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>> 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 she got a lot of help from reiner creating the neurotic main character, and that's because he was based on rob reiner. >> every scene has to be good. you work and work and work. you torture yourself rewriting the script. >> i'd known nora. i pitched this idea for this film 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? 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? 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>> this piece is called "lick my love pump." >> the idea was we were going to do a mock documentary. we were going to make a satire of a rock 'n' roll band on tour. we basically had the tour outline, but essentially it was a very, you know, thin thumbnail sketch of what was going to happen. the whole movie is improvised. >> do the dead bird. get the dwarf cannolis, the little ones. >> i did the bird. >> come on, don't talk back, huh? mime is money, come on, move it. >> you had 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 and said, why would you make a movie about a band that nobody ever heard of? and one that's so bad? ♪ working on a sex farm plowing through your baby 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? 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[ screaming ] >> glen close's legacy is forever tied to this film and she is an incredible actress. >> what am i supposed to do? you won't answer my calls. you change your number. i'm not going to be ignored, dan! >> reporter: 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. in the original ending she was supposed to cut her own throat. but that didn't testify the audiences so they had the good wife kill the bad single woman. that's hollywood. >> thank you sir, i'm happy to be working here. >> thank you, you're a welcome addition and a pretty one i might add. i mean that. you should see some of the crone that's have been coming through here. >> nine to five was a me too movement before the me too movement. this idea of women coming together and being like yes. my life has been ruined by egotistical bigoted men trying to hold me back. >> coffee, violet. now. >> this was when women were going into the work force, but they were still secretaries. they were still the subservient roles. they weren't the boss of the company. >> i'll get it. >> what about you? 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>> you look terrific. you might want to rethink the jewelry. >> traditionally, it's the man holding you down, but in this instance, it turns out it is sigourney weaver. she has been stealing all of tess' ideas in order to further herself. >> well i was laid up with broken bones, she rifled through my desk, found my memo and has been passing it off as her idea. >> it was my idea. >> reporter: the melanie griffith character shows once she was given the opportunity to show she was smart enough, she did. >> guess where i am. >> it's one of the greatest endings in the world. i'm here in my own office with my feet up because i made it. not since the movie network have they so brilliantly indicted the business of television like they do broadcast news. the perfect modern anchor is played by 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, the sound byte in the alley starts. please, bobby, we are 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, irascible. difficult. shrill. bossy. there's a lot of words that people use that are pejorative to women that jane craig could kind of inhabit. >> what i love is polly's character just tears streaming down her face. and then her controlling it like that and getting it together and going forward. >> i'm really struck by the courage jim brooks showed in writing a character like that. >> this is one of the most difficult planes to master. they are called tom cats. >> isn't the f14 tom cat one of the most difficult machines for a pilot to master? 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[ music ] >> it really benefited from the beginnings of mtv. because you would see videos from the songs from the flashdance sound track on mtv all the time. >> that was the thing where the video was very much a trailer for the movie. you could tell that the movie was designed with the video in mind. >> let's dance! >> kenny loggins. footloose. that was a huge hit. it was all over mtv. you are watching the video, seeing kenny loggins? no. you are seeing a lot of cool kids dancing against the rules. >> i didn't see footloose until after i started dating kevin bacon. then i rented it and i said oh, i see why people fell in love with him. how cute was he with those high waisted jeans and that white tank? [ music ] [ singing ] i had the time of my life. and i never felt this way before. >> i knew who was buying these movies was teenagers and the thing they want to do is get the sound track so they can relive it. >> purplerain 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. >> he is 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 are a close, personal friend of mine. >> there was so much reality in the script to fast times. the way that cameron wrote fast times is he went back to high school. >> i never graduated traditionally so the idea was i could go back and have the senior year i didn't have and write about what it is to be a high school student. i learned so much. the pop culture establishment. >> stacy, what are you waiting for? you are 15 years old. >> i did it when it was 13. it is no huge thing. it is just sex. >> these kids are having a super short adolescence. they are having sex years before you know they are having sex. and they are all working. it is fast food. it is fast adolescence. it is 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. >> who ordered the double cheese and sausage? >> oh, here it is. >> cast full of soon to be stars. he gives the performance that everyone walks out of the theater and says oh my gosh, sean penn. >> sean penn in particular brought a lot of the vocabulary. if it is written in the script as fiction, he turned awesome, all the classic words of the 80s . >> you need money. >> all i need are tasty waves, cool buzz and i'm fine. >> i'm 19. now i'm back. i'm an athlete so i rarely drink. you can relax because your daughter will be safe with me the next seven to eight hours, sir. >> say anything is a romantic comedy for guys. here is 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 can't love. and you make your life's goal her. >> watch out for that glass. >> he plays peter gabriel to try to woo her back. >> we had a hard time with the boom box. he had a hard time holding it up. there was a time when it was on the car playing it. we finished the last shot of the last day of say anything. there was just only a little light in the sky left. the shot is moving in on cusack and i see it. i see it through the camera. the anger, the resentment, the glory, the pain, the adolescence. all of it was there in his face. we got lucky. >> how is it going? >> how is what going? >> you know, things. like, whatnot. >> life is not whatnot and it is none of your business. >> the john hughes scripts, they just jumped off the page. they were funny. i remember reading in 16 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. >> i can't hide this. he'll have to deal with me. >> it got deep. even with something like ferris bueller's day off. he got deep into the allen ruck character. he 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 there has been a mistake. i know it is detention, but, i don't think i belong in here. >> the breakfast club is the teenage touch stone. it is the film about the tension of being a teenager and kind of knowing that people in other cliques don't really want to be your friend until you are locked in a room together. >> the first 20 minutes of the breakfast club is perfect film making. the way that it is structured. the way the characters are introduced. it still is my favorite of the john hughes films. just because i think it is so unique and nothing like that had ever been done. >> so on monday, what happens? 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>> risky business really surprises people. they think it is a teen sex comedy because it is about a guy who opens a brothel in his parents' house. but it is actually an incredibly dark film about capitalism and selling out. >> for somebody with that limited a resume, to be able to kind of walk in, and actually make the complexity of the movie work, his all american boyness. you think that guy will be a huge star. >> what people don't realize about top gun, we think of it as an action movie. but the movie tom cruise was making is a very serious drama about a man wrestling with his dad's legacy. phoning it in for these military guys he is trying to impress. it is really a movie about masculine performance. his decision post top gun really tells you who he is and who he wanted to be. >> you are some piece of work. >> you are also a natural character. >> that is what i have been saying to her. >> i said you are an incredible flight. >> they had the old and the new. this was kind of the sequel to the hustler. >> he is a hustler. he will always hustle. what if he takes this young kid under his wing and he gets hustled. >> i show you all i want. what the hell else do you want? >> tom cruise is terrific. 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, he is going to work with scorsese and leavenson. >> you hear me, i know you hear me. >> yours are too tight. >> did you [bleep] hear what i said? shut up! >> movie stars need to prove over and over again you can act. he proved to the world he can act and then some. >> i like having you for my big brother. >> yeah. >> let me see some id. >> you are under arrest. >> the 80s introduces us to john rambo. but what people tend to forget, he was introduced in a way that was much more in line with 70s film making. if you look at the first, first blood, it is a dark movie about how we let our veteran down and don't know what to do with them. we make killers and then turn them loose into america. that's a pretty heavy movie. even for an action movie, it plays all that very realistically. the second movie threw that out the window on page one. >> do we get to win this time? >> too time it is up to you. >> there is a desire to move past the perceived failures of the late 60s and 70s . you can't write history. but at least we can go back and bring back these pows . we can send back this representative of american might. >> stallone had become devoted to having the perfectly muscled upper body at the same time that arnold schwarzenegger became an unlikely action hero. you close your eyes, you imagine jimmy stewart or montgomery cliff or john wayne without their shirt on? it is not essential to their images as actors. >> it would be ridiculous for me to play something and it would be crazy for dustin hoffman to try to be commando or conan or rambo. it doesn't work. the people only accept you for certain things. >> there is a lot of ideas of returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive 70s but these things go in cycles and by the late 80s we were ready for an action hero who was a little more sensitive. >> do you think you have a chance against us mr. cowboy? >> yip py ky yay [bleep]. >> die hard is as perfect a movie as casablanca. it is a heist movie where the heist makes sense. you have john mcclain who is not a superhero. a regular new york cop. who is not only out of his element but out of his shoes. >> that is a great thing to do in an action movie. i don't know what it is like to throw a chair with explosives down an elevator shaft. but i accidentally trod on glass and it hurt. >> you watch him and you think i see myself. this person who is flawed, but can overcome it which is i think a narrative we all have about ourselves. if push came to shove, i would show up. >> alan rickman's performance as hans gruber is one of the key movie performances of the 80s . the idea that the villain could be intellectual, it wasn't a beefy villain who beat up our hero, but was a guy our hero had to out-think. >> a lot of action stars think it is cool to show no fear. to me that is a stupid person. the courageous person is the one who has fear. and goes through it anyway. >> oh john, what the [bleep] did you do? 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which one? i'm flattered. >> a funny little tune but it yielded some good things. >> the protagonist of the movie is not mozart but solieri who is deficient. he doesn't have great art. or inspiration. he is jealous. >> shouldn't it be more this? 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, a liveliness to it, a nastiness to it. >> tom hulce is so fantastic in that film. >> do you have it? >> one thing the 80s does for us is gives us some remarkable film makers. you see talent is there, immediately. these directors are going to have long careers. in some cases, they are 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. >> steven soderbergh's sex, lies, and video tape is coming out party for one of the most talented film makers ever. >> why are you doing this to yourself? you going to answer me? >> no please. don't do that. really. don't do that. >> i just want to ask you a few questions. why do you tape women talking about sex? >> that was a great example. something that was totally brand new and very low budget and i just 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 was stunning to people. and, it was a trend setter then. and it is a movie that mattered a lot. >> joel ethan's first film was blood simple. a cross between a slasher film and a film noir. 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 feels like they have adapted a book no one has heard of. >> every shot has been thought about. every note of music. the dialogue. and it is shocking. all the time this shock ins their movies. visceral shocks. and then, 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. so funny. >> raising arizona as far as i'm concerned is a masterpiece. the idea of taking that 100 miles per hour preston sturges style dialogue and putting it in the mouths of rednecks in arizona. >> you busted out of jail? >> no, ma'am. we released ourselves on our own recognizance. >> raising arizona is one of those films where you realize you are not allowed to do that. it is hurdling along with banjos and yodeling. i still don't have the courage to have a sound track with banjos and yodeling. and that was their second film! [ laughter ] >> there are 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 from anything else you had seen is a big deal. that's a triumph. comedy in the 80s , my favorite niche subject is tim burton. >> yeah! >> i was never scared by any horror movie ever. because, i always liked them too much. do you know what i mean? things that scared me were going to school or seeing my relatives. >> i love tim burton. because he is the best thing you can be as a director. he is completely unique. you start noticing the black and white stripes on things and just the vibe. and you feel like oh, 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 banal. >> i was very lucky. there may be some things. but then, it just goes off. you know. and you start riffing and you start getting into it. he is a pressure cooker. >> you like it? >> beetlejuice is >> "beetlejuice" is underrated. as well regarded as it is, it's underrated.figure out the a algorithm. but it works. ♪ what is going on here? has america gone mad for the movies? apparently some of us have. they were buying bat shirts, bat hats, bat anything. and the movie hadn't even opened. >> what's new with tim burton's movie, "batman," is that a mechanical marketing machine begins to tease this movie a year in advance. >> i'm finishing a movie and i'm seeing a poster for it out there in the street. it kind of freaks me out, you know. it's like, the movie's not done yet. >> for me, batman is the root of some of that imagery, was more horror than comic books. so, i liked that about it. and i liked the kind of split personality nature, the light, the dark. for me, it was definitely my favorite of all comic book characters because of those reasons. >> visually, it's timeless. he consciously doesn't let you know where this is. it seems like the '40s. and all of a sudden, there's a car from the '70s. he's just using everything. >> we were lucky the movie was made before there were any superhero shit going on. it felt like new territory at the time. >> batman begat all of what we see now. the idea of a comic book being made into a film, that's taken over the movie business. >> you could have predicted some of the big moneymakers, "batman," "ghostbusters 2," "indiana jones." but who would have guessed a modestly budgeted film about racism set in a black neighborhood of brooklyn would be a national hit? >> mookie. >> what? >> why is this on the wall? >> ask sal. right? >> in the '80s, there was a push to have more diversity on-screen. but diversity on-screen doesn't actually mean diversity behind the camera. and didn't 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. >> don't start no shit, all right? >> beatle's down. all right? >> "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 couldn't believe the things that were said in that film. they were all under the surface, but they weren't said in that way. >> who is your favorite basketball player? >> magic johnson. >> who's your favorite movie star? >> eddie murphy. >> who's your favorite rock star? >> prince. >> prince? >> bruce. >> prince. >> bruce. >> all you talk is nigger this and nigger that. all your favorite people are so-called niggers. >> it's a time capsule of new york in that era. at the same time, its theme is universal. everyone's interacting and it's funny. >> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> it's creative, it's cultural, it's social -- >> stay black! >> it's political, and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as a part of its core. >> get his arm, get his arm! >> that's enough! gary, that's enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is presented with a choice. a young black man has been murdered. do i retaliate? so i basically kick off this riot? and he wrestles with it for a split-second. and spike lee talks about it. he says, black people don't ask him if mookie did the right thing. >> 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 feeling. >> the '80s was a time that so many new filmmakers got their start. the '80s was an incubator for new voices, new visionaries, new ideas. >> seize the day. >> cinema, to me, has always been an escape from whatever my life was at the time. is just to go and be swept away. it's a different world. >> there's something really special about being in a movie. you can sit in the back and feel everybody enjoying it. there's 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. >> the '80s was a good period for american movies. there were comedies that had to do with real life, weren't over the top. there were dramas that took on tough subjects. there were genres that hadn't been explored in that way. >> but at the same time, there's just more overload on us. the aesthetic gravitated to bigger, faster, and louder. ♪ >> it's the only medium where you can present both story and spectacle. only movies can do that. only movies can present the truth of human drama and then transport you to a place that can't be seen in real life. ♪ hi from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," extreme rainfall puts millions of americans under flood watch. we'll bring you the report from the cnn weather center. we're learning a deadly hotel siege in somalia is over. details on how the hostage situation unfolded ahead. and an explosion near moscow engulfs this car in flames. reports say the daughter of one of the masterminds of russia's invasion of ukraine was killed