GREIVING: This time, the montage was already cut together when Stallone sent Peterik a rough cut on Betamax.
#ROCKY 3 MONTAGE MOVIE#
He says, well, I got this new movie called "Rocky III." And I don't want to use that "Gonna Fly Now" song again, you know? I want something for the kids, something with a pulse. You know, my wife and I, we named our cat Rocky because we liked those first two movies so much. Stallone, who by now was directing the "Rocky" movies, phoned up Jim Peterik of the band Survivor. "Rocky III" opens with the Italian Stallion on a winning streak and getting soft with fame as his nemesis, Clubber Lang, played by Mr. And every "Rocky" movie since has had a training montage. GREIVING: This Frankenstein sequence, powered by the heroic "Rocky" theme and backed with a '70s disco rhythm, became an iconic part of the Oscar-winning film. You can say it if you want.ĭEETTA WEST AND NELSON PIGFORD: (Singing) Getting strong now. Can't we say that? I said, well, John, it's your movie. Avildsen kept making it longer, asking Conte to write 30 more seconds of music, then 30 more seconds until the final sequence was about three minutes long.ĬONTI: He says, well, look, it's like he's getting stronger during the whole thing. GREIVING: As Avildsen cut the montage together, it began to form a miniature story of overcoming adversity, to the point where Rocky is practically taking flight at the top of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. How many miles of this can we take? But then you hear in the music - oh, the music changes here. Where's the punching bag? The punching bag doesn't fit as good as the - do the medicine ball. GREIVING: He recorded his idea on piano and gave the tape to Avildsen and the editors.ĬONTI: Give me the one running. In (inaudible) days, you put on that jump-around music and listen to some guy in pink shorts telling you to jump higher and faster. And made it more athletic, more aspirational.ĬONTI: Music that you're train to, so everybody knows what that is. (SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI SONG, "PHILADELPHIA MORNING") GREIVING: Conti took his main "Rocky" theme, which we've heard more slowly and wearily earlier in the picture. Minute and a half of just boring training should be enough to get me started. Avildsen came to him with, quote, "10 miles" of just raw footage of Sylvester Stallone jogging, punching a medicine ball, doing one-handed pushups and boxing slabs of beef.ĬONTI: John Avildsen says, Bill, give me about a minute and a half's worth of music so I can cut something together. GREIVING: Bill Conti composed the score for "Rocky" in 1976.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI SONG, "GONNA FLY NOW")īILL CONTI: So what's interesting about the training? Well, not much. But in a training montage, it becomes movie magic. In reality, this is probably a miserable workout.
#ROCKY 3 MONTAGE CRACK#
Rocky Balboa wakes up at the crack of dawn, gulps down a glass of raw eggs bundles up in his drab sweat suit and Chuck Taylors and heads out to begin his run in the train yards. TIM GREIVING, BYLINE: It's a freezing cold Philadelphia morning. Tim Greiving has the history of this art form in miniature. It's still going strong in the latest and ninth installment of the "Rocky" franchise, "Creed III," which is in theaters now.
It can be traced back to the original "Rocky," the Academy Award-winner for best picture in 1977. It's Oscar night, so we thought this would be a good time to pay homage to a convention of modern movies.
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