EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Yo, Adrian! Take your mind off what’s going on in the world and join Adolfo and Mark on today’s adventure: John G Avildsen’s ROCKY (1976)
On this week’s show:
- How the current pandemic has affected the movie industry.
- How people’s first impression of Rocky is often wrong
- Thunderlips: The Ultimate Male
- Stallone is a carny
- Stallone’s story of the making of Rocky is a little too Hollywood
- The unlikely names suggested for the role of Rocky before Stallone insisted on playing the role himself
- The bluff that paid off for Stallone
- The real story is better than the myth
- Is ROCKY a better Oscar movie than TAXI DRIVER?
- Casting choices for Adrian and why did Talia Shire have to audition?
- The Rocky steps
- The paradox of the opening theme and the first shot
- The difference between the first and last fight in the film
- Lloyd Kauffman’s cameo
- Willie Cici
- “That pet shop dame”
- The differences of Stallone and Burgess Meredith at 69.
- How the production used its limitations to its benefit
- Rocky would have gotten #MeToo’d
- DO NOT DRINK RAW EGGS!
- Running in Converse All-Stars seems unwise
- The emergence of the steadicam
- Chicken bones
- Going the distance
- “Cut me, Mick”
- The alternate ending for the film
- Favorite sequels.
FILMS REFERENCED:
- THE PARTY AT KITTY AND STUD’S (1970)
- BANANAS (1971)
- THE GODFATHER (1972)
- THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
- THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (1974)
- JAWS (1975)
- CAPONE (1975)
- DEATH RACE 2000 (1975)
- NETWORK (1976)
- TAXI DRIVER (1976)
- ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
- STAR WARS (1977)
- ROCKY II (1979)
- RAGING BULL (1980)
- ROCKY III (1982)
- THE KARATE KID (1984)
- ROCKY IV (1985)
- ROCKY V (1990)
- THE GODFATHER PART III (1990)
- STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT (1992)
- INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
- ROCKY BALBOA (2006)
- CREED (2015)
- CREED II (2018)
- THE MANDALORIAN (TV Series, 2019)
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