Seats & Forms of Power 5

Training Montage

Today we watched two passages from Rocky IV.
In the introduction, the boxing gloves move very slowly, and are made of metal, and when they clash, they explode. They look like nuclear warheads (ogives nucléaires) about to be launched (qui vont être lancées). It echoes (cela fait écho à) Reagan's speech: Americans should be ready for war, and the Nuclear Race must be resumed (doit être reprise).

Then we watched the famous training montage. Here's a table with our impressions:

ROCKY/USA                                                                                DRAGO/USSR

Training in Nature                                                                          Training in a lab, in a gym
(slow and cold)                                                                              (dark, underground)

alone                                                                                               scientists (drugs)

simple training                                                                                machines and technology

he cuts trees, chops them into logs, carries                                     a sparring partner. Drago's
them around, and builds fire: his training has a goal,                     training has no goal, it has
it has a meaning, it's meaningful (il a du sens)                               no meaning, it's meaningless
                                                                                                        (cela n'a pas de sens).

More than meets the eye
uplifting


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