Rocky: I was nobody before.
Adrian: Don’t say that.
Rocky: Oh, come on, Adrian. It’s true. I was nobody. It don’t matter either, you know? ‘Cause I was thinking. It really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head either. ‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, and see… if that bell rings, and I’m still standing… I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.
It’s the monologue to epitomize the classic American film from ’76. Sylvester Stallone’s reflection on himself, from childhood to adulthood. Early on, the lens captures Rocky’s silent meditations, for instance, on his parents’...
