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People who come here to pursue their dreams. Where everybody
gets an equal opportunity. A "fighting" chance.
I remember when I first saw the sequels to Rocky I was still a child.
Rocky III I had seen for the first time in so many years, this time through the eyes of an adult.
Theres such absolute daring simplicity in some of the more potent scenes. Not where Rocky is fighting in the ring, where the action is clearly overblown for effect...but where he is fighting for him self. For his direction in life. For his purpose.
Maybe thats what a lot of American men must feel these days and maybe in fact for the last three, with their nation at war.
But I mean to point to specifically a scene where Rocky has some truly self-doubting moments while jogging on the beach in training and he is confronted by his wife, played by Talia Shire.
For some reason, we always can watch this scene and almost sense its a scene that keeps us poised to almost feel we are about to see the actors playing turn into a maudlin mockery of melodrama itself.
Sylvest Stallone broke new ground with these films I think. I have never seen an actor in any role with the temerity to play a hero and yet stil posses the emotional honesty to show what it's like to see a grown man cry as I have with Sylvester Stallone.
Its a great scene played out on the beach in Rocky III. Inspiring, I think, is the word some people have used.
More here on the brand new Rocky film n production
Tough chic.
