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Rocky IV (1985)

Film
DirectorSylvester Stallone
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Figures

Form & technique
  • Rocky's post-fight speech to the Soviet crowd.
Tropes
  • Rocky's climactic fight against Drago in Moscow.
  • Ivan Drago's characterization and training methods.
  • The death of Apollo Creed.
  • The contrasting training montages of Rocky and Drago.
  • The ideological opposition between Rocky's Siberian training and Drago's high-tech Soviet gym.
  • James Brown's "Living in America" musical number.