About this episode

Dan and Mike celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rocky and the 80th birthday of Sylvester Stallone by discussing the film's production and its significance as an underdog story.

Message Dan and Mike Rocky turns 50 this December, and Sylvester Stallone just turned 80 — so we're marking both with our very first Stallone review. A broke, unknown actor with bit parts in mob films turned down nearly $400,000 from the studio, wrote the script in three days, and sold his own dog to make the one movie he refused to let anyone else star in. We get into the guerrilla filmmaking behind it: a budget under a million dollars, a 28-day shoot, no permits, tarps hauled in to fake th...

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Hosts: Dan Smith, Mike Smith

Topics covered

• Sylvester Stallone
• Rocky
• underdog story
• film history
• guerrilla filmmaking

Keywords

• Rocky
• Sylvester Stallone
• film review
• underdog
• guerrilla filmmaking
• cinema history
• 80th birthday

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Books & works: Rocky

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