Rocky #MichaelLee

Director: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler
Writer: Sylvester Stallone

Rocky takes place in the heart of Philadelphia on the two hundred year anniversary of the birth of our beloved country.  The reason why this film is so relevant today still is because of the "American Dream," the idea of freedom is what so many immigrants came here to experience and many natives enjoy of our beloved country.

Rocky Balboa is a small time boxer making barely enough to make ends meet. To make those ends meet he loan sharks. He doesn't like this job. He doesn't enjoy hurting people. You would think he does since he is a boxer, but no. He never really cared about going big time until getting the chance the fight Apollo. When he gets the chance to fight Apollo, he drops the loan shark job and focuses on training and getting himself strong enough so that he could win.

He is also hypocrite who thinks people shouldn't smoke or drink when he does it himself. In one of the scenes he tells one of the girls in the neighborhood that she shouldn't be smoking and it's unhealthy. He cares more about other person than himself. He'd rather help other people than help himself. When he starts training he stops smoking so that he can get better to win the fight.

He's also portrayed as a sensitive person who cares about the value of life. He has two turtles named cuff and link. When he was out on a job loan sharking, he was told to cut someone's finger off that owed money. Rocky ended up not doing this horrible act which showed his softer side. He was of course ridiculed for not cutting his finger off.

Everyone thought of him as a bum but he tries to draw up a new image of himself and be who he thinks people would look up to. In E-commerce, we are researching business and all these CEO's and owners who have to make themselves look a certain way to make them trust worthy so that people would buy their product. I think Rocky is a product of the American dream. He built himself from nothing, his reputation was bad and he was a loser. He built up his character and became who the American Dream meant him to become. In order to sell his product, which is him, he has to act a certain way and look like a True American that everyone loves.