Requiem for a Heavyweight
It’s a given that America loves underdog tales. After all, the very bedrock of our founding was rooted in quite unlikely odds. Still, after enormous success is achieved, can that team, person or fictional character any longer be considered an underdog, and still stir the sympathetic and cathartic fighting spirits of an audience? That’s one of the questions at the center of multi-hyphenate Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa, in which one of the big screen’s greatest long-shots returns for one final round. For the full feature piece interview with Stallone, from FilmStew, click here.
Rocky Balboa: now one of my favorite all time movies and my top pick from the Rocky series. Being a middle aged man myself I see the more mature, always caring, always kind Rocky in sort of a mid life crisis conquering it with style, no boasting, but head remains high. Naturally I will not find myself in a boxing ring, but my mid life crisis is just as real . . . now, because of Rocky Balboa, I have lessons in ways to conquer my own. Thanks to Stallone for not walking away from this project, for his perseverance in making this movie happen.
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