Why was there a robot in Rocky IV?
In Rocky IV (1985), Balboa gifts Paulie a talking and moving robot which could do following things:
Talk and act like humans.
Patch up to phone lines in house.
Voice modulation according to needs. Paulie teaches it to talk in girl's voice.
Provide household service.
It's almost like an combination of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in today's time.
But it did not have any significance to the plot. Why was it included ?
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Some interesting info can be found here.
Basically, to summarize the article, Stallone discovered the company that produced the robot was using it as a tool to help autistic children. One of Stallone's children is autistic, so he became enamored with the robot and offered to write a part for it in the next Rocky movie. Apparently there was more scripted around building the relationship between Paulie and the robot, but it was scrapped.
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What was the robot in Rocky?
The robot in question is SICO, created by International Robotics Inc. In the film, Rocky gifts the robot to his brother-in-law Paulie. Paulie resents the gift, but later in the film seems to warm to its presence, notably after giving the robot an overhaul and a new (and female) voice.Is Ivan Drago a robot?
He's actually a robot programmed to beat world-class fighters. Although it's bizarre, this is actually plausible within the specific context of Rocky IV, particularly as the sequel's characterization of Drago plays down all of the fighter's human aspects, portraying him less as a man than a killing machine.Did they actually film Rocky 4 in Russia?
The second half of Rocky IV looks like it was all shot in Soviet Russia, but with America and the USSR being in the middle of The Cold War at the time, the production team had to find another location to shoot the final fight between Rocky and Ivan Drago. This is where Vancouver's Agrodome came into the picture.IVAN DRAGO WAS A ROBOT - Rocky IV Fan Theory (1985) Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren
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