The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.He wrote this out in writing, put the paper in a box with some of our little tokens and things, then sent it off in a balloon he""d found while on the garbage route.Rick mentioned to Evelyn that her dreams that started six weeks earlier coincided with the start of the Egyptian New Year - the year of the Scorpion." However, Prewitt insists that he hasn""t been boxing for over a year, because of a tragic accident - he blinded an opponent while sparring in the ring." A commentator noted that Rocky fought tougher opponents than Mason Dixon, who was only "spoon-fed his opponents.