ITALIAN TEAM FILMS PROPOSAL

ROCKY (1976)

Rocky Balboa (Stallone S.) lives in Philadelphia, receiving claims for an Italian-American moneylender and winning some small matches as an amateur boxer. With the help of a wise coach (B. Meredith) he accepts, out of love for Adriana (T. Shire) and a bag of $ 150,000, to challenge the black Apollo Creed (Weathers C.), heavyweight champion, intending not to win, but to get to the fifteenth round. B-movie, it received 3 Academy Awards (director, best film and installation), 6 other nominations and a vast international success. The movie marks the return to large institutional myths, as in Frank Capra’s optimistic views: everyone in America that has enough heart and good reasons, can achieve the impossible. The newcomer S. Stallone (1946), who also wrote the screenplay, became a superstar. And the composer Bill Conti began raking in billions. It started a series which ended in 1990 with the fifth film.

THE GLADIATOR (2000)

The Gladiator (Gladiator) is a blockbuster movie directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed and Tomas Arana. Crowe plays the loyal General Maximus, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious emperor's son, kills his father and takes possession of the throne. Enslaved, Massimo reappears in the arena among gladiator ranks to avenge his family’s and his Emperor’s murders.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975)

From a novel by Ken Kesey: a convicted felon is transferred to a psychiatric clinic where he unmasks the repressive and prison-like institution. The revolt does not last long, but leaves some marks and followers. Awarded 5 Oscars (film, director, Nicholson and Fletcher, screenplay by Laurence Hauben and Bo Goldman), it is an effective and cleverly polemical film about Power that marginalizes social outcasts and about the racist background of psychiatry . The substance of Kesey's novel, written in first person, is here purified and transformed into an allegory Great team of actors that includes the Native American W. Sampson.

Film adaptation of the novel “First Blood” by David Morrell with S. Stallone among the adapters. Vietnam veteran with a medal for bravery, John Rambo is looking for a job, but stumbles in a nasty sheriff (B. Dennehy) and his anger explodes. He keeps in check the Police and the National Guard while running through the wood, giving up only to his former commander (R. Crenna). The outstanding worldwide success of the movie is due to the figure of the former hero in uniform on one side, and on the other because it enhances an outcast who fights against the established order.

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