![]() ![]() In fact, if Stallone had stopped here, this author believes snooty film scholars would feel comfortable describing Rocky as one of the best boxing movies of all time without squirming in their seats hoping no one mentions Dolph Lundgren or Tommy Morrison.Īs any first-year student of Rockyology knows, Stallone was a struggling actor and screenwriter before he penned the script that made him famous, and the inspiration for that script was a 1975 boxing match between heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and unknown white dude Chuck Wepner. The dialogue in the original Rocky is fantastic, the cast is perfect, the cinematography is wonderfully understated, and it’s just a damn good underdog story. And not in some ironic, hipstery it’s-great-because-it’s-bad type of way either. The author of this essay would like to state for the record that he loves this movie. ![]() The theory is this: One can trace the anxieties that have plagued the Baby Boomer generation by watching all six Rocky movies in succession. Therefore, the author would like to propose a theory that can be researched whilst eating potato chips on the couch. There are many respected academic methods of analyzing the social progress of large populations, but most of them are boring and involve math. Between a Rocky and a Hard Place: How Rocky Balboa Taught Your Mom to Fear Black Men and CommunismĮvery generation yearns to understand the one that came before it, if for no other reason than to publish essays on the Internet criticizing past cultural icons in order to prove to your parents once and for all that you didn’t just “fritter away” six years of college smoking weed and playing Frisbee golf-so there! ![]()
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