{"id":3167,"date":"2010-11-14T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2010-11-14T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T15:16:18","slug":"rocky-one-of-the-all-time-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/14\/rocky-one-of-the-all-time-best\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky&#8221; One of the All-Time Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/may\/05082010rocky_montage.png?resize=475%2C292\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>November 11, 2010<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ropeofsilicon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rope of Silicon<\/strong><\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ropeofsilicon.com\/article\/in-my-opinion-the-five-greatest-boxing-films-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>&#8220;The Five Greatest Boxing Films of All Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <strong>Bill Cody<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to say that <em><strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> made the cut coming in at <strong>#2<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever you say about <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong>, and a lot of people do, he wrote one of the greatest scripts of all  time. Loosely based on <strong>Muhammad Ali&#8217;s<\/strong> fight with <strong>Chuck Wepner<\/strong>, <em><strong>Rocky <\/strong><\/em>is  pretty much a perfect movie. <strong> Stallone<\/strong> was the right choice to play the washed up palooka from<strong> Philly<\/strong> and smart enough to insist the studio use him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I could go on and on about this film. The casting, (<strong>Burgess Meredith, Burt Young <\/strong>and <strong>Jason Schwartzman&#8217;s Mom<\/strong> are all wonderful) the gritty way it was filmed, the soundtrack that  would have been completely hokey in any film other than the tale of an  outlier who finally catches the brass ring. But why go on? It&#8217;s <em><strong>Rocky<\/strong><\/em>. Like my choice for<strong> #1<\/strong>, it won the <strong>Oscar<\/strong> for <strong>Best Picture<\/strong>. And it&#8217;s the blueprint for almost every sports movie that has been made since it came out. Enough said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ropeofsilicon.com\/article\/in-my-opinion-the-five-greatest-boxing-films-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the whole article, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, 2010, Rope of Silicon posted &#8220;The Five Greatest Boxing Films of All Time&#8221; by Bill Cody.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to say that &#8220;Rocky&#8221; made the cut coming in at #2.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s why&#8230; Whatever you say about Sylvester Stallone, and a lot of people do, he wrote one of the greatest scripts of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-P5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}