That’s how Lou Gossett addresses David Caruso’s character before choking him into submission in An Officer and A Gentleman (1982). Later in the movie, Caruso has to be rescued from the bottom of the pool in a training exercise. Caruso is an acquired taste but I always found him one of the baddest dudes on the little screen. It hurt me to see him get humiliated.
But this post was going to be about Debra Winger, who made a bunch of bad movies but was really good in two: AOAAG and Urban Cowboy. And she was sort of okay in Black Widow.
I know squat about Hollywood but have to believe she had bad management. Her deep-throated sexiness and more-than-adequate acting chops should have taken her farther.
And for your comment hounds, how about the best drill instructors (or non-coms) in military movies? R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket? Adolph Caesar from A Soldiar’s Story? Tom Berenger from Platoon?
is this site about when the word pussy is used?
HAS TO BE R. Lee Ermey as Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick’s finest! Currently Ermey is the host of The History Channel’s ‘Mail Call.’
Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery SGT. Hartman-Full Metal Jacket:
“If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war.”
Kubrick allowed Ermey to re-write all his dialogue and scrap the lines the screenwriter wrote.
I like to think that Debra Winger chose not to go commercial. She has hooked up with Arliss Howard who I believe made the same choice and they have done some non-commercial but quite good things together. (Les Howard, by the way, is from Independence, Mo.) An interesting thing about the “steamy” love scene in AOAAG. I heard Ms. Winger interviewed one time and she said that she found Richard Gere quite distateful — huge ego, etc. She said that when she was making that scene she was extremely angry with him. It is quite interesting to watch it from that perspective. (I also loved D.W. in Terms of Endearment.)
You don’t enjoy Caruso gtting humilted`? I DO. I jut can’t get enough of it!!!
Sgt. Hulka (Warren Oates) – “Stripes” and Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) – “Heartbreak Ridge”