Outside the ring, Rocky struts the urban streets in a ratty black hat, bouncing a rubber ball and collecting debts for a local waterfront racketeer, Tony Gazzo (Joe Spinell).
The only thing special about you is that you’ve never had your nose broken.” As the gym’s owner, Mickey (Burgess Meredith) says, “You’ve got heart kid, but you fight like a goddamned ape. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a Philadelphia southpaw nicknamed The Italian Stallion, well past his prime and now brawling for peanuts in converted churches, where he bums cigarettes off fans who call him a bum.
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It’s the source of all our subconscious training montages, an accessible commentary on the working class, the romanticized epitome of the American Dream, a record setter at the box office, the Best Picture of 1976, one of the finest love stories in movie history and the greatest underdog story ever told.
It’s so easy to forget that Rocky, the original, is actually a solid film, however calculated. Unfortunately, the film has become so diluted by pop culture references and endless sequels that watching it today almost feels like an exercise in self-parody. It’s a part of the American experience, an inspiration to millions and the blueprint for so many sports movies to follow. Even those who haven’t seen the film feel as if they have, and everyone, fans and non-fans alike, can instantly call to mind the film’s characters, quotes, music and images. Few films can claim to have been seen, and beloved, by so many. Everyone and his mother knows the story of Philadelphia down-and-outer Rocky Balboa and his miracle long-shot at boxing’s heavyweight crown. To argue the merits of Rocky as a popular phenomenon seems almost unnecessary, and any plot summary is merely a formality. And there’s nothing they’d like better than to see Apollo Creed give a local Philadelphia boy a shot at the greatest title in the world on this country’s biggest birthday.”
And a lot of other people in this country are just as sentimental.
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