It is a greater virtue to know where you came from and never forget who you truly are. However, the film doesn’t necessarily state that rich people are the winners instead, riches are just an illusion.
The story and the characters are based on that plain universe in which there are poor people and rich people losers and winners lonely people and families. The film takes advantage of the simplified world represented by the American Dream. Rocky’s universe has an interesting approach to this subtext. Creating a black and white worldview legitimized and reproduced inequalities among the American citizens throughout history. It also implied that poor people were poor simply because they were lazy and ignorant. The dream suggested that there were only hard-working people and ignorant people those who worked hard enough and had the ambition to succeed were surely going to succeed. This enabled people to ignore all the brutality behind the country’s real history: Slavery, exploitation, racism, native people’s genocide, and suppression by the newcomers, sexism. This “dream” promised that anyone in America had a chance to succeed if they worked hard enough. Just the way capitalism sugarcoats the capitalistic lifestyle, throughout America’s history the American lifestyle was promoted by selling the American citizen ideals to hope for, the biggest one being the American Dream. Realities regarding the land such as genocide, slavery, and exploitation were left out of this depiction of a dreamland.Īmerica’s history is a history of capitalism. The new land was depicted as a fertile land that promised its newcomers a comfortable life.
America’s population largely consists of people from different countries who migrated to America with the dreams of a better life and new opportunities. It’s very American because of America’s image in history. His fight organizer enthusiastically replies “Apollo I like it. A snow-white underdog I’m gonna put his face on this poster with me”. When everyone rejects to fight him because they are too afraid to be humiliated in public, he comes up with an idea: “This is the land of opportunity right? So, Apollo Creed on January first gives a local underdog fighter an opportunity. The heavyweight world champion Apollo Creed ( Carl Weathers) is searching for a new boxer for a match. Rocky starts as a film about an underdog boxer who is given a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain a name for himself. Rocky’s passion followed by successes that seem almost impossible at the beginning of each film encourages the viewer to dare to go the distance, no matter how unlikely success is.
This reminds the audience of the challenges they face in life. Rocky’s fights are not fought against his opponent his real fight in each film is against a new challenge in his life. Each film in the franchise fits a common defining framework, and yet each film is unique in its own way. With eight successful films, Rocky Balboa proves to be a well-crafted and beloved character, and Rocky films prove to be timeless classics. In addition to the original franchise, two spin-offs were made named ‘Creed’ and Creed 2, with Apollo Creed’s son as the main character and Rocky Balboa as his trainer. The success of Rocky lead to six films with Rocky Balboa as the main character. Rocky (1976) was nominated for ten Oscars TM winning three of them in 1977: Best Picture, Best Film Editing, and Best Director. Rocky franchise dominates the boxing genre not only by its greatest number of films but also by its unforgettable characters, unique film scores, and the heartfelt theme of never giving up the fight.
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