hear what i said? shut up! movie stars need to prove over and over again you can act. he proved to the world he can act and then some. i like having you for my big brother. yeah. let me see some id. you are under arrest. the 80s introduces us to john rambo. but what people tend to forget, he was introduced in a way that was much more in line with 70s film making. if you look at the first, first blood, it is a dark movie about how we let our veteran down and don t know what to do with them. we make killers and then turn them loose into america. that s a pretty heavy movie. even for an action movie, it
addition and a pretty one i might add. i mean that. you should see some of the crone that s have been coming through here. nine to five was a me too movement before the me too movement. this idea of women coming together and being like yes. my life has been ruined by egotistical bigoted men trying to hold me back. coffee, violet. now. this was when women were going into the work force, but they were still secretaries. they were still the subservient roles. they weren t the boss of the company. i ll get it. what about you? what is your fantasy for a man? i think i would like to just come riding up one day and give him a taste of his own medicine. i loved their female camaraderie. and i loved dolly parton in that movie. she is like, liquid gold. look, i got a gun out there
i know you wanna leave me but i refuse to let you go i remember when it first came out i thought, well, this will be for this generation, the children of the 60s, this will be very relevant. then i would meet kids who were in high school ten years after the movie came out, i love that movie. it s about friendship. it s also about growing up. there s something in its essence that is timeless and universal. i m marrying flap horton tomorrow. i thank god for flap for getting me out of here. i think if this is your attitude, you shouldn t bother showing up at my wedding. hm. that s that s right. i think you re right. the hypocrisy was bothering me, too. terms of endearment based on a book by larry mcmurtry adapted and directed by james l. brooks. it made you cry, it made you laugh. it was the stuff of life. shirley maclaine plays aurora. gets involved with an astronaut played by jack nicholson.
years of preparation and eight months of production, the motion picture has been yanked from american theaters after only one day. heaven s gate took almost a year to complete. the director, michael chunino, whose deer hunter film was a great success, got a free hand. his producer said he was out of control. the result, a 3 1/2-hour bomb. heaven s gate is a stake through the heart of the auteur era in hollywood. it s the cautionary tale that s all about to say, no, no, the studio s going to step in here and this is not going to be another heaven s gate. and that s how you get the movies of the 1980s. you knew where you were when you first saw the empire strikes back. because it was the star wars movie that took the whole thing to a whole other level. star wars was huge but empire strikes back was phenomenal. these established characters, you saw them intermix in a way
paul newman plays a kind of washed-up lawyer who was an alcoholic kind of ambulance chaser. what makes it uniquely lumet is that even when it s movie stars, big movie stars, he manages to bring them down in the case of the verdict, to the boston streets. you can see the stars in the movie, but they have not turned the movie into something glamorous, but the opposite, have entered the drudge and reality of the world that lumet s painting. oh, god, i never should have taken it, there was no way i could win. newman did what he was asked to do. he was often asked to just be the matinee idol, the leading man, be charming and witty and funny. when he does the verdict, it makes you cry. here newman shows you what he s really made of as an actor. i think you guys are making a big mistake. i think you ought to reconsider. i think you ought to get the principals back together again. to see that scene where he s calling the insurance company to rekindle the deal that he turned down.