Sara Garzon
Intro to Film B3
Blog Draft
Mr. Monahan
Oct. 3th, 2018
The American Dream varies from people's perspective especially on how they view life and the basic is having the opportunity to come from nothing and being able to get everything you need like for example a job, car, and family to enjoy these things. In a lot of countries you're stuck in the place you're born but in America, you can be a poor person from the bad areas of Chicago and become president. And this is why many people leave their country and move the US to find more opportunities. And the films Rocky (1976) and Sugar (2008) are pretty different when it's showing the struggles between an American working hard to meet his dreams compared to a Dominican coming to the states and how he needs to work to the top while knowing little to no English.
Sugar ❡: In the opening credits until the end of Sugar, the central character/ main character Miguel “Sugar” Santos played by Algenis Perez Soto is a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States' minor league system. He got sent to Phoenix, Arizona, and Sugar got invited to have spring training by the fictional team Kansas City Knights. He is assigned to a team in Iowa, the Swing. He is housed by the Higgins family. And in the story, he tries really hard to fit in and work hard to get into the major leagues and later on realize that he shouldn't force himself to do well on everything and at the end, he knew his true passion is being a carpenter and the director and screenwriter show the early stages of the American dream. And it shows how he works hard to learn the language and get used to the customs.
Rocky ❡: In Rocky (1976) Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a kind-hearted and uneducated club fighter from Philadelphia whose main source of income is collecting debts for the local crime boss, Gazzo (Joe Spinell). Despite being good at boxing, nobody believes that Rocky can make to the pros because he's uneducated and an underdog. He falls in love with his best friend's sister Adrian (Talia Shire) and everything seems to be going okay. But things just get better because Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) is a reigning champion and his opponent gets injured and Rocky is chosen to take his place because of his nickname, "the Italian Stallion." Rocky sees it as a chance to live his dream and go the distance with the heavyweight champion of the world. And he works really hard be the best he would ever be because he always wanted to make it to the top even if he's an underdog. And does everything he can to train for the big fight from punching frozen meat to running a lot. And on Jan. 1st the night of the big fight, the first round, Rocky knocks Apollo down, the first time Apollo had ever been knocked down in his career, and Apollo breaks Rocky's nose, also for the first time in his career. Apollo soon realizes that, although Rocky does not have the same skill he has. The match becomes a long and grueling battle for both competitors. Up into the 14th round, Rocky is nearly knocked down but manages to get back up and they went up to the 15th round and sadly Apollo won but it didn't stop Rocky from saying that he loves Adrian. And it doesn't matter if you win or lose because love always wins at the end (even though it's a cliche)
In conclusion, there’s many definitions of an American dream and people will have to work hard to meet their meaning of a dream.
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