Return to Philadelphia (analytical and loving walk with Rocky and Stallone)
of Quentin Victory Leydier
Publisher : Editions Lett Motif (August 25, 2020)
Language : French
Number of pages : 200 pages
Rehabilitate the saga rocky to those who denigrate her. To endear Sylvester Stallone to those who despise him. Return to Philadelphia seems at first glance to pursue this goal. Nothing is so simple, a fortiori in a book which precisely wants to show that all the labels stuck to the character and its creator are reductive.
So, Rocky, self-made man? Loser ? Male hero? Reaganian? Everything is obviously less binary than that and deserves attention.
Return to Philadelphia , it is thus a stroll in the work of Rocky. A personal and benevolent approach which wants, with humility, to open up new perspectives on the vision of a cinematographic saga, too easily thrown to the nettles. For this, Quentin Victory Leydier, with his soul as a sensitive and passionate lawyer, does not hesitate to summon Greek philosophy, The Merchant of Venice and Pierre Bourdieu (doesn't Rocky deserve the best?) to give even more credit to his feelings. Even if it means also imagining a dialogue, amused and amusing, between himself and Stallone!
Return to Philadelphia , a unique book about a unique hero, Rocky Balboa.
Quentin Victory Leydier is a professor of modern literature. He is also passionate about cinema and tries to teach it to his students.