The greatest gift any filmmaker can have is their story. It is the pulse of cinema, or the feeling that stays with us as we drive home from a movie theater. In Ryan Coogler’s film “Creed,” Adonis (Michael B. Jordan), the son of famed boxer Apollo Creed, seeks out Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) to train him so he can explore and rebuild the legacy left by his late father.
Though the film is a sports drama, it’s also about family, masculinity, and relationships. The origins of the movie lie in memories that Coogler had with his own father and young brothers while watching the “Rocky” saga and seeing his father overcome with emotion from the story. In “Creed,” it’s Coogler’s personal story…
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