Rocky Balboa

father told me, “If you quit what would you have accomplished?” It wasn’t just me sucking that made me want to quit though. I was bullied and considered a reject on the team. No one wanted to play with me or against me. So I trained harder than Rocky Balboa and challenged my way up through the hierarchy. When it was senior year I had reached the #2 spot on the varsity team and knew I needed to win my first gold medal to show all the people who doubted me that I can accomplish my goals.…

“I came here tonight and I didn 't know what to expect. I seen a lot of people hate me and I didn 't know what to feel about that so I guess I didn 't like you much none either,” a line uttered by Rocky Balboa to an audience full of Soviets after defeating the powerhouse Russian boxer, Ivan Drago. Films of the 1980’s relating to the Cold War era influenced culture in the United States more clearly than any other historical era depicted on the silver screen. It is important to know the background…

Have you ever wondered why American movies and TV shows often feature a Russian villain? This is not a new concept; these biases have been strengthened through writing for millennia. In Ancient Greece, Sophocles, an Athenian writer wrote of the struggle between law and morality in his play Antigone. Antigone takes place in the conflict ridden city-state of Thebes, where Creon, the king, declaims that his nephew Polyneices is a traitor and anyone who tries to bury him shall die. Antigone,…

Screenplays have many different elements to them. This could be from the suspense or the disbelief of the plot. The suspense can pull the audience’s attention and have the screenplay on its toes. The disbelief can leave the screenplay unfinished and can have the audience fill in the ending pieces. A strong structure throughout the screenplay that will bring in the overall feeling of it, also the setting of the screenplay in which opens up a travel experience to the viewer. There is one aspect of…

Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, and many more decided to innovate from the old Hollywood formula into something much their own. While working on the first Rocky film, Stallone wanted to have the camera in the ring with himself and Carl Weathers so that the boxing could feel more real compared to how boxing films before Rocky were shot in the past. However, experts who were helping Stallone on the film rejected his advice till the point where they quit the film altogether. In order…

Waking up every morning felt like a burden that could barely be moved, crushing my soul at every waking moment; and one morning, there was nothing. Not a single bit of struggle, no burden, and no soul crushing. That moment has forever marked the time when I can say I overcame my hardest challenge yet: depression. The morning I woke up, feeling good about myself, feeling as if the world was at my fingertips, changed my life in ways nothing else has. It changed my personality completely, from…

guaranteed in with ‘Rocky I’ or ‘Footloose’, embodied responses of audience are varied. Reasons and Reynolds suggest that kinaesthetics ought to be considered as plural rather than singular, different members of the audience are likely to have different responses and reactions based on their personal background and experiences (Reason and Reynolds, ) While they consider this specifically in relation to dance, these varied responses could be extended to sports films such as ‘Rocky I’. In some…

Challenges help you earn Respect We don't grow when things get easier; we grow when we face challenges. The stories “Amigo Brothers”by Piri Thomas and “The Last Spin” Evan Hunter are similar to each other because two characters face challenges that they have to accept. The movie “Creed” direct from Ryan Coogler is similar to the stories because the character Adonis is facing challenges when he was little and still face challenge thought the movie, but at the end it shows that he got respect…

The Reflection of Words In the movie Creed as he was pointing towards Adonis’ reflection in the mirror, Rocky Balboa said “that’s the toughest opponent you're ever going to have to face.” This is a relatable quote because this is true in every aspect of life. It is not a lack of intelligence or creativity; that is just an excuse. I know personally that my biggest barrier is myself. Many people in today’s society do not excel in writing because of the discipline it takes, the rules are not…

Some say certain books will never die and will always be used for the purpose it has been used for since the beginning. Some of these books include To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher in the Rye. These classics have been used by English teachers for decades to teach kids about literature, but sometimes you have to wonder if maybe they're starting to get a bit outdated. So when I was posed the question, “Does the Catcher in the Rye resonate with teenagers today?” I simply had…