Glen Donnar
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Thank you, Rebecca. Your post
Thank you, Rebecca. Your post beautifully evokes the many ways the film mirrors the first Rocky, but also highlights the many changes it makes and which make it, from the film's focus on young black lives through even to attitudes to boxing itself. Y ... -
Re: Body Body Body
A beautiful post, Amelie,
A beautiful post, Amelie, thank you. The tenderness and compassion in the film that you—and Rebecca—observe. I am struck, in re-watching the montage again by how Donnie, while jolted back into consciousness after the mediated image-memory of Apollo (he sh ... -
An illuminating reflection,
An illuminating reflection, Hannah, on Coogler's already resonant authorial concerns with contesting dominant cultural representations of black masculinity and absentee fatherhood- and all the more telling in taking over, extending and transforming a ... -
A passionate and provocative
A passionate and provocative post, Sean, as only you can deliver. Your inclusion of Ricky Conlan- who is tellingly never reduced to a villain- to deepen, and internationalise, your austerity reading is particularly compelling. The running-biker scene (the ... -
Fights
Thank you Sean, especially for the reminder about 'Do The Right Thing'. Negra's notion of Stallone/Rocky as 'off-white' is also valuable because it appropriately complicates Stallone/Rocky/Rambo as American-but-Other. Each is ... -
Legacies
Thank you Amelie, Yes, I am struck by the manner in which Coogler presents these 'familial' relationships- as Hannah and Rebecca will examine in more detail- including the maternal one with his adoptive mother. I like the way in which Donnie ini ... -
The absence of Rocky’s son,
The absence of Rocky's son, and the pain evident in Rocky's unsuccessful attempt to make light/positive of it, suggests that the older man's decision to work with Donnie is motivated by two levels of guilt: one as Apollo's trainer and ... -
Thanks Rebecca, so much to
Thanks Rebecca, so much to think about in your response. The film, Donnie and even Rocky (if we think of the cancer as a violence of sorts) certainly find 'regeneration through violence., as you note. But perhaps the dominant aspect of Stallone' ...