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Everyone is interacting. its funny. >> why dont you move to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> its creative. its cultural, its social. >> stay black. >> its political. and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as part of its core. >> get his arm! >> thats enough! >> gary, thats enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is sort of presented with this choice. a young black mans been murdered. do i retaliate? do i kick off this riot? and he wrestles with it for a split...

And its an important movie now. >> working girl looks like a fairytale of a young woman becoming the princess that she secretly dreamed of being in her humble working-class upbringing would not allow her to be, but its got serious points to make about women in the workplace. >> dress impeccably, they notice the woman. coco chanel. >> how do i look? >> you look terrific. you might want to re-think the jewelry. >> traditionally, its the man thats holding you down, but in this instance it turns out...

His beating like a man. he does not scream. he does not flinch, but theres a moment when a single tear comes down his face and thats the moment when denzel wins the oscar. >> the idea of american legacy and what it really is is brought home to people when they see that. >> in the 80s, you had some big, sweeping, stunning epics that at the time were seen as the epothees onnis of the movie form. you have the last emperor and you have "ragtime," and there was gandhi which came out in 1982. >> we mu...

Star. ♪ highway to the danger >> what people dont realize about "top gun" and we think about it this rah, rah, jingoistic movie, and it was about a man wrestling with his dads legacy and feeling phony around all of these military that hes trying to impress. >> his performance post "top gun" tells you who he was and who he wanted to be. >> some piece of work. >> ive been telling her that. >> i have natural character. >> thats not what i said, kid. i said you are a natural character. you are an ...

Saying is i want to be treated like a human being. i fought for my country and im a vietnam veteran! >> there was an atonement and there was a second wave of pictures that attempted to honor the service that these men had performed for their country. >> my father was -- a -- that the word? yeah? civilized? >> very good word. >> yeah? >> my father was a civilized man living in an uncivilized time. the civilized, they were the first to die. >> "sophies choice" is, i think, the quintessential holoc...

Myself. >> he is a prince in a fictional african nation and he decides that he and his best friend played by arsenio hall are going to go to america to find himself a queen. if you want to find a queen, where do you go? you go to queens, new york. got to be full of queens, right. >> everybody who has seen coming to america embraced the movie. the movie is funny as hell and i think it is eddie murphy at his best. >> youre so lovely. >> this brilliant white person in that cast and the one white pe...

>> when eddie murphy first started with 48 hours, he was 20 years old. then he does "trading places" and then he does the blockbuster "beverly hills cop." >> eddie murphy in the 80s was comedy. hes such a perfect every man and so likeable. even though hes kind of a shit. >> it wasnt about necessarily being the put upon guy, it is being the guy smarter than the room. hes bugs bunny. >> this is the cleanest and nicest police car ive ever been in my life. this is nicer than my apartment. >> up unti...

Replicant with memories of this unicorn he daydreams about. at the end the whole point of leading that unicorn when he walks out, stops, picks it up and he nod, that nod is an ascent, this is correct. somebody knows about my most private dream which is about a unicorn. duh. >> james camerons "aliens" is the perfect sequel because it doesnt just repeat the first film. it takes elements of the first one and builds upon it, but it then makes it into a different genre. >> cant be -- thats inside the...

Come on. >> a directoror, an actor, find a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic illity. >> i think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion and the black and white gore and the violence of the flashbulbs going off. marty when he designed the movie didnt put a clutch on the film. there is no clutch. >> you never got me down, ray. >> raging bull is a boxing movie f...

Written by david mammoth, beautifully told by master director sydney la met. paul newman plays a washed up lawyer who was an alcohol kind of ambulance chaser. what makes it uniquely la met is even when it is movie stars, big movie stars, he managed to bring them down in the case of the verdict to the boston streets and you can see the stars in the movie but they have not turned the movie into something glamorous but on the opposite, have centered the drudge and reality of the world that la matt ...