{"id":27845,"date":"2012-10-15T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=27845"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T18:27:21","slug":"officer-and-a-gentleman-an-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=27845","title":{"rendered":"Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You can kick me out of here, but I ain&#8217;t quittin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Poster-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Poster-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Poster.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA headstrong Naval Aviation Officer candidate (Richard Gere) with a troubled past butts heads with his hard-nosed drill sergeant (Louis Gosset, Jr.) while engaging in a no-commitment romance with a local girl (Debra Winger).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debra Winger Films<\/li>\n<li>Military<\/li>\n<li>Richard Gere Films<\/li>\n<li>Romance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary&#8217;s right to refer this &#8220;surprise smash hit&#8221; &#8212; directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Douglas Day Stewart (of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2845\"><em>Blue Lagoon<\/em><\/a> screenwriting fame) &#8212; as &#8220;slick, manipulative, and hackneyed&#8221;. He notes that the &#8220;training scenes are drivel, taken from countless other basic-training pictures&#8221;, but points out that the &#8220;erotic performances by Gere and Winger, and [Winger&#8217;s] sympathetic character&#8230; wear down most resistance&#8221; from viewers. Adding to the film&#8217;s appeal is the Oscar-winning theme song &#8220;Up Where We Belong&#8221;, and a powerful supporting performance by Lou Gossett, Jr., who Peary posits &#8220;shouted his way to an Oscar&#8221;. Despite its strengths, however, <em>An Officer and  Gentleman<\/em> is ultimately a disappointing romance, given how closely it hews to old-fashioned, anti-feminist norms. <\/p>\n<p>Winger plays an appealingly independent-minded character, yet she&#8217;s reduced &#8212; like all the working-class women in her town, apparently &#8212; to waiting for a man to rescue her from her situation, whether it&#8217;s for a temporary month-long fling, or a longer commitment. We&#8217;re meant to <em>tsk<\/em> at the tactics employed by Winger&#8217;s best friend Lynette (Lisa Blount) when trying to snag a cadet of her own (David Keith), but Winger isn&#8217;t necessarily a much better role model. Meanwhile, petite Lisa Eilbacher is cast in a gratuitous role as a female trainee struggling to make her way through candidacy, who breaks down into tears every time she tries to progress through a particularly challenging component of the obstacle course &#8212; and, naturally, she&#8217;s helped by a man in the end. The famous final factory scene between Gere and Winger is perhaps most egregious of all, though I won&#8217;t spoil the film by saying too much more. Ultimately, this erstwhile hit remains erotic eye candy at best, with the added bonus of seeing Winger in one of her too-few leading roles before she left Hollywood semi-permanently in the mid-1990s. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Gere as Zack<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gere.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gere.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gere.png 592w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gere-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gere-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Debra Winger as Paula<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-Genteman-Winger2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-Genteman-Winger2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-Genteman-Winger2.png 592w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-Genteman-Winger2-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-Genteman-Winger2-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lou Gosset, Jr. as Sergeant Foley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gosset-Jr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gosset-Jr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gosset-Jr.png 592w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gosset-Jr-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Officer-and-a-Gentleman-Gosset-Jr-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time viewing simply for the performances. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084434\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1982\/07\/28\/movies\/officer-and-a-gentleman-navy-love-story.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitallyobsessed.com\/displaylegacy.php?ID=756\">Digitally Obsessed Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/an-officer-and-a-gentleman-1982#:~:text=%22An%20Officer%20and%20a%20Gentleman,who%20and%20what%20they%20are.\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.tvguide.com\/an-officer-and-a-gentleman\/review\/107968\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/an-officer-and-a-gentleman-2\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You can kick me out of here, but I ain&#8217;t quittin&#8217;.&#8221; Synopsis: A headstrong Naval Aviation Officer candidate (Richard Gere) with a troubled past butts heads with his hard-nosed drill sergeant (Louis Gosset, Jr.) while engaging in a no-commitment romance with a local girl (Debra Winger). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Debra Winger Films Military Richard Gere Films Romance Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary&#8217;s right to refer this &#8220;surprise smash hit&#8221; &#8212; directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Douglas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=27845\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27845"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59421,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845\/revisions\/59421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}