The Greatest Underdog Story Ever Told | Stallone On Making ROCKY 

Amen

Me too. He worked harder than mostly multi Task People try harder. I am not ido one thing at a time focused theVoila also My Name Adrienne I waited for the Yo Adrienne It gets me every time.

At the end of scene when he says Adrienne I love you I weep without fail. my oldest Son has this sweet nature He is tough works out runs even when in College rode his bike from one side of Florida to the others head of Bicycle Club Caught rain storm keeps peddling A older couple blew their horn asked if he could rest He obliged.gave him a bite to eat Determined . Grsduat😮graduated from Purdue University 2 engineer degrees Likes Advanced Calculus. Heck myself have math phobia Ha ha loved History Art My son however Mr multi task Excels in mathematics as well as art a 4 ear old winning an art award competing with 150 Adults . Humble And a sweetness inside Stallone has that tough veneer but there is a sweet kindness not apparent nor would he draw attention to himself As he quoted Zheng believes nDivine intervention : some People are too sensitive for this World 🌎 words can hurt them those people need extra Care. When your chid more nurturing.I am thankful no chip or arrogance With my son His brother too unpretentious, both fought in Iraq and Afghanistan He called On Christmas Eve to wish me a merry Christmas Asked what he was doing His voice pierced me I am loading Body bags .Still Being a mother never comes with instructions. Sadly.I can’t imagine I can’t Fathom.hard to catch my breath.these young men so young make sure we can sleep safe at night.

I was coming unglued here Sorry tears. emotional but we must not forget . we Americans must choose Presidents and -politicians like Choosing someone you must trust with their lives.

Agreed , I don’t think there’s a person alive that would be jealous of Stallones success , you want to see a person like him make it it’s a win for the good guys

Yes

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Rocky reminds me of Arjuna and Mickey reminds me of Lord Krishna

No he teaches people self confidence determination and hard work

I agree with you 100%. You said it all with seven words.😊

He looked at it with this line of logic; If they’re prepared to pay too dollar for the script, then it means what I wrote is worth it. Then it means it’s my chance to make it work with me as a lead character. He ended up doubling the offer, so the courage to take the gamble based on that line of logic paid off. Now Sylvester Stallone is a movie or film maker legend.

I would put Rocky 2 right up there with it.

😂😂thank you Jason ,I would like to put you through the team , looking forward to your response

It’s a perfect movie in every aspect

@@johnscanlon2598 As a Black woman, I wholeheartedly, agree. 🙂

You are not alone.I do too! Godspeed!

Character study. We don't see that anymore.

@@jude999 Rocky is really not about boxing. Its love story

Respect to you bro

...The will to win after life beats you down, but you find the will to...Get Back Up !! This film and it's story, epitomizes that.

Saw it at as a young boy. Life changer.

Same. I wrote a book about it!

LOL go watch more movies

Well said. Wanna have lunch? Lol

Better than Johnny Five?

As an English proverb goes: Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out of it alive. LOL

Well written

not only that, but imagine the weights lifted, miles ran, calories burned, along with the suicid@l thoughts that were beaten because of how motivating and inspirational Rocky is.

for me it's anything spider man and other superheroes who keep going even in hard times and also rocky. I just love movies that emphasize the rule "never give up" I live by that everyday. it's started with spider man and just grew with other heroes real life and fictional

Mine was Bloodsport and Rainbow Bright

Definitely spider man especially after uncle bens death

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Stallone is the worst actor in Hollywood right along with Arnold. They have something else in common. Steroids…still.

Great statement

Thank you butterfly, would love to hook you up wíth the team, looking forward for your response.xx

Stallone is upset that he doesn't have the rights to the Rocky series. However. Irwin took a chance on him & let him play the main character. It was a gamble that paid off very well, but it was still a gamble. He's definitely nor hurting for $.

Why ?

A documentary is enough man

You know, that's actually not a bad idea. They made one about how the godfather got made so why not make one about Rocky.

That would be awesome maybe one day.

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I wasn’t prepared for how these movies were going to make me feel. I binged them only recently and thought wow, I never knew how good! Rocky Balboa is probably my fave, it’s the one that made me cry. 1). The way he spoke to his son about taking charge of his own life and 2). The very end at Adrian’s resting place. Wow. If I had seen this movie when it came out, say at the movie theater, I can only image not a dry eye in the room and perhaps people thought that symbolically, Rocky had transitioned - maybe to meet Adrian on the other side? Make peace with (end) his boxing career for good? Finally slayed the beast of grief and feeling inadequate? It was left open to many ways of interrupting it - especially if you didn’t know back then Rocky would be reprised in Creed. Just a great franchise all around and didn’t need a single sex scene or profanity to carry it 🥹

Alongside with other all-time great boxers pound for pound who I considered my favorites and my inspiration such as Ali, Tyson, Ray Leonard, Roy Jones, Holyfield, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, Crawford, Errol Spence Jr, Mayweather, Devin Haney, Shakur Stevenson, Ryan Garcia, Arturo Gatti, Mickey Ward, Usyk, Tank Davis, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Joe Frazier, Canelo, Pacquiao, Naoya Inonue, Lomachenko. Stallone and his Rocky films and seeing a lot myself in his Rocky Balboa character inspired me to box. Hell, he probably inspired most of the champions and greats and the best pound for pound of my era to start boxing in their youths and become the best at what they do. Whenever you feel low, or under appreciated of yourself, Rocky is a go-to movie and depicts on what life is when it is making you a constant punching bag but also to overcome it and be better. Not only this film is just the greatest boxing film, or the greatest sports-film in general, it showed how boxing is the best and greatest sport once you’ve taken it, it also shows the sport is the greatest metaphor in life. Stallone should be proud about himself on the enormous amount of people he inspired to box because of his masterpiece stories and movies, and also makes you think you’re literally in the movie scene yourself. ❤ I literally forgot Rocky Balboa is a movie character and treated his boxing matches and his fight scenes, especially the Apollo Creed fight and the rematch, and the Ivan Drago fight as a real matchup. Though I loved the Creed movies, it’s nothing compared to the Rocky movies. Especially the Creed III. Though I like Michael B. Jordan, I felt like the boxing matches against Damian Anderson felt a bit too much, especially since I heard the Damian Anderson matchup was inspired by Anime shows.

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yeah. if Rocky didnt have a cool ass nickname, he would have just been a journeyman for life like Spider Rico. He'd have Adrian, but we wont have the sequels, cause Im sure as hell if Clubber made it as champ, Drago would beat him lol. Rocky got lucky but he made the most out of it.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity

You've got to be prepared when luck comes knocking. This man is an incredibly hard worker with determination like nobody's business. He deserves EVERYTHING he has earned. What an inspiration!

hard work and divine intervention, sure there are countless talented actors but there wouldn't be Rocky without Stallone. Just like no one could have played the Terminator like Arnold, not even the more versatile and experienced actors.

Hey, so because this movie had like no budget and wasn't widely advertised, what made you go see it ? I'm curious what the atmosphere around the time of the movie was like

I saw it in the theaters when I was 8 years old. I had only heard of it from my brother who had already seen it before me. And word gradually got out amongst us kids about what a great movie it was so I wanted to see it. Saw it with my brother who had to see it again. Never saw any previews of it on TV or anything. Played at our local theater for like 6 months! The year before, Jaws came out and stayed for like 6 months there too. Now I've seen it a thousand times and I still get chills every time. But it was what was mostly talked about among us kids at the time and we all wanted to be like him. That character was very inspirational for all of us.

True

So glad another person understands this. It is the scene in a movie with so many great scenes.

Well said.

I just checked out your song, brother. There's a plaintiveness in your voice that makes me think about your relationship with your mother. Based on your description of her above, she was clearly the rock (pardon the unintended pun!) of your family. My mum is the same! God bless you, George.

@@khushpanthaky I have been told other things about my voice too. Interesting stuff how the voice box is a box of wonder and awe!

Ooh I like that you mentioned the movie ROCKY & BACK TO THE FUTURE. 2 of my favorite movies too