Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Essential Films Podcast - Episode #038: ROCKY (1976





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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