Then, their brain would shut down and an individual would enter a comatose state ("permanent sleep").The highly personal, expensive project of Spielberg""s was first released for Columbia Studios in 1977 - then, a re-edited heatrical Special Edition, authorized by the director himself, was released three years later in 1980, with some tightening of the original version (i.For example:- "What do you hicks do around here for kicks?"- "The roses grow.People get married.Crazy as anyplace else."- "What about TV? Do ya like TV?"- "Oh, pictures! No, no pictures.Everything these days is pictures.Pictures and a lotta noise.Nobody even knows how to talk.Just grunt at each other."Johnny engages Kathie in conversation in the restaurant, pressing her for a date that evening at a Carbonville dance, and an invitation to dance to the jukebox music.At the time, with a budget hat spiraled up to $12 million dollars, it was considered one of the most expensive Hollywood productions at the time (the previous year""s Biblical epicBen Hur (1959)had a budget of $15 million), and ended up with domestic revenue of $14 million - it was the highest-grossing (domestic) film of the year...You fixed your face up handsome, nice clothes.What""d you do for Paulie, anything? Three years, did you get me a job?...You know, I always give ya.I give ya.What do you do? You buy a new house.You move Mick in, right? Did you ask me? Is there something the matter with me?" Rocky retorted back that he didn""t owe Paulie anything, just because he was his brother-in-law: "You talk like everybody owes you a livin"".