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Allen Burdette
Ms. Beaudoin
Eng. 102 Online
1 October 2016 Rocky
The classic movie Rocky was released in 1976 under director John G. Advildsen.
Now this movie just wasn’t another box office hit that made a lot of money one summer,
no Rocky teaches you about life. This is the best movie that a person could and should
watch simply because anyone can find a way to relate to it. In this movie you will see an
average man go through many hardships life can throw at us all as well as seeing a person
prosper through them. Rocky teaches character, love, perseverance, passion and what
hard work and dedication mean. Everybody should watch Rocky at least once in his or
her lifetime and maybe we all could have a different outlook on life and how we as a
society should be.
The plot of the movie Rocky is about a 30-year-old man on the brink of total
bum-hood. A Philadelphia native who isn’t the brightest guy out the bunch but has a
tremendous amount of heart that uses his qualities to be a boxer as he has been a lifelong
underdog. Rocky isn’t some amazing boxer or a top contender at his sport, he works
from small rings to take whatever fight he can just to make a little bit of money. Rocky’s
at the point in his life where everybody calls him a bum but he doesn’t let that get to him,
he knows things could be much worse and always finding the positives in life. He lives
in a small apartment, has no vehicle, small cash and his only friend is a drunk. As the
plot thickens Rocky gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to fight the number one boxer in
the world, Apollo Creed. Rocky is so humble and modest that he believes that he doesn’t
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deserve the chance, that he’s no where near Apollo Creed’s level and has to be talked into
the fight. He engages on this epic journey throughout the movie in hopes to win, to find
love, to never give up and to better his self. “Rocky is an un-ashamed feel-good movie”.
(Gilliam)
This film was awarded to the top 100 movies all time lists for its groundbreaking
ways it transcended and inspired society. When the movie was filmed in the mid 1970’s,
regions like Philadelphia along with other metro areas across the United States was in
tough times. They had a lot of unemployed citizens just fighting to do whatever they had
to in order to make it in life and most of them didn’t have a lot of hope and dwelled in the
negative. People could watch how Rocky’s character handles his self and find hope or
feel good. This man literally stays walking the streets bouncing a ball against the
