An Officer and a Gentleman Page #2

Synopsis: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. GySgt Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Taylor Hackford
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
1982
124 min
1,015 Views


Not exactly, sir.

Hey, this is really wonderful work.

Where did you get this, Mayo?

Subic Base, Philippines, sir.

Thought I recognised the work.

Be proud of them wings.

They're the only ones you're going to

leave here with, Mayo-nnaise!

- What's your name, boy?

- Emiliano Santos Della Serra, sir.

You don't say?

You a college boy, Della Serra?

Yes, sir! Math major, sir.

Graduated from Texas tech

with honors, sir!

I see.

You see this cane, Della Serra?

See the notches near the handle?

There's a notch for every college

puke like you that I got to DOR.

That's Drop On Request

from this program.

The first one I'm going to call

out of this class is you, Emiliano.

I expect to lose half of you

before I'm finished.

I will use every means

necessary, fair and unfair,

to trip you up, to expose your

weaknesses as a potential aviator

and as a human being, understand?

Yes, sir!

The price at the other end is

a flight education worth $1 million!

But first, you got to get past me!

Hey, Paula! It's 5:00!

Where's the goddamn whistle?

Oh, sh*t!

Come on, Paula.

Let's go! Turn that thing off!

Next!

Oh, sh*t.

What is that?

This is my idea of an ass bandit.

Wait till the girls see you,

scrotum head.

Scrotum head!

Think that's funny, don't you, boy?

Not all the obstacles that can trip

you up are on this base.

Let me tell you something

about the local girls.

Ever since there's been a base here,

there's been what you'd call

the Puget Sound Debs.

The poor girls come across

the sound on the ferry every weekend

with just one thing in mind,

and that's to marry themselves

a naval aviator.

A Puget Deb will tell you,

"Don't you worry

about contraceptives.

"I've got that all taken care of."

Don't believe it, sweet pea.

A Puget Deb will do anything

and say anything to trap you.

I know this sounds silly,

especially in this

so-called modern age,

but you scuzzy college pukes should

watch out, because they're out there,

and you, sweet peas,

are the answer to their dream!

Hurry up! On the double!

You lard asses, I'm going to fix you!

Get up in there!

Quick! On the double, Mayonnaise!

Come on, Seeger.

Little girl poopies to the left,

boys to the right!

Come on, let's go!

What a motley bunch! Get in there!

All right, quick! On the double!

OK, here we go.

How's it going?

You got to be kidding.

How do they expect me

to get down there?

One of you guys want to switch bunks?

- They're assigned bunks, man.

- I don't think we can.

Hey, Daniels, you're in there.

Who the hell is that guy?

That's your mom and dad

for the next 13 weeks.

Fall out! Get outside!

On the double! Come on out here!

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Douglas Day Stewart

Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College. more…

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