"During round one of the intense "fight of the century," Creed""s fast-start strategy was to finish off Rocky quickly by taking command early.As Rob left, but paused to linger for small-talk with Trish, she suggested he stay on the trail that rounded the lake, and then invited him back if the weather turned bad or if he wanted to take a shower.He presents his first lesson to the boy: "Don""t ever trust anybody until you know ""em" - advice that will be remembered during he final conflict between them:Dunson: Don""t ever trust anybody until you know ""em.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).