Rocky balboa speech music3/26/2023 ![]() The second is a rousing speech he gives to the boxing commission about every person’s right to happiness. The basement/beast is mentioned on four separate occasions in the movie, all of which are transcribed below. The first is Rocky talking to his brother in law Paulie about how there is a ‘beast’ still deep inside him that he needs to deal with, ‘stuff in the basement’ as he puts it. ![]() ![]() As one critic puts it, when talking about the first Rocky movie, “Rocky may have had a larger impact on pop culture than any other film, inspiring references in everything from movies to television, music to video games.”Īnyway, back to the speeches…there are three great speeches from the movie Rocky Balboa… Rocky is not only a fighter, but he’s also a husband, a father, a patriot, and in Rocky IV (1985) he seems to single-handedly have brought about the demise of Communism. Rocky is not only an underdog story, but it’s also a love story. As a result he moves from being this down-and-out bum to being the heavyweight champ who ends up fighting wars in the ring with the likes of: Apollo Creed (twice), Clubber Lang (twice), Ivan Drago, Tommy Gunn, and finally Mason Dixon. Rocky, as we all now know, is a Philadelphian who takes this miraculous one-in-a-million title shot. ![]() I seem to be having a bit of a Stallone week: the Rocky movies have been on Sky Movies (again!), a few days ago I blogged about Rambo, I’ve now seen several times an advert for bread on TV starring the man himself and, finally, a close friend reminded me of some great motivational speeches from the movie Rocky Balboa (2006), the sixth and last movie in the momentous Rocky saga which began 30 years ago with the Academy Award winning Rocky (1976). ![]()
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