The movie Rocky I is your classic david versus goliath kind of movie. Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone is the main character in this movie. A young man born and raised in the streets of rough Philadelphia takes up boxing at the age of 15 and is an old washed out coulda, shoulda, woulda been by the age of 30. Now Rocky's not all there in the head and it doesn't take any kind of brain surgeon to figure that one out from the moment you meet Rocky. But the guys got heart and determination. Rocky boxes to make some extra cash while working for a 2 bit loan shark collecting debts for him. This isn't the ideal lifestyle, especially in Philly at this time unless you weren't planning on living a long, prosperous life for yourself.
Rocky meets this girl Adrian and they kinda help each other out, she's extremely socially awkward, and Rockys just kinda awkward in general. Apollo Creed, the heavyweight champion of the world at that time was coming to Philly to fight the number one contender. The contender was injured, so Apollo had this bright idea to offer the fight to a local boxer, figured he could put on a nice show then mop the floor with them when he decided too. He picked Rocky, off of one thing, his nickname, "the italian stallion". Now Rocky gave himself this nickname, and Apollo shoulda known, you cant trust a man who gives himself his own nickname, its just common sense. Apollo was in for a ride that he had no idea about. He had no idea the amount of heart that consumed Rocky, Rocky was one of a kind. He fights to his opponents levels though and thats why he never made the big time, but he could take a punch like no other. He was excellent at taking a beating, it just so happened he was pretty good at giving them too. Apollo found out soon enough when a fight that was suppose to last 3 rounds tops went the distance and ended with a split decision in Apollos favor. Both fighters looked pretty bad at the end, both battered and bruised.
This right here is why you dont judge a book by its cover i think, because Apollo made that mistake of judging Rocky and not taking him seriously. He thought Rocky was a low class bum who was going to be an easy opponent. Well he was wrong and i think if you have a little heart and you wade out the storm and suck up the inconveniences and obstacles, you can accomplish anything.
I really liked your blog and agree with all the things that you said. I like how you gave enough information about the movie with out drawing it out and being boring. You capture a great view on the movie. I also like how you incorporated really life lessons that occured in the movie and then explained them in your blog. People can learn from that. Since I have never seen this movie I most definately want to go see it now!
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