‘I Play Rocky’ revisits Stallone’s unlikely Hollywood rise
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'I Play Rocky,” Peter Farrelly’s comic and crowd-pleasing tale about the making of 'Rocky,” might seem like a one-two punch of pure nostalgia. It’s...
"I Play Rocky,” Peter Farrelly’s comic and crowd-pleasing tale about the making of "Rocky,” might seem like a one-two punch of pure nostalgia. It’s been almost exactly 50 years since Sylvester Stallone’s breakthrough boxing classic first arrived in theaters. You need hardly more than a few Philadelphia steps or a holler of "Adrian” to summon its still-ubiquitous cultural presence.
But while "I Play Rocky” is far from lacking in memory-lane sentimentality, it’s more aimed at now than it might appear. Today’s movie industry is so corporate and risk-averse that Farrelly’s "Rocky” revival is most enjoyable as a reminder that the movies are a quixotic, even goofy undertaking. Some of the best of them are inherently bad ideas.
The miracle of "Rocky” is really that someone actually said yes to making it. There was scant evidence of audiences clamoring for a boxing drama. And yet Stallone, despite his humble status in Hollywood and, let's say, unique manner of speech, didn’t just want to sell his script; he insisted on starring in it.
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