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USA 1, Soviet Union nil in 'Rocky IV'
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Date: Thu. Nov. 8 2007 2:03 PM ET
The moment
Rocky beats the Russian Übermensch Ivan Drago to a blistery pulp in a 15-round death match presided over closely by Soviet bureaucrats and American politicians. Circa 1985, it's superpower domination cloaked as buddy revenge.
Why we get choked
It's the most ostentatious of the "Rocky" flicks, coming at the height of Glasnost and perestroika that had begun to illustrate the cracks in the socialist regime. This brilliant display of that classical dialectic of the natural male versus the cyborg human gets us going every time.
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Next: Chuckie tells Will where it's at in "Good Will Hunting" >
Maybe it's that moment when Wind in his Hair asks Dances with Wolves if he can see that "he is his friend" and tells him that he "will always be [his] friend" that we missed.
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