"Rocky"
Screened nationwide on December 3, 1976
After the release, rave reviews
Win the most important Oscar
Best film, best director
And Stallone himself nominated the best actor
Stallone, who played Rocky, also became popular
Stallone, who has been standing for a long time, began his new journey of film
Let’s interpret this great action inspirational film "Rocky" today. The plot of this film is not difficult to understand.
I mainly talk about the inside and outside of the film.
(Go to watch the movie, and then read this article for better results)
"Rocky" plot summary: As a talented but confused amateur boxer forced by life, Rocky can only go to third-rate matches to fight for life, and also help local usury to collect debts. In December 1975, boxing champion Apollo held a boxing match to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the nation in Philadelphia. However, the originally arranged boxer was injured and unable to fight. The organizer had to find another person to find the "Italian Stallion" Lodge, just because the nickname was attractive enough. Knowing that he is a small person, Rocky didn't expect much to beat the boxing champion. He just wanted to prove himself, using his fighting spirit and willpower to prove that he could not be defeated by the boxing champion.
"Rocky" was inspired by the famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner. The latter was still unknown at the time, but unexpectedly persisted until the fifteenth round before being defeated by boxing champion Ali. Technical knockdown. Before the game, a reporter questioned whether Wipner could survive. Wipner replied decisively: "I am a survivor in my life. If I can survive in the Marines, Ali's fist is not enough. Fear." Sylvester Stallone was deeply moved by Wipner's bravery and tenacity. Two weeks after the end of the boxing match, he called Wipner and declared that he would make this amazing contest into a movie. (From mtime)
Boxing champion Ali is equivalent to Martin Luther King in the boxing world
The backing on the wall is not small. The boxer is Rocky Massiano. A white boxer born in 1923 won the world heavyweight championship.
(Rocky Massiano is the only boxer in the boxing arena who has not lost until retirement. His record is 49 wins and 0 losses, and he knocked down the opponent 43 times. He is not tired of fighting spirit and perseverance. Will can make up for all his weaknesses. In April 1956, Massiano announced his retirement. After a plane crash, Massiano died at the age of 46.)
This kind of willpower and fighting spirit is truly and tenaciously shown in the film. Stallone uses the name Rock in the film, and the title is also called "Rocky". Is this kind of cult spirit a coincidence? Can't interview Stallone, I can only guess.
If you have to classify inspirational movies, I classify them in this way. The first category is the struggle and struggle of the protagonist, and the experience of wind and rain is like a rainbow.
The other is to show the real inside and outside of the protagonist, and make the movie in a realistic way, so that the audience can feel it.
The difference is that the former is easy to see as inspirational, while the latter is inspirational.
In short, a high degree of understanding:
The real inspirational film is what you feel, not what you see, and what you feel is still influential to you.
"Rocky" belongs to the latter category. Even if it became famous after the war with Apollo, in the second part, you have to face the reality and face the pressure of life. In short, life is not easy, this is reality.
(So I suggest friends who are interested to see it, after all, I can't write how inspirational it is)
At the beginning of the film's 70 minutes, Rocky and Mickey reconcile, and Mickey does his best to help Rocky fight this boxing match.
Started the classic segment in film history-"Rocky" mode
The first "Rocky" to the sixth have been reflected
The so-called "Rocky" mode is to start rigorous training
Look at the picture and feel it
"Rocky" mode
A movie with a history of shadows is inseparable from a good soundtrack. It is still so burning while listening to this "Gonna Fly Now" while exercising.
The climax of the film is the fight against boxing champion Apollo. The originally confident and proud boxing champion Apollo said that he would solve Rocky in three rounds and end the game. Later, he hit and beat and found that Rocky was a hard bone.
When he doubted himself, from the third round to the fifteenth round, Rocky was not knocked down for the entire game. Apollo became more and more depressed as he fought, while Rocky became more motivated as he fought. Until the end of the game, the referee relied on points to judge Apollo's victory. But the audience in the movie and those outside the film know that Rocky won. Rocky didn't win the game. What Rocky won was dispelling his confusion about his future and winning the unknown fear he faced.
At the end of the film, Rocky and his girlfriend Adrianne hugged and ended
There is also a well-known soundtrack, which is very important in "Rocky", this song "The Final Bell"
It can be said that the director is very careful. According to my findings, it has sounded 5 times, but all have ulterior motives.
After talking with the little girl at 28:35, it sounded when I realized that I was not accepted by others
61:30 After bidding farewell to his girlfriend Yardrian, the words from the heart sounded
70:06 After telling his own hardship, he caught up with coach Mickey and returned to Hershey. The re-trust of Mickey sounded.
96:27 Standing on the stage before the start of the war, when there was still fear and confusion against the champion
But what sounded in these 4 clips were the first ten seconds of the soundtrack. Each sound enriches the character's image, and slowly enriches Rocky's heart. It also laid the groundwork for the plot of the film, and slowly advanced the climax
The fifth time it sounded was 112:02. In the ring, there was no interruption this time, and it sounded directly to the end of the game.
I think the director’s intention is that Rocky defeated the fear in his heart and proved that his fighting spirit and will are undefeated by his opponents with his fists.
It was difficult to shoot "Rocky" at the time. I visited many companies and no one accepted it. In the end, it was accepted by MGM. The travel party had planned to invite the popular star at the time to play Rocky, but Stallone insisted on playing it himself. Under the compromise between the two parties, Stallone's script fee became less, and the funds were not much.
Even the footage of going skating at the time was only able to be filmed after the skating rink was closed and the guards were bought. The props are wrong, and there is no money to change it. If you make a mistake, you will be wrong. I made a lot of complaints in the movie. Although there are a few piercing shots in the film, the flaws are not concealed.
Stallone wrote the script in three days and shot it in 28 days. Later, after it was released, more than 100 million U.S. dollars was earned back at the box office with more than 1 million production fees. This was the box office champion of the year.
Maybe Stallone didn't expect it to be so popular.
The following year, at the 49th Oscar in 1977, "Rocky" won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, and Stallone was nominated for Best Actor. Three awards and seven nominations are considered the big winners at the time.
With such a big response, "Rocky" is in line with the social concept of the time. Due to the stagflation of the American economy in the 1970s and the end of the quagmire of the "Vietnam War" in 75 years, people hoped that there would be a change in society, and the appearance of "Rocky" injected a wave of energy.
Characters like Rocky were not uncommon in the United States in the 1970s. Small people, running for life, while taking into account distant dreams, are eager to succeed.
According to Poly wearing a military uniform in the lower left corner of the picture, I speculate that Poly is a returning soldier, and the appearance of Poly in the film is indeed uninteresting in life, and he is determined to find help with loan sharks to satisfy his vanity.
This kind of people can find many similar prototypes in the United States in the 1970s.
French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard said
"A film does not take place on the screen, but between the audience and the screen"
Doesn't this sentence explain why "Rocky" is so successful?
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