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re: Brantley on ROCKY

Posted by:	old_school 12:16 am EDT 03/14/14
In reply to:	Brantley on ROCKY - MockingbirdGirl 10:17 pm EDT 03/13/14

Brantley nails it.SPOILERS It's a beat by beat walk through of the movie. No acid in the characters, no surprises or turns in the characters and it suffers from a saccharine sweetness. Karl needed to be allowed to own this character. He apparently, wasn't.I never felt for one moment that Mick the trainer spent his life in the ring and boxing gym. Rocky's rant at him should be an aria and crescendo. The only REAL moment was when Adrian turned on her brother. It had truth and passion to it and the audience responded truthfully and spontaneously to it. Apollo Creed should be really big man to underscore the David and Goliath metaphor.Watching the fight from up on the stage was anti climactic.We were probably great set dressing. It obviously worked better from the front. Score?...Anyway, storytelling is an art. This was a missed opportunity as storytelling. It'll probably run for years.

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