Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is drawn by Floyd himself from A Mirror for Witches, a historical novel by Esther Forbes. The libretto is as cluttered with conflicts as an O'Neill play, but it does not have half the dramatic impact. This comes as something of a surprise. Floyd's creed is that opera can succeed today only if the composer pays as careful attention to plot as if he were writing a play: the audience must believe the story...
...differs sharply in phrase and form from the old services. God is no longer addressed as "Thou" or "Thee" but familiarly as "You." In the Lord's Prayer, "And lead us not into temptation" is rendered flatly as "Save us from the time of trial." In the Nicene Creed, "Maker of ... all things visible and invisible" becomes "Maker of ... all things seen and unseen," a considerable existential and semantic change. In the Commendation part of the burial service, in both Rites, the phrase "at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world" is omitted, minimizing the implications...
Ironically, Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...
Nobody would, anymore, of course. Nobody, that is, except Rocky Balboa, the "Italian Stallion" Creed chooses who, in his way of innocence, still believes that dreams come true. Rocky is an ordinary guy cloaked in the garb of a hero. With his desire to fight the good fight in spite of the odds, he is an admirably uncompromising man in a compromising world...
...LIGHTS flare up in the arena, the microphone drops in a terrific shot taken from above, the crowd, which has been skillfully clipped from films of actual fights, roars. Apollo Creed, who has sent flowers to the mayor's wife, and comes out through the aisles dressed as George Washington in an extravagant Crossing the Delaware parade, means business in this fight, but he does not know that Rocky means business too. Round after fifteen rounds, Rocky stays up, going for the champ's weakened right side. "He doesn't know it's a show; he thinks...