He's just determined when the chips are down. Vulnerability is no longer part of his character. He tools around town in an Italian sports car. Rocky is a wealthy sports figure who lives the soft life in a white palace with wife, son, and slovenly friend Paulie (Burt Young). The ring was a way out of dead-end working class jobs, his one shot at respect, and the ending didn't sell out his dream or beggar all notions of reality as the sequels have done. Then he was a scrappy fighter from Philadelphia with his pride as a man on the line. There was something infinitely more appealing about the original Rocky, the sweet fantasy of a humble underdog. Stallone boxed himself into a corner with this one. The outcome of the film is predetermined by the formulaic scripts of Rocky II and Rocky III.
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