Unearthed footage of Sylvester Stallone/Carl Weathers Choreography for Rocky in 1976
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Film review: Rocky (1976) starring Sylvester Stallone & Talia Shire
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By chance, I caught Rocky on late-night TV the other week. I must have never seen it before. I have seen the other Rocky movies, for my sins.
Not a single thing came back about the movie as I watched it: not a single scene, not the plot, nothing. Either I am fading away or I’ve never seen the film.
It’s actually quite a good film. Stands up well to time as well.
The fight scenes are excellent. So good that I could not actually work out how they filmed them in such a short period of time on a small budget. Rocky was the 3rd film to use the Steadicam, after Bound for Glory and Marathon Man. The movie was shot in 28 days. The production budget was $1,075,000, with a further $100,000 spent on producer’s fees and $4.2 million of advertising costs.
The famous scene of Rocky running up the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a cultural icon as is its anthem Gonna Fly Now.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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