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what does it prove? >> bob de niro, he is not afraid of the negative characters, he's not afraid to go to those -- as they say, those places. >> i was down to 152. in my prime. and then i went up to 212. so i gained 60 pounds. that's not easy, though. the first 15 pounds is fun, then it's drudgery. >> go get 'em, champ. >> it's absolutely true that the movies of 1980 look like movies of the 1970s. very personal, very passionate filmmaking rules. then you had "ordinary people," the movie that defeated "raging bull" for best picture in 1980. this incredibly precise and very emotional study of a family in deep crisis. >> calvin, give me the camera. >> i didn't get it yet. >> come on, give me the camera. >> dad, give her the camera. >> i want a really good picture of the two of you. okay? >> no, but i really want to get a shot of the three of you men. give me the camera, calvin, please. >> not until i get a picture of the two of you. hang on a second. >> give her the goddamn camera! >> "ordinary people" centers on people who cannot get in touch with their feelings and who avoid the darker underpinnings. so i decided, i would like to tell a story about what people will do to avoid being seen for who they really are. i gave mary tyler moore the script. i said, look, i could see you playing this. she was drawn to it. and that really hit me because that told me that there is some part of herself that she was willing to expose that has not been exposed before, and she wanted that chance. and so she was given that chance. and she did a great job. >> calvin? 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>> oh, great. how's yours? >> not so great. >> oh, we're telling truth. >> "the big chill," it's about these kids who were in college together in the late '60s and are now no longer anti-establishment but actually are part of the establishment and trying to reconcile that history with their present. >> movies aren't being made for adults. that's all "the big chill" is, really, it's an adult film, and it tries to be as complex as life is. >> i had wanted to make a movie about something i was observing among my friends. this imagined power we came out of college thinking we had was nonexistent. ♪ 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, and they said, i love that movie. it's about friendship. it's also about growing up. there is something in its essence that is timeless and universal. >> i'm marrying him 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 right. no, i think you're right. the hypocrisy was bothering me, too. >> "terms of endearment" based on a book written by larry mcmurtry, adapted and directed by james l. brooks. it made you cry, it made you laugh. it was the stuff of life. >> just a minute. >> shirley maclaine plays aurora, gets involved with an astronaut played by jack ni nich nicholson. ♪ fly me to the moon, baby ♪ >> they just had this incredible comic chemistry. the romantic scenes between them are hilarious. >> it's not my fault, but i'm sorry. >> if you wanted to get me on my back, you just had to ask me. >> "terms of endearment" may be the first dromedy, a word we hear all the time, a movie that's funny and tragic simultaneously. >> it's time for her shot, you understand? do something. all she has to do was hold on to 10:00 and it's past 10:00. she's in pain, any daughter's in pain, give her the shot. do you understand me? >> if you're going to behave -- >> give my daughter the shot! thank you very much. >> james brooks was able to take humor, tragedy, the best writing delivered beautifully by actors that cared so much. it felt like life, it felt human, it felt funny. >> the winner is "terms of endearment." >> jim was into the delicate shades of humanity before it was cool. >> oh, well, that was a lifetime ago. people change. >> what are you up to? well, i hope you've changed. >> i hope you have, too. >> i hope so for your sake because your personality left something to be desired, namely a personality. >> you look at woody's career in the '80s, which theoretically should have been past his prime because how can you go on after "manhattan"? then you think, oh, wait a minute. there's also "zelig." there's also "broadway danny rose." there's "purple rose of cairo." >> by the time you get to "crimes and misdemeanors," woody allen has expanded his sensibility. it's an ensemble piece, it's got some humor in it and it's got some satire in it, but he's not trying to get a laugh every second. >> it's a wonderful moral conundrum from a very original standpoint. i think that's why it holds up. >> you told me over and over again you'd leave merriam. we made plans. >> we didn't. >> i gave up things for you, business opportunities. >> oh, dreams. >> "crimes and misdemeanors" is two parallel stories, one of which is a very traditional woody allen and mia farrow relationship jokefest, and the other one which is a serious examination of literal life-and-death themes. >> a guy is having an affair, and she's threatening to tell his wife and threatening to disrupt his world, so he has a hitman kill her. >> he realized, i had a woman killed and i thought i was going to go to hell and nothing happened. with woody, he's constantly getting, you know, shit on by life and he's just doing the right thing. >> you look very deep in thought. >> i was plotting the perfect murder. >> his writing is very strong for that reason. it always feels like he was thinking about some philosophical truth about human nature and says, oh, i want to write a movie about that. >> i'm talking about reality. i mean, if you want a happy ending, you should go see a hollywood movie. >> you realize, of course, that we can never be friends. >> why not? >> what i'm saying is -- and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form -- is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. >> nora ephron wrote "when harry met sally" and got a lot of help from reiner creating the neurotic main character. that's because he was based on rob reiner. >> every scene has to be good. you work and work and work, torture yourself rewriting the script. >> i know nora, and i pitched this idea about the dance that people go through to get together after they've both gotten out of long-term relationships. and they become friends, and does sex come into the picture? and if it does, does it ruin the friendship? and she said, well, that's something i would be interested in. >> he rips off my clothes. >> then what happens? >> that's it. >> that's it? a faceless guy rips off your clothes and that's the sex fantasy you've been having since you were 12, exactly the same? >> well, sometimes i vary it a little. >> which part? >> what i'm wearing. >> a good romantic comedy is, listen, you know they're going to be together, so how do you get them there and what's the roadblocks? it's all about the story, and it's all about the people. do you care about them? do you want them to be together? are you seeing what they're not seeing? >> it's just that all men are sure it never happened to them and most women at one time or another have done it, so you do the math. >> you don't think i can tell the difference? >> no. >> get out of here. >> in the deli scene, when we first did it, meg rightfully was a little nervous about it. you got crew members. you got extras. people standing around. >> ooh. >> are you okay? >> ohhhh. >> rob says, meg, here's what i want. he proceeds to have an orgasm that mighty joe young would be jealous of. >> yes, yes, oh, god. i'm pounding the table. >> yes! yes! yes! aah, aah! >> and i realize because my mother is sitting there, i'm having an orgasm in front of my mother. >> i'll have what she's having. , america's number one mascara ...creamy formula for 5x the volume. voluminous original mascara by l'oréal. my eyes are saying you're worth it. ♪"don't ya leave" by squeak e clean♪ [doorbell] ♪ [doorbell] ♪ [doorbell] all the delivery. no delivery fees. dashpass. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! 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mime is money, let's go, move it! >> you had all these brilliant performances by all of them, and then rob put it all together and made it sing. >> people didn't know what we were doing. they thought it was a real documentary. when we first previewed it, people saw it, they said why would you make a movie about a band nobody ever heard of, and one that's so bad? ♪ working on a sex farm ♪ ♪ plowing through your bean field ♪ >> let's say you look at a prospective movie and it's a square, rob reiner has a way of turning it sideways, looking at it differently, and finding a way to enjoy it in a completely nonconventional way. >> he didn't fall? >> inconceivable. >> you keep using that word. i do not think it means that you think it means. >> "the princess bride" is a blend between romance, satire, adventure, swashbuckling. i mean, it's all mixed in and it's a very strange mixture, hard to capture. >> wesley, what about the r.o.u.s.s? >> rodents of unusual size? i don't think they exist. >> you have to walk a balance, you know? 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[ shot fired ] >> that's hollywood. >> thank you, sir. i'm happy to be working here. >> you're a welcome addition, and a damn pretty one, too, if i might add. >> thank you, sir. >> i mean that, you should see some of the crones that have been coming by here. right, violet? >> it was 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 coming into the workforce, but they were still secretaries. they were still the subservient roles and they weren't the boss of the company. >> that's all right. i'll get it. >> what about you, dora lee? what's your fantasy for doing him in? >> me? well, i think i'd like to 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's, like -- liquid gold. >> let's just sit down. >> look, i've got a gun out there in my purse and up until now i've been forgiving and forgetting because of the way i was brought up. but i'll tell you one thing, if you ever say one thing about me, or you make one more indecent proposal, i'm going to get that handgun of mine and i'll take you to a rooster in one shot. >> nothing will change unless we change it. >> they string him up, that male chauvinist, sexually inappropriate guy and they make changes to the workplace to be able to share hours and a day-care center. it was an important movie then and it's an important movie now. >> "working girl" looks like a fairy tale of a young woman becoming the princess that she secretly dreamed of being in her humble working-class upbringing would not allow her to be, but it's got serious points to make about women in the workplace. >> dress shabbily they notice the dress. dress impeccably, they notice the woman. coco chanel. >> how do i look? >> you look terrific. you might want to re-think the jewelry. >> traditionally, it's the man that's holding you down, but in this instance it turns out it's sigourney weaver. but she's been stealing all of tess' ideas in order to further herself. >> while i was laid up with broken bones, she rifled through my desk and has been passing it off as her idea. >> it was my idea. >> the melanie griffith character shows that once she was given the opportunity to show she was smart enough, she did. >> guess where i am? >> it's one of the greatest ending in the world. i'm here in my own office with my feet up because i made it. >> not since the movie "network" has hollywood so brilliantly indicted the business of television like it does in "broadcast news." the perfect modern anchor is played by oscar winner william hurt. so how is it that the star of this movie is neither the anchorman nor the network correspondent, but an actress who many of you will never have seen until now. >> okay, bobby. go back to 9:45:46, the sound byte in the alley. why were you in angola? >> please, bobby! we're pushing! >> it was the first time i had seen on screen a real female because she was flawed, and she was allowed to be human and different and irrascable, difficult, shrill, bossy, possibly bitch. there are a lot of words people use that are pejorative to women that jane craig could kind of inhabit. >> what i love is holly's character just tears streaming down her face and her controlling like that and getting it together and going forward. >> i'm really struck by the courage that jim brooks showed in writing a character like that. >> the f-14 is one of the most difficult planes to master. they're called tom cats. >> isn't the f-15 tom cat one of the most difficult machines for a pilot to master? >> to have a film about the high-integrity ideals of what it is to be a journalist and a woman in that business. >> it must be nice to always believe you're no better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room. >> no, it's awful. >> the fact that that movie exists and always will is a gift. >> wait a minute. wait, wait, wait. >> i'm new in town, and i was wondering if you wouldn't mind buying me lunch. >> gregory -- >> george, george, george, it's michael dorsey, okay? 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he's a 16-year-old usher in the movie theater. you have dated older guys. you work at the best food stand in the mall and you're a close, personal friend of mine. >> there was so much reality in the script to "fast times". the way that cameron wrote "fast times at ridgemont high" is that he went back to high school. >> i never graduated traditionally. so the idea was i could go back and have the senior year that i didn't have and write about what it is to be a high school student. i learned so much. the pop culture establishment, they don't know what's happening with kids right now. >> stacy, what are you waiting for? you're 15 years old. >> i did it when i was 13. it's no huge thing. it's just sex. >> these kids are having a super short adolescence. they're having sex years before you know they're having sex, and they're all working. it's fast food, it's fast adolescence, it's all disposable and what are we doing to a generation that has to be adult at a younger and younger age? >> there are so many incredible people in the movie. a lot of careers get launched. judge rhinehold to phoebe kates and jennifer jason leigh. >> who ordered the double cheese and sausage? >> right here, dude. >> and a cast full of soon to be stars, he gives the performance that everyone walks out of the theater and says oh, my god, sean penn. >> sean penn in particular brought a lot of the vocabulary. if it's written in the script like fiction he turned into awesome, gnarly and all of the other classic words of the '80s. >> why don't you get a job, spicoli? >> what for? >> you need money. >> all i need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and i'm fine. >> a couple things about myself. i'm 19, and been overseas a couple of semesters. i heard kick boxing is the sport of the future. and i'm the champion of the sport and i can see by your face, no. my point is you can relax because your daughter will be safe with me for the next seven to eight hour, sir. >> "say anything" is a romantic comedy for guys. here is the story of being an optimist and how that can sometimes be a revolutionary act. rebellion takes many different forms and sometimes the rebellion takes the form of loving the woman that they say you can't love. and you make you're life's goal her. >> watch out for that glass. >> thanks. >> if moments make movies, as they say for "say anything," it's the moment when lloyd holds the boom box and plays peter gabriel to try to woo diane court back. ♪ all my instincts they return ♪ >> we had a hard time with the boom box. we tried it a couple of different ways and he had a hard time holding it up so there was one version we did where the boom box was on the car playing it. not as good. we finished the last shot on the last day of "say anything." there was only a little light in the sky left and the light is disappearing and the shot's moving in on cusack, and i see it. i see it through the camera. the anger, the resentment, the love, the pain, the glory, the adolescence, all of it was there in his face. ♪ >> we got lucky. >> how's it going? 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[ gunshot ] >> i thought it was excessive and cartoony until i started spending time in miami. after that it was a model of restraint. >> it really was a decade that was fueled by how much money can i make and how can i display it best? >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. greed is right. greed works. >> "wall street" is a movie about more than just gordon gecko. it's about a father and a son with different world views playing different roles in an ever-changing economy. >> he's using you, kid. he's got your prick in his back pocket, and you're too blind to see it. >> no. what i see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact his son has been more successful than he was. >> you never had the guts to go out into the world and stake your own claim! >> it's the connection between wall street and main street. main street is martin sheen. main street are those people who will be affected by the decisions made by wall street. >> oliver stone is a guy saying the purpose of film, the purpose of cinema is to make political commentary about our society and he made some very compelling films in the process. >> what happened today is just the beginning. we're going to lose this war. >> come on. you really think so? us? >> we've been kicking other people's asses for so long i figure it's time we got ours kicked. >> "platoon" had this intensity and so much of that charlie sheen character oliver stone said was him, a patriotic kid who wanted to do his part and really had his eyes opened to the horror and i think it maintains that gut punch. >> i hope people go to see what the war was really like. that's the statement and once you see it, you have to think about it for yourself. think about what you think about war, and think about what it really is as opposed to the fantasy comic book stuff of "top gun." >> the attitude of the '70s had been to take out some of the scorn that the american public felt for the foreign establishment as it completely screwed up vietnam on the men returning home. >> i want my leg. can you understand that? i want to be treated like a human being. i fought for my country. i'm a vietnam veteran. >> there was an atonement for that in the '80s. there was a second wave of pictures that attempted to honor the service that these men had performed for their country. >> my father was -- a -- that the word? yeah? civilized? >> very good word. >> yeah? >> my father was a civilized man living in an uncivilized time. the civilized, they were the first to die. >> "sophie's choice" is, i think, the quintessential holocaust drama because it doesn't ever explicitly touch on the details of the horror. it's more about the dramatic implications of it. >> i'm going to tell you something now i have never told anybody. >> i never worked with anyone who was that confident, who trusted her instincts so thoroughly. >> she learned polish and german just for the film. she lost weight. that encompasses why meryl is so special. she manages to get to the heart of every single person she's playing. >> and the winner is marvelous meryl streep. [ applause ] >> you can ask meryl to do anything. she can make anything work. >> someone spiked my urine sample container. >> who? >> how do i know who? anybody could have done it! >> can you stay? >> for a day or so. >> for meryl, i can see she worked from a very deep place. and what she was really focused on was the truth of her character to where she had to get the language, the sound and her voice perfect. and she was adamant and she was relentless in that pursuit. >> people marry and it's not revolutionary. there's animals that mate for life. you use them for your and you don't let me use them for mine. >> the nominees for the performance of an actress in a leading role, meryl streep "out of africa." >> "a cry in the dark," meryl streep. >> she ended up transcending the job of an actor. she leapt into another area of becoming. she wasn't playing a woman with an australian accent. she was an australian mom. >> you're talking about my baby daughter not some object. >> most movie stars are not the greatest actors and most great actors don't become great movie stars, but meryl streep is both. >> what does that mean to you, movie star? 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which one? >> mio caro adonne. >> i'm flattered. >> a funny, little tune. but it yielded good things. >> the protagonist is not mozart and he is actually deficient. he's not a great artist. he doesn't have great inspiration. he's jealous of mozart who does. >> shouldn't it be a bit more -- or this? ♪ this. ♪ yes. ♪ >> the most intelligent and rational individual in the movie is the jealous figure who isn't particularly talented and the least rational and mature figure in the movie is the genius. >> when i saw "amadeus" there was humor to it and there was a liveliness to it and there was a nastiness to it, and tom holtz is so fantastic in that film. >> do you have it? >> not so fast. >> do you have it? >> one thing the '80s does for us, is it gives us some really remarkable filmmakers. you see, talent is there immediately. these directors are going to go on to have long careers and in some cases they're making small movies, but they get their start in the '80s. >> why don't you let me tape you? >> doing what? >> talking. >> about what? >> about sex. your sexual history, sexual preferences. >> stephen sodderberg's "sex, lies and videotape" is a coming-out party for one of the most prodigiously talented filmmakers ever. >> why are you doing this to yourself? are you going to answer me? >> no, please, don't do that? >> why not? >> why not? i just want to ask you a few questions. why do you tape women talking about sex, huh? >> that was a great example of something that was totally brand-new and it was very, very low budget and i felt it was so special. and it was a point of view that we just hadn't seen before. >> to deal openly with voyeurism and sexual dysfunction on screen screen was stunning to people and it was a trendsetter then and it's a movie that mattered a lot. ♪ >> his first film was "blood simple," which was a cross between a slasher film and a film noir. >> lover boy ought to lock the door. >> they knew that would be a great calling card. people would pay attention if they had enough scares. >> they make intensely cool and creative films. it always kind of feels a little bit like they've adapted a book that no one has ever heard of. >> every shot has been thought every note of music. the dialogue. and it's shocking. all of the time this shocks in the movies and visceral shocks and the moments of great humor. >> turn to the right. ♪ >> what's the matter, ed? ♪ >> my fiance left me. >> they had just finished writing "raising arizona" and they asked me to read it and i thought it was amazing. amazing. so funny. >> "raising arizona," as far as i'm concerned is the masterpiece. the idea of taking that 100-mile-per-hour preston surges dialogue and putting it with rednecks in arizona. >> you busted out of jail. >> no, ma'am, we were released on our own recognizance. >> we felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us. >> it was one of those films where you go oh, i didn't know you were allowed to do that. >> i will take these huggies and whatever cash you got. >> just the fact that this film is hurdling along with banjos and yodeling. i still don't have the courage to have a soundtrack with banjos and yodeling. and that was their second film. >> there's these people that come along and they have the same equipment and the same playing field and to take that and to make something fully aesthetically that is completely different than anything else you had seen is, like, a big deal. that's a triumph. ♪ >> comedy in the '80s, my favorite niche subject is tim burton. ♪ >> i was never scared by any horror movie ever because i always liked them too much. do you know what i mean? i mean, things that scared me were going to school or seeing my relatives. >> i love tim burton because he's the best thing you can be as a director. he's completely unique. you start noticing the black and white stripes on things and just the vibe and you're, like, we've got something here with this guy. >> we did "beetlejuice" and his idea was that the living people were the scary and the dead people were the banal. >> they come from comedy and ifts i was lucky to work with people. it is a whole different energy when people are there and maybe some things but then it goes off and you start getting into it. he was great at that. he was like a pressure cooker. >> you like it? >> "bee"beetlejuice" is really gu under guarded. >> i can't figure out the algorithm behind it. >> but it works. ep your numb er. visit your local t-mobile store today. adopting you was the best decision in our life. and i am so proud to call you my son. what is going on here? had america gone mad for the movies? >> some of them buying bad shirts and hats and anything. the movie had not even opened. what's new with tim burton's movie, ""bat-man." i finished the movie and i saw the poster out on the street. it freaks me out. some of that imagery was horror than comic books. i like that about it. the light and the dark. it was my favorite of all characters because of those reasons. >> visually it is timeless. he consciously does not let you know where this is. it seems like the 40s and all of a sudden there is a car from the '70s. >> the idea of a comic book being made into a film, that's taken over the movie business. >> they could have predicted some of the big money bigger, "bat-man." who would have guessed a film about racism would be a national hit. >> what? >> into the '80s there were a push to have more diversity on screen. diversity on screen does not mean diversity behind the camera. you didn't have a lot of black film makers who were getting a chance to make films so you need spike lee at that point. >> kneel down. >> the right thing is one of the most important films in the history of cinema certainly as it pertains to the representation of race. >> it was like a cultural hand grenade. someone sets it off and you could not believer things were being said. they were not said in that way. >> what's your favorite basketball player? >> magic johnson. >> who's your favorite singer? >> prince. >> all you talk about is negative and this and that. >> it is such a time capsule. at the same time it is theme universal. everyone is interacting and it is funny. >> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> it is creative, it is cultural and social and political and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as part of its core. >> get his arms. >> it is enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, a young black man is murdered, do i retaliate or kickoff this riot and he wrestles with it for a split second. spike lee said, black people didn't ask him if mookie does the right thing. >> mookie represents black rage. this is where we are. not enough people credit the maturity of what he did in terms of posing a question that he then did not answer. a lot of people like to make films and button it up and making sure you feel a certain way about a certain thing and spike has always been determined to ask you a question, it force you to confrontation with your own feelings. >> '80s was an incubator for new voices and visionaries and new ideas. >> seize the day. >> cinema to me has always been an escape from whatever my life was at the time. >> what i really love in cinema is just to go and be swept away. it is a different world. >> there is something really special about being in a movie, you can sit in the back and feel everybody enjoying it. there is something really great about that. >> hey! >> this is why we love movies. we get to see portraits of people and how they deal with whatever the struggle is to be a human being. >> snap out of it. >> good period for american movies. there were comedies that had to do with real life were not over the top. there were dramas that took on tough subjects. there were jgenres had not been explored in that way. there were moreover load on us. the aesthetics gravitated the bigger and faster and louder. >> the only medium where you can present both stories and spectacles. only movies can do that. only movies can present the truth of human drama and transport you to a place that can't be seen in real life . welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, appreciate your company, i am michael holmes, coming up here, the u.k. government alleging a plot by putin to install a puppet in ukraine. we are live in kiev with the latest. a police officer shot and killed in new york while responding to an incident. the latest shooting of america as gun violence continues to skyrocket. new data of a seriou