Hey, in a rather uneventful montage, you really gotta step back and appreciate the little things. Meanwhile, Drago the cold, heartless Commie bastard that he is , uses science. Down with modern athletics! Okay, we get it. He's a Commie. But does he really have to train under harsh red lights? Hell no! Stallone refuses to take his foot off the gas pedal, bombarding us with a second epic training montage a mere 75 seconds after the first one wrapped up.
Sure, it shows pretty much the exact same stuff as the previous montage, except this time Rocky has grown a badass beard, outruns a car, and climbs a fucking mountain.
Sorry, gonna have to call bullshit on this one. For those keeping score at home, Stallone had the balls to include nearly nine straight minutes of training montage in Rocky IV , with the only break in the action being a minute of Adrian and Rocky talking outside of their cabin.
Still, when the montages he gives us are of such awesome quality, who am I to complain? I've seen videos of Fedor doing this.
Their loss literally. When one montage isn't enough As far as fight montages go, this one is probably my favourite in the entire Rocky series. Naturally, Stallone ended up in the hospital after taking too many body shots from the Siberian Bull.
We see a few scenes of Rocky, draped in the American flag, celebrating his victory, and then the credits begin to scroll — overtop of rapid-fire, black and white still photos from every scene in the movie. Wait, what? Come on, hardly anything actually happened during the past 90 minutes — do we really need to see it all over again in condensed format?
And if this is the case, Stallone would be wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. A montage to recap the movie we just watched? Drago's "WTF? Absolutely incredible. Going back to the movie as a whole, we now know that one-third of the total running time is devoted to montage. Another third is taken up solely by the two boxing matches, which means that only one-third of Rocky IV actually involves the characters doing things other than training or fighting.
BisexualMMA , Aug 19, P4P best 30 for Joined: Aug 13, Messages: Likes Received: 0. I went for a jog tonight and my Spotify is loaded with Rocky 4 themes. Always gives me a needed boost and adds a smile to my face. Man, Apollo dying traumatized me as a kid. Carl Weathers dying was sad shit in 80s cinema. LTorino , Aug 19, Joined: Sep 18, Messages: 19, Likes Received: 11, GOAT movie.
Can't wait for someone to break the record and come out with a movie that's 40 percent montage. Fedorgasm , Aug 19, Joined: Jan 8, Messages: 50, Likes Received: There's a quest for answers An unquenchable thirst In the darkest night Rising like a spire In the burning heart The unmistakable fire.
While there, he is told that they will not sanction the fight, and if he goes ahead with it, he will not be allowed to carry the title. This scene was cut prior to release as it was felt it would slow up the film too much, and it was replaced with the much briefer newspaper montage. Created during a particularly tense era of the Cold War, Producer Bob Chartoff saw Drago as the "indomitable enemy," personifying everything we fear about the Soviet Union.
Dolph Lundgren, meanwhile, said he felt sympathy for Drago, who he understood as an exploited tool of scheming politicians and military opportunists looking to advance their own interests through him. This is one of the few sport movies that apply genuine sound effects from actual punches, bona fide training methods created by boxing consultants, and a bevy of other new special effects. Sylvester Stallone has been quoted as saying the enormous financial success and fan-following of "Rocky IV" once had him envisioning another Rocky movie devoted to Drago and his post-boxing life, with Balboa's storyline running parallel to Drago's.
However, he noted the damage both boxers sustained in the fight made them "incapable of reason" and thus instead planned " Rocky V " as a showcase of the dangers of boxing. Brigitte Nielsen 's character Ludmilla Drago was not written in the shooting script, where her talking was done by Nicoli Koloff Michael Pataki.
Sylvester Stallone likely incorporated her as a last-minute rewrite because he was dating Nielsen in real-life around the time. The two later married, and divorced two years later. Though not stated in the film, Drago's character is a product of the spetznaz special forces program. It was commonplace in the 70s and early 80s for especially gifted boxers, power lifters, gymnasts etc to be recruited as soldiers.
These exceptional athletes were assigned nutritionists and scientific teams to maintain peak standards, much like Drago in the movie. The Soviet Premier in the sky box during the Rocky vs. A special teaser trailer featuring and narrated by Dolph Lundgren was played in theaters prior to the actual film being complete.
In it, an eerily lit Drago against a Soviet flag eerily tells the viewer his name and that he will soon be fighting - and defeating - Rocky Balboa. It also features basic shots of Stallone training not seen in the film, and culminates with Drago and Balboa in the ring ready to throw punches again very basic footage not used in the final film.
It's likely this was all re-purposed from an unused match "promo", and news report scene in the original minute edit, rather than a fresh shoot just for the film marketing. Stallone originally intended for the Rocky saga to be told only as trilogy, ending with Rocky III in You gotta call a halt", citing the physical and psychological demands of to making boxing movies.
Stallone also remarked that he wouldn't know where to take the character after III. However, in , while doing press interviews for Rocky III, he admitted that a fourth film wasn't out of the question. Stallone confirms that the 35th anniversary Director's Cut won't include Paulie's robot.
The only film in the series, including the Creed films, that doesn't feature new footage of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art. This is the only Rocky film that doesn't begin with the word ROCKY and the episode number scrolling across the screen in some shape or form or the Rocky fanfare. A rare teaser trailer shot before the film was complete, however, features both. In a interview in Britain around the release of The Expendables , Dolph Lundgren claimed not to still have some of the Ivan Drago 'stuff' when asked if he still had the shorts because it was stolen in a burglary twenty years ago.
Drago is not a Russian surname but a South Slavic e. Serbian or Slovenian given name meaning "dear". As a surname, it is occasionally encountered in the US and may have different roots. The State Anthem of the USSR that opens Rocky's fight with Drago was actually the version of the Stalin era, with the lyrics: "Banner of the Soviets, banner of the people, may it lead from victory to victory!
Europe 's hit "The Final Countdown", similar in style to Vince DiCola 's score, is often falsely claimed to be in this film. The song was also recorded in but released in In a recent interview Dolph Lundgren disputed the long-standing belief that there was bad blood between him and Carl Weathers during filming. Lundgren said that he never had any problems with Weathers, but felt that Weathers might have been afraid of him due to his real-world training as a martial artist.
However, Lundgren did not dispute that Weathers had left the set at least once in a tirade about Lundgren's unrestrained hits during their fight scene. When Rocky first arrives at his temporary home in Russia, Paulie complains that there's no antenna and asks, "What about the Rose Bowl game?! So Paulie would not miss the game after all. The first Rocky soundtrack album to be made up mostly of songs from the film rather than the composer's score.
Vince DiCola 's score would not be released in its entirety until , and also featured his rendition of the Rocky theme not used in the actual film. Although 'War' and 'Training Montage' had been featured on the original soundtrack album, they were commercial arrangements and did not mirror the versions heard onscreen. The only piece of music that had previously been officially released as heard onscreen prior to the album was 'Apollo's Death' originally called 'Farewell' as a B-Side to James Brown 's 'Living in America' single.
The "hit the one in the middle" scene between Rocky and Paulie goes a little differently in the French version of the film. While Rocky's line remains the same, "I see three of them" "J'en vois trois comme lui" , Paulie's reply could be translated as "Pick one and kill him! In the French dub of the film, the characters of Paulie and Apollo Creed were much more rude and disrespectful to Russian people. For example, during the Drago vs.
Creed press conference, Apollo says, "Looks like his tongue didn't check customs" when Drago doesn't respond to a question. Rutger Hauer was originally considered for the role of Drago's trainer Igor Rimsky. The number plate of the black sports car that Rocky drives is "Sothpaw".
The only film in the Rocky series where Mickey is not spoken about, although he is seen in the montage during the song "There's no easy way out". Also, the only film in the series where Adrian drives a car.
Both Stallone and Lundgren confirmed that most hits in the film were real, although restrained enough to prevent injury. All slow motion head or body shots featuring sprayed sweat or fake blood were authentic.
All landed punches were choreographed and rehearsed in slow motion. During the ring-entrance sequence, prior to the exhibition match between Creed and Drago, there is a giant golden statue of a bull's head behind Creed.
The idea was for Creed to punch the statue twice, and it would slowly break into three pieces.
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