An Officer and a Gentleman

This man left nothing on the table.

This is the guy whose next role was in An Officer and a Gentleman.

I think he got an Academy Award for that.

But we know it

was really for his work in Enemy Mine.

That was three years before this.

An officer and a gentleman was three years before this?

Yes.

God, that's it.

E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rocky 3, On Golden Pond, An Officer and a Gentleman, Porky's, Star Trek 2, Poltergeist, Annie, First Blood, Firefox, Conan the Barbarian, Tron.

The World According to Garp, Friday the 13th Part 3, 48 Hours, Creepshow, Night Shift, The Thing, Mad Max 2, Halloween 3, The Verdict, Dust Boot, Silent Rage, Death Wish 2, The Pirate Movie, Evil Under the Sun, The Man from Snowy River, Sophie's Choice, Gandhi, The Beastmaster, Zapped, Flying High 2.

Zapped

170%.

Right, okay.

Now, the great action movie, An Officer and a Gentleman.

Oh, yeah.

But I love him best in this.

Plant has been in about 70 movies, including playing Della Sarah in An Officer and a Gentleman.

I reviewed that.

He's Major Max in Salvador, brutal villain there.

In 1981, she sings Randy Newman's One More Hour for the film Ragtime, picking up yet another Oscar nomination.

So when Paramount Pictures is putting together the romantic military drama An Officer and a Gentleman, music supervisor Joe Sill brings in songwriter Will Jennings.

Director Taylor Haxford's friend and manager Gary George suggests using Warnes.

Island Records boss Chris Blackwell likes the idea of Cocker recording the track as a duet with Warnes.

Anyway, he then became an absolute sex symbol in American Gigolo in 1980.

But he isn't a universally bankable, definitive leading man yet.

An Officer and a Gentleman is the film designed to propel him into true global superstardom.

Gere takes the grit of the film seriously, but he completely loathes the ending.

And you said, where did Richard Widmark come from? We almost did White Nights.

That was one of the ones that was a possibility, which was directed by Taylor Hackford, who also did An Officer and a Gentleman and Against All Odds, which has Richard Widmark in it.

I was doing it when I was trying to find linkages between movies.

All right.

And what a career we're talking about.

This is the man from An Officer and a Gentleman.

That uniform, that final scene, you know the one.

The man from Pretty Woman, one of the most rewatched romantic comedies ever made.

And she wanted out.

October 30th, 1982, 8.30 p.m. Poltergeist was still showing well at movie theaters across the country, even if it had slipped from the upper echelon of the box office while movies like First Blood and An Officer and a Gentleman dominated.

Not to mention Spielberg's E.T., which was well on its way to becoming the year's runaway smash.

didn't matter much to Dominique Dunne.

He was offered the role of, the main role in American Gigolo and he turned it down and Richard Gere took it.

And then he was offered the main male role in An Officer and a Gentleman, which he turned down and Richard Gere took it.

And then he was offered the main role in Splash, which he turned down and then Tom Hanks got it.

And then he was offered the main role in Forrest Gump, which he turned down and then Tom Hanks got it.

But I do think there's... tick on the actual acting prowess that she probably could have achieved with a couple like three or four more different choices that's all i think i didn't read the bad the bad movies or the movies that no one's heard of but there were plenty in that 11 year period she was definitely always working anyway um a little bit different trajectory for richard gear he was Coming off of a bunch of movies that I don't really know about.

He did An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, which is a big movie.

Then he goes to Honorary Consul, Breathless, The Cotton Club, King David, No Mercy, Power, Miles from Home, and then finally he gets Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman in 1990.

So big 1990 comeback for Richard Gere.