[english script]
Yo Adrian, I did it! _Jan Bode
Germany-Netherlands 2011, 3:36 min.
Epilog 1
You´re fine?
Yeah. Fine.
Why did you do it?
You know what you gotta do.
Yeah.
Do it.
I just gotta do what I gotta do.
You don‘t have to do anything.
You‘re gonna have to go through hell.
Worse than any nightmare, that you ever dreamed.
No Adrian, I´m doing.
A lot of people live with hurt.
But in the end, …
I know you‘ll be the one standing.
Adrian, a lot of people don‘t have a choice.
I do.
Epilog 2
I ain‘t work no more.
I‘m supposed to be a fighter.
I got canned today.
But you gave that up.
Mmh.
Oh!
What happened?
I think I‘m becomin‘ a nobody again, too.
You know? It was nobody‘s fault.
In whose eyes?
Not mine.
They were just cutting back.
In mine. In here.
What are you gonna do?
I don‘t know.
I was thinking about fighting.
We‘ll get by.
That‘s just it.
Oh Rocky, you gave me your word,
you wouldn´t fight anymore.
I mean.
If we need money, I could get a job.
I don‘t want just to get by the hard way. You know?
I want you to have good things.
I want the kid to have good things.
We´ll have `em.
No, I don´t want you to do it.
Really, I wanna work.
I just think we need `em now. Don‘t you?
Oh, Rocky. Please.
But I‘m the one, who‘s supposed to support.
You don‘t have to prove anything.
Adrian, it‘s all I know.
It‘s just for a little while.
I don‘t want you to do it.
Well. Maybe you‘re right, you know.
It‘s all I know.
You know what‘s best, you know.
Epilog 3
And for that you‘re willing to lose everything?
We gotta change sometime.
No, stallion. Maybe you think you‘re changing.
But you can‘t change what you really are.
And you can forget all this money and stuff.
You got all around you, man.
But that don‘t change a thing.
We‘re born with a killer instinct.
That you can‘t just turn off and on like some radio.
This ain‘t everything.
This house. The car.
And all the stuff we got.
That ain‘t everything.
We changed.
We‘re like turning into regular people.
Why can‘t you change your thinking?
Everybody else does.
Because I‘m a fighter.
That‘s the way I‘m made, Adrian.
You can´t go with what you are!
You read the papers?
Do you know what everybody says?
It‘s suicide.
We have to be right in the middle of the action.
Because we‘re the warriors.
And without some challenge.
Without some damn war to fight.
Then the warrior may as well be dead, Stallion.
We can‘t change what we are.
Yes, you can.
You and me.
We don‘t even have a choice.
You can‘t change anything, Adrian.
And all we can do is just go with what we are.
Epilog 4
What‘s the truth, dammit?!
I‘m afraid!
All right?
You wanna hear me say it?
The little man don‘t wanna come to me.
Than I´ll come to you people lay out the truth.
I am ranked number one.
One!
That means I‘m the best.
You wanna break me down?
I‘m afraid.
For the first time in my life, I‘m afraid.
But this bum, he´s taking the easy matches.
Fights other bums.
You see, he don‘t fight no real man.
If he ain‘t no coward, why don‘t he fight me?
I‘m afraid, too.
There‘s nothing wrong with beeing afraid.
There is.
For me, there is.
Why? You‘re human, aren´t you?
I don‘t know what I am.
All I know is I‘m a liar.
Politics, man!
This country wants to keep me down.
They don‘t want a man like me to have the title.
Because I‘m not a puppet like the fool overthere.
You know, you‘ve got a big mouth. You know?
Why don‘t you close it, Balboa?
Come on!
Yeah, come on!
And you have no right to feel guilty for what happened.
You don´t.
You were a champion.
And you did what you were expected to do.
But I don‘t believe it!
It doesn‘t matter what I believe.
Because you are the one
who got to carry that fear around inside you.
You want it, you got it!
Come on. I want it.
You want it.
You´re dead.
I‘ll see you in the ring!
You got it, man!
Afraid that everybody gonna take things away,
Afraid, that you‘ll be remembered as a coward.
That you‘re not a man any more.
Epilog 5
Look, man. I hurt all over.
Get rid of it!
I didn‘t wanna know from nothing or nobody.
Not even my kids.
Because when all the smoke is cleared.
And everyone stop chanting your name.
It‘s just gonna be us.
The hell. Every fighter knows that hurt.
And we get sick inside trying to live with it.
So don‘t back off now.
Make it right for yourself or you‘ll be sorry you didn‘t.
And you can‘t live like this.
We can‘t live like this.
Cause it‘s gonna bother you for the rest of your life.
Look what it‘s doing to you now.
We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe.
You lost your edge.
And now you gotta get it back.
And the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning.
You know what I mean?
Maybe we could win it back together.
Not for the people.
Not for the title.
Not for money, or me.
But for you.
Just you alone.
Text:
Rocky II
Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone
(© 1979 by Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists)
Rocky III
Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone
(© 1982 by Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists)
Rocky IV
Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone
(© 1985 by Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists)
Jan Bode
Germany-Netherlands 2011
[email protected]
www.janbode.de