He was at first confused and asked: "What are you?" after she told him: "I""m a Ewe." Maa was recuperating - suffering from foot rot and a nasty cough.To Babe""s surprise, she cautioned him about the sheepdogs, calling them "wolves" and "brutal savages" for their rough treatment of the sheep." After giving up boxing, Rocky felt he was "becoming a nobody again." He told her: "I don""t want just to get by the hard way...I want you to have good things.I want the kid to have good things." She was against his idea: "You don""t have to prove anything....I don""t want you to do it," but he believed boxing was his life: "It""s all I know." He pleaded further: "I never asked you to stop being a woman, you know.Please, I""m asking you, please, don""t ask me to stop being a man." Mickey""s knock on their front door interrupted their discussion.He had seen the recent telecast and immediately proposed that Rocky accept the rematch: "I think we oughta knock his block off." Cal did not offer an apology for his absence, as Adam explained his idea to family friend Will Hamilton (Albert Dekker).Over a twenty-four hour period, he finds himself unwelcome and facing several ominous characters, animosity, collective guilt, hypocrisy, and bigotry.The earlier 1936 MGM, George Cukor-directed version of the filmRomeo and Juliet (1936)with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, cast two much older and mature actors for the lead roles.