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Training chalet in Russia
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When he decided to return behind the camera to orchestrate the fourth installment of the adventures of Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone was at the top of the Hollywood food chain. Motivated by the success of the first two Rambos and Rocky III, the actor delivers with Rocky IV an allegory of the Cold War by opposing the American champion to a fearsome Russian boxer. However, if a good part of the film is supposed to take place in the U.S.S.R., Sly never considered relocating the shooting. Instead, he abandons Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where all the previous installments of the saga were produced, and sets his cameras in the heart of the wilderness of the Mormon Row Historic District, in the middle of winter. As soon as the team arrived, they ran into problems related to the cold. The mercury drops to -68 °F. The equipment freezes and makes shooting complicated. In spite of everything, Sylvester Stallone manages to complete the sequences where he runs in the snow and even climbs a mountain, on the notes of the hit Hearts On Fire by John Cafferty.
As usual, the New York actor does not spare himself and builds the campaign despite the extreme conditions. On screen, the film pits Rocky’s old school methods against those of his rival Drago’s ultra modern methods. When the film was released in theaters, fans were ecstatic and jubilant at their idol’s show of strength.
The first cut of Rocky IV was 150 minutes long. Sylvester Stallone finally managed to reduce this duration to 91 minutes.
Mormon Row Historic District
A natural site located in the heart of Grand Teton National Park, the Mormon Row Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1997.
Settled by Mormon families in the early 1900s, the Mormon Row Historic District includes several farmsteads with barns and other corrals. A popular tourist destination f... Learn more about Mormon Row Historic District
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.
The Fantrippers Buying Board
The Paris guide to the 1000 cult places of films, series, music, comics and novels
The coolest guide in Paris!
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
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