Review of An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) by Aditya M — 31 Mar 2013

The movie is exemplary, because the young officer gets a pasting, by a sergent. If this had happened in an academy for budding young army officers, the message would be, the army officer isn't supposed to win, the soldier is.

The sergent makes himself a villain when he makes the young officer, and other's around feel unsatisfactory, by using an unusual method to win a boxing match between the two. I heard about the movie in school, when I had major issues of identity, but even then, I felt I would love to go to the Indian Military Academy.

My friend had seen the movie, and mentioned how he loved it. It seems, the soldier is indespensible, to the army. This young man, was pretty dismal as an officer, and it seems, the U. S. air force felt that such men, if they cannot become an officer, then it is a great calamity, and tragedy.

Richard Gere was leaving the academy, when the match up was arranged. I just happened to see the end of the movie, or the part near the end. I actually thought Russell Crowe was the actor, not Richard Gere.

The fact is, then, Richard Gere was the quintessential awkward young man, with unusual haircut, trying to be one of the crowd, in movies. The only way, Russell Crowe can blend in, with the crowd, is to have no haircut.