With less than a week remaining until the theatrical release of Rocky Balboa, countdown efforts must be doubled. Keep an eye out for daily updates.
Today's countdown celebrates one of cinema's most memorable first kisses. Rocky brings Adrian back to his apartment to show her Cuff and Link, his two turtles. In a somewhat creepy move, he immediately locks the door behind them. I understand that he isn't living in the nicest of Philly neighborhoods, but his move here is sure to make any young woman a bit uncomfortable. Nonetheless, Adrian sticks around and gets a kiss. As a bonus, she even gets to see a picture of the Italian Stallion's parents--both of them!
This clip is my tribute to Adrian. And while I don't want to give away any Rocky VI movie spoilers, I am inclined to say that I will miss her come Friday.
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There is a definite danger in this scene, it's understated but it's most definitely there.
Good call on the locking of the door, and notice how she very much notices him doing it. And then when she tries to leave towards the end of the clip, insisting she doesn't belong there, and he basically pins her against the wall and tells her he's going to kiss her but she doesn't have to kiss him back.
Seems like Stallone was deliberately trying to disturb his audience a little, in this entire scene. Yet at the same time the whole thing nevertheless emerges as a totally tender moment. The turtles don't hurt, to this end. And then there's the funny exchange where she confesses to having never been in a man's aprtment, and Stallone clues her in on the truism that the're all pretty much the same.
Overall Harrogate argues that Rocky and Adrian have to be in anybody's top 10 Movie Couples. They're just so damned believable and yet it's not pure realism, there's a Romantic element to it that achieves the rare feat of complementing the realism instead of compromising it.
Good times, good times.
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