I never got the girl. Off-stage, thank heavens, it was another story! Among his many acting honors the list is too great to delve into here were back-to-back Academy Award nominations, in for The Day of the Locust and in for Rocky. The response was unbelievable. Separately, they are failures — anachronisms.
To be clear, it is the old man who is encouraging the young man to wrap up his career. How many other Part 7s can you name with nary a gun or spaceship in sight?
Not every would-be Shatner finds his Captain Kirk, and fewer still, as Stallone did with Rocky, create and control that character themselves. Consequently, he has been in a remarkable position to shepherd himself through a shadow life, and to write large a fantastical autobiography of the man he might wish to have been. Three marriages, the latter two to models. A career checkered by several take-the-money-and-run flops lamentable enough that he must keep a quiver of self-deprecating jokes at the ready, should one of them be mentioned.
I offer evidence of decadence not to damn him but merely to note that, living in an atmosphere of perpetual temptation, he has been vulnerable to it. Throughout, he has maintained in his imagination a place where he can scrub away any such blemishes on his soul, leaving only the simple, heroic Balboa. Rocky is a man of many virtues, but above all he stands for determination, and this is clearly inherited from his author.
The series is really a classic trilogy, with each installation in diptych form. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture, rocketed Stallone to icon status, and won him fan mail, he has said , from the likes of Charlie Chaplin. Duke instantly sees that Rocky's punches are very hard and tries to call Apollo to come and see. Once again, Apollo all but ignores him. Also as of The song that plays on the radio when Rocky and Adrian first kiss is melodically and structurally almost identical to Rocky's theme.
In one dockside scene the bow and name of the oil carrier Sohio Resolute makes a brief but prominent appearance. The ship was scrapped some years after filming. This film was one of the first to use the Steadycam. It was very loud and you can even hear it in the background in some scenes, most notably the scene where Rocky is walking Marie back to her house. Coincidentally, the creator of the Steadycam, Garrett Brown, shot some test footage for it on the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is where the climax of the training montage in this movie takes place.
The exterior shot of Rocky picking up a drunk off the street was shot in Philadelphia, but bar he carries the man into was a set in Hollywood. Also, that drunk was played by an uncredited Lloyd Kaufman of Troma fame. The story goes the way Carl Weathers got the role of Apollo Creed was when he requested to audition with a "real" actor when auditioning with Stallone. Stallone loved this as that was the basis of his character, one who underestimates and belittles his would be opponent.
Arnold Johnson is credited as a cast member in the opening credits, but is omitted in the more comprehensive end credits. Therefore, the opening credits are listed first in the IMDb cast list and rest of cast list is filled in from the end credits, as required by IMDb rules. Although Mickey's belief that "women weaken legs" was a commonly held belief by many old-school boxing trainers, this is a fallacy.
The statement does have a slight degree of truth in it, as no knowledgeable trainer will recommend that a fighter have sex immediately before a scheduled bout, as this would leave a fighter enervated. However, as time went on, most trainers observed sex during training to be more beneficial than detrimental to a fighter, because it helps keep a fighter loose and relaxed. Some people have speculated that Han Solo's "Great shot kid, that was one in a million! Although the highest-grossing film of , Star Wars would go on to topple Rocky at the box office just moments after its release.
Adrian's character goes through her own character arc through this film. She starts as a painfully shy adult woman. She still lives with her verbally abusive brother, she has never been left alone with a man, and her unflattering clothes seem to be chosen to hide her actual appearance from the world.
She eventually gets enough confidence to stand up to her brother, to move in with her boyfriend, and to dress in more stylish clothes.
The character Mickey narrates a story in which one of his old boxing victories was overshadowed by a boxing match between Dempsey and Firpo. It took place on September 14, Boxing historians have rated it among the best fights in the history of the sport. As mentioned, there was the belief that 'women weaken legs' and therefore boxers should not 'fool around' with women before a big fight. This could shed a whole other light as to why Rocky is doing part of his training in Paulie's factory, where he is, in fact, beating the meat.
Rocky Balboa was named the 7th greatest movie hero by the American Film Institute on their Years Several scenes are used to establish Rocky's caring relationship with his pets: a pet fish, two pet turtles, and later a pet dog. A brutal or villainous character shows kindness to animals or someone else in order to humanize the character, and to establish that they have a softer side to them.
A subplot of the film is that Rocky has to quit a few unhealthy habits to get into shape for his fight with Apollo Creed. He is a habitual smoker, and he drinks alcohol frequently. He has to give up both habits at once. In this film, Adriana "Adrian" Pennino is said to be years-old. She is played by actress Talia Shire, who actually was years-old at the time of the film's release.
Rocky Balboa claims to be years-old in this film. He is played by actor Sylvester Stallone, who was actually years-old at the time of the film's release. In the "Unwaxed" Podcast Sept , Stallone's daughters, who run the podcast, noticed that his love of both Edgar Allen Poe as well as Hercules might be the inspiration for Rocky as he is somewhat of an amalgamation of the two.
His character, Elmore Caddy, wanted to be called by his nickname, Rocky. Rocky's pet fish is called "Moby-Dick". He apparently named it after the eponymous whale in the novel "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. The scene that involved Rocky and Adrian kissing in Rocky's kitchen was originally not scripted the way it was shot.
Talia Shire had contracted the flu and was worried about getting Sylvester Stallone sick, so she was very hesitant to kiss him.
Her hesitation and behavior was actually such an improvement over the scripted scene that they decided to keep it. Indeed, this scene has become Stallone's favorite scene in the entire Rocky saga, and both he and Shire see the scene as a 'birth-scene' for Adrian, where she is awakened to a new life. Sources reported that Sylvester Stallone and John G. Avildsen nearly came to blows over the film's ending. Stallone wanted Creed to be the clear winner of the fight as a way of showing there are other victories for Rocky, but Avildsen cut the conclusion in such a way that preview audiences were not sure who had actually been declared the champ.
They did agree, however, on the resolution to the Rocky-Adrian story. On viewing the rough cut, it was clear there was something missing. Adrian had more or less faded from the movie as the focus switched to the big fight with Apollo Creed.
So a re-shoot was scheduled, and this time she comes into the arena to watch the last rounds of the match. When it's over, they call out to each other over the noise of the crowd, and Rocky walks away from the ringside frenzy to find her and take her hand. This was the upbeat ending Stallone wanted for his hero.
Tony Burton's character, Duke, wasn't given a name, other than Apollo's trainer, until the second movie. In one scene, Apollo addresses him by his real name, Tony. In the Muhammad Ali vs Chuck Wepner fight, the actual boxing match that inspired Stallone to write the screenplay for "Rocky," Chuck Wepner didn't really "knock" Ali down in the ninth round, even though referee Tony Perez ruled it a knockdown.
Later, wide shot photos showed Wepner stepping on Ali's foot at the time he landed the body punch resulting in Ali falling to the floor. Ali also stumbled backwards before landing on his back on the canvas, then immediately got back up. Sign In. Rocky Trivia Add new. Edit Report This. Rocky's dog Butkus was actually Sylvester Stallone's dog in real life.
The highest-grossing movie of The single most expensive cost on the film was make-up. The first sports film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Sylvester Stallone had originally wanted Harvey Keitel for the role of Paulie. The photos on Rocky's mirror are actual photos of Sylvester Stallone as a young boy. The film was shot in 28 days. The only film in the series where parts of the fight scenes aren't in slow motion.
Marie's classic line "screw you creepo" was "fuck you creepo" in the original script. The film takes place from November 25, to January 1, Michael Dorn's film debut. Cher was considered for the role of Adrian. Adrian's last name was Klein in the original script.
The turtles in the film are still alive, as of June Features Burt Young's only Oscar nominated performance. One of two boxing movies that won Best Picture. In the episode "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" , Meredith plays the title character, a timid weakling who, as the subject of a space alien's experiment on human nature, suddenly acquires superhuman strength.
In "Printer's Devil" , Meredith portrayed the Devil himself, and in "The Obsolete Man" he portrayed a librarian, sentenced to death in a future, dystopian totalitarian society. He would later play two more roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, Night Gallery. Meredith was the narrator for Twilight Zone: The Movie in He did not receive on-screen credit for his narration this was so that he could do the job for scale rather than charge his usual minimum fee ; as compensation for Meredith's uncredited work, his name was inserted into the dialogue in a scene between Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks.
He starred three times in Burke's Law — , starring Gene Barry. His role as the Penguin was so well-received that the show's writers always had a script featuring the Penguin ready whenever Meredith was available. He and Cesar Romero's Joker are tied for number of appearances on the show.
In the book he confessed that he suffered from violent mood swings which were caused by cyclothymis, a form of Bipolar disorder.
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