Sylvester Stallone's 1985 Rocky sequel in which Rocky Balboa fights Soviet boxer Ivan Drago to avenge the death of Apollo Creed — famous for its training montage contrasting Rocky's primitive natural training with Drago's steroids-and-technology approach.
Functions as the archetypal Cold War sports allegory — Rocky's natural, primitive training in the Siberian snow vs. Drago's pharmaceutical and technological optimization — making the moral case that human spirit and will outperform systematic optimization, and providing the most referenced single sports training montage in cinema history.
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