Rocky training montage without music is weird, kind of charming
It's one guy just punching the air alone, basically
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Your support makes all the difference.We really don't give enough credit to the powers of film scores to instantly make iconic things which look dull or downright bizarre in real life. Did you ever actually try to walk down your school's hallways with your squad in a perfect line either side of you? Sure, go slo-mo with Missy Elliot thudding in the background and it's all perfectly Mean Girls; go without those things and you look like the world's most poorly attired police kettle.
The same goes for one of film's most inspiring moments, Rocky's triumphant climb of the stairs to Philadelphia's Museum of Art. The fist-pumping, chest-bumping pride of knowing the unconquerable is no longer so and that all that training is starting to pay off. All those feelings summed up in that soaring anthem, Bill Conti's "Gonna Fly Now".
Because without that track, it's just one guy, alone, bopping up and down on the top of some stairs with his arms in the air.
Deeply odd, but also sort of charming?
There'll be more first-pumping guaranteed when Rocky spin-off/sequel Creed hits UK theatres 15 January.
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