Nominees:
All The President’s Men
Bound For Glory
Network
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Winner:
Rocky
Story: The “Italian Stallion”, Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing. He meets and falls in love with Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds...hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Sylvester Stallone wrote the script in three days after he saw a boxing match between the unknown Chuck Wepner and Muhammad Ali. Unlike Rocky, Wepner was unable to last the distance and was TKO'd in the fifteenth round. Sylvester Stallone sold the rights to make this film with the condition that he be cast in the title role. Producers offered him $150,000 to let Ryan O'Neal play the part. Stallone became the third person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, following Charles Chaplin for The Great Dictator (1940) and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941).
So, tell me what you think? Did you like Rocky? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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Okay, now we start the othyer way until I get all of them in it, but this time we will go a lot slower.
The first impression I have is what a year for movies. I guess I would have to go with Rocky, since I haven't seen any of the others, but they are all on my list to watch.
All The President's Men - Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. Redford and Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, you can get better then that.
Bound For Glory - This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Network - A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Taxi Driver - A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out. DeNiro as Travis Bickle, Jodie Foster as the fourteen year old porstiute, while she was fourteen.
Rocky was great and out of all of them afterwards, this first one was the best. Yo Adrian! Plus, who hasn't done the Rocky song while running up a set of stairs and jumping around at the top. Classic.
Personally, I would have picked any of the other movies over Rocky for best picture. Why? Because they were all better than Rocky. Watch for yourself and see.
Anonymously,
ak
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