ALKALI AMANA’S BOARD: ROCKY I

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ROCKY I

Thirty (30), broke, a collector for a mafia boss,  a local boxer with a slurred manner of speech - southpaw & a man trying to woo the most shy girl in the city. Put all of these together and you will get Rocky Balboa, the Italian Stallion.

Rocky I is a movie that brings to fore what opportunities can do to a man when he takes them, no matter how insurmountable they appear. The movie is still as relevant (to me) as when it was featured in 1976. It's lessons remain true and the resilient character of a determined man can be bought off its screen.

The movie begins with Rocky shown as a local boxer with a decent record out of the local fights he had engaged in, and he also acted as the thug or macho collector of a mafia boss who loaned out money to people from which he made some extra bucks to fare with. As a boxer, he idolised Rocky Marciano and worked out at Mickey's gym where an old local trainer ran his business of coaching and teaching boxing. Meanwhile, he had an interest in his friend's sister, a girl who was shy to the bones and was seemingly weird. Even her brother thought of her as a retard sometimes, but Rocky was taken by his interest in her. So was his life until Apollo Creed came to town.

Apollo Creed was the World Heavyweight Champion who had come to Philadelphia for a match with another professional boxer, with the title on the line. However, in the last minute, the other boxer pulled out the fight citing an injury that rendered him incapacitated for such function. Apollo thought it a bluff and an excuse by the boxer to avoid getting beaten in the ring. He was energized and wouldn't leave town without a fight. He decided to give a local fighter a chance and after going through the local index he found the name Rocky Balboa - the Italian Stallion.


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