SEALED NEW DVD: ROCKY, SPECIAL EDITION Sylvester Stallone Bonus Features PG 1976

Description: SEALED NEW DVD: ROCKY, SPECIAL EDITION - Sylvester Stallone, Bonus Features, 1976Rated PG, Chartoff-Winkler Productions, United Artists Factory-sealed, brand-new DVD (please see photos); DVD has never been opened nor played. Widescreen format 1.85:1 aspect ratio (16x9), Dolby Digital Sound, color, subtitles, closed caption, main feature running time: approx. 1 hour 59 minutes, Region 1 (US, Canada, US Territories). Subtitles and languages: English, French, Spanish Cast members include Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, and others. The film earned numerous industry nominations and awards, including winning three Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing), one Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama, and two National Board of Review Awards (Best Supporting Actress for Talia Shire and Top Ten Films), and many others. Tagline: You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest bicentennial in history! Brief synopsis, via IMDb: A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. Special features on this DVD include audio commentary, video commentary, 3 featurettes, collectible booklet, original theatrical trailers, behind-the-scenes, and more (please see photo of back of DVD for full listing of special features). Summary from the DVD case's back cover: It's the film that inspired a nation - and won the 1976 Best Picture Oscar! Audiences and critics alike cheered this American success story of an "everyman" triumphing over all odds. Featuring a dynamic musical score, a thrilling fight sequence and four Oscar-nominated performances, this rousing crowd-pleaser will send spirits soaring. Fighting for love, glory, and self-respect, Rocky scores an exultant knockout! Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in a ring with the world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to "go the distance" and come out a winner! A bit of trivia and background info, via IMDb: After producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested in the script, they offered Sylvester Stallone an unprecedented $350,000 for the rights. He had $106 in the bank and no car, and was trying to sell his dog because he couldn't afford to feed him, but he refused to sell unless they agreed to allow him to star in the film. They agreed, on the condition that Stallone continue to work as a writer without a fee, and that he work as an actor for scale. After Winkler and Chartoff purchased the film, they took it to United Artists, who envisioned a budget of $2 million with an established star, particularly Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds or James Caan. When Winkler and Chartoff told United Artists that they could only get the screenplay if Stallone starred, United Artists cut the budget to $1 million and had Chartoff and Winkler sign agreements that they would be personally liable if the film went over budget. The final cost was $1.1 million. Chartoff and Winkler mortgaged their houses for the last $100,000. The highest-grossing movie of 1976 and the first sports film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. During his audition, Carl Weathers was sparring with Sylvester Stallone and accidentally punched him on the chin. Stallone told Weathers to calm down, as it was only an audition, and Weathers said that if he was allowed to audition with a 'real' actor, not a stand-in, he would be able to do a lot better. Director John G. Avildsen smiled and told Weathers that Stallone was the real actor (and the writer). Weathers looked at Stallone thoughtfully for a moment, and said, "Well, maybe he'll get better." Stallone immediately offered him the role. During the scene where Gazzo (Joe Spinell) is talking to Rocky about not breaking the dock worker's thumbs, Gazzo pulls out an inhaler mid-sentence and uses it. That wasn't written into the script, Spinell actually had an asthma attack and really had to use his inhaler right on-camera on the spur of the moment. John G. Avildsen liked the authenticity it brought to the scene, so he decided to leave it in the film. According to Burt Young, during filming of the scene where Paulie walks home drunk, an actual drunk wandered onto the location and told Young he wasn't acting drunk convincingly, so Young asked the man to demonstrate it. Young then copied the man's actions for the scene. Rocky's dog Butkus was actually Sylvester Stallone's dog in real life. When shooting the scenes in the meat-locker where he punches the slabs of beef, actor Sylvester Stallone punched the meat so hard for so long that he flattened out his knuckles. To this day, when he makes a fist, his knuckles are completely level. When shooting his famous jog through the streets of Philadelphia, Sylvester Stallone pulled a tendon in his leg and was taken to a nearby hospital in a wheelbarrow. Originally, the filmmakers wanted several former heavyweight champions to appear at the beginning of the fight between Rocky and Apollo. They put out a call for all former champions to show, but on the day of the shoot only Joe Frazier turned up. The filmmakers thought it worked well however, because Frazier is a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was where the movie was shot and took place. Prior to shooting, Sylvester Stallone trained for several months with legendary fight-trainer Jimmy Gambina, who was also the film's technical advisor, and who plays the role of Jimmy, the trainer from Mighty Mick's Boxing, in both this film and Rocky V (1990). During this period, Stallone also studied every available piece of footage of boxers Rocky Marciano and Ezzard Charles. One of the posters for the film featured a shot of Rocky and Adrian holding hands. Although this was one of the most popular images associated with the film, the scene this image was taken from was cut from the film. As of 2015 and due to this film, Sylvester Stallone remains (alongside Charles Chaplin) the only other person in film history to have been the sole writer of an original screenplay, to have starred in the leading role for the same film and to have been nominated for Oscars for both. By coincidence, Chaplin had been one of the co-founders of the original United Artists. Thank you for your interest. 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