80'S LADIES: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

He learned to be an officer, but he did NOT learn to be a gentleman.

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CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, racism, sexism, child neglect, alcoholism, sexual harassment.

This week in our 80’s Ladies series the awesome Michael Porteus of The LaFresian Chronicles: Arsen joins us to talk about a movie that isn’t very good, and yet also an instant classic. Outside of Top Gun, this movie might be the most iconic take on the “military training” stories that pervaded the 1980’s. The ending alone is a classic source of homage and parody that will probably last the test of time. For a movie that has some pretty big script problems and tries to tell a whole lot more story than it has any reason to, the cast of this movie, well, lifts us up where we belong. Especially one Debra Winger, an 80’s lady extraordinaire who does a whole lot more lifting up than anyone else in this cast and lives up to the hype for this movie. Shine your belt buckles and fall in formation as we continue our 80’s Ladies series with An Officer and a Gentleman!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken of “Main Theme to Officer and a Gentleman”, written and performed by Jack Nitzsche and . Copyright 1982 Paramount Pictures Corporation, Island Records Inc.