Los Caraconos, Risky Business, The Dead Zone, From Beggar to Millionaire, War Games, Psycho II (yes, there was a second part, and even more) or Flashdancewith Alex, that dancing welder who taught us what it was like to put passion in what you do.
Those are some of the titles that forty years ago were seen on the billboards of the cinemas. However, I wanted to choose five to remember and it wasn’t them, what can we do?
This 2023 marks forty years…
Never say never
In 1983, what would be the last film in which Sean Connery would play agent 007 was released, which was also his return to the role 12 years later, since he had not played James Bond since a diamond is forever in 1971. The story features an “aging” Bond who returns to action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons, and is a take on Fleming’s novel Thunderball (1961), o Thunderballwhich had already been adapted in 1965 with the same name.
And why all this fuss? Because this movie was not produced by Eon, like most 007 movies, but by an independent production company called Taliafilm, one of whose members was Kevin McClory, who was himself one of the original writers of Thunderball with Fleming and Jack Whittingham. McClory fought for years to retain the rights to Thunderball opposite Eon and eventually won, so he wanted to do another movie and got Connery back for the role.
The title of the film, in fact, comes from what the actor had said in 1971 after a diamond is forever: “I will never play James Bond again.”
As a curiosity, that same year Eon premiered Octopussy, with Roger Moore as Bond. That he didn’t appear “aged,” but he was, in fact, three years older than Connery.
Rebeldes (The Outsiders)
I would say that “the fiercest class struggle” represented in gang fights, but lately I watch a lot of Korean series, so nothing fierce. Let’s leave it at “the class struggle” represented through gang fights.
It is the film adaptation of the homonymous novel by SE Hinton and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This film is remembered because it was the springboard to fame for a huge cast of what would later become great stars in the ’90s: Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Heather Langekamp, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estévez and Tom Cruise made up the poster. Almost nothing.
Just in case you haven’t recognized him: Tom Cruise is the one on the far right.
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
In 1983 the last film of the first trilogy of Star Warswhen we still called her Star Wars and whose title, by the way, is the only place where it is allowed to pronounce “yedi” and not “yedai”.
It was the lowest grossing of those first three films, but still turned the $32.5 million it had cost into a gross of $475 million. So good.
As additional information: it was going to be titled revenge of the jedi. In fact, the series Star Trek premiered that year Khan’s Revenge and, upon learning the title of episode VI, he changed the title to khan’s wrath to prevent confusions. But then Lucas thought the idea of ”revenge” went against Jedi philosophy, and changed it to “return.” So in the end there was no revenge for anyone.
the price of power
Few are those who remember this film as the price of powerand many who remember her as Scarface which was, in fact, its original title (and which they kept in Latin America).
Criminal drama directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone, in it we see a version of the film of the same name from 1932, starring Al Pacino in the role of Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who arrives in Miami in the ’80s with one hand in front and the other behind and ends up becoming a powerful narco.
chosen for glory
Ed Harris or Dennis Quaid were some of the stars of this film about the space race that I have chosen to be on this list, not because of its quality or importance, but because of its original title: The Right Stuff, which literally means “the right gear” and figuratively translates to “what to have,” because these guys “had a couple of.”
I would like to say that they are those things from the ’80s, but the truth is that in 2020 a remake in serial format and kept the title. It’s on Disney+.
