Rocky Dramatization Review

The director didn’t confine the film. It takes you all through Philadelphia with Rocky’s training montages. The movie has been adapted into a musical. It’s first show was in Hamburg, Germany. The sets used for this film are mostly street corners, a boxing training facility, and the main boxing arena where Rocky squares off against Apollo Creed. During the boxing match Rocky and Apollo both end up with some serious face wounds. The makeup for these scenes were very well done. (Spoiler) When Rocky can’t see because his eye is swelled shut it gets cut open. The visual of that was very realistic and so is the queasiness if you don’t like the sight of blood.

            The final scene of the film takes place inside of the squared circle at Spectrum Arena where Rocky and Apollo fight. The ring shouts U.S.A! It is colored in red, white, and blue. It even has white stars on the inside mat. Apollo, who is the champ, wanted the fight to be huge. He went on to make it very American by coloring everything in red, white, and blue. The film was released after the Vietnam War and it gave the American hero in Rocky that the country needed.

            When walking around the street Rocky would wear black pants, shoes, leather jacket, hat, gloves, a white shirt, and a gold chain. He looked like a greaser. Rocky was 24-25 at the time and being an enforcer for a loan shark. He didn’t have much money because he would wear the same clothes every day. Some even had holes inside. The clothes were all form fitting on rocky. His body attitude was that of a boxer the entire movie. He would shadow box walking down the street along with bouncing a rubber ball everywhere he went. The overall costume of rocky fit his character to the ‘T’. It made him look and act like a man who has always been fighting.