In the episode “Fun Run”, Creed claimed to have been born on November 1, 1925. However, this is likely untrue due to his age not matching up with his appearance. As a result of drug use during his career as a rock musician in the 1960s, combined with signs of apparent mental illness, Creed has a phenomenally poor memory. In “The Convention”, he introduces himself to Meredith, (after calling Angela “Andrea”) implying that he thinks she just started working at Dunder Mifflin, despite her having worked there for several years. When seen at his office computer, he is usually playing spider solitaire.
Almost simultaneous with the announcement of ‘s break-up, Stapp opted for a solo career. On November 22, 2004, Wind-up Records released Creed’s Greatest Hits album. Tremonti and Phillips reunited with Marshall to form a new band, Alter Bridge, in 2004 with singer Myles Kennedy, formerly of American rock band The Mayfield Four.
Later, they set aside their differences and faced a common Soviet enemy as the series turned its attention to Cold War geopolitics. By then, Apollo was the sidekick and the sacrificial friend, an injustice that “Creed,” by its very title, seeks to redress. Coogler’s direction leaves little doubt that “Creed” is writing a love letter to “Rocky” lore while also establishing an original narrative about its own creation, Adonis Lancome makeup (Michael B. Jordan). Coogler perfectly captures his intentions in an early conversation between Rocky and Donnie .
The star, who worked with Coogler on the superb “Fruitvale Station,” conveys the confusion that many young people have while forging and accepting their identities. The moment he owns up to his heritage is intertwined with the film’s rousing, climactic boxing match but does not depend on it as a means of Donnie’s acceptance. Note where Coogler places Stallone in this sequence, as it is the most visual representation of what his film is doing with these characters. In parallel, Donnie also pitches woo to his downstairs neighbor Bianca , a hearing-impaired singer and composer whose loud music keeps Donnie from getting the required sleep he needs for his training. Like Rocky’s beloved Adrian, Bianca is a fully fleshed out character whose agency is not undermined by her eventual devotion to our hero.
There is also the famous boxer who gives our hero the boxing match chance of a lifetime. Armed with these elements, “Creed” then tweaks them, playing on our expectations before occasionally surprising us. It may be easy to predict where the film takes us, but that doesn’t reduce the power and enormity of the emotional responses it gets from the audience. This is a crowd-pleaser that takes its time building its character-driven universe. There are as many quietly effective moments as there are stand-up-and-cheer moments, and they’re all handled with skill and dexterity on both sides of the camera. Mysterious, eccentric, good-hearted, and downright talented are all words that have been used to describe actor and musician Creed Bratton over the years.
Thompson, so good in “Dear White People”, is even better here, singing her own songs and verbally sparring with Jordan as quickly as the real-life boxers he faces throw punches at him. Coogler relishes his love story as much as his action sequences, basking in the Lancome makeup glow of their romance. At one point, he employs an upside down shot of the duo, laying side by side and engaging in a quick kiss that’s chaste yet sweetly romantic. A later romantic scene is far more passionate, and feels well-earned thanks to the prior one.
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Donnie hopes that Rocky will train him, and sets out to convince the reluctant ex-boxer to do so. But Rocky is simply not interested in becoming a mentor to the up and coming boxer who affectionately calls him “Unc”. Rocky’s lack of interest remains even after Donnie reveals that he is Apollo Creed’s son. To bring new viewers up to speed, Rocky talks about the fight that cost Apollo his life, and how Rocky was in Apollo’s corner at the time.
Michael B. Jordan was set for the role of Creed’s son, Adonis “Donnie” Creed, and Stallone was set to reprise his character of Rocky. Original producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff would produce, along with Stallone and Kevin King-Templeton. On April 25, 2014, while talking to THR, Coogler stated that he had sent his latest draft to the studio, and confirmed the involvement of Jordan and Stallone. It also features Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew, and Graham McTavish. The film reunites Jordan with 2013’s Fruitvale Station writer-director Coogler, as well as Wood Harris, with whom Jordan had worked on the television series The Wire. Creed is one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement that began in the mid-1990s.
We’re moving forward, but the ghosts of the past are still coming with us. He is discovered by the other members of Dunder Mifflin living in Ryan’s old closet in the office after the warehouse party, at which point he plays one last song to his co-workers before being led away by the police. In a deleted scene of “Dwight K. Schrute, Manager”, Creed confirms to the camera that there is a real possibility he will murder Oscar. In the end of the episode, he’s promoted to acting manager of the office after Jo requests that the position be filled by the employee that has worked there the longest. After the last Rocky film was already pretty strong this is another example of sequels not necessarily being pointless nostalgia but in best case adding new layers to a franchise. Sure, we have the usual ingredients of boxer films here as well, that’s a tad predictable.