The Rocky series is Stallone's classic action movie, which can be said to be a groundbreaking work, if you are a fan of Stallone. There are two sets of movie series that you need to see from start to finish. One is the First Blood series I've written about before, and the other is the Rocky series.
From "Rocky" to "Quidditch", the youth of a generation of filmmakers seems to be yesterday.
Stallone also established the unshakable big brother status of the international action film industry through the "Rocky" series. The film is a typical American dream, which will be the growth process of a young person in the lower class of the United States, through his own adversity, step by step to the mainstream class.
"Rocky 2" Rocky fought with tenacious fighting spirit to fight the boxing champion!
As a pivotal figure in the international film industry, he was born in the slums of New York, but due to the operation error of the childhood midwifery doctor, Stallone was paralyzed by part of the muscles of his left cheek. This is also why Stallone in "Rocky 2", there will be a bridge section that does not recognize many words, is slurred, and is humiliated by the director. And in Stallone's dialogue in Rocky 1, it is always like talking with something in it.
"Rocky 2" made an advertisement, Rocky was treated as a beam-jumping clown, and the director kept mocking him.
Stallone's thick muscles, perfect muscle lines, sharp steps, and long, slightly fluffy hair in the film became the hallmark of that era. In the first installment, stallone knocks down "Spider-Man", everyone brags about himself and lets his old coach (Played by Bougis Meadows) reprimand him. In the eyes of the coach, Rocky is incomparable, a man who has become a real boxer, but goes to the street to collect loan sharks. Rocky and the master could not understand, and for a moment he was angry and threw himself away.
"Rocky 1" "Spider-Man" staged the Iron Head Gong, which gave Rocky a dry eye! This cannon!
In "Rocky 1", when Rocky returns home late at night, the streets are filled with the light and shadow of the gray American bottom neighborhood, revealing a kind of sadness abandoned by the world in the corner. Everyone wandering the streets and flaunting the market deepens this sense of alienation. Married to Adelian (Played by Talia Charles) in Rocky 2, Rocky walks through the dilapidated streets on the way home with his wife in his arms, and the joyful Rocky makes his brother who warms the streets sing a song. Quartet minor, so that the whole picture is full of warmth and joy, through the screen let every viewer feel the breath of love.
Rocky at this time in "Rocky 2" is in the spring breeze, and happiness has nothing to do with money.
The "Rocky" series basically adheres to the consistent narrative method, seamless connection, typical series style. Each plot is interlocked, with a concise kombat whirlwind, which also laid the original style of action movies. Like the well-known "Huang Feihong", "Ip Man", "Mechanic", "Rush Hour", "Terminator" and other series, each film is very dramatic.
The Rocky movie series is a series of books about the history of men's growth.
In the film structure of "Rocky", there have always been three narrative stages: the sweet stage, the endeavor (trough) stage, and the fight stage. The first three films are basically 120 minutes long, through 100 minutes to cultivate the audience's mood of watching the movie, so that the audience sympathizes with Rocky. Through another boxing match, the audience's emotions are collectively released.
Rocky's entire series of movies is to use the blood and sweat of men to write the steel will of the "Italian stallion", the eyes of the tiger, and the Philadelphia Iron Fist to tear apart the boxers who came to challenge one by one. In the fight scene of Stallone's series of movies, it always uses first weakness and then strength, until it is overturned, 1 second KO opponent.
The fight between the two in "Rocky 1" almost became a street fight, and Rocky is the iron chin of the movie.
As Apollo says in the film, he and Rocky were born warriors, and our honor and dignity are in the ring. This is not something that gold dollars can measure, and when Apollo is invincible in Rocky 1, he struggles to find an opponent. Apollo, who had a unique idea, decided to fight the impoverished boxer, the Italian stallion Rocky. In the press conference, Apollo's slight contempt, as well as discriminatory language, made the audience covered with a deep layer of anger by the plot.
"Rocky 1" Apollo is really very brash and arrogant, but Rocky is very calm.
At this time, Rocky's old coach took the initiative to find Rocky, in a slightly dark corner, the light was gloomy. Rocky is like a wronged baby, while the old coach is more like an old father who persuades his son to turn back. Finally, Ice released his previous suspicions and walked together on the radiant fist platform.
The old man of "Rocky" is ruthless in his mouth, but in his heart, he is worried about Rocky.
Modeled on the famous boxing match between Hammoud Ali and Chuck Wimpner, Sylvester Stallone produced Lodge 1, a film that won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing at the 49th Academy Awards.
When "Rocky 1" achieved unprecedented success, Stallone participated in the 49th Academy Awards, and even improvised boxing with boxing king Ali on the stage, and the award ceremony was extremely excited. Rocky and Ali also awarded Best Supporting Actress to Ms. Beatrice Street of "TV Storm".
Ali and Rocky (Stallone) have a funny boxing sketch
"Rocky 1" here to talk about the movie's Rocky idol - Rocky Marciano (formerly known as Rocco Francis Markegiano). Whenever Rocky was in a low mood, but his heart was extremely hot with emotions about boxing. And the old man Mickey has a good card, saying that Rocky's enthusiasm and pace are like his idols, which makes Rocky's confidence burst out.
Rocky Marciano has defended the gold belt six times and is the first boxer to date to remain undefeated until his retirement. Rocky Marciano, on the other hand, came from a hard background, practiced boxing from an early age, and is of both Italian and American descent. In 1950, he engaged Joe Lewis, then the world boxing champion known as the Brown Bomber, in a meat grinder-like boxing match. Finally win with Rocky Marciano knocking down! This is strikingly similar to the one-second tiebreaker in Rocky 2.
Marciano was like a "miracle" on the world boxing milestone.
Stallone, who plays Rocky in the Rocky series, employs a variety of boxing techniques and tactics in the film. Stallone's boxing circuits in the film tend to favor the boxing styles of "swarmers" and "brawlers". This type of boxer is good at punching and punching, has a weak sense of defense, advocates close combat, and must have a chin like steel. And Rocky in the film is still left-handed, and he has some disadvantages for boxers who play this way.
Pacquiao is the representative of the "Swarm" boxing style, and the playing style is very strong.
In the film, rocky and Apollo boxing match, in the end, the two almost became a street fight. For Apollo, the boxer, the humiliating victory made him grumble.
In the second part of Rocky due to eye problems and left-handed problems, the old man Mickey adopts the style of "frame changer". Let Rocky practice left and right, to achieve double fist balance, Rocky play more changeable, but the problem of defense has not changed.
Crawford is one of the representatives of the "left and right hand swap" boxing style.
In the center of the "Rocky 2" movie, the unwilling boxing king Apollo (Carl Weathers) tried his best, and even came up with a trick that could not be put on the table, so that Rocky (Stallone) obeyed. Finally contributed to this century of boxing challenge, Apollo this breath is held to the throat eyes, as soon as the opening, Apollo punches like rain, playing Rocky is eager to defend, soon the eyebrow corners are torn open, blood like a line.
Rocky used a steely will and a "fighter" boxing style to formally equalize, playing 15 rounds. Just when both of them were on the verge of collapse, Rocky struck a heavy punch, overturned Apollo, and a new boxer was born. And Rocky has achieved his American dream!
At the end of "Rocky 2", Rocky's "left and right hand swap" played a key role, fighting to defeat the boxer.
The number one villain of the third part of "Rocky", Crabber (played by Mr. T), is the same type of boxer as Rocky and is more physically strong than Rocky. With the strong support of his old rival Apollo, he mastered the fantastic boxing footwork like the boxing king Ali. And proficient in the boxing style of the "technical heavy boxer", with a stinging fist and good at fighting back, against Crabber's "swarm of bees" fight, Rocky uses heavy punches to block his beastly attack.
Tyson is the typical representative of the technical heavy boxer, plus "peekaboo", it is simply invincible.
In "Rocky 3", Rocky's help in Apollo and the support of his family allow Rocky to regain the world boxing belt and smash Crabber's dream of boxing with one punch. Rocky also lost his mentor, Mickey, who later inherited his boxing gym to Rocky.
In Rocky 3, Rocky and the crazy professional wrestler Ray Kiss in a charity match, the old man Mickey jokes about Rocky. Rocky asked Mickey why this kid was so strong and how much to eat at a meal?! Mickey said with a bad smile that he would eat 203 pounds for a meal. Rocky and Mickey meet and laugh, the "Rocky" series of movies is very warm, through these supporting roles to make Rocky's character more three-dimensional.
Two men in love with father and son in "Rocky", Mickey is Rocky's spiritual pillar
After "Rocky 3", the series of movies entered the harvest stage, deducing the series of movies at the speed of a core member receiving a box lunch. This is nothing more than stereotyping the film, industrializing, the same routine, the same emotional rendering link, and even the boxing time that enters the final climax is almost similar. This also makes "Rocky" after the third part lack of novelty, and the Douban score began to decline.
From the appearance of the first Lodge in '76, this series of films has come a journey of 44 years
Even so, it is impossible to ignore the brilliant position of this classic action film in the galaxy of the international film world. Whenever we think of textbook action movies, we think of the "Lodge" series, in which tens of millions of people chant "Italian stallion". Today, the Rocky series has been written to a sixth, and the seventh is a spin-off of the Rocky series, the Quidditch series.
Classic locations, classic angles, a tribute to Rocky
The two films in the "Quidditch" series have been released in China successively, and the response is average. And the old-school action kind of pure fighting, live-action shooting is now rarely seen. In addition to Stallone's "Daredevil" a few years ago, the shadow of some action movies has been recovered. Over the years, it has been the Marvel and DC superhero series that dominate the mainstream market, and the only thing that competes with it is the "Fast and Furious" series. In 2020, Stallone will star in the new "Samaritan" thriller, hoping to bring a new dawn to the old-school action movies.
We do not demand that old-school action movie stars can be eternally brilliant, but only hope that they will not be like "Ip Man", so that fans will issue the feeling that action movies have "no successor".