"In the tenth reel," Conti continued, "he gets to train for a big fight, and we want to manipulate the audience to think that he can win. He loses." Conti wrote three other thematic pieces aside from the main theme, a brass fanfare ("We were talking about what heroic music is, and I hear brass and I hear loud when it's time to go into battle"), a driving cue for the eventual fight scene called "Going The Distance," and the dramatic finale "The Final Bell." But the film-and series-would be defined by "Gonna Fly Now," especially that montage. Responsible for the "Rocky" theme and score is American composer Bill Conti, whose other famous works include the score and song for James Bond adventure " For Your Eyes Only" and the classic theme tunes to TV's "Dynasty" and "Cagney & Lacey."
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Rocky's theme is subtitled "Gonna Fly Now," a result of adding lyrics to the theme for the big training sequence, the first of many montages across the eight films in the series including, the latest, " Creed II." The franchise has long been criticized for being formulaic, and while that's not especially incorrect, what's interesting is that perhaps the most predictable moment in the films-the appearance of "Gonna Fly Now"-is the one most look forward to. And when we hear Bill Conti's stirring theme from " Rocky" we feel passion, we feel inspiration, and the confidence to beat the odds. This is why when we hear Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" strings we immediately feel panic when we listen to Ennio Morricone's harmonica strains from "Once Upon A Time In The West," we feel the tension of an approaching gunfight. The point of a music score is to illustrate what's going on in a character's head and in their heart.
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