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Come on come on, come on, what are you staring for . Come on robinson apparently tired, punched with a fairly well and rocked jake lamotta right to his heels. Come on, ray. A director and actor find a story at the right time and the right place. And out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. Its like watching an animal. I think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. The reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all the Black And White gore. The violence of the flashbulbs going off. When he designed the movie, marty purposefully, he didnt put a clutch on the film. Theres no clutch. Hey, ray, never went down, man. You never got me down, ray. Raging bull is a boxing movie for people who dont like boxing because its really not about that. Its about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, whos really at war with himself. Come on. Harder. Harder. I didnt really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. He was just so contraire, as they say. He was just so difficult. What are you trying to prove . What does it prove . Rob de niro, hes not afraid of the negative characters. Hes 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. Its not easy, though. The first 15 pounds, its fun. Then its drudgery. Got get em, champ. Its absolutely true that the the movies of 1980 look like movies of the 1970s. Were very personal, very passionate filmmaking rules. And then when ordinary people, which was 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. No, i didnt get it yet, bev. 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 wanna 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. Cal hang on a second. Give her the god[bleep] camera ordinary People Centers on people who cannot get in touch with their feelings and who avoid the darker underpinnings. So i 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 and i said, look, i can see you playing this. She was drawn to it, and that really hit me cause that told me that there is some part of herself that she was willing to expose that had been not exposed before, and she wanted that chance, and so she was given that chance, and she did a great job. Calvin . That moment where Mary Tyler Moore comes downstairs and she asks her husband, whats wrong . I dont know if i love you anymore. She goes upstairs and shes just theres something so moving to me about somebody who is so deeply repressed, cracking open. Thats where the dam breaks. She gets hit by some truth that she cant articulate. Shes so taken back, she cant adjust, she can take it in. Thats what that moment was about. Then you look at some of these films of the 1980s, like ordinary people, and like blue velvet, those films are explicitly about how things look are not the way they really are. You have to understand, this was when Ronald Reagan became president , and the idea was that after all sorts of traumas, particularly watergate and vietnam, we healed, but as the public pronouncement is, were good again, our movies are telling us, no were not. No, we are not. Wendy . Im home. I play this game. All your favorite filmmakers, alive or dead, were opening a movie on the same day, which movie would you see first . And for me, it would stanley kubrick, because youre gonna see something you never saw before, and he did that in, think about it, every genre. Hes gonna make a horror movie, its gonna be the horror movie done in a way that you would not expect. To me, the shining isnt about horror. Its about dread. From the very first frame, something grabs your solar plexus and pulls on it. Nobody uses silence like stanley kubrick. Mom it was as if i had been in the overlook hotel for two and a half hours. He creates a pacing where it overtakes the way youre breathing and the way youre existing, and youre in there. In all kubrick films, he controls you. Kubricks Steady Cam Work in the shining broke new ground. The steady cam gave stanley a chance to put us in a scene that didnt have any time constraints. You get so hypnotized being behind that tricycle. You dont even see his face. Youre behind it, which leads to one of the scariest shots in the movie. Hello, danny. Hello, danny. Come and play with us. Its fantastic. United artists was betting 40 million on its new movie, heavens gate, but after two years of preparation and eight months of production, the Motion Pictures been yanked from american theatres after only one day. Heavens gate took almost a year to complete. Director michael cimino, whose deer hunter film was a great success, got a free hand. His producer said he was out of control. The result . A three and a half hour bomb. Heavens gate is a stake through the heart of the auteur era in hollywood. Its the Cautionary Tale thats held up to say, no, no, the studios gonna step in here and this is not gonna be another heavens gate. And thats 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 that you hadnt in the previous film, where theres this budding romance going on between han solo and princess leia. I love you. I know. Luke is transitioning into wanting to become a jedi knight. I saw it as, this is the good act, because in classical dramatic philosophy, you set the thing up in the first act. In the second act, your heroes are put in a position that is unresolvable. Theyre put in enormous jeopardy. You dont know how its gonna work out. And that is always the most interesting part of the story to tell. Obiwan never told you what happened to your father. He told me enough. He told me you killed him. When we actually started work, it was just me and george in the office, and george says to me, you know, darth vader is lukes father. I am your father. No [bleep] . Noooo it was about fathers and sons and about good and evil personified. It is your destiny. I thought that made the whole saga better instantly. 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Theyve lost control of the Ark Of The Covenant and indy says, no, im gonna get it back. And his friend, says, how are you gonna do it . I dont know, im making this up as i go. That to me was what life was like. We just make it up as we go. And Indiana Jones is very good at that. We came up with an idea, like a truck chase, and then we figured, well, how do we get the truck chase in the movie . So we had these big kind of subjects and then we kind of reverseengineered in order for it to earn its place in the story. Pi selberg is a master of staging. Even when theyre moving very fast and cutting very quickly, you always know the lay of the land. He can create suspense out of details big and small. And theres always the Action Audience can see, but the characters cant see. So the audience is aware that, not only is indy maybe gonna get gets up when you watch him. Its craftsmanship and art. Everybody in this town is talking about Steven Spielbergs latest film, e. T. I was there at 12 00 noon today, and there were literally thousands of people in the street waiting to get in. The wait is hours long in chicago, days long in los angeles. E. T. Has become the movie industrys biggest moneymaker ever. I had this story i was gonna write about, how the divorce between my mom and dad affected me and my three sisters. And so, i combined that with one about an alien who himself is divorced from his own species and is lost 3 million lightyears from home. I dont like his feet. Can you imagine if that film didnt have those kids . Every one of them . Henry thomas, drew barrymore, robert mcnaughton. Thats the secret sauce to this movie. I just want to say goodbye. All the kids had fallen in love with e. T. , and i like to think e. T. Had fallen in love with all of them. And that Goodbye Scene was genuine. Those tears were real. Be good. Yes. Steven spielberg movies theyre big blockbusters, but they are personal stories. They are small stories told against a giant canvas. Theyre here. With the 1980s, i really felt that i was speaking to myself, loving escapism. Poltergeist was about all the things that scared me. I had a tree out my window as a kid, used to scare the [bleep] hell out of me. So what happens in poltergeist . The tree comes into the house and grabs the kid. I made stories about kids on one final adventure as the goonies and discover the riches that save their parents homes. Suburban stories about gremlins running around and tearing things up. Just loving stories that were bizarre. Everybody has dreams or thoughts, fantasies of going back in time somewhere, and bob zemeckis put it together for the modern age. Are you telling me that you built a time machine out of a delorean . The way i see it, if youre gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style . It was a mystery that it was as big a hit as it was when it came out, but what the real mystery is, is that its endured for decades. Next Saturday Night, were sending you Back To The Future this simple idea, which is, what would it be like to see your parents when they were younger . Is something that obviously is multigenerational. Geez you smoke too . Marty, youre beginning to sound just like my mother. The only thing that was weird about the story, its a boy going back in time and meeting his mother, and she falls in love with the son she hasnt yet had. That was pretty kinky for me. Thats aa big bruise you have there. But they pulled it off. I was exhausted at the end of Back To The Future. And then, he makes Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Its like he took Back To The Future and tripled it. Eddie valiant, youre under arrest. Brrrr. Here theres a scene where donald duck and daffy duck are having a piano duel, at the same time penguins are serving drinks. And if you look at the making of, of that individual scene, its utter, complete total chaos. Theres real actors pretending to be drinking, theres trays moving around on these iron rods. That was a hard movie. Thats sort of an ignorance is bliss category that that movie should fall into, cause thats a movie that no sane person would ever attempt to make. I love playing villains. When i was a kid and the first walt disney films came out, there are dark moments in each of those that scare the hell out of me. So its payback. Remember me, eddie . When i killed your brother, i talked just like this i got some moments in there that will be in their worst nightmares for the rest of their life. The trick to making that blend of live action and animation is that the live action actor has to believe it. Bob always believed that the rabbit was there. It really is an amazing performance. I mean, its really one that actors should study. Because it was made before a lot of cgi existed, it was old school moviemaking with physical special effects, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the most complicated movie ever made. Dont tell me you lost your sense of humor already. Argh does this answer your question . Every search you make every click you take ill be watching you [narrator] the internet doesnt have to be so creepy, the duckduckgo app, lets you search and Browse Pria Blocking most trackers all forf your Search History is never tracked, so it cant be shared. And when you leave search, duckduckgo helps Keep Companies from watching you as you brows. Join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. Duckduckgo, privacy simplified. One of the really great films of the 80s is the verdict, written by david mamet. Beautifully told by master director sidney lumet. Paul newman plays a kind of washed up lawyer who is an alcoholic, kind of ambulancechaser. What makes it uniquely lumet is that even when its movie stars, big movie stars, he manages to bring them down, in the case of the verdict, to the boston streets, and you can see the stars in the movie, but they have not turned the movie into something glamorous, but on the opposite, have entered the drudge and reality of the world that lumets painting. Oh, god, i never should have taken it. Theres no way i could win. Newman did what he was asked to do, and he was often asked to be the matinee idol and the leading man and be charming and witty and funny. And when he does the verdict, you know, it makes you cry. I mean, here, newman shows you what hes 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 principles back together again. To see that scene where hes calling the Insurance Company to rekindle the deal that he turned down. Okay. No, no. I understand. Its really one of the greatest pieces of acting ive ever seen in my life, that phone call. No cuts. I mean, lumet just goes, okay. Here we go. So, hows your life . Oh, great. Hows yours . Not so great. Oh, were telling the truth . The big chills about these kids who were at college together in the late 60s and are now no longer antiestablishment, but actually are part of the establishment and trying to reconcile that history with their present. Movies arent being made for adults. Thats all the big chill is really. Its 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. When it first came out, i thought, well, this will be for this generation. The children of the 60s, this will be very relevant, and then i would meet kids who were in high school 10 years after the movie came out, said, i love that movie. Please dont leave me, girl, dont you go its about friendship. Its also about growing up. Theres something in its essence that is timeless and universal. Im marrying flap horton tomorrow. I thank god for flap for getting me out of here, and i think if this is your attitude, you shouldnt bother showing up at my wedding. Hmm. Thats thats right. No, i think youre right, that 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. Just a minute. Shirley maclaine plays aurora. She gets involved with an astronaut, played by jack nicholson. Fly me to the moon they just had this incredible comic chemistry. The romantic scenes between them are hilarious. Its not my fault, but im sorry. If you wanted to get me on my back, you just had to ask me. Terms of endearment may be the first dramedy. You know, its a word we hear all the time. A movie thats funny and tragic, simultaneously. Its time for her shot. You understand . Do something all she has to do is hold out until 10 00 and its past 10 00 shes its 10 00 my daughters in pain give her the shot do you understand me . If youre 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 long time ago. You look wonderful, you do. People change. Well, i hope you have changed. I hope you too. I hope for your sake because your personality left something to be desired, namely a personality. You look at woodys career in the 80s, which, you know, theoretically, should have been past his prime, because how can you go on after manhattan . And then you think, oh, wait a minute, theres also zelig, theres also Broadway Danny rose, theres the purple rose of cairo. By the time you get to crimes and misdemeanors, woody allen has now expanded his sensibility. Its an ensemble piece, its got some humor in it, and its got some satire in it, but hes not trying to get a laugh every second. Its a wonderful moral conundrum from a very original standpoint. I think thats why it holds up. You told me over and over again youd leave miriam. We made plans. I didnt. You did. I gave up things for you. Business opportunities. Oh, pipe 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 shes threatening to tell his wife and threatening to disrupt his world. So he has a hit man kill her. Martin landau realized it, like, i had woman killed and i thought i was Gonna Go To Hell and nothing happened. Whereas woody is constantly getting, you know, shit on by life, and hes just doing the right thing. You look very deep in thought. I was plotting the perfect murder. His writing is very wrong for strong for that reason. It always feels like he was thinking about some philosophical truths about human nature and says, oh, i want to write a movie about that. And im talking about reality. I mean, if you want a happy ending, you should go see a hollywood movie. You realize, of course, that we could never be friends. Why not . What im saying is and this not a comeon in any way, shape or form is that men and women cant be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. Nora ephron wrote when harry met sally, and she got a lot of help from reiner creating the neurotic main character. Thats because he was based on rob reiner. Every scene has to be good. You work and work and work, you torture yourself rewriting a script. Id known nora and i pitched this idea for this film about the dance that people go through to get together after theyve both gotten out of longterm 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, thats something i would be interested in. He rips off my clothes. Then what happens . Thats it. Thats it . A faceless guy rips off your clothes and thats the sex fantasy youve been having since you were 12 . Exactly the same. Well, sometimes i vary it a little. Which part . What im wearing. A good Romantic Comedy is, listen, you know theyre gonna be together. So how do you get them there . And whats the road blocks . Its all about the story and its all about the people. Do you care about them . Do you want them to be together . Are you seeing what theyre not seeing . Its 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 dont think that i could tell the difference . No. Get outta here. In the deli scene, when we first did it, meg, rightfully, was a little nervous about it. Youve got crew members, you got extras, people standing around. Ooh. Are you okay . Oh. Rob says, meg, heres what i want. He proceeds to have an orgasm that Mighty Joe Young would be jealous of. Yes, yes oh, god im pounding the table. Yes yes yes ah oh and i realized, cause my mother is sitting there, im having an orgasm in front of my mother. Ill have what shes having. As a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. So start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for Small Business Comcast Business mobile. 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Come on, dont talk back, huh . Mime is money. Lets go. Come on. Move it. You had these brilliant performances by all of them, and then rob put it all together and made it sync. People didnt know what we were doing. They thought it was a real documentary, and when we first previewed it, people saw it and they said, why would you make a movie about a band that nobody ever heard of, and one thats so bad . Working on a sex farm employing through your bean field lets say you look at a prospective movie and its 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 didnt fall . Inconceivable. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The Princess Bride is a blend between romance, satire, adventure, swashbuckling. I mean, its all mixed in and its a very strange mixture. Hard to capture. Westley, what about the r. O. U. S. S . Rodents of unusual size . I dont think they exist. Ooh. You have to walk a balance, you know. Its a fine line between stupid and clever. Beat it or ill call the brute squad. Im on the brute squad. You are the brute squad. Rob is a phenomenal director. His first movies, one after the other, beauties, and took risks and different genres. To be in three of them, im really blessed. One half of the 80s was a lot of different styles of comedy being thrown at audiences. There was the spoof comedy that became popular, whether that be airplane or the naked gun. You had ensemble comedies like police academy. You had imports, crocodile dundee, which was an enormous hit. And three men and a baby. The other story of the decade is the rise of Saturday Night live as an influence on film. Its 106 miles to chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. Its dark, and were wearing sunglasses. Hit it. John belushi and dan aykroyd, they made up these characters with the porkpie hat and dark glasses. They did the Blues Brothers on Saturday Night live and got a huge response. So we got to make the movie. Saturday night live is such a specific place. People started realizing, like, oh, this is where youre gonna get quality comedy. So then you started wanting to see those people in movies. Well, i tell you what. Im gonna clean this up. You good ahead, clean up a little bit. It looks fine to me. Thanks for the dope. Comedy is such a precious commodity, and when you shake the pan looking for the nuggets, when they shine out like that, then you love them forever. People who understood how to be funny, they can be funny anywhere. If theres something strange, in your neighborhood. Who you gonna call . Ghostbusters ghostbusters is a rare film because it combines scifi, action, and comedy. Well, theres something you dont see every day. Ghostbusters was written by dan aykroyd with harold ramis. On paper, it shouldnt work. But it does work because you have bill murray and dan aykroyd and rick moranis, and theyre flawless. Weve been going about this all wrong. This mr. Staypuft is okay. Hes a sailor, hes in new york. We get this guy laid, we wont have any trouble. Bills always explored what it means to escape sort of the constraints of convention. You feel in some way that you want to be as liberated as he is. Ghostbusters instead of worshipping musicians, now were worshipping these standup comedians and these skit comedians. Theres this idea that comedy in the 80s is gonna be the new rock n roll. All right, listen up i dont like white people. I hate rednecks. You people are rednecks. That means im enjoying this shit. You gotta remember when eddie murphy first started with 48 hours, he was 20 years old. Then he does Trading Places and then he does the blockbuster, Beverly Hills cop. Eddie murphy in the 80s was comedy. Hes such a perfect everyman and so likeable, even though hes kind of a shit. It wasnt about necessarily being the putupon guy. Its being the guy smarter than the room. You know, hes bugs bunny. You know, this is the cleanest and nicest police car ive ever been in, in my life. This things nicer than my apartment. Up until that point, Hollywood Movies That Featured or starred a black artist, their color was always a plot point. In Coming To America, their color has nothing to do with the plot. Oha. It is my 21st birthday. You think perhaps just once i might use the bathroom by myself . Most amusing, sir. Wipers he is a prince in a fictional african nation, and he decides that he and his best friend, played by arsenio hall, are going to go to america so he can find himself a queen. If you want to find a queen, where do you go . You go to queens, new york. Its got to be full of queens, right . Everybody whos seen Coming To America embraced the movie. The movie is funny as hell. And i think its eddie murphy at his best. It feels so lovely to be here tonight. What a beautiful give yourselves a round of applause. Youre so lovely. Everyones so lovely. Theres barely a white person in that cast and the one white person is actually played by eddie murphy. What about Rocky Marciano . Oh, there they go. There they go every time i Start Talking about boxing, a white man gotta pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. Who was your star in that picture . Its this young guy named eddie murphy, i think it is. Oh, christ, i hate him the kid with the filthy mouth . Yeah, hes the one. Oh, hes the worst. He can do these voices, he can do the physicalization. It speaks to the magnitude of his talent. Is that not acting . Is that not comic acting at the highest level . What do you know from funny, ya bastard . Lily welcome to our third barkery. Oh, i can tell business is going through the woof. But seriously we need a reliable way to help keep everyone connected from wherever we go. Well at at t well help you find the right wireless plan for you. 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Two days ago, i saw a vehicle that could haul that tanker. You wanna get out of here . You talk to me. George millers movies do an amazing Trick Of Making Dystopia Look Beautiful In a terrifying way. You know, you watch The Road Warrior and thinking, like, id love to go there. I think i would die within five minutes. Its the idea of this one man who regains his humanity when he loses everything. But then theres the filmmaking craft. To see those stunts just play out in long shots, just absolutely incredible and visceral. Its so in your face. Its almost like a heavy metal rock n roll movie. Brazil is one of these futures that seem all too likely brazil is one of these futures that seem all too likely to come to pass. Its a future where things dont work, where the bureaucracy is ossified. Its a future that feels like if things dont get better, were gonna end up there. Dammit, larry that convoy of Personnel Carriers is still unaccounted for. I thought i told you to deal with it. And what the [bleep] is this mess . An empty desk is an efficient desk. Terry gilliams visual sensibility is so distinctive. There was an audacity to that movie that you rarely see. It arouses very strong reactions from people, and i that think thats what cinema should be about. Its exciting. Its stimulating. It makes us think. Im quite happy to have a film that does that. Smart filmmakers can use genre as a trojan horse to talk about other things. Blade runner is based on philip k. Dicks novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep . , and the central question of the novel is, whats the difference between humans and nonhumans . Is Harrison Ford a human . Can you fall in love with an android . She doesnt know. She is beginning to suspect, i think. Suspect . How can it not know what it is . Commerce is our goal here at tyrel. More human than human is our motto. The screenplay was excellent, a rare entity because it told not only a very fascinating and different story, but it was written and described as well, so you could smell the movie. I dont think theres any director who can encode content into the visual presence like ridley can, so that when you see the street markets, it tells you that in the future, Technology Runs crossclass, that populations are tremendously mixed, theres overcrowding, theres poverty. Hes projecting so much content into those images, and you just soak it in. I was constantly beaten up every day. People would say, why is it raining always . Why do you want it to be at night . So i said, cause thats how i [bleep] want it. Harrison ford thought that his character, deckard, was a human being, and ridley scott was planting clues in the movie that he actually was a replicant with implanted memories like this unicorn that he daydreams about. Harrisons in full denial today that he is a replicant. At the end, the whole point of leaving that unicorn on the floor when he walks out, stops, picks it up, and he nods. That nod is an assent, this is correct. Somebody knows about my most private dream, which is about a unicorn. Duh. James camerons aliens is the perfect sequel because it doesnt just repeat the first film. It takes elements of the first one it builds upon them, but it then makes it into a different genre. Six. It cant be. Thats inside the room. Its reading right, man. Look. Well, youre not reading it right. Five meters, man. Four. What the hell . Jim is a real innovator and real artist. I did 1, he did 2. And he said, you know, its hard to do 2, he said, because youve shown him, the alien. So im going more military. You feel like James Cameron doesnt get enough credit as a screenwriter as well. Aliens is the template of how to write a great blockbuster. My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones. But there are. Yes, there are, arent there . Back in those days, women werent really permitted to be strong, so sigourney really broke the mold in the aliens movies. And one of the ways that cameron figured out to let her be as tough as she was, was because she was protecting newt, her adopted child. Theres real skill to building the perfect roller coaster. Aliens is example number one of how brilliant Action Cinema can be. Get away from her, you bitch we were attracted to each other at the party. That was obvious. Youre on your own for the night. Thats also obvious. Were two adults. Lets get the check. Fatal attraction was like a Cautionary Tale. You know, the cheating husband, and the mistress turns out to be insane and a stalker, who murders bunnies and boils them, as a matter of fact. Glenn closes legacy is forever tied to this film, and shes an incredible actress. Well, what am i supposed to do . You wont answer my calls. You change your number. Im im not gonna be ignored, dan. In the original script, Audience Sympathies were more evenly balanced between the male character and the female character, but with each iteration, they made her such an extreme character. The original ending was that she was supposed to cut her own throat, but that did not satisfy test audiences. And so they had the good wife kill the bad single woman. Ah, thats hollywood. Thank you, sir. Im happy to be working here. Well, youre a welcome addition, and a damn pretty one too, if i might add. Thank you, sir. Now, i mean that. You should see some of the crones that have been coming through here lately. Real pathetic. Right, violet . 9 to 5 was a metoo movie before the metoo movement. It was this idea of women coming together and being like, yes, my life has been ruined by egotistical, bigoted men who are trying to hold me back. Coffee, violet. Now. This was when women were going into the workforce, but they were still secretaries. They were still these subservient roles. They werent the boss of the company. Oh, the pencil. Its all right. Ill get it. What about you, doralee . Whats your fantasy for doing him in . Me . Well, i think id like to just come riding up one day and give him a taste of his own medicine. I loved their female camaraderie and i love dolly parton in that movie. Shes like liquid gold. Lets just sit down and look, i got a gun out there in my purse, and up til now, ive been forgiving and forgetting because of the way i was brought up, but i tell you one thing, if you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, im gonna get that gun of mine and im gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot. They, in time, realize nothing is ever going to 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 daycare center. It was an important movie then, its an important movie now. Mr. Turkles line. Working girl looks like a fairy tale of a young woman becoming a fantastically glamorous princess that shed always kind of secretly dreamed of being and her humble, workingclass upbringing would not allow her to be. But its got serious points to make about women in the workplace. Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman. Coco chanel. Um, How Do I Look . You look terrific. You might want to rethink the jewelry. Traditionally, its, you know, the man thats holding you down, but in this instance, it turns out its sigourney weaver. That shes been stealing all of tess ideas in order to further herself. While i was laid up with broken bones, she rifled through my desk, found my memo outlining a trask radio acquisition, 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 that she was smart enough, she did. Guess where i am . Its one of the greatest endings in the world. Im here in my own office with my feet up cause 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 bite in the alley, it starts, so why are we going to angola . We could go all please, bobby, were pushing. It was the first time i had seen onscreen a real female because she was flawed and she was allowed to be human and different and irascible. Difficult, shrill, bossy, possibly bitch. Theres a lot of words that people use that are pejorative to women that jane craig could kind of inhabit. What i love is hollys character, just tears streaming down her face, and then her controlling it like that and getting it together and going forward. Im really struck by the courage that jim brooks showed in writing a character like that. The f14 is one of the most difficult planes to master. Theyre called tomcats. George, isnt the F14 Tomcat 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 know better, to always think youre the smartest person in the room. No, its awful. The fact that that movie exists and always will is a gift. Hi. Wait a minute. Wait wait wait a minute. Im new in town and im awfully lonely. I wondered if you wouldnt mind buying me lunch. Wait, wait, hold on. You cant co uh, uh, gregory, this its okay. Its okay. George, george, george, george. Its michael dorsey, okay . Your favorite client. How are you . Last time you got me a job, it was a tomato. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Swear to god. Michael . Yeah. Oh, god, i begged you to get some therapy. Tootsies kind of an updating of the guy in the dress. Youre taking a believable character and putting him in a fantastic situation, and yet the reason it works is because every single thing in that movie could really happen. We show you at the beginning, hes a great actor, he happens to be a pain in the ass, and then to prove to his agent that he can get work, he puts on a dress. Its almost like a play thats been performed enough so that they knew where the gems were. Truthfully, dont you find being a woman in the 80s complicated . Extremely. One of the hardest things to do in a comedy is to have a Comedy Climax and to have all your Story Threads come together at the same moment. I am not emily kimberly, the daughter of duane and alma kimberly. No, im not. Im edward kimberly, the reckless brother of my sister anthea. 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What a feelin that was the thing where the video was very much a trailer for the movie, and you could tell that the movie was designed really with the video in mind. Lets dance Kenny Loggins, footloose, that was a huge hit. It was all over mtv. You watched the video. Are you seeing Kenny Loggins in that . No, youre seeing lots of scenes of alienated High School Kids dancing against the rules. I didnt see footloose until after i started dating kevin bacon, and then i rented it and i was like, oh, i see why people fell in love with him. How cute was he with those highwaisted jeans and that, like, white tank . Because ive had the Time Of My Life no, ive never felt this way before they knew who was buying these movies, is teenagers, and the thing they want to do as soon as they watch the movie is then go get the soundtrack so they can relive it. Purple rain, purple rain purple rain hit me really hard. To this day, i have yet to see a mainstream film that uses music as an emotion in such an incredible way. I only want to see you only want to see you, purple rain stace, what do you care about mark ratner for . I mean, hes a 16yearold usher in the movie theater. You have dated older guys. You work at the best food stand in the mall. And you are a close personal friend of mine. There was so much reality in the script of 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 didnt have and write about what it is to be a high school student. I learned so much. The pop culture establishment, they dont know whats happening with kids right now. Stacy, what are you waiting for . Youre 15 years old. I did it when i was 13. Its no huge thing. Its just sex. These kids are having a super short adolescence. Theyre having sex years before you know theyre having sex, and theyre all working. Its fast food. Its fast adolescence. Its 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 reinhold to phoebe cates and Jennifer Jason leigh. Who ordered the double cheese and sausage . Right here, dude. In a cast full of soontobe 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 its written in the script as like, bitchin, he turned it into awesome, gnarly, all the other classic words of the 80s. Why dont you get a job, spicoli . What for . You need money. All i need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and im fine. Ill tell you a couple of things about myself. Im 19. Ive been overseas for a couple of semesters. Now im back. Im an athlete, so i rarely drink. Kick boxing. Ever heard of kick boxing, sport of the future . Don the dragon wilson, benny the jet urquidez, murray smith . Some of the champions of the sport. I can see by your face, no. But my point is you can relax because your daughter will be safe with me for the next seven to eight hours, sir. Say anythings a Romantic Comedy for guys. Heres a story about 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 cant love. Whoa. And you make your lifes goal her. Watch out for that glass. Thanks. If moments make movies, as they say, for say anything. , its the moment when lloyd dobler holds a 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. He had a hard time holding it up, so there was one version we did where the boom box is on the car playing it. Not as good. We finished the last shot of the last day of say anything. Theres just only a little light in the sky left. The light is disappearing. The shots 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. I am complete in your eyes we got lucky. Hows it going . Hows what going . You know, things, life, whatnot. Life is not whatnot, and its none of your business. The john hughes scripts, they just jumped off the page. They were funny. I remember reading Sixteen Candles in the back of my parents car, just stretched out on the seat, cracking up. His movies were always something to really look forward to because you knew that you would be entertained, and you knew that you would see some version of yourself or what you wanted yourself to be. My father will come home. Hell see what i did. I cant hide this. Hell come home and hell see what i did, hell have to deal with me. He always got deep. Even with Something Like Ferris Buellers day off, you know, he got deep into the alan ruck character, and matthews character was the wise fool, but alan ruck was troubled by this evil father. That was really moving. Here we are. I want to congratulate you for being on time. Excuse me, sir . I think theres been a mistake. I know its detention, but, um, i dont think i belong in here. The Breakfast Club is the teenage touchstone. Its a film thats about the tension of being a teenager and kind of knowing that people in other cliques dont really want to be your friend until youre locked in a room together. The first 20 minutes of the Breakfast Club is perfect filmmaking, the way that its structured, the way the characters are introduced. It still is my favorite of the John Hughes Films, just because i think its so unique and nothing like that had ever been done. So on monday, what happens . Are we still friends, you mean . If were friends now, that is. Yeah. You want the truth . Yeah, i want the truth. I dont think so. The picture was saying to adults, what those characters are saying to adults is, please listen to me. My being upset because someone doesnt like me, or i dont have any friends or whatever, looks relatively insignificant to you, but its really hurting me. It was so powerful because people were talking about shit that they didnt they never talked about. Kids were not talking about dark stuff in school and with their peers. Dont you forget about me there werent a lot of movies that spoke to teenagers, and its just really surprising because who doesnt want to see this incredible period of time in a persons life where theyre just changing so rapidly . 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For someone with that limited a resume, to be able to kind of walk in and actually make the complexity of the movie work, his allamerican boyness with this dark set of impulses, you looked at that performance and were like, okay, that guys gonna be a huge star. Highway to the danger zone what people dont really realize about top gun is we think of it as, like, this like rahrah jingoistic action movie. But the movie that tom cruise was making is a very serious drama about a man whos wrestling with his dads legacy, who feels like he has to be phony in front of all these military guys hes trying to impress. Its really a movie about masculine performance. Tom cruises decisions posttop gun really tell you who he is and who he wanted to be. Youre some piece of work. Im some piece of work. Youre also a natural character. Ive been telling her that. You know, i got natural character. No. Thats not what i said, kid. I said you are a natural character. Youre an incredible flake. Paul newman and tom cruise had the old and the new. This was kinda like a sequel to the hustler. Lets see some heavy legend action here. Paul newman in character, hes a hustler. Hes always going to hustle. What if he takes this young kid under his wing and corrupts him, and then he gets hustled . I showed you all i got. I showed you my ass in here. Now what the [bleep] else you want . Thats it thats all tom cruise is terrific and newman finally gets an oscar for it. Tom cruise has a very specific agenda in his career. To spend the 80s working with the best directors he can find. And so hes Gonna Work With Scorsese and barry levinson. Were not going back to cincinnati. You dont have to go to cincinnati to pick up boxer shorts. Oak and burnett in cincinnati. What did i say, ray . Its kmart. What did i you hear me. I know you hear me. My boxer shorts at my you dont fool me with this shit for a second. Yours are too tight. Ray did you [bleep] hear what i said . Shut up movie stars often need to prove over and over again that they can act. I think he really proved to the world that he could act and then some. I like having you for my big brother. Yeah. Let me some i. D. All right. Youre under arrest. The 1980s introduces us to the character of john rambo, whos one of the iconic cinematic figures of that era. But what people tend to forget is that he was introduced in a way that was much more in line with 70s filmmaking. If you look at the first first blood, it is a very dark movie about how we let our veterans down and about how we do not know what to do with them when they come back. We make killers, and then just turn them loose into america. Thats a pretty heavy movie, and even for a Sylvester Stallone action film, it plays all that very realistically. The second film threw that out the window page one. Sir, do we get to win this time . This time, its up to you. There was a desire to move past the perceived failures of the late 60s and the 70s. You cant rewrite history, but at least we can go back and we can bring back these p. O. W. S. We can send back this representative of american might. I must break you. Stallone had become so devoted to having the perfectly chiseled, ultramuscled upper body. At the same time that arnold schwarzenegger, who of course, had been a body builder, suddenly became an unlikely action star in the 80s too. I dont know if prior to 1980, anyone would have had a firm visual image of what their favorite actor looked like with their shirt off. I mean, can you close your eyes and imagine Jimmy Stewart or, you know, Montgomery Clift or, you know, even john wayne without their shirt on . Its not especially central to their image as actors. It will be ridiculous for me to play something outside of that role, and it will be crazy for Dustin Hoffman to try to be commando or to be conan or to be terminator or to be rambo. It doesnt work, you know . So the people only accept you for certain things. There was a lot of ideas of returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive 70s, but these things go in cycles, and i think that by the late 80s, we were ready for an action hero who was a little more sensitive. Do you really think you have a chance against us, mr. Cowboy . Yippeekiyay, [bleep] die hard is as perfect in its own way as casablanca. It is an action movie where the action is great. It is a heist movie where the heist makes sense. You have john mcclane, who is not a superhero, who is a regular new york cop, who is not only out of his element, but hes out of his shoes. Thats a great thing to do in an action movie, is include something which everybody can sympathize with. I dont know what its like to throw a chair with explosives down an elevator shaft, but i have accidentally trod on glass, and it hurt. You watch him and you go, i see myself in him, this person who is flawed, but can overcome it, which is, i think, a narrative that we all have about ourselves. Like, well, if push came to shove, i would show up. Alan rickmans performance as hans gruber is one of the key movie performances of the 80s because of the idea that the villain could be intellectual. It wasnt a beefy villain who beat up our hero, but was a guy who our hero had to outthink. A lot of action stars think its cool to show no fear. To me, thats not a courageous person. Thats a stupid person. The courageous person is the one who has fear and goes through it anyway. Oh, john, what the [bleep] are you doing . It isnt the size of the fireball, its how much you care about the person running from the fireball. Works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. So betty can be the. Barcode beat conductor. Go betty lets be more than our allergies zeize the day. With zyrtec. 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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 streets a movie about more than just gordon gekko. Its about a father and a son with different world views, playing different roles in an everchanging economy. Hes using you, kid. Hes got your prick in his back pocket, but youre too blind to see it. No. What i see is a jealous old machinist who cant stand the fact that his sons become more successful than he has. What you see is a guy who never measured a mans success by the size of his wallet thats because you never had the guts to go out into the world and stake your own claim its the connection between wall street and main street. Main street is martin sheen. Main street are those people wholl 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. Were gonna lose this war. Come on. You really think so . Us . Weve been kicking other peoples asses for so long, i figure its time we got oured kicked. Platoon had this intensity. So much of that Charlie Sheen character oliver stone has said was him, was his experience going into the war as a patriotic kid who wanted to do his part and really having 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. You know, thats a statement, and once you see it, you have to think about it for yourself. Think about what you think about war. 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 Policy establishment as it had completely screwed up vietnam, on the men returning home. I want my leg, you understand . Cant you understand that . Alls im saying is i want to be treated like a human being i fought for my country. I am a vietnam veteran. There was an atonement for that in the 80s. There was a second wave of pictures that i think attempted to honor the service that these men had performed for their country. Yeah, my father was a civilized man. Uh, thats a word, yeah . Civilized . Very good word. Yeah . My father was a civilized man living in an uncivilized time. The civilized, they was the first to die. Sophies choice is i think the quintessential holocaust drama because it doesnt ever explicitly touch on the details of the horror. Its more about the dramatic implications of it. Im going to tell you something now i have never told anybody. 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In the 80s, you had some big, sweeping, stunning epics that at the time were seen as the apotheosis of the movie form. These are substantial movies by great filmmakers. You have The Last Emperor and you had ragtime. And there was ghandi, which came out in 1982. We must defy the british. A lot of people were rooting for e. T. The extraterrestrial to win best picture that year, but you know, fantasy and scifi dont usually win oscars. What wins oscars is epic. Amadeus is a kind of meditation on genius. I know your work well, signor. Do you know, ii actually compose some variations on a melody of yours . Oh, really . Which one . Mio caro adone. Well, im flattered. A funny little tune, but it yielded some good things. The protagonist of the movie is not mozart. The protagonist of the movie is salieri, who is actually deficient. Hes not a great artist. He doesnt have great inspiration. Hes jealous of mozart, who does. Shouldnt it be a bit more or this . This. Yes. The most intelligent and rational individual in the movie is the jealous figure who isnt particularly talented, and the least rational and mature figure in the movie is the genius. When i saw amadeus, there was humor to it, there was a liveliness to it, there was a nastiness to it. Tom hulce is so fantastic in that film. Do you have it . Not too 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 and have long careers. In some cases, theyre making small movies, but they get their start in the 80s. Why dont you let me tape you . Doing what . Talking. About what . About sex. Your sexual history, sexual preferences. Steven soderberghs sex, lies, and videotape is the Comingout Party for one of the most prodigiously talented filmmakers ever. Why are you doing this to yourself . You gonna answer me . No, please, dont do that. Why not . No, really, dont, dont. Why not . I just want to ask you a few questions. Like, why do you tape women talking about sex, huh . That was a great example of something that was totally brandnew, and it was very, very low budget. And i just felt it was so special, and it was a Point Of View that we just hadnt seen before. To deal openly with voyeurs and Sexual Dysfunction on screen was stunning to people, and it was a trendsetter then, and its a movie that mattered a lot. Joel and ethans first film was blood simple. It was kind of a cross between a slasher film and film noir. Lover boy oughta lock the door. They knew that 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 theyve adapted a book that no ones ever heard of. Every shot has been thought about, every note of music, the dialogue, and its shocking. All the time, theres shocks in their movies, visceral shocks, and then moments of great humor. Turn to the right. Whats the matter, ed . My fiance left me. They had just finished writing raising arizona, so they asked me to read it and i thought it was, like, amazing. Amazing. You know, so funny. Raising arizona, as far as im concerned, is a masterpiece. The idea of taking that 100 mile an hour preston sturgesstyle dialogue and putting it in the mouths of, like, rednecks in arizona. You busted out of jail. No, maam, we released ourselves on our own recognizance. What evelle here is trying to say is that we felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us. Raising arizona was one of those films where you go, oh, i didnt even know you were allowed to do that. Ill be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got. Just the fact that this film is hurtling along with banjos and yodeling. I still dont have the courage to have a soundtrack with banjos and yodeling. And that was their second film. Theres these people that come along. They have the same equipment. They have 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. Thats 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 was like going to school or, you know, seeing my relatives. I love tim burton because hes the best thing you can be as a director. Hes completely unique. You start noticing the Black And White stripes on things and just the vibe and you feel like, weve really got something here with this guy. We did beetlejuice, and his basic idea was that the living people would be scary and the dead people would be the kind of banal. I was very lucky early on in my career to work with people that had come from comedy that were good at improvving. Somebody like michael, thats his background. So theres a whole Different Energy when people are there and there may be some written things, but then it just goes off, you know, and you start riffing and you start getting into it. He was great at that. Just, hes like a pressure cooker. You like it . Beetlejuice is really underrated. As well regarded as it is, its still underrated. Because it shouldnt work. Like, i dont know if its a Horror Movie Set in a comedy, or a comedy thats a horror movie. I cant figure out the algorithm behind it, but it works. Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch. Tes. Be ready for every moment, with glucerna. Its the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. Live every moment. Glucerna. Okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. Together we support immune function. 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Has america gone mad for the movies . Apparently, some of us have. They were buying bat shirts, bat hats, bat anything, and the movie hadnt even opened. Whats new with tim burtons movie, batman, is that a mechanical marketing machine begins to tease this movie a year in advance. Im finishing a movie and im seeing a poster for it out there on the street. It kind of freaks me out, you know . Its like, the movies not done yet. For me, batman, the root of some of that imagery was more horror than it was like comic books, and so i like that about it, and i like the kind of split personality nature of the light and the dark. For me, it was definitely my favorite of all the comic book characters because of those reasons. Visually, its timeless. He consciously doesnt let you know where this is. It seems like the 40s, and then all of a sudden, theres like a car from the 70s and hes just using everything. We were lucky the movie was made before there was any superhero [bleep] going on. It felt like kind of New Territory at the time. Batman begat all of what we see now. The idea of a comic book being made into a film, thats taken over the movie business. Now you could have predicted some of the big money makers. Batman, ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones. But who would have guessed a modestlybudgeted film about racism, set in a black neighborhood of brooklyn, would be a national hit . Mookie what . How come you aint got no brothers up on the wall here . Man, ask sal, alright . Into the 80s, there was certainly a push to have more diversity onscreen, but diversity onscreen doesnt necessarily mean diversity behind the camera, and you didnt really have a lot of black filmmakers who were getting a chance to make films. So you really do need spike lee at that point. Dont start no [bleep], alright . Vitos down. Vitos down, alright . Alright . Yeah. Do 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 set it off and you just couldnt believe the things that were being said in that film. They were all under the surface, but they just, they werent said in that way. Pino, whos your favorite basketball player . Magic johnson. Whos your Favorite Movie star . Eddie murphy. And whos your favorite rock star . Prince. Youre a prince freak. Boss. Bruce. Prince. Bruce. Pino, all you ever talk about is [bleep] this and [bleep] that. And all your favorite people are socalled [bleep]. Its such a time capsule of new york in that era. At the same time, its themes universal. Everyones interacting, and its funny. Why dont you move back to massachusetts . I was born in brooklyn. No its creative, its cultural, its social. Stay black its political, and it has this edge to it. It has this provocation as part of its core. Get his arm, get his arm. Gary, thats enough. Gary, thats enough, man. Towards the end of the film, mookie is sort of presented with this choice. A young black man has been murdered. Do i retaliate . Do i basically kick off this riot . And he wrestles with it for a split second. And spike, when he talks about it, he says, you know, black people dont ask him if mookie did the right thing. Hey noooo what mookie represents at the end of that movie is black rage. It was important, i think for spike to say, 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. Lots of people like to make films and button it up, making sure that you feel a certain way about a certain thing, and spike has always been determined to ask you a question. It forces you into confrontation with your own feelings. Son of a [bleep] the 80s was a time when so many new filmmakers got their start. The 80s was an incubator for new voices, new visionaries, new ideas. Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. 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. Its a different world. Theres something really special about being in a movie you can sit in the back and feel everybody enjoying it. Theres 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 this struggle is to be a human being. Snap out of it the 80s was a good period for american movies. There were comedies that had to do with real life, werent over the top. There were dramas that took on tough subjects. Goodbye. There were genres that hadnt been explored in that way. But at the same time, theres just more overload on us. The aesthetic gravitated to bigger, faster, and louder. Its the only medium where you can present both story and spectacle. 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