Recently Lee saw a movie about boxing, Quiddy 2: The Hero Comes Back, aka Rocky 8, the canonical sequel to Stallone's iconic movie series Rocky. The first part of "Quidditch" was released in 2015, when Lao Li saw that the movie was promoted under the name of "Rocky 7", he felt that it was an unknown bad film rubbing the heat of "Rocky", and he did not expect to know that it was its derivative series. This evokes the memory of old Li watching "Rocky" when he was a child, it is really beautiful, today let's talk about the greatest boxing series in the history of this film!
The first screenplay for Rocky was written by Stallone, who was still tinkering in the film and television circles, cleaning lion cages in zoos, delivering pizzas, helping others fish, helping people look after book stalls in bookstores, and being a seater in a movie theater in order to make a living. His first role was as a dancer, which was renamed "Italian Stallion" after Stallone's "Rocky" became famous, and this film was also forced by life. By chance, Stallone watched a boxing match with Ali and was deeply inspired, so he had the first part of "Rocky".
The first part mainly tells the story of a lonely and nameless boxer Rocky who won the fight with the heavyweight boxer Apollo, in the final climax of the film, Rocky was looked down upon by the boxer Apollo and wanted to solve the battle immediately, but Rocky stubbornly survived fifteen rounds before being defeated, although he lost the game, he won the recognition of everyone and also embraced the beauty. The plot of this battle corresponds to the boxing match between Ali and Chuck Wipner, who was also defeated after fifteen rounds, which inspired Stallone to watch the game. The first "Rocky" was brilliant, winning the 1977 Oscar for Best Picture and making Stallone famous.
The production level of "Rocky 2" Lao Li thinks that it is not as good as the first one, and there are many plot slots, but I am still very touched by it. In this part, Rocky returns to ordinary life, but the boxing king Apollo has been forcing him to return to the boxing world, and finally the rocky king returns to defeat Apollo and become the new boxer. The second part uses a two-line plot, the most important of which is its emotional drama, while describing Rocky while describing Apollo, Rocky's dedication to love, his insistence on his responsibility as a man, and his humble reverence and dependence on God make him no longer a puppet in a genre film, he has the role of the protagonist of the inspirational film, and more emotions that belong to Rocky.
In "Rocky 3", it tells the story of rocky, the boxer who has defended his title many times, is challenged by the unscrupulous boxer Trood and regains his fighting spirit with the help of his former opponent Apollo. It is this sequel that makes Rocky and Apollo have a very special brotherhood, and it has become an important part of the emergence of the "Quidditch" series. Old Lee liked the friendship between Rocky and Apollo, but in "Rocky 4", Apollo was defeated by the Soviet amateur boxer Drago in the arena and died. This made old Li very sad, but it was good that Rocky finally avenged Apollo, and it was a pity for Apollo's dead old Li.
"Rocky 4" was also released in a very special setting, at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, and this series of films was designed to inspire people and promote the American spirit, so it was somewhat political. And "Rocky 5" and "Rocky 6" are about the sadness of small people in reality, no matter how famous you are and how rich you are, you will be defeated by various unexpected situations, the fifth Part of Rocky is in financial crisis, and the sixth Part of Rocky's pursuit of what he loves after retirement is portraying the life of an ordinary person. While the endings are both a bit dramatic, both also describe Rocky's ordinary life as an ordinary person.
The "Rocky" series is worth watching, this series has never lacked passionate speeches and blood-boiling fights, nor does it lack the tenderness of the iron man, which can infect you at a specific time and change with the direction of the film's plot. Now stallone is also more than seventy and eighty, it is estimated that it is difficult to see the Rocky he plays standing in the boxing ring, but you can continue to see the old Rocky after becoming a coach in "Quiddy".