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Rocky Balboa (2006)

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• Sage Stallone turned down the chance of reprising his role of Robert 'Rocky' Balboa Junior, which he played in Rocky V (1990), due to prior obligations with his film company Grindhouse Releasing.
  
  
• According to her gravestone, Adrian Balboa's death was on 11 January 2002.
  
  
• The film contains flashbacks from every Rocky film except Rocky V (1990), which Sylvester Stallone admits is the weak link of the film series.
  
  

• Shipped to theaters under the code name "Nobody Parties".
  
  
• The only Rocky sequel to not contain a recap from it's predecessor, Rocky V (1990).
  
  
• Pedro Lovell reprises his role as Spider Rico, the club fighter Rocky beats from the opening scene of Rocky (1976).
  
  
• DVD Easter Egg: Go to special features and highlight commentary then press right 3 times and an arrow pops up, click and enjoy. Just a short make up demo on how they made Rocky look so beat up.
  
  
• The fight entrance with Rocky coming out before he fights Mason Dixon was filmed during the Middleweight Championship rematch between Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins in December, 2005.
  
  
• The computer simulation fight was based on one which took place in 1969 which pitted Muhammad Ali against Rocky Marciano. Every possible scenario was considered and filmed and the computer decided that Marciano would win in the 13th round. When told of the result, Ali retorted "that computer was made in Alabama".
  
  
• According to an interview with Mark S. Driscoll of Look! Effects, one of the fight scenes uses backgrounds from an earlier fight which Sylvester Stallone actually attended prior to filming. He said it should be possible to see Stallone (as himself) in the audience while Stallone (as Rocky) is in the ring.
  
  
• The only film in the Rocky series that actually plays "Gonna Fly Now" under the closing credits.
  
  
• Assuming standard sized gym weights, during the Gonna Fly Now work out scene Rocky was benching 365, snatch & lifting 315 and squatting 495. A standard FULL keg of beer would weigh around 150 lbs. An empty keg would be insignificant.
  
  
• According to Stallone, the shot of Rocky standing alone on the museum steps before the second set of end credits was actually filmed without him even knowing.
  
  
• In the scene in the meat factory with Paulie and Rocky, Paulie asks if Rocky is angry because they took down his statue. In actuality, the Rocky Statue was a point of major conflict. The artsy types in Philadelphia, especially those affiliated with the Philadelphia Art Museum argued that the statue was a movie prop and not true art. Their argument prevailed and the statue was moved to the Spectrum, the site still stands today. It was returned to the museum for the filming of future films, but removed shortly thereafter. Eventually, those in charge were moved by pleas of the people and recently returned the statue to the museum. It’s permanent home can be found at the right base of the museum's steps.
  
  
• According to Sylvester Stallone in his DVD Commentary, he did consider bringing back his real-life son Sage Stallone to reprise the role of Robert "Rocky" Junior, but decided against it because he feared people would read too much into the personal conflict between Rocky and Robert, regarding Robert feeling he's "living in his father's shadow".
  
  
• Some of Rocky's dialog with Marie was improvised according to Stallone on the DVD Commentary. Specifically, moments like when he installs the light bulb, when he asks her if she met Step's father on a cruise, and when he stands in the middle of the street and says "I'm smarter than the average bear". On the light bulb scene, he really didn't expect the bulb to be that bright and ad-libbed pretending to be blind along with the humorous dialog. On the "smarter than the average bear" line, Stallone just blurted it out, thus his follow-up line "I don't know what I'm sayin'."
  
  
• Sylvester Stallone trained for six months to get in shape for his role.
  
  
• 'Milo Ventimiglia (I)' claims he got his role in part because of the similarities between his and Sylvester Stallone's mouth. During their first meeting at the time of casting, Stallone noticed Ventimiglia's mouth hooks down in the same way that his does, therefore making Ventimiglia a perfect choice to play his son.
  
  
• Stallone initially wanted Roy Jones Jr. for the role of Mason Dixon. Stallone claims that he left 31 phone messages for Jones but never received a response.
  
  
• Carl Weathers refused to allow his image to be used in the film. A stand-in was used to recreate the archive footage of Rocky fighting Apollo Creed.
  
  
• A scene was filmed in which Rocky sees a woman that looks like Adrian in the building where Robert Jr. works. He follows her for a while before he realizes it is not Adrian. But Stallone decided to cut the scene because he felt that Rocky's loneliness had been established enough.
  
  
• A scene was filmed in which Rocky, after reuniting with Marie, talks with Andy the bartender (Don Sherman) from the previous Rocky films. But the bar scene was completely reshot without Andy. He can be seen very briefly in the background cheering Rocky during the fight.
  
  

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