Analyzing The Film 'Rocky'

The film The Fighter shows a side where some or most athletes struggle with during or at some stage of their sports career, identity. Identity seems to be one of the social issues that is portrayed in this film and is an issue that athletes face today. This film shed light on an underprivileged community where in a family of nine, two brothers attempt to make a name for themselves in the sport of boxing. The struggle to find themselves as individuals as well as sportsmen is shown through this movie. This is shown as Dicky Ward whom is one of the two main characters in the film The Fighter is depicted as the favourite child in the eyes of his parents in which whom have failed to realise he is a drug addict whereas the younger brother Micky Ward

Review written by David Ansen on Newsweek: ‘’Ron Howard's depression-era boxing saga "Cinderella Man" has one thing in common with "Revenge of the Sith": just about everybody knows how the story will turn out. It's not that everyone's heard of James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe), the scrappy heavyweight from New Jersey whose rise and fall and rise made him a working-class hero in the depths of the Depression--the symbolic equivalent of a two-legged Seabiscuit. What we do all know is that Hollywood's not about to make a sports movie with this title that doesn't have a happy ending.’’ That was basically in particular that specifically related to what was going on in the 1930’s in relation to how the economic structure of 2005 settled in although the intensity of the economic slowdown, which reduced yearly growth to 3.5 percent from 4.2 percent in 2004, surprised many forecasters. They had expected a sharp pickup in business investment in the final months of the year to take up some of the slack in consumer spending and had predicted an overall growth rate of 2.5 percent to 3 percent in the fourth

The documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness” directed by Ken Burns casts light on the extraordinary life story of legendary boxer Jack Johnson. The documentary is about the barriers Jack Johnson had to overcome to satisfy his hunger for becoming the best and living “The American Dream.” Johnson had humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas and it was in those beginnings that glimpses of his bright future were slowly but surely beginning to show. Through out his life, he showed independence, relentlessness, ability to improvise, call attention to himself and get around rules meaning to tie him down. Jack Johnson was a self made man who had the drive to go forward and achieve what he wanted to achieve

Creed, is a movie that performances by Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson, Apollo Creed’s son, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, and Tessa Thompson as Bianca was directed by Ryan Coogler. Adonis Johnson, who is the son of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, was living in the youth facility when Mary Anne, Creed’s widow visited him and decided to adopt him. Adonis work as a professional, but he was not satisfied with his current life. Mary Anne was so disappointed with him because Adonis’s father passed away in the ring, and she did not want Adonis to follow his dad’s step. Despite the fact that he wanted to pursue his dream to work as a professional fighter, he gave up his current job and went to Philadelphia. He found Rocky Balboa there and he requested Balboa to become his mentor and trained him. In the process of becoming a professional fighter, Adonis went through challenges. Even though Adonis faces challenges in life, he overcomes them because he never gives up.

Rocky’s work ethic was both a mental and physical battle throughout the movie. His trainer, Mickey Goldmill,

Rocky influenced the film industry through its plot. The main plot of Rocky is the main character’s desire to make his or her life better. This theme is one of the most common themes

Though much has been made of the physical transformation Jake Gyllenhaal put himself through to look like a real boxer, Southpaw is a fairly standard, by-the-numbers boxing melodrama that hits all those beats we're accustomed to through the Rocky films. Gyllenhaal continues to show that he is one of the most interesting and talented actors of his generation, elevating this conventional boxing story that, despite an excellent start, embraces every cliché of the genre and becomes so frustratingly sentimental in its second

Throughout history, Americans have dealt with cultural and social tensions in a number of ways. For several decades, the nation was manipulated by fear and paranoia as the shadow of Soviet influence continued to loom large in everyone’s life. Rocky IV (1985) is an American sports film written by, directed, and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky IV tells the story of world champion American boxer Rocky Balboa (Stallone) seeking to avenge the death of a friend and defend his country’s honor by daring to travel to the Soviet Union and fight their best athlete on enemy soil. Director Mike Judge’s 1999 comedy film Office Space depicts a different kind of “enemy” in modern America, as it satirizes the daily grind of a typical software company and its disgruntled employees in the 1990s.

It can be heard in boxing gyms and continiously along the ring side at fighing events, “boxing is like a game of chess.” Many mix matial art (MMA) fighters would rather beg that MMA is like chess and boxing is checkers.  Both checkers and chess can be fun and challenging but chess requires an higher level of planning, thinking, and anticipating your opponent.  In return, boxing and MMA are very challenging and boisterous but MMA adds a higher level of danger, excitement, and  cleverness. Athough the two pair take place in different areas and require different sets of skills, they both pit you one on one against your opponenet who you have to eliminate in order to win.

Jordan has given us a character that you can’t help but root for throughout the film. Michael B. Jordan portrays the main character Adonis Johnson excellently. Jordan gives the character a very human and relatable vibe. Sylvester Stallone playing Rocky Balboa from the Rocky films, had given his character a new definition of a fighter. The chemistry between Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone from the first time they meet in the film gives off a father-son bond that they both very much need in their lives. Bianca, Adonis girlfriend, is progressively going deaf. She’s trying to make it as far as she can in her career in singing before she goes totally

     “Raging Bull” (1980) is not a so much a film about boxing but more of a story about a psychotically jealous, sexually insecure borderline homosexual, caged animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece of a film drags you down into the seedy filth stenched world of former middleweight boxing champion Jake “The Bronx Bull” LaMotta. Masterfully he paints the picture of a beast whose sole drive is not boxing but an insatiable obsessive jealously over his wife and his fear of his own underling sexuality. The movie broke new ground with its brutal unadulterated no-holds-bard look at the vicious sport of boxing by bringing the camera

The film, The Fighter is based on a true story about a young man attempting to pursue his and his families dreams of becoming a famous fighter. His brother Dicky, was once a great fighter and now passing down his legacy. After long hours of hard work, Micky prepares a boxing match. Micky decides to go down a road without his family and proceeds to win which could lead up to the world title. In this film, it had a fantastic theme along with incredible shot types and much more.

Gyllenhaal brings every ounce of his physical self to the role, but rippling muscles and a mashed-up face don't authentically constitute a performance. It's not quite his fault that Billy is such a maddening character. In the ring, it's a better story, but who authentically cares if the fight sequences are innovative. If I optate to optically canvass authentic boxing, I'll turn on the boxing channel. The boxing movie has a long and honourable pedigree, which is not just about men hitting each other. The fight game itself is plenary of good stories; the great movie is more about a simple primary emotion like 'I gotta get my daughter back'. Boxing is a grown-up sport in one sense. It comes with excruciating drama, but Southpaw feels like it's

Genre theory is used to study films and put them into a classification so that audiences know what type of film it is before they see it. Genres are categories based on the story of the film, sometimes the actors and actresses, or even the directors. All films fall under a genre or sub-genre category. Romantic Comedy is an example of a genre which is light-hearted, humorous story involving people in love, sometimes overlapping with subgenres such as screwball comedy teen comedy, or gross-out comedy. ( Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014, table 4.1). This paper will focus on the romantic comedy genre and movie Rocky. It will take a better look at the specific conventions of this genre and how this movie fits the gangster genre.

Martial arts has a long branching history and the stories of its practitioners have continued to entertain the public both from the East to the West. In this paper, I will be reviewing two films that focus on the famous external southern style, Wing Chun. The films are “Wing Chun” (1994) and “Ip Man” (2008).