{"id":1202,"date":"2020-03-01T19:47:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:35:37","slug":"an-officer-and-a-gentleman-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"An Officer and a Gentleman<\/em> (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Officer and a Gentleman<\/em> (1982)<\/span><\/h1>\n

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I have a theory as to the success of this movie. Yes, you can’t help but love the story of an underdog triumphant, and there were engaging performances by all of the principals — Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr., and Debra Winger.<\/p>\n

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However, beyond that, I believe this movie resonated with many of us because it was released at a time (early in the Reagan administration) when the military service as an institution was finally regaining respect<\/strong> in this country after the dark years of the Vietnam war era.<\/p>\n

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Here, at the close of the movie, Zack (literally) sweeps Paula off her feet, away from her dreary factory job and into the sunset.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Personal connection<\/h4>\n

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A friend of mine is a commercial airline pilot and also a former naval aviator — just like Zack. His real-life Marine sergeant — the Gossett character — served as an advisor to this film.<\/p>\n

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Zack is a new member of the U.S. Naval Aviator Academy whose rough life has left him an emotionally broken man.\u00a0Fortunately, a sometimes brutal Marine sergeant and a local girl (Paula) provide him an epiphany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Richard-Gere-and-Louis-Gossett-Jr-in-An-Officer-and-a-Gentleman.jpg?fit=680%2C424&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}