Even as late as "Rocky Balboa" Stallone delivers the goods:::In the beginning we hear a steady monotone of Rocky, as owner/Maitre D/Heavy Weight Champ reciting the tale of his triumph over Creed (in 2)....just a voice, to a table of "suits." We don't see him at first, just the sound of it. {{{it's the beauty of film that not everything has to be for the viewer on the initial sight}}} That the movie maker can put his heart and dreams onto celluloid and we will at our own speed & desire find it.
We know as witnesses to 1 & 2 what it took for that victory. If you suspend yourself and immerse into the story as Stallone the man must suspend and immerse himself into the role as actor/Rocky you can take the memory with you forever. Rocky cannot tell the tale to these people as it happened because he cannot share that with another human being aside from Creed whom is now dead, but, who shared that intimacy with Rocky in bits & pieces in 1,2,3. We as "believers" can get closer than anyone to have the right to hear it, because we lived it. We are en led whereas "the suits",,,and the restaurant's patron's (all of them) are not, and never will be.
Stallone excludes them, but, we, we have never been excluded. When he went, he took us with him, every step of the way, and we heard every word he ever spoke.
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