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come on. >> a directoror, an actor, find a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic illity. >> i think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion and the black and white gore and the violence of the flashbulbs going off. marty when he designed the movie didn't put a clutch on the film. there is no clutch. >> you never got me down, ray. >> raging bull is a boxing movie for people that don't like boxing because it is not about that. it is about this man, jake lamont, based on a real person, who is at war with himself. >> come on. harder. >> i could 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? >> bob denero is not afraid of the negative characters, not afraid to go to those places. >> i was down to one 152 in my prime and then i went up to 212 so i gained 60 pounds. that is not easy though. the first is a pounds, it is fun. and then it is drudgery. >> it's absolutely true that the movies of 1980 look like movies of the 1970s. where it is very personal, very passionate film making rules and then you had ordinary people which is the movie that defeated "raging bull" for best picture in 1980. this incredibly precise and very

emotional study of a family in deep crisis. >> give me the camera. >> i didn't get it yet. >> dad, give her the camera. >> i want a good picture. >> i want to get a shot of the three of you men, give me the camera, calvin. >> not until i get a picture of the two of you. >> give her the god damn camera. >> it is centering on people who cannot get in touch with the feelings and avoid the darker underpinnings so i like to tell a story about what people like to do to avoid being seen for who they really are. i gave mary tyler moore saying i could see you playing this and she was drawn to it and that hit me because that told me there was some part of herself she was willing to expose that had not been closed before and she wanted that chance and so she was given that chance. and she did a great job. >> calvin -- >> in that moment where mary tyler moore comes downstairs and

asked her husband what is wrong? >> i don't know if i love you any more. >> she goes upstairs and she's just -- there is something so moving to me about somebody who is so deeply repressed cracking open. >> that is where the damn breaks. she gets hit by some truth that she can't articulate. she's so taken back she can't address and take it in. that is what that moment was about. >> then you look at some of these films of the 1980s, like ordinary people and blue velvet, those films are are explicitly about how things look are not the way they really are. you have to understand this is when ronald reagan became president and the idea was that after all sorts of trauma, 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 was be stanley kubrick because you'll see something you never saw before and he did that in every genre. if it is a horror movie, it is the horror movie done in the way you would not expect. to me "the shining" is not about horror, it is about dread. from the very first frame something glabs your solar plexus and pulls on it. nobody uses silence like stanley kubrick. >> mom -- >> it is as if i was in the overlook hotel for two and a half hours and he creates a

pacing where it overtakes the way you are breathing and existing and you're in there, in all his films he controls you. he did the work in the shining and broke new ground. the steady cam gave stanley a chance to put us in a scene that didn't have any time constraints. you get so hypnotized being behind that tricycle and which leads to the scariest shots in the movie. >> hello, danny. come and play with us. fantastic. >> an artist betting $40 million on the new movie "heavens gate" after two years of preparation and eight months of production, the motion picture is yanked

after only one day. >> it took a year to complete, the director whose deer hunter film was a great success got a great hand and his producer said he was out of control. the result, a three and a half hour bomb. >> it is a escape through the era in hollywood. it is the cautionary tale old enough to say, no, the studio is going to step in here and this is not going to be another heaven's gate and that is 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 it to another level. "star wars" was huge but "empire strikes back" was phenomenal. >> this established characters, you saw them intermix in a way that you had in the previous film where this is budding romance between hans solo and

princess leia. luke is transitioning into becoming a jedi night. >> i saw it as this is the good act because in classical dramatic philosophy, you set the thing up in the first day, in the second act your heroes are put in a position that is unresolvable. they're put in jeopardy. you don't know how it is going to work out. and that is always the most interesting part of the story to tell. >> obi won never told you what happened to your father. >> he told me enough. he told me you killed him. >> when we started work it was just me and george in the office. and george says to me, you know, darth vader is luke's father. >> i am your father. >> no shit? and it was about fathers and sons, about good and evil

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have an adventure film to be released this week. >> george said i have something called raiders of the lost ark and told me about the story of this marauder archeologist and a hat and a whip and i committed to the movie based on one line that he told me and larry george and i sat around for three days and made up the story from beginning to end. >> there is a line in raiders that means a lot to me. just there in the middle of a big action sequence, they've lost control of the ark of the covenant and then he says, no i'm going to get it back and how are you going to do it? >> 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 how do we get the truck chase in the movie. so we had these big kind of subjects and then reverse engineered in order for it to earn its place in the story. >> speielberg is a matter of stage. even when they are moving very fast and cutting very quickly, you always know the lay of the land. he can can create suspense out of details big and small. >> there is always the action that the audience could see and the characters can't see. so the audience is aware that not only is indy maybe going to get beaten to death by this enormous nazi, but also the whole thing might blow up. >> you wonder why your blood gets up when you watch them.

it is craftsmanship and art. >> everybody in this town is talking about steven spielberg's latest film e. t. and there were thousands of people in the street waiting to get in. >> the wait is days long in los angeles. >> e.t. has become the biggest money maker ever. >> i had this story, i was going to write about how the divorce of my mom and dad affected my three sisters and i combined that with about an alien who himself is divorced from his own species and lost three million light years from home. >> i don't like his feet. >> you could imagine if that film didn't have those kids, every one of them, henry thomas, drew barrymore, robert m'naghten, that is the secret sauce to that movie. >> i just wanted to say good-bye. >> all of 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 the tears were genuine and real. >> be good. >> steven spielberg movies are block busters but they are small stories told against a giant canvas. >> they're here. >> in the 1980s i felt thattic was speaking to myself, loving escape-ism. poltergeist was about all of the things that scared me. i had a tree out of my window as a kid that would scare the hell out of me and so what happened, the tree grabs a kid. >> kids on one final adventure of the goonies and discover the riches to 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 back in time somewhere. and he put it together for the modern age. >> are you telling me you built a time machine out of a delori an? >> the way i see it, if you could build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style. >> it is a mystery it was as big of a hit as it was when it came out. but the real mystery is it endurred for decades. >> we're sending you back to the future. >> a simple idea which is what would it be like to see your parents when they were younger is something that obviously is multi-generational. >> you smoke too? >> you're beginning to sound just like my mother. >> the only thing that was weird about the story, it is a boy going back in time and meeting his mother and she falls in love with the son she hasn't yet had.

that was pretty kinky for me. >> that is a big bruise you have there. >> but they pulled it it -- pulled it off. >> i was exhausted at the end of "back to the future." and then he makes "who framed roger rabbit." it is like he took "back to the future" and tripled it. >> you're under arrest. >> there is a scene where donald duck and davy duck are having a piano duel at the same time penguins are serving drinks, and if you look at the making of that individual scene, it is utter complete total chaos and real actors pretrending to be drinking and trays moving around on rods and that is a hard movie. that is an ignorance is bliss because that is a movie no sane person would ever attempt to make. >> i love playing villains. when i was a kid, the first walt

disney films came out there are are dark moments in each of those that scare the hell out of me. so it is payback. >> remember me, eddie? >> 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 animation is that the live action actor has to believe it. bob always believed that the rabbit was there. >> it is really an amazing performance. it is really one that actors should study. >> because it was made before a lot of cgi existed it was old school movie making with physical special effects, who framed roger rabbit is the most complicated movie ever made. >> don't tell me you lost your sense of humor already.

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written by david mammoth, beautifully told by master director sydney la met. paul newman plays a washed up lawyer who was an alcohol kind of ambulance chaser. what makes it uniquely la met is even when it is movie stars, big movie stars, he managed 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 centered the drudge and reality of the world that la matt is painting. >> i should have never taken it. >> newman did what he was asked to do and often asked to be the man they idol, the leading man and be charming and funny and when he does the verdict, it makes you cry. here newman shows you what he's really made ofs as an actor. >> i think you are making a big

mistake. >> to see that scene where he is calling the insurance company to rekindle the deal that he turned down. >> okay, no, i understand. >> it is one of the greatest pieces of acting i've seen in my life, that phone call. no cuts. i mean la met just goes okay, here we go. >> so how is your life? >> great, how's yours. >> not so great. >> oh, we're telling truth. >> the big chill is about kids who were 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 is all the big chill is. it is 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 imagine power where we came out of college thinking we had was nonexistent.

♪ >> when it first came out, i thought this will be for this generation, the children of the '60s, this will be very relevant. and then i would meet kid bhoz were in high school, ten years after the movie came out, i love that movie. ♪ it is about friendship, it is also about growing up. there is something in its essence that is timeless and universal. >> i'm marry 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. >> that's right. i think you're right. that the hypocrisy was bothering me too. >> terms offen dearment adapted by james l. brooks, it made you cry, it made you laugh, it was

the stuff of life. shirley mclain played aurora and gets involved with an astronaut played by jack nicholson. they just had this incredible comic chemistry. the romantic scenes between them are hilarious. >> it is 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 drama-ity. >> 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 that 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. people change. >> i hope you change. >> i hope so for your sake. because you're personality. >> i'm sure you've changed. >> you left something to be desired, namely your personality. >> you look at woody, in the 80s is past his prime because how you could go on behind manhattan and there is zoellick and broadway dannic and purple rose of kyrie. by the time you get to criminals and misdemeanor woody allen has expanded his sensibility and it is a ensemble and has humor and satire but he is not trying to get a laugh every second. >> it is a wonderful moral

conundrum from a original standpoint. i think that is why it holds up. >> you told me over and over again you would leave miriam. >> i didn't. >> you did. i gave up things for you. business opportunities. >> crimes and misdemeanors is two parallel stories, one of which is a very traditional woody allen and mia farrow relationship joke fest and the other one which is of serious examination of literal life and death themes. >> the guy is having an affair and she's threatening to tell his wife and threatening to disrupt his world so he has a hit man kill her. >> he realized i had a woman killed and i thought i was going to go to hell and then nothing happened. whereas woody is constantly getting shit on by life and just doing the right thing. >> you look very deep in

thought. >> i was planning 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 said oh, i want to write a movie about that. >> i'm not talking about reality. if you want a happy ending, you should go see a hollywood movie. >> you realize of course we could 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 efron wrote when harry met sally and she got a lot of help from reiner creating the main character because he was based on rob reiner. >> every scene has to be good. you work and work and torture yourself rewriting the script. >> i know nora and i pitched the 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 the sex comes into the picture and if it does does it ruin the friendship and she said that is something i would be interested in. >> he ripped off my clothes. >> then what happened? >> that's it. >> that's it? a faceless guy rips off your clothes and that is your sex fantasy you've been having since you were 12. >> sometimes i vary it a little. >> which part? >> what i'm wearing. >> a good romantic comedy is you know they're going to be together so how do you get them there and what is the road blocks? it is all about the story and it is 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 is 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 could 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 have crew members, you have extras, people standing around. >> are you okay? >> ooh. >> rob said here is what i want. he perceived to have an orgasm that mighty joe young would be jealous of. yes, yes, oh, god i'm pounding the table. >> yes, yes, yes! >> and i realize, because my mother is sitting -- i'm having an orgasm in front of my mother. >> i'll have what she's having.

it is part of a trilogy really, a musical trilogy i'm doing in d minor which i always find is really the saddest of all keys. i don't know why, but it makes people weep instantly. >> what do you call this? >> this piece is called lick my love pump. >> the idea was we're going to do a mock documentary and make satire of rock and roll band on tour. we basically had the tour outlined but essentially it was a very thin thumbnail sketch of what was going to happen. the whole movie is improvised. >> get the dwarf canolies.

don't talk back. time is money. >> you had the brilliant performances by all of them and then rob put it altogether and made it sync. >> people didn't know what we were doing. they thought it was a real documentary and 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 is so bad. ♪ >> let's say you look at a perspective movie and it is a square. rob reiner has a way of turning it sideways and looking at it differently and finding a way tone joy it in a completely none conventional way. >> he didn't fall. inconceivable. >> the princess bride is a blend between romance, satire,

adventure, swashbuckling. it is all mixed in and a strange mixture, hard to capture. >> rodents of unusual size? i don't think they exist. >> you have to walk a balance, you know. it is a fine line between stupid and clever. >> beat it or i'll call the boot squad. >> i am the boot squad. >> rob is a phenomenal director. his first movies one after the other, beauties and took risks in different genres. to be in three of them, i'm really blessed. >> one half of the '80s was the spoof comedy whether that be airplane or the naked gun and you had police academy and imports, crocodile dundee which was enormous hit and three men and a baby. the other story is the rise of "saturday night live" as an influence on film.

>> we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it is dark and we're wearing sunglasses. hit it. >> john belushi and dan akroid made up characters with hat and dark classes. 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, oh, this is where you're going to get your quality comedy so you wanted to see the people in movies. >> i'm going to clean this up. >> you go ahead and clean up. 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. you love them forever. people who understood how to be funny, they could be funny anywhere. ♪ who you gonna call >> ghostbusters is a wear film

because the combined sci-fi and action and comedy. >> there is something you don't see every day. >> ghostbusters was written by dan akroid with harold ramis, on paper it shouldn't work but it does work. because you have bill murray and dan akroid and rick moranis and they're flawless. >> we've been going about this all wrong. he's okay. he's a sailer in new york and we get this guy laid we won't have any trouble. >> bill is 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. >> instead of worshipping musicians, now we're worshiping standup and skit comedians and there is an idea comedy in the '80s is the new rock and roll. >> listen up. i don't like white people. i hatred necks. you people are are red necks --

>> 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. he's such a perfect every man and so likeable. even though he's kind of a shit. >> it wasn't about necessarily being the put upon guy, it is being the guy smarter than the room. he's bugs bunny. >> this is the cleanest and nicest police car i've ever been in my life. this is nicer than my apartment. >> up until that point, hollywood movies that featured or starred a black artist, their color was always a plot point and in "coming to america" the color has nothing to do with the plot. >> it is my 21st birthday. do you think perhaps just once i might use the bathroom by

myself. >> 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 to find himself a queen. if you want to find a queen, where do you go? you go to queens, new york. got to be full of queens, right. >> everybody who has seen coming to america embraced the movie. the movie is funny as hell and i think it is eddie murphy at his best. >> you're so lovely. >> this brilliant white person in that cast and the one white person is played by eddie murphy. >> there they go. every time i start talking about boxing, a white man got to pull rocky out their -- >> who would you star in that picture? >> this young guy named eddie murphy i think. >> oh, christ, i hate him. the kid with the filthy mouth. >> yeah. >> oh, he's the worst. >> he could do the voices and the physicalization and it

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even though the 1980s is on viewed as sort of an upbeat era, it is the period when the united states came out of the doldrums of the '70s. there was still a underlying tear that could all collapse at some point. you see that playing out in this post apocalyptic sub genre of action films. >> two days ago i saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. you want to get out of here? you talk to me. >> george maris made his movies do an amazing trick of making

distopia look beautiful in a terrifying way. you watch the "road warrior" and think i would love to go therement i think i would die within five minutes. >> it is the idea of this one man who regains his humanity when he loses everything. but then there is the film making craft. to see those stunts just play out in long shots, just absolutely incredible and visceral. >> it's so in your face. it is almost like a heavy metal rock and roll movie. >> brazil seemed too likey to come to pass. a future where things don't work and a future that feels like if things don't get better we're going to end up there. >> i told you to deal with it.

what the hell is this mess? an empty desk -- >> terry's visual sensibility is so distinctive, it was an audacity to that movie that you rarely see. >> it eroses very strong reaction to people and that is what cinema should be about, it is exciting and stimulating and makes us think and i'm happy to have a film that does that. >> smart filmmakers could use genre as a trojan horse to talk about other things. >> "blade runner" is bazed on philip cade drinks do androids dream of electric sheep and the question is what is the difference between humans and nonhumans, is harrison ford a human and can you fall in love with an android. >> she doesn't know. >> she's beginning to suspect. >> how can it not know what it is? >> more human than human is our

motto. >> the screenplay with excellent. a rare entity because it told not only very fascinating and different story but it was written and described as well. >> so you could smell the movie. >> i don't think there is any director what could encode content into the visual presence like this can so that when you see the street markets, that tells you that in the future technology runs cross class, that populations are tremendously mixed, there is over crowding and poverty. he's projecting so much content into the >> i was constantly beaten up every day. people were saying why do you want it to be at night. i said that's because i [ bleep ] wanted. >> harrison ford thought his character was a human being and scott was planting clues in the movie that he actually was the

replicant with memories of this unicorn he daydreams about. at the end the whole point of leading that unicorn when he walks out, stops, picks it up and he nod, that nod is an ascent, this is correct. somebody knows about my most private dream which is about a unicorn. duh. >> james cameron's "aliens" is the perfect sequel because it doesn't just repeat the first film. it takes elements of the first one and builds upon it, but it then makes it into a different genre. >> can't be -- that's inside the room. >> you're not reading it right! >> five meters, man! four! what the hell? >> jim is a real innovator and real artist. i didn't -- he said, you know,

it's hard to do two because you've shown him, the alien. so i'm going more military. ♪ ♪ [ screaming ] >> james cameron doesn't get much credit as a screenwriter, as well. aliens is a template of how to write a great blockbuster. >> why are there no real one, but there are. >> yes, there are, aren't there? >> back in those days women weren't really permitted to be strong. so sigourney really broke the mold in the aliens movies and one of the ways cameron figured out to let her be as tough as she was was because she was protecting newt, her adopted child. [ screaming ] >> there's real skill to building the perfect roller coaster. aliens is an example number one

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to cut her own throat, but that did not fly with test audiences. so they had the good wife kill the bad, single woman. [ 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 kroness that should be coming by here. >> 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. >> 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 did 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 you make one more indecent proposal and i'll 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 change hours and a day care center. it was an important movie then

and it's an important movie now. >> working girl looks like a fairytale 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 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 bite. 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, possible 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 cat. >> isn't the f-15 tom cat one of the most difficult planes to master? >> to have the high-integrity ideals of what it means 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? your favorite client. >> how are you? >> nice -- yeah -- swear to god? >> michael? >> yeah. >> god, i beg you to get some therapy. >> "tootsie" is updating a guy in the dress. you're taking a believable character and putting him in a fantastic situation and the reason it works is because every single thing in that movie could really happen. we show you at the beginning, he's a great actor and he happens to be a pain in the ass and then to prove to his agent that he can get work he puts on the dress. >> it's almost like a play that's been performed enough so that they knew where the gems were. >> do you find being a woman in the '80s complicated?

>> extremely. >> one of the things to do in a comedy is to have a climax and have the story threads come together. >> i am the daughter of dwayne and alma kimberly. -- i'm edward kimberly, the reckless brother of my sister anthony. [ screaming ] >> the climactic scene in tootsie was this incredible moment where the main story plot and then four or five different sub plots all climax and turn on that one action. >> "tootsie" is what people want movies to be and very few filmmakers invest the time and the sweat and the integrity to go all the way which "tootsie" does. >> that is one nutty hospital. no more cartridges.

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dancer? >> making a living. >> she was beautiful. she was strong, and she was sexy. >> it benefited from the beginnings of mtv because you would see videos of the songs of the flashdance soundtrack on mtv all the time. >> that was the thing when the vthe video was the trailer for the movie and you can see it was designed with the video in mind. >> let's dance! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kenny loggins, "footloose," that was a huge hit. it was all over mtv. you watch the video and you're seeing kenny loggins in that? no. you're seeing alienated high school kids dancing against the rules. >> i didn't see "footloose" until after i started dating kevin bacon and then i was, like, i see how people fell in love with him and how cute was

he in the high-waisted jeans and the white tank. ♪ i've had the time of my life ♪ ♪ oh, i never felt this way before ♪ >> they knew who was buying these moves was teenagers and the thing they wanted to do was buy 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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what do you care? 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. >> the cheese and sausage. >> 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. >> what's your job? >> what for? >> you need money. >> all i need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and i'm fine. >> things i think about myself. i'm 19, and been overseas a couple of semesters. i heard kick boxing is the sport of the future and 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," 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. >> 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? >> how's what going? >> you know, things, life, what not. >> life is not what not and it's none of your business. >> the john hughes scripts. they just jumped off the page. they were funny. i remember reading "six tooteen candles" in the backseat of my parents car just cracking up. >> 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 and he'll see what i did. i can't hide this. he'll come home and he'll see

what i did and he'll have to deal with me. >> he always got deep and even with "ferris bueller's day off" he got deep into the character and matthew's character was the wise fool and 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's been a mistake. i know it's detention, but i don't think i belong in here. >> "the breakfast club" is the teena teena teenage touchstone, and knowing that people in other clicks don't want to be your friend until you're locked in a room together. >> the first 20 minutes of "the breakfast club" is perfect film make, the way it's structured and the way the characters are introduced. it still is my favorite of the john hughes films just because i think it's so unique and nothing

like that had ever been done. >> so on monday, what happens? >> are we still friend, you mean? we're friends now, that is. >> yeah. >> do you want the truth? >> yeah. i want the truth. >> i don't think so. >> the picture was saying to adults with those characters are saying to adults is please listen to my being upset because someone doesn't like me or i can't -- i don't have any friends or whatever. it looks relatively insignificant to you, but it's really hurting me. >> it was so powerful because people were talking about shit that they never talked about. kids were not talking about dark stuff in school and with their peers. ♪ don't you forget about me >> there weren't a lot of movies that spoke to teenagers, and it's just really surprising because who doesn't want to see this incredible period of time in a person's life where they're

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "risky business" really was everybody's intro to tom cruise. of course, it wasn't just the underwear and the dance, but that certainly helped. >> are you ready for me? >> "risky business" really surprises people. they think it's a teen sex comedy because it literally is about a guy that opens a brothel in his parent's house, but it's an incredibly dark film about capitalism and about selling out. >> for someone with that limited a resume, to be able to walk in and actually make the complexity of the movie work, his all-american boyness with his dark side of impulses and you look at that performance and you think that guy will be a huge

star. ♪ highway to the danger >> what people don't realize about "top gun" and we think about it this rah, rah, jingoistic movie, and it was about a man wrestling with his dad's legacy and feeling phony around all of these military that he's trying to impress. >> his performance post "top gun" tells you who he was and who he wanted to be. >> some piece of work. >> i've been telling her that. >> i have natural character. >> that's not what i said, kid. i said you are a natural character. you are an incredible flake. >> tom cruise, had the old and the new. this was the sequel to "the hustler". >> he's a hustler. he's 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.

what the hell else do you want? that's it. that's all! >> 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's going to work with scorcese and barry levinson. >> i'm not going to go back to cincinnati. >> what did i say? >> kmart. you hear me, i know you hear me. >> you don't fool me with this shit for a second. >> too tight. >> did you [ bleep ] hear what i said? shut up! >> movie stars often need to prove over and over again they can act. i think he really proved to the world he can act and then some. >> you're my big brother. >> yeah. ♪

>> let me see some i.d. all right. you're under arrest. >> the 1980s introduces us to the character of john rambo. one of the iconic cinematic heroes of that era. what people tend to forget was he was introduced in a way that was much more in line with '70s filmmaking. if you look at first "first blood" it is a very dark movie about how we let you our vetera down and we make killers and we turn them loose into america and that's a pretty heavy movie and even for a sylvester stallone it plays that realistically and the second film threw that out the window, page 1. >> sir? did we get to win this time? >> this time it's up to you. >> there was a desire to move past the perceived fail urs of the late '60s and the '70s. you can't re-write history, but at least we can go back and we

can bring back these pows. we can send back this representative of american might. >> stallone had become so devoted to having the perfectly chiselled, ultra muscled upper body at the same time that arnold schwarzenegger who, of course, had been a bodybuilder suddenly became an unlikely star in the '80s, too. >> i don't know if prior to 1980 anyone would have had a film image of what their favorite actor would look like with their shirt off. you think jim stewart or john wayne with their shirt off. >> it would be ridiculous for me to play outside of it and it would be crazy for dustin hoffman to try to be commando or to be conan or the terminator or to be rambo. it doesn't work, you know? people only accept you for certain things. >> there were a lot of ideas of

returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive '70s, but these thing goes in cycle, and i think that by the late '80s we were ready for an action hero that was a little more sensitive. >> do you think you have a chance against the cowboy? >> yippie ka-yay [ bleep ]. >> "die hard" is like casa blanca, it is an action move where the action is great. it is a heist movie where the heist makes sense. you have john mclean who was not a superhero and a regular new york cop, but he's not only out of his element and he's out of his shoes. >> include something that everybody can sympathize with. >> i don't know what it's like to throw a chair or explosive down an elevator shaft, but i trot on glass and it hurt.

>> this person who is flawed, but can overcome it which is a narrative that we all have about ourselves. if push came to shove i would show up. >> alan rickman's performance as hans is one of the key movie performances of the '80s because of the idea that the villain could be intellectual. it wasn't a beefy villain who beat up our hero, but it was a guy who our hero had to out think. >> a lot of action stars think it's cool it show no fear. to me, that's not a courageous person, that's a stupid person and the courageous person is the one who has fear and goes through it anyway. >> john, what the [ bleep ] are you doing? >> it isn't the size of the fireball. it's how much you care about the person running from the fireball. ♪ ♪ boom. enjoy your prime rib!

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itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. ten years ago i would have been a millionaire by this time. by this time i would have had my own boat, my own car, my own golf course. >> one thing the '80s was about was gangster capitalism and tony montana captures that desire for respect, for money, for influence, for power. >> oliver stone came into the

'80s as a well-respected and well-paid screenwriter. this was the guy who had written scarface and who had an alpha male voice and was making these sweaty, morally complicated films. >> you want to play rough? okay! say hello to my little friend! [ shot fired ] >> 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 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 sees his son has been more successful than he was. >> you never had the guts to go out into the world and take 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 a sfektffected by the decisions made by wall street. >> 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 leally 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 wanted to have 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. >> all i want my leg, all i'm

saying is i want to be treated like a human being. i fought for my country and i'm a vietnam veteran! >> there was an atonement and 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 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 i 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 revolutionism, it's animals that mate for life. you use them for your and you don't let me use them for mine. >> leadiit goes to meryl streep >> she ended up transcending the job of an actor. she leapt into another area of becoming. >> 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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♪ ♪ if you boys just turn on right around and head on back down that way and you let us head out where the real fighting is. >> young men are dying down that road. >> and -- >> people had no idea that there were black soldiers fighting for the union in the civil war. >> you men move on. >> stripes on a [ expletive ] is like tits on a bull. >> you're looking at a higher rank, corporal and you'll obey and you'll like it. >> it stars matthew broderick, but the movie belongs to denzel washington as a former slave who is now going to fight. he run away because he needs shoes. they do what they have to do. they whip him. >> proceed. >> he sits there and he takes

his beating like a man. he does not scream. he does not flinch, but there's a moment when a single tear comes down his face and that's the moment when denzel wins the oscar. >> the idea of american legacy and what it really is is brought home to people when they see that. >> in the '80s, you had some big, sweeping, stunning epics that at the time were seen as the epothees onnis of the movie form. you have the last emperor and you have "ragtime," and there was gandhi 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, but fantasy and sci-fi don't usually win oscars. what wins oscars is epic.

♪ ♪ >> "amadeus" is a meditational genius. >> do you know i actually composed some variations on a melody of yours. >> really? which one? >> mio caro adonne. >> 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. ♪ >> 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? >> it gives us some really remarkable ♪ ♪ >> 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? >> 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 diss function on screen was stunning to people and it was a trendsetter then and it's a movie that mattered a lot. ♪ ♪ >> in the first film it was a cross between a slasher film and a film noir. >> 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 about and every 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? ♪ >>. >> 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 and taking the 100 mile an 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 recking onnis innance. >> they no longer had anything

that could offer us. >> just the fact that this film is uhurdling along with banjos and yodeling. i still don't have the courage to have a oundtrack 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 it was the living people were scary and the dead people were banal. >> they come from comedy and were good at improving and it was michael. there's a whole different energy when people are there and there may be some written things and it goes off and you start riffing and getting into it. he was great at that and he's like a pressure cooker. >> you like it? >> "beetlejuice" is underrated. as well regarded as it is, it's still underrated, because it shouldn't work. >> i don't know if it's a horror movie set in a comedy or a comedy that's a horror movie.

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♪ 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 marketing machine markets it a year in advance. >> i'm seeing a poster out there on the street. it freaks me out. 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 like the kind of split personality, nature, the light and 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 then all of a sudden there's a car from the '70s. and he's just using everything. >> we were lucky to be there before any super hero -- began. >> batman bee began all ofway we see now. the idea of a comic book made into a film that's taken other the business. >> you could have predicted some of the big money makers, "batman", "ghostbusters." but who would have thought a movie about racism set in brooklyn would be a national hit. >> mookie! how come your brother's up on the wall. >> into the '80s, there was a push to have more diversity on-screen. but diversity on-screen doesn't mean diversity behind the

camera, and you didn't get a lot of black film makers getting to make films, so you really do need spike lee at that point. >> "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 being said in that film. they were all under the surface, but they just, they weren't said in that way. >> who's your favorite basketball player? >> magic johnson. >> who's your favorite movie star? >> eddie murphy. >> who's your favorite rock star? >> prince. >> bruce. >> prince. >> bruce! >> all you talk about is nigga this and nigga that. >> it's such a time capsule. at the same time, its theme's universal.

everyone is interacting. it's funny. >> why don't you move 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 part of its core. >> get his arm! >> that's enough! >> gary, that's enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is sort of presented with this choice. a young black man's been murdered. do i retaliate? do i kick off this riot? and he wrestles with it for a split second, and spike 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 only feeling. >> the '80s was a time when so many new film makers got their start. the '80s was an incubator for new voices, new idea. >> 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'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! >> '80s was a good period for movies. there were comedies that had to do with real life. weren't over the top. there were dramas that took on tough subjects. 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 produce the truth of human drama and take

you to a place that can't be seen in real life. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪