![]() 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 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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