Daily Dialogue — June 25, 2015

“Adrian!”

— Rocky (1976), written by Sylvester Stallone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Memorable 1-Word Lines. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.

Trivia: Although Sylvester Stallone famously wrote the first draft of the script in 3 days, it went through nine sizable rewrites before it was purchased by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff. Originally, Stallone’s much darker script depicted Mickey (Burgess Meredith) as a bitter old racist, and the film ended with Rocky throwing the fight after realizing he did not want to be part of the professional boxing world.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by David: “The ultimate underdog did what he wanted to do, and that was go the distance with the champ. After that, all that mattered was… Adrian.”