One insanely popular film that was announced the highest-grossing film of 1976 that won three oscar awards would be “Rocky” written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Meanwhile, the American composer of the film “Rocky” is William Conti, who was also the composer for the other four films of the series. Bill Conti was nominated an academy award for best original song for two different films, including the theme song of “Rocky” and “007.” Towards the end of the film, the song “Gonna Fly Now” composed by Bill Conti is introduced while Rocky Balboa is training for a huge boxing fight. As Rocky begins running through the city on an early morning, the trumpets are playing gracefully and mezzopiano at a largo tempo. Once his train methods become
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Apollo Creed demolishes Rocky throughout the fight. However, after one of the rounds end, Rocky occurs to be frustrated trying to throw punches after the round ends. As both fighters walk away the pianissimo sound of a cornet slowly builds up to create tension between the two opponents to develop a suspenseful feeling to the audience, hoping that Rocky will come back. After Rocky constantly was knocked down, his coach demanded for his to stay down and surrender. Immediately, Rocky decided to not back down, causing the trumpets to raise its tone to fortissimo instantly, while making to viewers anxious. Without the music, the audience would assume he is just going to get knocked down again, nonetheless, the melody created an anticipation to make the viewers assume that Rocky is going to do the impossible and make his last moments legendary. Then suddenly the trumpets instantly stop, and as Rocky dodges several punches and the musicless few seconds, Rocky immediately throws counter punches. With every punch, trombone and trumpet gradually increases in volume and power as Rocky’s opponent and becoming more damaged with each punch. The magnificent soundtracks make the viewers more engaged with the film, especially making them feel like it’s a real life situation, including when the wind instruments would blow harder
Apollo Creed demolishes Rocky throughout the fight. However, after one of the rounds end, Rocky occurs to be frustrated trying to throw punches after the round ends. As both fighters walk away the pianissimo sound of a cornet slowly builds up to create tension between the two opponents to develop a suspenseful feeling to the audience, hoping that Rocky will come back. After Rocky constantly was knocked down, his coach demanded for his to stay down and surrender. Immediately, Rocky decided to not back down, causing the trumpets to raise its tone to fortissimo instantly, while making to viewers anxious. Without the music, the audience would assume he is just going to get knocked down again, nonetheless, the melody created an anticipation to make the viewers assume that Rocky is going to do the impossible and make his last moments legendary. Then suddenly the trumpets instantly stop, and as Rocky dodges several punches and the musicless few seconds, Rocky immediately throws counter punches. With every punch, trombone and trumpet gradually increases in volume and power as Rocky’s opponent and becoming more damaged with each punch. The magnificent soundtracks make the viewers more engaged with the film, especially making them feel like it’s a real life situation, including when the wind instruments would blow harder