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glamorous, but the opposite, have entered the drudge and ♪ ♪ reality of the world that lumet's painting. >> i never should have taken it. there's no way i could win. >> newman did what he was asked to do. he was often asked to just be the leading man and be charming and witty and funny. when he does "the verdict," it makes you cry. here newman shows you what he's 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 principals back together again. ♪ ♪ >> to see that scene where he's calling the insurance company to rekindle the deal that he turned down. >> okay. yeah, no, no -- i understand. >> it's really one of the greatest pieces of acting i've ever seen in my lifetime, that phone call. no cuts. robinson, apparently tired, lumet just goes, okay, here we go. >> so how's your life? punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. >> oh, great. how's yours? >> not so great. >> come on, ray. >> oh, we're telling truth. >> "the big chill," it's about these kids who were in college together in the late '60s and

>> a director and actor find a are now no longer story at the right time in the right place. anti-establishment but actually and out comes this amazing are part of the establishment combination of cinematic and trying to reconcile that history with their present. virility and absolute fear. >> movies aren't being made for adults. it's like watching an animal. that's all "the big chill" is, really, it's an adult film, and >> i think "raging bull" is a it tries to be as complex as life is. great title. >> i had wanted to make a movie we were attracted to each and the film fulfills the about something i was observing other at the party. promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of among my friends. the black and white gore, the that was obvious. violence of the flush bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, this imagined power we came out of college thinking we had was you had your home for the night, nonexistent. that's also obvious. ♪ marty, purposefully he didn't ♪ put a clutch on the film. there's no clutch. >> we're to adults. ♪ i know you wanna leave me but i refuse to let you go ♪ >> hey, ray. >> i remember when it first came out i thought, well, this will be for this generation, the you never went down, ray. children of the '60s, this will you never got me down, ray. be very relevant. ♪ >> raging bull" is a boxing >> let's get the check. movie for people who don't like then i'd meet kids in high school ten years after the movie came out and they said, i love that movie. >> "fatal attraction" was a boxing movies because it's cautionary tale. really not about that. it's about this man jake, based ♪ it's about friendship. on a real person, who is really it's also about growing up. at war with himself. the cheating husband and >> come on. harder. harder. there's something in its essence >> i didn't really understand boxing, but the character was that is timeless and universal. interesting. he was just so contraire, as the mistress is a stalker that

they say. >> i'm marrying him tomorrow. i thank god for him getting me kills bunnies and boils them, as he was just so difficult. out of there. >> what are you trying to prove? what does it prove? a matter of fact. i think if this is your attitude you shouldn't bother showing up at my wedding. glen close is forever tied to this film and she's an >> bob de niro, he is not afraid incredible actress. of the negative characters, he's >> what am i supposed to do? you change your number. i'm not going to be ignored, not afraid to go to, as i say, >> that's right. dan. >> in the original script, the those places. >> i was down to 152. i think you're rightpocrisy was in my prime. too. audience sympathies were split and then i went up to 212. so i gained 60 pounds. >> "terms of endearment" based that's not easy, though. on a book by larry mac hurtry between the male character and the first 15 pounds is fun, then it's drudgery. the female character, but with adapted and directed by james l. each iteration they made her such an extreme character, the original ending was that she was brooks. it made you cry, it made you supposed to cut her own throat, >> go get 'em, champ. laugh. it was the stuff of life. but that did not satisfy with test audiences. >> it's absolutely true that the shirley maclaine plays aurora. so they had the good wife kill the bad, single woman. gets involved with an astronaut played by jack nicholson. [ shot fired ] movies of 1980 look like movies ♪ fly me to the moon, baby of the 1970s. >> they just had this incredible very personal, very passionate >> that's hollywood. filmmaking rules. comic chemistry. >> thank you, sir. the romantic scenes between them i'm happy to be working here. are hilarious. >> it's not my fault, but i'm sorry. >> you're a welcome addition, and a damn pretty one, too, if i and then you had "ordinary might add. >> thank you, sir. people," which was the movie >> if you wanted to get me on my that defeated "raging bull" for >> i mean that, you should see back, you just had to ask me. best picture in 1980. this incredibly precise and very emotional study of a family in >> "terms of endearment" may be deep crisis. >> calvin, give me the camera.

>> no, i didn't get it yet, bev. >> come on, give me the camera. the first dramedy, it's a word we hear all the time. a movie that's funny and tragic some of the crones that have >> dad, give her the camera. >> i want a really good picture simultaneously. >> it's time for her shot, you been coming by here. understand? of the two of you. >> but i really want to get a do something. right, violet? shot of the three of you men. >> it was this idea of women coming together and being, like, all she has to do was hold on to yes, my life has been ruined by 10:00 and it's past 10:00. egotistical, bigoted men trying to hold me back. >> coffee, violet. now. give me a the camera, calvin, he's in pain, your daughter's in >> this was when women were please. >> not until i get a picture of pain, give her the shot, do you coming into the workforce, but the two of you. hang on a second. understand? >> give her the god damn camera. >> if you're going to behave -- they were still secretaries. >> "ordinary people" centers on people who cannot get in touch >> give my daughter the shot! they were still the subservient with their feelings and who avoid the darker underpinnings. roles and they weren't the boss thank you very much. i would like to tell a story about what people will do to of the company. avoid being seen for who they really are. >> james brooks was able to take >> that's all right. humor, tragedy, the best writing i gave mary tyler moore the script. i did it. delivered beautifully by actors >> what about you, dora lee? i said, look, i could see you what's your fantasy for doing playing this. that cared so much. him in? >> me? she was drawn to it. it felt like life, it felt well, i think i'd like to come and that really hit me because riding up one day and give him a that told me that there is some human, it felt funny. part of herself that she was taste of his own medicine. >> the winner is "terms of endearment." >> i loved their female willing to expose that has not been exposed before and she wanted that chance. and so she was given that camaraderie, and i loved dolly chance. >> jim was into the delicate and she did a great job. shades of humanity before it was parton in that movie. cool. she's, like -- liquid gold. >> oh, well, that was a lifetime ago. >> 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 >> you look wonderful, you do. forgetting because of the way i >> people change. >> in that moment where mary >> well, i hope you've changed. tyler moore comes downstairs and she asks her husband what's >> i hope you have, too. was brought up. wrong. >> i don't know if i love you >> i hope so for your sake because your personality left

anymore. something to be desired, namely a personality. but i'll tell you one thing, if >> you look at woody's career in you ever say one thing about me, the '80s, which theoretically should have been past his prime >> she goes upstairs and she's or you make one more indecent just -- there's something so moving to me about somebody who is so deeply repressed cracking prshgs open. because how can you go on after proposal and i'll get that "manhattan"? handgun of mine and i'll take you to a rooster in one shot. >> nothing will change unless we you think, oh, wait a minute. change it. there's also "zelig." >> they string him up, that male >> that's where the dam breaks. there's also "broadway danny she gets hit by some truth that she can't articulate. chauvinist, sexually inappropriate guy and they make she's so taken aback, she can't rose." adjust, she can't take it in. there's also "purple rose of changes to the workplace to be that's what that moment was cairo." able to share hours and a about. >> by the time you get to day-care center. >> then you look at some of it was an important movie then "crimes and misdemeanors," and it's an important movie now. these films of the 1980s like woody allen has expanded. >> "working girl" looks like a "ordinary people" and like "blue it's an ensemble piece, it's got some humor in it and it's got velvet," those films are some satire in it, but he's not fairy tale of a young woman trying to get a laugh every second. explicitly about how things look >> it's a wonderful moral becoming the princess that she are not the way they really are. conundrum from a very original standpoint. secretly dreamed of being in her i think that's why it holds up. >> you told me over and over you have to understand this was when ronald reagan became humble working-class upbringing again you'd leave miriam. would not allow her to be, but we made plans. it's got serious points to make about women in the workplace. >> we didn't. president, and the idea was that after all sorts of traumas, >> i gave up things for you, business opportunities. >> oh, dreams. >> "crimes and misdemeanors" is >> dress impeccably, they notice particularly watergate and two parallel stories, one of which is a very traditional woody allen and mia farrow the woman. coco chanel. vietnam, we healed. but as the public pronouncement relationship jokefest, and the >> how do i look? is we're good again, our movies are telling us, no, we're not. no, we are not. >> you look terrific. other one which is a serious examination of literal life and you might want to re-think the

death themes. jewelry. >> traditionally, it's the man >> a guy is having an affair, >> wendy, i'm home. that's holding you down, but in and she's threatening to tell this instance it turns out it's >> i play this game. his wife and threatening to all your favorite filmmakers sigourney weaver. but she's been stealing all of alive or dead were opening a disrupt his world, so he has a hitman kill her. tess' ideas in order to further movie on the same day, which movie would you see first? herself. >> while i was laid up with >> he realized, i had a woman and for me it would be stanley killed and i thought i was going kubrick because you're going to to go to hell and nothing happened. broken bones, she rifled through see something you never saw before, and he did that in, o m my desk and has been passing it with woody, he's constantly getting, you know, shit on by off as her idea. life and he's just doing the >> it was my idea. >> the melanie griffith movie, it's going to be the right thing. horror movie done in a way that you would not expect. >> you look very deep in thought. character shows that once she was given the opportunity to >> to me "the shining" isn't >> i was plotting the perfect about horror, it's about dread. murder. show she was smart enough, she did. >> guess where i am? from the very first frame, >> his writing is very strong for that reason. >> it's one of the greatest ending in the world. it always feels like he was i'm here in my own office with something grabs your solar thinking about some my feet up because i made it. plexus and pulls on it. philosophical truth about human nobody uses silence like stanley nature and says, oh, i want to write a movie about that. kubrick. >> not since the movie "network" has hollywood so brilliantly >> i'm talking about reality. indicted the business of television like it does in >> mom? i mean, if you want a happy ending, you should go see a "broadcast news." hollywood movie. the perfect modern anchor is played by oscar winner william hurt. >> you realize, of course, that >> it was as if i had been in we can never be friends. >> why not? so how is it that the star of the overlook hotel for two and a this movie is neither the half hours. >> what i'm saying is -- and he creates a pacing where it this is not a come-on in any anchorman nor the network overtakes the way you're correspondent, but an actress breathing and you're existing and you're in there. who many of you will never have

way, shape or form -- is that seen until now. men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets >> okay, bobby. in the way. go back to 9:45:46, the sound >> nora ephron wrote "when harry in all kaub brick kubrick films, byte in the alley. he controls you. met sally" and got a lot of help why were you in angola? from reiner creating the >> kubrick's steadycam work in >> please, bobby! "the shining" broke new ground. neurotic main character, and that's because he was based on rob reiner. we're pushing! the steadycam gave stanley a >> it was the first time i had chance to put us in a scene that >> every scene has to be good. didn't have any time constraints. seen on screen a real female you get so hypnotized being because she was flawed, and she behind that tricycle. you work and work and work. torture yourself rewriting the script. was allowed to be human and >> i'd known nora. you don't even see his face, you're behind it. i pitched this idea for a film which leads to one of the scariest shots in the movie. about the dance that people go different and irrascable, through to get together after they've both gotten out of difficult, shrill, bossy, long-term relationships. possible bitch. and they become friends, and >> hello, danny. does sex come into the picture? and if it does, does it ruin the >> hello, danny. friendship? >> there are a lot of words come and play with us. people use that are pejorative to women that jane craig could kind of inhabit. she said, well, that's something fantastic. i'd be interested in. >> what i love is holly's >> he rips off my clothes. >> then what happens? character just tears streaming >> united artists was betting >> that's it. down her face and her controlling like that and getting it together and going $40 million on its new movie >> that's it? forward. "heaven's gate," but after two a faceless guy rips off your years of preparation and eight clothes and that's the sex >> i'm really struck by the months of production, the motion fantasy you've been having since picture has been yanked from american theaters after only one you were 12, exactly the same? courage that jim brooks showed day. >> well, sometimes i vary it a in writing a character like >> "heaven's gate" took almost a little. that. year to complete. >> the f-14 is one of the most >> which part? >> what i'm wearing. difficult planes to master.

>> a good romantic comedy is, the director's whose "deer listen, you know they're going hunter" film was a great success they're called tom cats. >> isn't the f-15 tom cat one of got a free hand. his producer said he was out of to be together, so how do you control. the result, a 3 1/2-hour bomb. get them there? and what's the roadblocks? the most difficult machines for a pilot to master? it's all about the story and >> to have the high-integrity >> "heaven's gate" is a stake it's all about the people. do you care about them? ideals of what it means to be a journalist and a woman in that do you want them to be together? are you seeing what they're not through the seeing? business. >> it's just that all men are >> it must be nice to always sure it never happened to them believe you're no better, to and most women at one time or always think you're the smartest it's the cautionary tale that's all about to say, no, no, the another have done it, so you do person in the room. studio's going to step in here the math. and this is not going to be another "heaven's gate" and >> you don't think i can tell that's how you get the movies of the difference? >> no, it's awful. the 1980s. >> no. >> the fact that that movie >> get out of here. exists and always will is a gift. >> you knew where you were when >> wait a minute. you first saw "the empire >> in the deli scene, when we strikes back." first did it, meg rightfully was because it was the "star wars" a little nervous about it. wait, wait, wait. >> i'm new in town, and i was movie that took the whole thing you got crew members. wondering if you wouldn't mind you got extras. people standing around. buying me lunch. >> gregory -- to a whole other level. >> oooh -- "star wars" was huge but "empire strikes back" was phenomenal. >> are you okay? >> george, george, george, it's >> ooh -- michael dorsey, okay? your favorite client. >> rob says, meg, here's what i want. >> how are you? these established characters, he proceeds to have an orgasm that mighty joe young would be jealous of. last time you got me a job, it you saw them intermix in a way you hadn't in the previous film. was a tomato. where there is this budding >> yes, yes, oh god! >> nice -- yeah -- swear to god? romance going on between han >> michael? >> yeah. solo and princess leia. >> i love you. >> god, i beg you to get some therapy. i'm pounding the table. >> yes! >> i know. yes! >> "tootsie" is updating a guy in the dress. yes! you're taking a believable oh, oh! character and putting him in a >> luke is transitioning into wanting to become a jedi knight. >> and i realize because my

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a truck chase. ♪ to be in three of them, i'm really blessed. and then we figured, well, how do we get the truck chase in the >> kenny loggins, "footloose," that was a huge hit. movie? >> one half of the '80s was a it was all over mtv. lot of different styles of so we had these big kind of comedy being thrown at you watch the video and you're audiences. seeing kenny loggins in that? subjects, and then we kind of there was the spoof comedy that no. reverse engineered in order for it to earn its place in the became popular, whether that be story. "airplane" or "the naked gun." you're seeing lots of scenes of you had ensemble comedies like alienated high school kids >> spielberg is a master of "police academy," imports like dancing against the rules. staging. >> i didn't see "footloose" "crocodile dundee," which was an until after i started dating enormous hit and "three men and even when they're moving very you always know the lay of the land. kevin bacon. and then i was, like, i see how a baby." people fell in love with him and the other is the rise of influence of "saturday night live" on film. how cute was he in the >> there's 106 miles to chicago, high-waisted jeans and the white >> he can create suspense out of details big and small. we got a full tank of gas, half tank. ♪ a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. there's always the action that >> hit it. ♪ because i had the time of my the audience can see but the characters can't see. >> john belushi and dan aykroyd, so the audience is aware that life ♪ ♪ i never felt this way before not only is indy maybe going to they made up these characters >> they knew who was buying get beaten to death by this with the porkpie halt and dark these moves was teenagers and glasses. the thing they wanted to do was they did "the blues brothers" on buy the soundtrack so they can enormous nazi, but also, the whole thing might blow up. "saturday night live" and got a relive it. ♪ purple rain, purple rain huge response. so we got to make the movie. >> "purple rain" hit me really >> you wonder why your blood gets up when you watch them. >> "saturday night live" is such a specific place. people started realizing, like, hard. oh, this is where you're going it's craftsmanship and art. to get your quality comedy, so to this day i have yet to see a ♪ mainstream film that uses music

>> everybody in this town is then you started wanting to as an emotion in such an talking about steven spielberg's start seeing those people in latest film, "e.t." movies. >> i tell you what, i'm going to incredible way. clean this up. i was there at 12:00 noon today >> you go ahead and clean up a little bit. and there were literally looks fine to me. thanks for the dope. thousands of people in the >> comedy is such a precious street waiting to get in. commodity. >> the wait is hours long in when you shake the pan looking chicago, days long in los ♪ i want to see you angeles. for the nuggets, when they shine out like that, then you love i want to see you ♪ >> "e.t." has become the movie them forever. ♪ in the purple rain industry's biggest moneymaker ever. people who understood how to be >> what do you care about mark funny, they can be funny anywhere. >> i had this story i was going ♪ if there's something strange ratner for? to write about how the divorce between my mom and dad affected me and my three sisters. he's a 16-year-old usher in the in your neighborhood ♪ movie theater. ♪ who you gonna call you have dated older guys. and so i combined that with one about an alien who himself is ghostbusters ♪ you work at the best food stand in the mall and you're a close, divorced from his own species personal friend of mine. >> there was so much reality in and is lost 3 million light >> "ghostbusters" is a rare film the script to "fast times". years from home. because it combined sci-fi, action, and comedy. the way that cameron wrote "fast times at ridgemont high" is that >> i don't like his feet. >> well, there's something you don't see every day. he went back to high school. >> can you imagine if that film >> i never graduated didn't have those kids, every >> "ghostbusters" was written by one of them, henry thomas, drew dan aykroyd with harold ramis. on paper it shouldn't work. traditionally. barrymore, robert macnaughton? so the idea was i could go back but it does work because you and have the senior year that i that's the secret sauce to that didn't have and write about what movie. it is to be a high school student. have bill murray and dan aykroyd >> i just want to say good-bye. i learned so much. and rick moran necessary, and the pop culture establishment, >> all the kids had fallen in they're flawless. >> we've been going about this they don't know what's happening love with e.t., and i like to all wrong. with kids right now. think that e.t. had fallen in >> stacy, what are you waiting love with all of them. for? and that good-bye scene was genuine. this mr. stay puft is okay. those tears were real. he's a sailor. he's in new york. you're 15 years old. >> i did it when i was 13. we get this guy laid, we won't it's no huge thing.

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court back. here. everyone is so lovely. give yourselves a round of ♪ all my instincts applause. everyone is so lovely. >> the one white person is they return ♪ actually played by eddie murphy. >> what about rocky marciano? >> i was exhausted at the end of >> we had a hard time with the "back to the future." boom box. we tried it a couple of and then he makes "who framed oh, there they go, there they different ways and he had a hard time holding it up so there was roger rabbit?" one version we did where the boom box was on the car playing it. it's like he took "back to the go. every time i start talking about future" and tripled it. not as good. boxy, a white man got to pull we finished the last shot on the >> eddie valiant? rocky marciano out of their ass. last day of "say anything." you're under arrest. >> who's the star of the picture? there was only a little light in >> this young guy named eddie murphy, i think. >> there's a scene where donald >> oh, christ, i hate him. the sky left and the light is duck and daffy duck are having a the kid with the filthy mouth? piano duel. >> yeah, he's the one. disappearing and the shot's >> oh, he's the worst. moving in on cusack, and i see at the same time penguins are serving drinks. it. >> he can do these voices. and if you look at the making of he can do the physicalization. i see it through the camera. it speaks to the magnitude of the anger, the resentment, the his talent. of that individual scene, it's is that not acting? love, the pain, the glory, the utter, complete, total chaos. there's real actors pretending is that not comic acting at the to be drinking. highest level? >> what do you know from funny, adolescence, all of it was there there's trays moving around on these iron rods. you bastard? in his face. >> that was a hard movie. ♪ this holiday season >> we got lucky. that's a sort of ignorance is >> how's it going? choose the longest lasting aa battery... bliss category that movie should fall into because that's a movie >> how's what going? no sane person would ever attempt to make. (music) >> i love playing villains. >> you know, things, life, energizer ultimate lithium whatnot. i was a kid when the first walt backed by science. matched by no one. disney films came out. >> life is not whatnot and it's there are dark moments in each none of your business. of those that scare the hell out >> the john hughes scripts. they just jumped off the page.

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surprises people. they think it's a teen sex it. comedy because it literally is >> harrison ford thought his about a guy that opens a brothel in his parent's house, but it's character was a human being and an incredibly dark film about capitalism and about selling scott was planting clues in the out. >> for someone with that limited movie that he actually was the replicant with memories of this unicorn he daydreams about. a resume, to be able to walk in and actually make the complexity at the end the whole point of of the movie work, his all-american boyness with his dark side of impulses and you leading that unicorn when he look at that performance and you think that guy will be a huge walks out, stops, picks it up star. and he nod, that nod is an ascent, this is correct. somebody knows about my most private dream which is about a unicorn. duh. ♪ highway to the danger zone >> what people don't realize >> james cameron's "aliens" is about "top gun" and we think about it this rah, rah, the perfect sequel because it doesn't just repeat the first jingoistic movie, and it was about a man wrestling with his film. dad's legacy and feeling phony around all of these military it takes elements of the first that he's trying to impress. one and builds upon it, but it then makes it into a different it's really a movie about genre. >> can't be -- that's inside the masculine performance. room. >> his performance post "top gun" tells you who he was and who he wanted to be. >> some piece of work.

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child. >> you don't fool me with this [ screaming ] shit for a second. >> there's real skill to >> too tight. >> did you [ bleep ] hear what i building the perfect roller coaster. said? shut up! >> movie stars often need to "aliens" is an example number prove over and over again they can act. one of how brilliant action i think he really proved to the cinema can be. world he can act and then some. >> get away from her, you bitch! ♪ >> i like having you for 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 our veterans 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 failures 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 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 chiselled, ultra muscled upper body, at the same time that arnold schwarzenegger who, of course, had been a bodybuilder suddenly became an unlikely action 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 looked like with their shirt off. can you close your eyes and imagine jimmy stewart or montgomery cliff or even 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 cycles. 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 us, mr. cowboy? >> yippie ka-yay [ bleep ]. >> "die hard" is as perfect in its own way as "casablanca." it is an action move where the action is great. it is a heist movie where the

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was fueled by how much money can i make and how can i display it best? >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. greed is right. greed works. >> "wall street" is a movie about more than just gordon gecko. it's about a father and a son with different world views playing different roles in an ever-changing economy. >> he's using you, kid. he's got your prick in his back pocket, and you're too blind to see it. >> no. what i see is a jealous old machinist who sees his son has been more successful than he was. >> you never had the guts to go out into the world and stake your own claim! >> it's the connection between wall street and main street. main street is martin sheen.

main street are those people who will be affected by the decisions made by wall street. >> oliver stone is a guy saying the purpose of film, the purpose of cinema is to make political commentary about our society and he made some very compelling films in the process. >> what happened today is just the beginning. we're going to lose this war. >> come on. you really think so? us? >> we've been kicking other people's asses for so long i figure it's time we got ours kicked. >> "platoon" had this intensity and so much of that charlie sheen character oliver stone said was him, a patriotic kid who wanted to do his part and really had his eyes opened to the horror and i think it maintains that gut punch. >> i hope people go to see what the war was really like. that's the statement and once you see it, you have to think

about it for yourself. think about what you think about war, and think about what it really is as opposed to the fantasy comic book stuff of "top gun." >> the attitude of the '70s had screwed up vietnam on the men returning home. >> i want my leg. can you understand that? i want to be treated like a human being. i fought for my country. i'm a vietnam veteran. >> there was an atonement for that in the '80s. there was a second wave of pictures that attempted to honor the service that these men had performed for their country. >> my father was -- a -- that the word? yeah? civilized?

>> very good word. >> yeah? >> my father was a civilized man living in an uncivilized time. the civilized, they were the first to die. >> "sophie's choice" is, i think, the quintessential holocaust drama because it doesn't ever explicitly touch on the details of the horror. it's more about the dramatic implications of it. >> i'm going to tell you something now i have never told anybody. >> i never worked with anyone who was that confident, who trusted her instincts so thoroughly. >> she learned 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.

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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 epotheosis 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

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it always kind of feels a little bit like they've adapted a book that no one has ever heard of. >> every shot has been thought every note of music. the dialogue. and it's shocking. all of the time this shocks in the movies and visceral shocks and the moments of great humor. >> turn to the right. ♪ >> what's the matter, ed? ♪ >> my fiance left me. >> they had just finished writing "raising arizona" and they asked me to read it and i thought it was amazing. amazing. so funny. >> "raising arizona," as far as i'm concerned is the masterpiece. the idea of taking that 100-mile-per-hour preston surges dialogue and putting it with rednecks in

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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 film about racism set in brooklyn would be a national hit. >> mookie. >> what? >> why is this on the wall? >> ask sal. >> in the '80s, there was a push to have more diversity on-screen. but diversity on-screen doesn't mean you have diversity behind the camera. and you weren't having a lot of

black filmmakers who were getting a chance to make films. you really do need spike lee at that point. >> don't start shit, all right? >> beatle's down. all right? >> "do the right thing" is one of the most important films in cinema as it takes to an example of race. >> you 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 is your favorite movie star? >> eddie murphy. >> favorite rock star? >> bruce. >> all you talk is nigger this and that. >> it's a time capsule of that era. at the same time, its theme is universal. everybody is interactive and it's funny.

>> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> it's creative, social, it's political. and it has an edge to it. it has a provocation as part of its core. >> get his arm. get his arm. >> that's enough. >> gary, that's enough, man. >> at the end of the film, mookie is presented with a choice. a young black man has 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 own feeling. >> the '80s was a time that so many new filmmakers got their staries, new ideas. >> seize the day. >> cinema, to me, has always been an escape from whatever my life was at the time. >> what i really love in cinema, is 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 deal with real life. they weren't over the top. there were dramas that took on tough subjects. there were genres that hadn't been explored in that way. >> at the same time, there's 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.

this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. i'm natalie allen at cnn center in atlanta. we have breaking news out of the state of new york. an orthodox jewish community north of new york city is in shock after five people were stabbed late saturday, while celebrating hanukkah. authorities say the suspected attacker was apprehended a short time later. at least two of the five victims are reported in critical condition. precise details about what happened are still being verified. we know the attack took place