Персонаж покорил меня своей
застенчивостью, добротой, талантом и амбициозностью.
До просмотра фильма, я не знала практически ничего о характере Рокки.
Еще мне понравилось то, что актер вложил собственные переживания по поводу нескладывающейся, на тот момент,
актерской карьеры, в жизнь начинающего и также не весьма успешного молодого боксера.
Фильм снят за копейки, но многие кадры действительно впечатляют и давно стали культовыми.
И здорово, что фильм стал прорывом для Слая, я честно даже не подозревала, что он способен написать хороший сценарий.
Единственное, что как мне показалось, хромает в фильме так это сцены самого боя. Смотрится не очень натурально.
Но это не так важно, важна сама история. Мне кажется она очень вдохновляющая для молоды спортсменов, в любом виде спорта.
The film was shot in 28 days.
The highest-grossing movie of 1976.
As he would with all of the Rocky films, writer Sylvester Stallone incorporated a great deal of biographical material into the screenplay.
In particular, Stallone used his own frustration to make it as an actor as a template for the frustration of the Rocky character to make it as a boxer.
As Stallone himself explains it, "I took my story and injected it into the body of Rocky Balboa because no one, I felt, would be interested in listening to or watching or reading a story about a down-and-out, struggling actor/writer.
It just didn't conjure up waves of empathy, even from me and I was sure it wouldn't do it from an audience either." читать дальшеRocky's dog Butkus was actually Sylvester Stallone's dog in real life.
One of the posters for the film featured a shot of Rocky and Adrian holding hands. Although this was one of the most popular images associated with the film, the scene this image was taken from was cut from the film.
The movie's line "Yo, Adrian." was voted as the #80 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
Writer Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write the screenplay for the film after seeing the Chuck Wepner-Muhammad Ali fight on March 24, 1975 at the Richfield Coliseum outside of Cleveland in Richfield, Ohio.
Thirty-six year old Wepner was considered a moderate talent, but no one thought he had a hope against Ali. Indeed, no one expected Wepner to last more than three rounds.
As such, the longer the fight went on past the opening three rounds, the more shocked people became; Wepner even managed to knock Ali down in the ninth round (although Ali has always maintained that Wepner was standing on his foot when he fell).
Ali immediately opened a blistering offensive in an attempt to drop Wepner and for the next six rounds, he pummeled Wepner mercilessly, breaking his nose and opening large gashes above both his eyes.
No matter how hard Ali hit him however, Wepner kept moving forward and continuing to fight (it was this specific aspect of the fight which inspired Stallone). Eventually, with 19 seconds left in the fifteenth and final round, Ali scored a TKO.
After producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested in the sсript, they offered writer Sylvester Stallone an unprecedented $350,000 for the rights,
but he refused to sell unless they agreed to allow him to star in the film (this despite the fact that he had only $106 in the bank, no car and was trying to sell his dog because he couldn't afford to feed it).
After Winkler and Chartoff purchased the film, they took it to United Artists, who envisioned a budget of $2 million, but that was on the basis of using an established star (they particularly wanted Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds or James Caan).
United Artists didn't want Stallone to star, and when Winkler and Chartoff told them that the only way they could get him to sell the screenplay was to agree to cast him,
United Artists cut the budget to $1 million, and had Chartoff and Winkler sign agreements that if the film went over budget, they would be personally liable.
The final cost of the film was $1.1 million. The $0.1 million came after Chartoff and Winkler mortgaged their homes so as to complete the project.