Rocky we all know him yet every day there are more curiosities.
THE FILM
Rocky is a 1976 film directed by John G. Avildsen.
Sylvester Stallone, then a little known actor, wrote and starred in this film, thanks to which he became one of the most loved faces in Hollywood. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Thanks to Rocky, Stallone becomes the third man in film history, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles, to receive an Oscar nomination for both screenwriter and actor for the same film.
Made in just 28 days with a budget of 1,1 million dollars, it grossed 225 at the box office, becoming a success with the public and critics and giving life to five sequels: Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa and two spin-offs, Creed - Born to fight (2015) and Creed II (2018)
THE FINAL COMBAT
Below we have an excerpt of the final fight choreography which is very nice to explore. In fact, we see Rocky and Apollo give them a blame in a fake or rather cinematic way but ... not everything went the right way.
However, according to the IMDB website at the end of the film fiction there were still injuries.
Indeed Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers they sustained real injuries during the filming of the final fight; Stallone had a series of cracked ribs, while Weathers had severe injuries to his nose - injuries opposite to those of their characters.
Article Rocky: Stallone's real injuries and Weathers' nose trauma in the final fight scenes From We of the 80-90s.
