He is like all of us” (Stallone) “On the second and the third page, the guy is talking to his turtle, and I was charmed” (Avildsen). Both Stallone and Avildsen have underscored the humility and decency of Rocky as what made him such an endearing hero: “Rocky has a lot of issues, a lot of problems. 6 Peter Biskind and Barbara Ehrenreich, “Machismo and Hollywood's Working Class,” in American Media a (.)Ģ This article discusses how Rocky Balboa should not be interpreted as a muscular super-fighter but as a humble character, a simple “bum from the neighborhood”.5 Valerie Walkerdine “Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy,” in Formations of Fantasy, eds Victo (.).4 Chris Holmlund, “Introduction: Presenting Stallone/ Stallone Presents,” in The Ultimate Stallone Re (.).3 Setoodeh, Tapley, “Still Fighting,” 46-48.
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A second Creed movie is expected to be made by the Coogler-Stallone duo and released in 2017, thus continuing the seemingly never-ending series, with Adonis appearing as the new torch-bearer when the light of Balboa dims after being diagnosed with cancer. It shifts the focus from Rocky to Adonis Creed, the son of late boxing champion Apollo Creed as well as Rocky’s new protégé. The last film was directed by young Ryan Coogler. Today the Rocky franchise has become such a global cultural phenomenon that almost everyone is familiar with the line “Yo, Adrian” or the Rocky steps in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin parkway. Six sequels to the original movie have come out since – Rocky II (1979), Rocky III–The Eye of the Tiger (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), and Creed (2015). In 1977, Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards and ended up winning the award for “best picture”, making Stallone a star overnight. Rocky – film and character – was the brainchild of Sylvester Stallone, who managed to convince director John Avildsen and producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler to both shoot a script written by a penniless actor and hire him as the main lead. 2 Ramin Setoodeh, Kristopher Tapley, “Still Fighting,” Variety, January 2016, 48.ġ Forty years ago, in 1976, moviegoers discovered a 29-year old kind-hearted thug whose only way out of the Philadelphian rough districts was boxing.1 See Yvonne Tasker, Spectacular Bodies, Genre and the Action Film (New York: Routledge, 1993).
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