Accompanied by the film""s theme song, "Eye of the Tiger," a montage of various scenes flash-forwarded from 1976-1981 to show Rocky""s next few years as a successful boxer, popular celebrity sportsman and pitchman.Sumter has been fired upon:We""ve borne enough insults from the meddling Yankees.It""s time we made them understand we""ll keep our slaves with or without their approval.""Twas the sovereign right of the state of Georgia to secede from the Union! [January 19, 1861]...The South must assert herself by force of arms.After we""ve fired on he Yankee rascals at Ft.Sumter [April 12, 1861], we""ve got to fight! There""s no other way.Excited and patriotic southerners boastfully predict a quick victory, led by Gerald O""Hara: "The Yankees can""t fight and we can!" Ashley attempts to cool off the room full of Southern hotheads, hoping that the North will let the South leave the Union without war: "Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars.It became one of the defining films of the classic era in the comedy-detective subgenre.Director W.S.Van Dyke had just previously directedManhattan Melodrama (1934), in which stars Powell and Loy had displayed their unique and charming chemistry in the first of their 14 film pairings.There are many opposing and conflicting forces being balanced: the individual vs.the power of big business, the populist little people in the peaceful country vs.the chaotic metropolitan city, good vs.evil, and innocent idealism vs.hardened cynicism.A "Cinderella" romance subplot involves a deceitful, hard-edged, and sardonic female newspaper reporter who falls in love with the newly-rich, guileless fortune inheritor while getting an "inside story" and making fun of him in her newspaper.[Note: Crane, aka Scarecrow, was a psychiatrist at the Arkham Asylum who had conducted experiments on inmates in a previous Batman film.