Here are a couple of scenes from Rocky II including the opening scene from Rocky's wedding proposal to Adrian in front of the tiger cage at the Philadelphia Zoo.
I don't know if there's any film scholarship on this particular scene, but it's interesting to note that Rocky proposes to Adrian in a zoo and in front of a tiger exhibit. The Rocky/tiger symbolism runs throughout the film. The decision to stage the marriage proposal at the zoo may be a not-so-subtle comment on marriage and zoos as institutions that cage or domesticate "wild nature."
And yet Rocky is in love with Adrian and wants to marry her. "I kinda like the zoo a lot," he says. When it snows, "it smells clean and everything like that."
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