He visits Adrian’s grave every single day after she dies and stands by Paulie for life even though Paulie is terrible. He accepts people who are different than him even if he doesn’t understand them. When working as muscle for a loan shark, he doesn’t have the heart to hurt the guy he’s supposed to, and even as a boxer he can’t bring himself to play tough guy with his opponents and the media. * He’s both patriotic and religious, but not preachy. Realizing how stringently Stallone adheres to those principles makes the series as a whole greater than the sum of its parts and crystallizes Rocky’s appeal. We see him mature and age, rise and fall, but the man himself never really changes.ĭuring a recent binge-watch of the entire series, a number of themes and traits rose to the surface. We forgive even the most saccharine scenes because of how much we believe in Rocky and identify with him. Throughout the series, amid the ups and downs, Rocky himself remains unimpeachable. Tell me you don’t get the urge to put on sweatpants and head to the gym after watching a Rocky flick and I’ll call you a liar. For the most part they get progressively worse from the best-picture-winning original to the forgettable "Rocky V," a movie that was so depressing Stallone rebooted the series largely so his character wouldn’t end on such a glum note.īut each film has its moments – the boxing scenes, sure, and the familiar characters, the quotable one-liners and, of course, the training montages set to Bill Conti’s famous soundtrack. Rocky is what we wish to see in ourselves. No character the movies have ever given us has better represented our humanity – our dreams, our struggles, our daily attempt to be better people. That's because Rocky Balboa is the greatest movie character of all time. The only thing I’m asking you guys to leave on the table… is what’s right.Rocky is an American icon, and if Stallone is ever going to be honored by the Hollywood elite, we want it to be as Rocky. I mean you shouldn’t be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain’t good enough, I mean you think that’s right? I mean maybe you’re doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you’re willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who’s got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something… and you’re told no, even after you paid your dues? Who’s got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It’s your right to listen to your gut, it ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!… You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that’s life. Rocky Balboa: I appreciate that, but maybe you’re looking out for your interests just a little bit more. Rocky Balboa: My point is I’m pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it.īoxing Commissioner: But… we’re just looking out for your interests. Don’t it say something about going after what makes you happy?īoxing Commissioner: No, that’s the pursuit of happiness. Rocky Balboa: Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there?Boxing Commissioner: That’s the Bill of Rights. Rocky Balboa: Yo, don’t I got some rights?īoxing Commissioner: What rights do you think you’re referring to?
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