Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) (38 page)

Nearly half of Americans: ‘More Say Iraq War Hurts Fight Against Terrorism’, Pew Research Center, 21 July 2005.

We will destroy innocent: ‘The Age of Conflict’, David Brooks,
Weekly Standard
, 5 November 2001.

a conservative movie: ‘What Bush and Batman Have in Common’, Andrew Klavan,
Wall Street Journal
, 25 July 2008.

the cost of the war: ‘How the US Public was Defrauded by the Cost of the Iraq War’, Michael Boyle, the
Guardian
, 11 March 2013.

we need dark knights: ‘The Dark Knight Turns Out to Be a Dick Cheney Fantasy’, Party Ben, 23 July 2008.

certainly that wasn’t: ‘Dark Knight Star Aaron Eckhart Downplays Analogy Between Batman, George W Bush’, Shawn Adler,
MTV.com
.

The president’s vows:
The Terror Dream
, Susan Faludi.

to tear open his shirt: ‘The Right Man’, Peggy Noonan,
Wall Street Journal
, 30 January 2003.

Bush punctuates his rhetoric: Analysis: The Return of Evildoers’, Peter Roff,
upi.com
, 15 October 2001.

Eddie Murphy’s Eighties Movies

As Jimmy Early: ‘It’s a trip, it seems every five or six years you have to do something to remind [people] they like you,’ ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

You know why it worked then: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

That was very controversial: Interview with the author.

the black guy: Quote by Neil Levy in
Live from New York
, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

If not for Eddie’s talent and popularity:
Live from New York
, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

The status of the black person: Interview with the author.

treated horribly:
Live from New York
, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

Lorne Michaels cut it:
Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
, Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad.

It’s too white:
Live from New York
, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

this weird, Waspy:
Live from New York
, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

Eddie never catered: ‘The Career Arc: Eddie Murphy’, Bill Simmons, Grantland, 10 November 2011.

I never connected:
Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences
, Richard Pryor.

From the very beginning: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

Trading Places
, John Landis movies: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

There’s this little box: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

I know because of the level: ‘Eddie’, Spike Lee,
Spin
magazine, October 1990.

I don’t think you can beat: ‘Eddie’, Spike Lee,
Spin
magazine, October 1990.

The scariest thing: ‘Eddie’, Spike Lee,
Spin
magazine, October 1990.

I am very black: ‘Eddie’, Spike Lee,
Spin
magazine, October 1990.

You get these black people: ‘Eddie’, Spike Lee,
Spin
magazine, October 1990.

If I was rubbing you: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

I went back to the house: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

Hollywood had to be convinced: Interview with the author.

His films introduced: Interview with the author.

Eddie’s movies have grossed: Grantland, November 2011.

No matter what you do: ‘Eddie Murphy Speaks’, Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone
, 19 November 2011.

Epilogue

I was with all these other filmmakers: Interview with the author.

Actors are running: Interview with the author.

I remember going to see
Ghostbusters
: Interview with the author.

One of the great movie: ‘The Career Arc: Eddie Murphy’, Bill Simmons, Grantland, 10 November 2011.

There’s that gag: Interview with the author.

Index

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Accidental Tourist, The
193, 197, 300

Adventures in Babysitting
7, 78, 85, 250

Aliens
7, 139, 178, 180

All the Right Moves
205

Altman, Robert 4

Amadeus
14, 163

Ameche, Don 217, 255, 261

American Werewolf in London, An
10

André the Giant 48, 48
n
, 54

Animal House
259, 262

Arquette, David 81

Arquette, Rosanna 64

Aykroyd, Dan 117, 130, 131
n
, 132–7, 138, 140, 141, 142–3, 151, 151
n
, 153, 153
n
, 244, 245, 255, 260, 266

Baby Boom
107–8, 189, 189
n

Back to the Future
9, 62, 137, 157–8, 202–16, 226, 242, 252
n
, 280, 293, 295, 296–7

Bacon, Kevin 213

Baldwin, Alec 221

Basinger, Kim 228

Batman
franchise 17
n
, 53, 104, 121, 219–40

Beaches
181, 182, 183

Beethoven
172

Beetlejuice
193, 221–2, 223, 230, 237

Bellamy, Ralph 261

Belushi, John 133, 134–5, 245, 259–60, 260
n
, 262

Bergstein, Eleanor 19–20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 33–4, 42–3, 158, 170

Berkoff, Steven 89

Beverly Hills Cop
9, 89, 122, 128, 129, 142, 156, 241, 263–6, 278

Beverly Hills Cop 3
275

Beverly Hills 90210
82–3

Big
62, 150–1

Big Chill, The
14, 62

Big Trouble in Little China
252

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
6, 137, 206, 280, 301

Blade Runner
7, 226

Blues Brothers, The
10, 12, 133, 259, 260, 299

Bowie, David 89, 244

Breakfast Club, The
2, 3, 13, 64, 67, 68, 69, 71, 80, 80
n
, 81–2, 159, 160, 171, 203, 209
n
, 212, 216, 242, 249, 255, 280

Brillstein, Bernie 134

Broadcast News
78
n
, 107

Broderick, Matthew 87, 160, 162, 165–6, 167, 171, 172, 201

Brooks, Albert 78
n
, 107

Bruckheimer, Jerry 121–2, 123–4, 153, 263, 264

Bull Durham
301

’Burbs, The
300

Burton, Tim 17
n
, 219, 221, 222–31, 223
n
, 229
n
, 230
n
, 236, 237, 238, 239

Caddyshack
246

Cage, Nicolas 25, 62, 92, 92
n
, 107, 156, 209

Can’t Buy Me Love
18, 156

Candy, John 138, 301

Chase, Chevy 245, 245
n

Cher 81, 92, 92
n
, 107, 189

Christmas Story, A
300

Cimino, Michael 4, 5

Clayburgh, Jill 20

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
149

Close, Glenn 31, 193, 292

Clueless
27, 73, 74, 79, 81, 82, 83, 86, 169, 215

Cobra
263

Cocoon
12, 217

Coleman, Dabney 93, 94, 176

Coming to America
3, 10, 201, 266, 266
n
, 269
n
, 271–5, 277, 278, 280, 294–5

Connery, Sean 149

Cook, Peter 54

Cooke, David 40

Cosby, Bill 91, 109
n
, 147, 258, 259

Crocodile Dundee
8

Cronenberg, David 210

Crowe, Cameron 32, 86, 105, 205
n

Cruise, Tom 5, 26
n
, 28, 60, 122, 127, 156, 173, 205
n
, 214, 266

Cryer, Jon 63, 64, 69, 77, 165, 166, 201

Crystal, Billy 48, 55, 99

Cusack, Joan 63, 64, 92

Cusack, John 1, 26, 86

Danson, Ted 119, 217

Dance, Charles 89

Daniels, Jeff 181

Davis, Geena 23, 192–5, 196, 197, 198, 221

Davis, Viola 185

De Niro, Robert 208, 246
n

Dean Stanton, Harry 204

De Mornay, Rebecca 26
n
, 28

Dempsey, Patrick 1, 18

Desperately Seeking Susan
24, 63, 64, 242, 299

Deutch, Howard 66, 68, 76, 77, 86–7, 163, 171

DeVito, Danny 229, 239, 241

Die Hard
5, 7, 89, 128, 129, 176, 253, 255

Diller, Barry 255, 261

Dillon, Matt 300

Diner
145, 217

Dirty Dancing
2, 18–43, 85, 153, 156, 158, 165
n
, 169–70, 173, 174, 212, 281, 290

Distinguished Gentleman
275

Do the Right Thing
96
n
, 275, 276, 277, 290

Doctor Detroit
260

Douglas, Michael 10, 20, 31, 62, 92, 107, 128, 241

Dream a Little Dream
149–50

Dreyfuss, Richard 120

Driving Miss Daisy
136

Dukakis, Olympia 178
n
, 179, 184, 187, 188

E.T.
3, 128, 130, 137, 149

Earth Girls Are Easy
193

Eastwood, Clint 127

Easy A
1, 26, 79, 168

Ebert, Roger 24

Eckhart, Aaron 235, 239

18 Again!
149

Elizondo, Hector 300

Elliott, Denholm 261

Elwes, Cary 47, 48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61

Empire Strikes Back, The
16

Ephron, Nora 14, 17, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 111

Estevez, Emilio 80, 120–1

Falk, Peter 49
n
, 54, 55, 56

Fame
29, 32, 42

Farrow, Mia 92

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
27, 83, 145, 205
n

Fatal Attraction
30–1, 59, 177–8, 178
n

Feldman, Corey 149

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
2, 2
n
, 3, 13, 50, 67, 71, 87, 95, 154, 155–72, 201, 209, 212, 213, 236, 243, 244, 282, 297, 298

Field of Dreams
9, 14, 170, 280, 289, 301

Field, Sally 179, 183, 187, 188, 193, 292

Finger, Bill 226

Fishburne, Laurence 276

Flamingo Kid, The
156, 300

Flashdance
19, 44–5, 122, 153