Rocky Balboa (film)

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Movie
German title Rocky Balboa
Original title Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa (film) Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Sylvester Stallone
script Sylvester Stallone
production William Chartoff ,
Kevin King Templeton ,
Charles Winkler ,
David Winkler
music Bill Conti
camera Clark Mathis
cut Sean Albertson
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Rocky V

Successor  →
Creed - Rocky's Legacy

Rocky Balboa (also known as Rocky VI ) is an American boxer film directed by and actor Sylvester Stallone from 2006 and is part of the sixth installment in the Rocky film series . It had its US premiere on December 20, 2006 and was also released in German cinemas on February 8, 2007. The film is a co-production by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Revolution Studios, Columbia Pictures Corporation, United Artists , Rogue Marble and Chartoff-Winkler Productions distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment .

action

Rocky lives in seclusion in Philadelphia and owns Adrian’s , a restaurant that his late wife opened in 1995. Little is left of the glory of his prime. Furthermore, he is still very shaken by Adrian's cancer death and loses more and more contact with his son Robert. He isolates himself more and more from him because he is tired of constantly having to stand in the shadow of his famous father. A television station organizes a virtual battle between Rocky and the current, unbeaten, but unpopular world champion of all classes, Mason "The Line" Dixon due to the lack of equal opponents. From this simulation, Rocky Balboa emerges as the winner. Under tremendous media pressure and at the urging of The Line, Rocky wants to know again. After a hard training session, he is supposed to compete against the reigning world champion and so comes back into the public eye, which he was actually trying to avoid. However, he faces this challenge, the last great fight in his life. After Rocky had an extremely tough fight and survived all rounds, he won back the hearts of the spectators, but lost in this fight on points with a split decision of 1: 2 (95:94 for Rocky and twice 94:95 points against him). Rocky calls Mason Dixon a real champ and gives him a short hug, then Rocky leaves the arena with his son and girlfriend Marie, while Mason Dixon enjoys his regained fame for a while.

In the end, he kisses his late wife's grave and says that he would never have made it without her.

production

History of origin

Sylvester Stallone 2005

The plot is based on a story that revolves around heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano . In 1955, Rocky Marciano ended his career unbeaten. In 1969, American sports journalists argued about the role of the best boxer of all time, with Rocky Marciano and the then reigning world champion Muhammad Ali . This fight was carried out using computer simulation , with Rocky Marciano emerging as the demolition winner.

production

The shooting of the film ran from December 2, 2005 to February 11, 2006. The shooting took place in Las Vegas , Los Angeles and Philadelphia , among others . The film had a budget of $ 24 million.

Stallone hired Antonio Tarver , a former world boxing champion with a record of 18 knockout wins, to make the fight scenes look more authentic. Stallone is said to have broken his foot while sparring and was beaten to the point of unconsciousness. Tarver was considered the undisputed number 1 in the light heavyweight division at that time thanks to his victories over Glen Johnson and Roy Jones junior . He put on several kilograms of muscle mass especially for the film to play the role of heavyweight boxer Mason Dixon.

Parts of the match between Rocky and Dixon were filmed on December 3, 2005 before the world championship match between Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins . Taylor's promoter was Lou DiBella , who played himself in the film, and who, with his company “DiBella Entertainment”, was also the organizer of the film fight.

synchronization

The German-language dubbing was done by Berliner Synchron based on a dialogue book by Andreas Pollak, who also directed the dialogue .

role actor speaker
Robert "Rocky" Balboa, sr. Sylvester Stallone Thomas Danneberg
Paulie Pennino Burt Young Hans Teuscher
Robert Balboa, Jr. Milo Ventimiglia Julien Haggège
Marie Geraldine Hughes Andrea Aust
Tony "Duke" Everson Tony Burton Jochen Schröder
Mason "The Line" Dixon Antonio Tarver Tobias Kluckert
Steps James Francis Kelly Tobias Müller
Lou DiBella Lou DiBella Erich Rauker
Michael Buffer Michael Buffer Tom Vogt
Joe Corte Joe Cortez Rudiger Evers

reception

success

The sixth part of Rocky grossed twice its production cost ($ 24 million) in the United States within two weeks.

criticism

“The conclusion of the 'Rocky' series bears a 30-year-old screen myth and is at best interesting because of its nostalgic retrospectives. The final fight lacks any boxing choreography and elegance and seeks its salvation in hectic editing sequences. "

- Lexicon of international film

“It's the swan song after the swan song, the closing credits after the film, so to speak, and that actually couldn't have worked. But in the end it was successful. One is skeptical throughout the film, one lurks for mistakes and embarrassments, but one leaves it with the feeling: skillful! The film is already a box office hit in the US, and Stallone is indulging in that. He made an actually impossible film, but with all due respect, now it's really over. "

- Jan Philipp Reemtsma : The mirror

“In fact, Stallone managed to create some memorable dialogues and present his old story in a new guise. It is as if the audience shared Stallone's view of a past they lived through together. "

- Sascha Keilholz : Critic.de

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Rolf von der Reith wrote in TV Digital that if someone could portray the aged champ in a credible way, it would be Stallone, and that the human emotional drama was even more convincing than the actual climax of the film: the fight.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Rocky Balboa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2006 (PDF; test number: 108 601 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Rocky Balboa . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ cf. Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 296, Christmas, 23./24./25./26. December 2006, page 14
  4. ↑ cf. MAX February 2007, “I had a few broken ribs, a broken foot and almost passed out after two head butts,” Sylvester Stallone in an interview with Dagmar Dunlevy, Last Round , p
  5. ↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?columnist=rafael_dan&id=2475525
  6. ↑ Rocky Balboa. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ cf. Nordsee-Zeitung Saturday, January 6, 2007, page 10
  8. ↑ Rocky Balboa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ To the last round , Der Spiegel 06/2007
  10. ^ Review , Critic.de on January 22, 2007.
  11. ↑ Rocky Balboa on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com, accessed July 18, 2019.