Interesting and little-known facts about the movie "Rocky" (13 photos)

The film "Rocky", released in 1976, became a real hit and gave a great start to Stallone's acting career. Before you photos from filming and interesting facts about the film.





1. The script for the film was written by Sylvester Stallone himself. in just 3.5 days (however, after all, it was finalized several times). He was inspired to make a movie about boxing after watching boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner.



2. While writing the script, Stallone was practically beggars. He only had $106 in his pocket, and his wife Sasha had pregnant. He even had to sell his dog to make ends meet. Butkins for $ 50, since there was simply nothing to feed the pet. But when the film went into production, Stallone got the dog back. By the way, dog appears briefly in the film.





3. For the script and filming rights, Sylvester was offered 350 thousand dollars, but he refused. He set conditions that he would sell script only if he himself plays a major role in the film. The producers made concessions, but with one condition, on which the actor agreed. Stallone received the minimum pay for the script ($1) and for his role in the film (as extras). Although, in some higher amounts are also found in sources. But as he admitted actor, he would not forgive himself if another actor played the role of Rocky.



4 Rocky Won Three Oscar Nominations Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing. Stallone, by the way twice nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor and Best original script), but in the end he never got the statuette.



5. Rocky became the highest-grossing film of 1976, earning worldwide $225 million on a $1.1 million budget.

6. Sylvester Stallone was constantly out of breath during the filming of his workouts, which is why he decided to quit smoking.



7. While filming the iconic stair-running scene a Steadicam camera was used, which provided stabilization without shaking. The inventor of this system was cinematographer Garrett Brown.



This system was first used by Brown for advertising the system itself. He filmed his wife running up the stairs to the museum arts in Philadelphia.

'Rocky' director John Avildsen was so shocked seen that he invited the inventor to film a runner along the same the stairs of Sylvester Stallone. Therefore, the movie "Rocky" was one of the the first where this stabilization system was used.

8. While filming a boxing match between Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed) got real injuries to his ribs and nose.



9. Mickey Goldmill (coach) was originally supposed to be a racist, and at the end of the movie, Rocky had to quit his career boxer. But in the end, this idea was abandoned.



10. Some members of the Stallone family have appeared in episodic roles. So, for example, his father beat the gong, his brother Frank played a street singer, and his first wife Sasha is a photographer. And it wasn't done at all. because that's what Stallone wanted, and in order not to spend extra money on guest actors. The economy must be economical.



11. By the way, due to cost savings (the budget was limited) the date scene at the ice rink was filmed at night when the ice rink was closed. rocky bribed the janitor to let Adrian go ice skating. That was done not at all to show an interesting romantic scene, but simply because during the day you would have to pay extra money to the actors extras.

12. Stallone's mother was fond of astrology, and she even predicted that success would come to her son when he wrote the script, and not just play in a movie. And so it happened.



13. In the ring, Rocky is presented as the "Italian Stallion". Not only was it the name of one of the early films for adults, in which Sylvester played, so also the name Stallone itself is translated from Italian for "Stallion".



14. The studio bosses wanted a star in their film, but an unknown actor. So they cut the budget to 1 million dollars. And despite the fact that the producers saved on everything, they came out over budget, so they even had to mortgage their houses. But in In the end, it all paid off handsomely.



15. The final fight was not improvised. The script was painted every punch and every move that Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers was trained for 6 weeks.

16. The scene when the fruit vendor throws an orange to Rocky, was pure improvisation. The man didn't even know what kind of person he was. running. But from the bottom of his heart, he threw an orange to the athlete to treat tired person. This frame fits perfectly into the film.