cried while watching "Creed". (Yes, real men are crying while looking at boxing, consider this your first criticism.)
"We just finished the film two weeks ago," said Caple. "It's so super cool. You are among the first to see this.
In "Creed II", Adonis, son of Apollo Creed and substitute son of coach Rocky Balboa, is challenged by Russian fighter Viktor Drago, played by professional boxer Florian "Big Nasty" Munteanu. Fans of the "Rocky" franchise will remember that Apollo was killed by the punitive fists of Viktor's poet Pa, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in "Rocky IV".
(Ludmilla, Ivan 's Ice Queen, is back in a role as small as pivot.As we learn in "Creed II", she left him, broken and humiliated, after l'. having been knocked out by Rocky of Stallone is of course indelible embodied by the Danish actress and probably defiant cyborg against age, Brigitte Nielsen, the real life of Stallone, Caple, has fought for her character be added to the script, the movement of a confident author who serves both to humanize the evil Dragos and promises to send the aficionados of "Rocky" in a swoon.)
Caple honed his skills to capture the fast and furious move in the ring by filming the acrobatic feats of a gang of skateboarders on the streets of Cleveland in "The Land".
In the overwhelming sequences of "Creed II", Adonis and Viktor hammer one against the other in the way Rocky beats the dough in his Italian restaurant "Adrian's".
"I really tried to get into the ring with the boxers, I hope you all felt those punches," he said. (Mission accomplished).
It is not bad either that the young director has Stallone – the director of "Rocky II", "III" and "IV" – alongside the ring to offer indications on the combat choreography.
Meeting the legend of Hollywood, he said, had just come out of a movie. "Were you nervous?" Schwarz asked.
"Yeah, I was very nervous, man!" Said Caple. A car waiting in front of MGM's studios drove Caple to a door where he boarded another car, which took him to Stallone's house. "I'm about to meet Rambo," he thought. "I'm about to meet Cliffhanger! I'm about to meet Demolition Man! Judge Dredd!
But the man who opened the door was "very welcoming," Caple said. So cool and relaxed.
They tied up, "geekin out," to the pugilistic ballet of "Rocky" episodes that Stallone told about "a TV that's probably that big," Caple said, gesturing to the screen behind him. . "
He says, "It's poetry, Steve. Look at this punch here! Remembers Caple. "He was standing up and just pacing the room, imitating the fighting, and I thought," This guy is very strong. "
With "Creed II" now finished, asked Schwarz, what is the next step? Caple skilfully avoided the question, just as Adonis avoided Viktor's punches.
"Everyone is asking me, am I going to start a Marvel project after that? Am I going to DC? We will see. … but that would not bother me to make a million dollar project that I wrote, "he said.
"Yes, you would!" Replied Schwarz.
"No, I promise you," said Caple. The bigger the budget, the less control is creative. He is happy to reduce his size if it means to keep his vision intact. In "Creed II," it was not hard to do because he had Stallone and Jordan, "two 880-pound gorillas," said Caple, in his corner.
"Yo, Sly," said Caple. "Studio said I could not have another camera." Then Sly replied, "Steven needs another camera – he needs it now."
Schwarz ended with a friendly threat to Caple, who now resides with his wife Ciara, his high school friend John Marshall, in the sunny environs of Los Angeles. "I know where you live," said Schwarz. And if you do not bring a movie to Cleveland, I'll come knocking on your door. So please come home. You are welcome at home at any time. … do not forget where you come from.
"I will never forget where I come from," said Caple.
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