15 Movies That Changed Film Industry Forever
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6. Rocky (1976)
The movie tells the legendary tale of an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia.
Rocky starts out as a club fighter who later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship.
The main plot is rumored to have been based on the real life boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio on March 24, 1975. Stallone reportedly watched the fight and shortly afterwards wrote the script for Rocky.
The famous soundtrack “Gonna Fly Now” still echoes in the heads of audiences worldwide as the everlasting determination of an underdog hero continues to inspire us to make the world a better place, one fight at a time.
