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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I never saw any of these. I'm pretty sure I tuned out of the Rocky franchise after Rocky V.

Was Creed a continuation of those later Rocky movies, or were they their own thing?

It must have been pretty decent. Creed III is on the short list of Hollywood big budget movies in 2023 that actually turned a profit for the studio. And since it was United Artists only big budget outing in 2023, that's good news for the studio in a year where some studios are losing anywhere from $100 Million to $1 Billion at the Box Office.



The deaf child thing was probably an afterthought on the part of the writers. Certainly, somebody with the money Creed had should be able to easily afford to get a professional speech therapist who knows about training deaf children to speak, even though that probably is quite pricey.


You'd be surprised though. I know two kids who aren't deaf that could really use some speech therapy and have parents who could afford it, but it's never been done. I don't know how to bring that up without sounding like a real asshole, so I haven't done it and just remain silent on the issue.

One of my brothers was able to see a speech therapist when he was around 4 years old because my old man had good health insurance at the time and that was a blessing. He talks perfect today, but had really abnormal speech patterns when he was an adolescent. I don't know how easy that is to correct once you get into your teenage years. I'm sure it's possible though. There's plenty of foreign actors who learned English later in their careers and can entirely lose their native accent when needed to for roles. But they're heavily incentivized to do so. It's probably not something that would come very easy for your average person who should have had that speech therapy before everything was pretty much locked in for life.

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