When they met in the center of the ring, before a standing-room-only crowd of spectators, Creed told Rocky: "You""re going down, man.He had a tortured relationship with his parents, and he had also been ostracized by society for naming names before the HUAC Committee in 1952.The same imagery was utilized by Spielberg for his filmE.T.: he Extra-Terrestrial (1982).Touching the Monolith approximates he Biblical equivalent of eating the forbidden fruit of Knowledge.David must retrieve his hooked shot, and dismisses himself with the refrain: "I""ll be with you in a minute, Mr.