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An Officer and a Gentleman. 125 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1982. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1982. 4 min read. “An Officer and a Gentleman” is the best movie about. love that I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe that’s because it’s not about. “love” as a Hollywood concept, but about love as growth, as learning.
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- The Film’S Title Comes from An Old Royal Navy Expression
- Folk Music Singer John Denver Was Initially Set to Play The Lead Role
- John Travolta Turned The Film Down
- Debra Winger Was Forced to Do A Nude Scene, Which Was Then Deleted
- Richard Gere and Debra Winger Feuded Behind The Scenes
- Full Metal Jacket’s R Lee Ermey Was The Film’S Military Advisor
- Richard Gere Hated The Film’S Ending
- There Was A Stage Musical Version
- The Motel Where Sid Kills Himself Is Now A Tourist Destination
- Richard Gere Kicked Louis Gossett Jr in The Groin While Shooting The Fight Scene
Stop to think for a moment: what does An Officer and a Gentleman actually mean? The title of the film actually derives from the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, recorded in an 1813 court martialagainst Colonel Sir J Eamer, “for behaving in a scandalous, infamous manner, such as is unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman…” Over time, the ...
It’s hard to imagine anyone but Richard Gere playing the lead role of Zack Mayo, but it’s hardest of all to imagine the part going to folk music legend John Denver. Probably best known today for his song Take Me Home (Country Roads), the leap from studio to screen might not have been as unbelievable as you might first think. For one thing, Denver h...
Disappointed not to move forward with John Denver, the studio ran through a series of other actors before ultimately landing on Richard Gere. One was John Travolta, one of the biggest stars of the time in the wake of Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Travolta had a hit film in 1980 with Urban Cowboy, starring opposite none other than Debra Winger. P...
There’s a great deal of legal and contractual wrangling before shooting on a movie even begins. For Debra Winger, that bureaucratic morass ended up causing her significant issues on set. Winger represented herself throughout contract negotiations,based on the script she had received; unfortunately, scripts are notorious for changing quite drastical...
We all know that, behind the scenes, on-screen couples often struggle to get along, however authentic their relationship might seem. Such is the case for Richard Gere and Debra Winger, who constantly feuded between takes on Officer and a Gentleman. Winger, a notorious perfectionist, was regularly annoyed by what she perceived as Gere’s failure to e...
Originally, a different actor was poised to play Gunnery Sergeant Foley: none other than R. Lee Ermey, the real former drill instructor who became an iconwith his performance in Full Metal Jacket. Ermey was working as a technical advisor on An Officer and a Gentleman, and almost played Foley before director Taylor Hackford decided it was important ...
Everyone remembers An Officer and a Gentleman’s ending: Mayo arrives at Paula’s factory, angelic and radiant in his naval uniform, and carries her away to the sound of Up Where We Belong. And Richard Gere hated that ending. Well, it’s more accurate to say that Gere hated the ending as it was written in the script, which said nothing of the music. W...
If there’s nostalgia for it, you can make a stage musical out of it, and that’s exactly what Doug Day Stewart – the writer behind the original film – aimed to do for An Officer and a Gentleman. Premiering in Sydney, Australia, the 2012 production had an original score composed by Robin Lerner and Ken Hirsch. Unfortunately, the musical attracted ven...
Perhaps the darkest moment of An Officer and a Gentleman sees Sid Worley (David Keith) commit suicide in a motel room after being rejected by a woman. A real motel was used for this sequence: The Tides Inn in Port Townsend, Washington. This has now become a tourist destination for fans of the movie (and if you think that seems a bit macabre you’re ...
In typical 80s style, An Officer and a Gentleman features a full-on fight scene. Since Mayo is meant to be a martial artist and Foley has been a tough guy throughout the film, Gere and Gossett had to train at length. “Shooting the movie and then every hour I had outside of the actual shooting of the movie I was working with a karate master to learn...
Old-fashioned without sacrificing its characters to simplicity, An Officer and a Gentleman successfully walks the fine line between sweeping romance and melodrama. Read Critics Reviews
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An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1980s version that doesn't tamper much with the formula, but it does revitalize it, thanks to the erotic teamwork of Richard Gere and Debra Winger. Full Review...
An Officer and a Gentleman is a well-crafted melodrama set against the back drop of the elite Naval Aviator training facility in upstate Washington. Richard Gere portrays Zachary Mayo, a young man and son of a career sailor who has risen from residing above a house of ill repute in the Philippines to becoming an officer's candidate destined to ...
Aug 13, 1982 · An Officer and a Gentleman: Directed by Taylor Hackford. With Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia. A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.
An Officer and a Gentleman was well received by critics and is widely considered one of the best films of 1982. [ 29][ 30][ 31] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10.
