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. it s 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 didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, never went down, man. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing because it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really unde
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 reinhold to phoebe cates and jennifer jason leigh. who ordered the double cheese and sausage? right here, dude. in a cast full of soon-to-be stars, he gives the performance that everyone walks out of the
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. it s 106 miles to chicago. we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. it s dark, and we re wearing sunglasses. hit it. john belushi and dan aykroyd, they made up these characters with the pork-pie 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 you re gonna get quality comedy. so then you started wanting to see those people in movies. well, i tell you what. i m gonna clean this up. you good ahead, clean up a little bit. it looks fine to me. thanks for the dope.
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. 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 don t leave me, girl, don t you go it s about friendship. it s also about growing up. there s something in its essence that is timeless and universal. i m marrying flap horton tomorrow. i thank god for flap for getting me out of here, and i think if this is your attitude, you shouldn t bother showing up at my wedding.
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, we re good again, our movies are telling us, no we re not. no, we are not. wendy? i m 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 you re gonna see something you never saw before, and he did that in, think about it, every genre. he s gonna make a horror movie, it s gonna be the horror movie done in a way that you would not expect. to me, the shining isn t