The film Rocky IV, revealed the thoughts and ideas of many in the Western culture. The United States vs. the Soviet Union captured the cold war inside of a boxing ring. Director Sylvester Stallone portrays the film of ideological nationalism by this representation of the Cold War a thriller of a film as his others. Also, the film shows discretely once again that Rocky a white male is the face of United States.
Rocky IV is a part of a thrill seeking series of Sylvester Stallone directed six. Rocky once again finds himself in the boxing ring. A domino affect transpires as an up and coming Russian fighter with the name of Ivan Drago welcomed himself to America to challenge Apollo Creed. As misfortune struck Apollo, he faced Drago, from the beginning …show more content…
Russia. Rocky’s arrival to his new training grounds had wide camera shots. The filmmaker purposely chose this to display how humble and deescalate the environment, located on a little farm in the middle of nowhere. He cut logs, hauling them on his back, sits up inside the farm, running intensely in the snow. On the other hand Drago’s training was captured as using the best technology money could buy all while being in doors, having statistical data for every step he took. He also was shown taking steroid, increasing his strength, constructing an ideology that this how all-Russian athletes are. This comparison shows how society in America viewed themselves and Russia, it created a protagnistic and antagonistic view of the characters. Drago represented Russia as a ruthless machine that wanted to kill anyone or anything showing no signs of emotion. In the movie Hurricane, Rubin aka Denzel Washington was portrayed in a much similar way, instead the film entertains the idea of “blackness”, that all blacks act aggressive and confrontational towards the police. At that time Russia became the bigger topic, which was a rising super power, the stereotyping of blacks was less portrayed at the time of the cold
Rocky IV is a part of a thrill seeking series of Sylvester Stallone directed six. Rocky once again finds himself in the boxing ring. A domino affect transpires as an up and coming Russian fighter with the name of Ivan Drago welcomed himself to America to challenge Apollo Creed. As misfortune struck Apollo, he faced Drago, from the beginning …show more content…
Russia. Rocky’s arrival to his new training grounds had wide camera shots. The filmmaker purposely chose this to display how humble and deescalate the environment, located on a little farm in the middle of nowhere. He cut logs, hauling them on his back, sits up inside the farm, running intensely in the snow. On the other hand Drago’s training was captured as using the best technology money could buy all while being in doors, having statistical data for every step he took. He also was shown taking steroid, increasing his strength, constructing an ideology that this how all-Russian athletes are. This comparison shows how society in America viewed themselves and Russia, it created a protagnistic and antagonistic view of the characters. Drago represented Russia as a ruthless machine that wanted to kill anyone or anything showing no signs of emotion. In the movie Hurricane, Rubin aka Denzel Washington was portrayed in a much similar way, instead the film entertains the idea of “blackness”, that all blacks act aggressive and confrontational towards the police. At that time Russia became the bigger topic, which was a rising super power, the stereotyping of blacks was less portrayed at the time of the cold