Same. I'm crying right now. It's his soul, he is a hero, a true one. That figure is a fighting hero. Rocky. A man with a lion's heart and a child's soul. God bless Sly for making such a masterpiece.
Yes it does it made me cry too 😢 me and my fiance are from Philly he passed away this May 💔 and I miss him so much and today (November 5th is his birthday) and u watching this thinking of him and crying thinking of him he loved Sylvester Stallone and all of his movie and he loved his Philadelphia Eagles in which they had won today in his birthday I know he's looking down being so proud of his team
I work in these neighborhoods and they're are depressing. A city in decay. My great grandfather started out in the very house that Rocky lived at in the first Rocky movie,( 1818 E. Tusculum St.) yes, that's a fact! Back then these homes were NEW and this was considered the outskirts of the city. Now it makes me want to vomit. The blight, the crime, the drugs, the hookers and the violence.
+Dorian Graye dumbass Im talking about ROCKY BALBOA the film from 2006 his house address was 1948 sterner st wich is directly across the lot from tusculum st my uncle used to live in 1948 sterner st he moved out a couple years before they filmed the movie,next time read correctly before you make your assumption and your wrong while drugs are sold heavily around this neighborhood there's still good people here too under the el and towards Allegheny is were the depression is at coming towards Frankford gets a lot better and the city is coming up fast if your from Philly with i have no clue you would know what I mean the northeast is the new ghetto it's starting to get depressing out there and the old ghetto is becoming the new rich people's playground there buying everything left and right driving the ghetto people away to the northeast I say in about 5-7 years from now Philly won't have a ghetto like how it was before but idk we shall see
I heard elsewhere these old ghettos are becoming rich yuppie neighborhoods -- I heard from another Phila. local that the rowhouses in Fishtown now fetch 1/2 a million each.
PfctvsPontivsPilatvs what you heard is true there moving the ghetto out to the northeast and the houses are going from 250,000-1/2 million it's crazy I've been living in the northern liberties section for the past 19yrs and watched it change so much it's starting to feel like NY now
My too. Rocky is a movie about the hope, that you can step out of a place like Kensington. That looked bad in the movie back in 1976, and then it only got worse and worse, movie related places should live, there are many movie enthusiasts, it's a shame there is not happening. Greetings from Poland
So funny, in the original Rocky they have him running after the raw egg drink scene. He’s actually running all over the city. He goes from Kensington in North Philly to South Philly Italian Market to the Art Museum and other neighborhoods that do not connect to each other as the running scenes play out
this video depressed the fuck out of me. people who are watching this and dont know philly, keep in mind that most of this video is filmed on ruth street, a street in NE philly that is literally only a few blocks long. there are beautiful parts of philly all around, and even though north philly is not that appealing visually, it can have its charm. sometimes.
My first thought watching this was this doesn’t look ghetto, I live and move around here then I thought about it. “Oh shit not everyone lives like this” this normal Philadelphia is a rough city maybe even a ghetto city, my thoughts on this is we will never change I don’t wanna leave this city and never will I may not have been born here but the earliest memories I have are from here so I will never leave this place my home town is my forever home
I grew up in this neighborhood. At one point it was such a nice clean neighborhood back 20-40 years back then drugs came into the scene and destroyed everything . Good neighbors left in exchange for wanna be thugs and selfish crack addicted slobs who could care less about the area. So sad to witness to the point it kind of hurts to see how us humans tend to destroy our own land for our very own selfish purposes !!
It is horribly sad that a beautiful old neighborhood with solid well built housing stock could just be discarded and left to the vagrants, drug addicts, street gangs, and prostitutes. There are a lot of gorgeous landmark buildings and fine old houses that just need some major repairs accompanied by some tender love and care than Kensington could come back to life. The same for North Philadelphia. These neighborhoods need all the help that they can get since government has ignored its responsibility and business has walked away.
People who aren't from this area which is known as Kensington will never know how to describe it. I was born and raised there. Kensington was a working class neighborhood until the factories were closed. It has changed and isn't a great neighborhood anymore. This city is made up of hundreds of different nieghborhoods all of which have questionable sections.
I'm going down to that neighborhood on Monday 3/9/15....working on the set of Rocky 5....they are using my chickens for a new chicken scene...so excited!....I would just be thrilled to meet Sylvester Stallone....my childhood crush.... (I'm now 49)...
The departure of industry and the shuttering of factories spelled the death knell for that once proud and prosperous Philadelphia neighborhood. Horribly sad!
excellent video Peter. great way to add emotion with the music. I jave a question for you? how were you able to get your footage look cinematic ? it seems like you might had used a smart phone to record it and is a little shaky however you got the color grading done right...just like the movie feel. how did you do it? would you mind sharing?
It definitely has that rough urban inner city look.. That's how parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx NY used to look in the 70s and 80s.. Actually Newburgh NY still looks like that today, that depressing look with old infrastructure and high crime.
Philadelphia is a great city to invest in real estate there are ghetto areas but they are pockets of ghetto areas, some people sees as Detroit which is very wrong! In North Philly new University's are built for exampleTemple university is a world wide known university is in North Philadelphia there are a lot of neighborhood change other high rise buildings are built in the river casinos in real estate market has been way up!Great city to invest in real estate real estate taxes are near to nothing..and if you build me a construction property 10 years tax free whoever owns it.(so it's very easy to re sell). And if they ever built that the high-speed train line from Boston to New York to Philly to Washington all the way to California it's going to be no more ghetto in nowhere in for the fiesta city because everybody that live in New York professional people will move back to Philadelphia and still work at New York 30 minutes of high-speed train priceless cheap and safe
The wife and I went in 2016 to all the locations. Rocky's apartment was still there. I watched another video for 2020 and where Rocky and Gazzo talked next to the fence they are building an apartment building or something now. A lot of the locations have changed I would definitely do research like we did before going. Some locations aren't there anymore. You're like there was a huge tall building where did it go? lol You forget from 1976 to 2021 A LOT can change. Still sad tho, you never want things to change, but buildings get old.
Sad thing is as bad as Kensington was in 1976 it’s a nice neighborhood compared to today. Now it’s the biggest open air drug market and pretty much hell of earth post fentanyl.
It’s so sad what reality actually is there. Sly came in to make the Rocky movies and left, but the people who live there every day have to deal with some really rough stuff on a daily basis,
I have never been to Philly, but I too recently looked it up on Google Map's, it feels like a place lost in time where it still looks like the rundown place and era of the Rocky films. Minus the new cars and the odd places done up to a standard, that anywhere else would still look rundown, but in Philly looks great in comparison. It feels like a trash can, just a huge dumping ground that nobody wants to clear up, you'd think with the success of the Rocky films... That it would have given the area a real boost and uplift... However at the same time, the film's quality of showing how Philly was, might have had the opposite of effect for nostalgia with the films... Still I don't think it's an area i'd want to go visiting...
If you look on google-maps it looks like it's gotten worse since the video was made. I could be wrong, though because the street view photography can be two years out of date so the area could be gentrifying now (tho' I doubt it).
This area is very very bad, Kensington Philadelphia is a drug market. Anything you need, goto Kensington and chances are someone will have it. Heroin is the easiest to find, Crack is easy too. Pills too. Never tried Meth and never want to, so I don't know but I'm sure you could find it. It's all about the drugs. I used to be a junkie and haven't been there since 2012, I don't plan on ever going back
It is very heartbreaking that a once proud and prosperous blue collar urban neighborhood could get infested by psychopaths and drug gangs and end up a decrepit, dangerous shithole in only a couple of decades.
Those areas aren't that bad. Port Richmond, lower Kensington, a drive up Frankford Ave? Not the worst parts of Philly by far. Try Southwest, West Phila, and Kensington and Somerset (which I didn't see unless the heroin addicts were hiding.)
I was in Philly a few years ago and made a detour off the Schuylkill Parkway and came through West Philly into downtown --- holy shit I was like the only white guy in a neighborhood of all blacks! I seriously thought I was gonna die LOL. It was some scary shit right in the middle of the day, too.
Pierre Je trouve le choix de musique judicieux, une musique plutôt triste avec un quartier pauvre et laid. De rajouter des images de Rocky est une excellente idée. Tu vas aller loin Braden. J"aimerais que tu mettes ton vidéo familial Toi et moi sur you tube Merci Serge Gaudette
Hi from Spain. I will visit the city in October, and of course I´d like to visit Rocky´s first house, but I have checked the address in Google Maps, and fuck... the place looks really really scary, even at day. Do you think is safe go there, visit the house and take some picture?
@EVAN CECCHETTO Well, we asked at the tourist office, and they told us not going on our own. So we decided to take an Uber at a reasonable time (at noon. The idea was to avoid the night obviously), and the driver took us there and we stopped for a couple of minutes to take some photos. And really, what we saw in that neighborhood was quite scary, people taking drugs in the middle of the street or people under the influence of drugs that were like Walking Dead zombies. Also, the UBER driver told us bad things about the neighborhood, and that even at night he doesn't go there. Who knows, it is possible that if we had gone at that hour on our own nothing would have happened, but I do not regret not having done it!
First of all Rocky is a fictional character, he never ever owned a house in Philadelphia, the movie was shot in a house in a runned down nieghborhood, Hollywood made millions and did'nt do a damn thing for the city except build a bullshit statue and place it on the side of the art museum's steps for tourist to take pictures with....now what the fuck is that!???
Dude, chill. Let me explain what i think. First, in this video these guys are showing the location where some scenes of the Rocky movie were filmed, so everyone knows that he never owned a house in Philly. And, the second thing is that it shouldn't be Hollywood to help Kensington. It doesn't make any sense. Hollywood only makes films, doesn't invest on rundown areas...
Why don't YOU do something for that neighborhood if you care so much? People always complain when someone else doesn't do something generous and there you are sitting on your computer complaining and not helping.
