John Winger: Then Again
| Stripes | |
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| Directed past | Ivan Reitman |
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| Produced by |
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| Cinematography | Bill Butler |
| Edited by |
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| Music past | Elmer Bernstein |
| Production | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| Running time | 106 minutes 123 minutes (extended) |
| State | United states |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10meg |
| Box role | $85.iiimeg[1] |
Stripes is a 1981 American war one-act film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Ramis wrote the pic with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Pecker Paxton, announced in the motion-picture show in some of the earliest roles of their careers. The pic'southward score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
Murray stars equally John Winger, an immature taxi driver who, after losing his job and his girlfriend, decides to enlist in the Usa Army with his friend Russel Ziskey (Ramis). The moving picture received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success.
Plot [edit]
Inside a few hours, Louisville, Kentucky cab driver John Winger loses his task, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity. Realizing his express prospects, he decides to join the Army. He talks his best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, into joining him, and they go to a recruiting office and are soon sent off to bones training at nearby Fort Arnold.
Upon inflow, they encounter their fellow recruits, and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Moments afterwards arriving, John annoys Hulka and is ordered to do push-ups. While outgoing, John stands out as a slacker throughout basic training. The platoon's commanding officer is the haughty and dull-witted Captain Stillman. As basic training progresses, John and Russell go romantically involved with MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen.
After Hulka discovers that John and Russell have gone AWOL from basic training, Russell confesses his mistake, only John keeps silent. Hulka orders Russell to scrub garbage cans for 24 hours, while ordering the rest of the platoon to do kitchen patrol for the next ii weekends. In the latrines, Hulka privately tells John that he is not soldier material. John and so tells Hulka that he tin kick him out of the Army if he desires, but to otherwise leave him alone. Hulka offers to allow John to punch him, only John misses and Hulka punches him in the stomach, reminding him to larn a lesson from the encounter.
During the night, John attempts to escape back to Louisville. Russell awakens, realizes John is missing from the barracks, finds him attempting to leave base of operations and angrily intervenes, as it was John's idea for both of them to enlist. Louise and Stella find the two men fighting and drive them back to their billet, and John honors Russell's request for both of them to continue basic preparation.
As graduation approaches, Hulka is injured when Stillman orders a mortar crew to fire without first setting target coordinates. Afterward, members of Hulka'south platoon sneak off base and visit a mud wrestling bar, where John convinces Dewey "Ox" Oxberger to wrestle a group of women. When MPs and police raid the club, Stella and Louise help John and Russell escape. The remainder of the platoon are returned to base, where Stillman threatens to make them repeat basic grooming. John and Russell, later having sex with Stella and Louise, return to base, and John motivates the platoon with a oral communication and begins to prepare them for graduation. After a night of practice, they oversleep and near miss the ceremony. They rush to the ceremony and give an improvised, yet highly coordinated, drill display led by John. Mail Commander General Barnicke is impressed when he learns that they completed training without a drill sergeant, and assigns them to work on his EM-fifty project in Italy.
In Italy, the platoon is reunited with a recovered Hulka and tasked with guarding the EM-50 Urban Assail Vehicle, an armored personnel carrier bearded as a recreational vehicle. John and Russell steal the EM-l to visit Stella and Louise, who are stationed in West Germany. When Stillman finds the vehicle missing, he launches an unauthorized mission to retrieve it, against Hulka'south objections. Stillman inadvertently leads the platoon across the edge into Czechoslovakia. Hulka jumps from the truck before the Soviet Army captures it, and makes a mayday radio telephone call that John and Russell hear. Realizing that their platoon is in danger, John, Russell, Stella, and Louise accept the EM-fifty and infiltrate a Soviet base of operations where the platoon is being held, and, aided past Hulka, rescue the platoon.
Upon returning to the Us, John, Russell, Louise, Stella, and Hulka are hailed equally heroes, and are each awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.[a] Hulka retires and opens a restaurant franchise; Stella appears on the cover of Penthouse; Cooper is interviewed for RoadLife magazine; Ox makes the cover of Tiger Crush; Russell appears in Guts magazine; John appears on the comprehend of Newsworld; and Captain Stillman is reassigned to a weather station near Nome, Alaska.
Cast [edit]
- Neb Murray equally John Winger
- Harold Ramis as Russell Ziskey
- Warren Oates as Sergeant Hulka
- P. J. Soles as Stella Hansen
- Sean Young every bit Louise Cooper
- John Candy equally Dewey 'Ox' Oxberger
- John Larroquette as Captain Stillman
- Roberta Leighton equally Anita
- John Voldstad as Stillman's Aide
- John Diehl equally Howard 'Cruiser' J. Turkstra
- Lance LeGault as Colonel Glass
- Conrad Dunn as Francis 'Psycho' Soyer
- Guess Reinhold every bit Elmo Blum
- Joe Flaherty every bit Border Guard
- Dave Thomas as M.C.
- Robert J. Wilke as Full general Barnicke
- Antone Pagán as Hector
- Bill Paxton as Unnamed Soldier
Production [edit]
Development [edit]
On his style to the premiere of Meatballs, Ivan Reitman conceived an idea for a film: "Cheech and Chong join the army".[4] Meatballs and Stripes are basically "Fauna House goes to Army camp" and "Animal House goes to the Army", both movies fifty-fifty include an inspirational spoken language in the third act based on Bluto's archetype scene from Creature House. Reitman produced Beast Business firm. He pitched Stripes to Paramount Pictures and they greenlit the film that day. Len Blum and Dan Goldberg wrote the screenplay in Toronto and read it to Reitman, who was in Los Angeles, over the phone. The director, in plow, would give the writers notes. Cheech and Chong's manager thought the script was very funny; nonetheless, the comedy duo wanted consummate artistic command. Reitman and then suggested to Goldberg that they modify the two main characters to ones suited for Neb Murray and Harold Ramis, figuring that if they could interest Ramis and let him tailor the script for the two of them, he could convince Murray to do information technology.[four]
Casting [edit]
Ramis had already co-written National Lampoon'southward Creature House, Meatballs, and Caddyshack, but was relatively unknown as a film actor.[four] His all-time-known acting piece of work prior to Stripes was as a bandage fellow member for the belatedly-night TV sketch comedy Second City Television, which he had quit a few years before.[5] Columbia Pictures did not like Ramis's audience but Reitman told the studio that he was hiring the comedian anyway.[4] P. J. Soles reported that Dennis Quaid had read for the role of Russell and that Ramis was reluctant to appear in the film, but that Murray told Ramis he did non wish to work with anyone else and would leave the film unless he played the other principal.[6]
Casting manager Karen Rea saw Conrad Dunn on the stage and asked him to read for the office of Francis "Psycho" Soyer in New York.[seven] Estimate Reinhold played Elmo, who was given the best jokes from the Cheech and Chong draft of the screenplay. Sean Young was cast based on her looks, and Reitman felt that her "sweetness" would go well with Ramis.[4] P. J. Soles tested with Murray and they got along well together. John Diehl had never auditioned earlier and won his commencement paying job equally an actor. Goldberg knew John Candy from Toronto and told Reitman that he should be in the moving-picture show; he was not required to audition.[4]
Reitman was a fan of the Westerns that Warren Oates had been in and wanted someone who was strong and whom everyone respected to command the film's misfit platoon. Reinhold said that during filming Oates would tell stories well-nigh working on films like The Wild Bunch and they would be enthralled. Reitman wanted "a little bit of weight in the centre", and added the argument between Hulka and Winger.[4] It was not played for laughs and allowed Murray to do a serious scene, something he had not done earlier. During filming one of the obstacle courses scenes, Reitman told the actors to grab Oates and elevate him into the mud without telling the veteran role player nearly it to see what would happen and get a genuine reaction. Oates' front molar got chipped in the process and he yelled at Reitman for what he did.[4]
Filming [edit]
Every scene had some element of improvisation due in big office to Murray and Ramis. Much of the mud wrestling scene was fabricated upwards on the spot by Reitman. Candy felt uncomfortable during filming, but Reitman talked him through it. The spatula scene in the kitchen of the general'southward business firm was filmed at 3 in the morning, after the cast and crew had been up the entire day. Murray improvised the "Aunt Jemima Treatment" sequence and Soles reacted naturally to whatever he said and did.[4]
Filming began in Kentucky in Nov 1980, and then moved to California in December. Principal photography ended on Stage xx at Burbank Studios on January 29, 1981. The production was allowed to shoot the army scenes at Fort Knox, the city scenes in Louisville, and the Czechoslovakia scenes at the closed Chapeze Distillery (endemic by Jim Beam) in Clermont, with a upkeep of $9–10million and a 42-mean solar day shooting schedule. Reitman, Goldberg, and Ramis were involved in a detailed negotiation with the Section of Defense to brand the film conducive to the recruiting needs of the military, in exchange for subsidies in the form of free labor and location and equipment access.[eight]
Dunn remembered Candy inviting the men in the platoon to his house while filming was under style, for a homemade spaghetti dinner and to picket the famous Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán II No Más Fight (November 25, 1980). He recalled that he and Candy were the but ii cast members who knew the lyrics to the song "Doo Wah Diddy" and taught them to the rest of the company. "I actually enjoyed playing Psycho", he said.[7]
In 1993 Murray reflected, "I'm notwithstanding a piddling queasy that I really made a moving-picture show where I deport a auto gun. But I felt if you were rescuing your friends it was okay. It wasn't Reds or anything, but it captured what it was like on an Army base: It was cold, you had to wear the same greenish wearing apparel, you had to do a lot of physical stuff, you lot got treated pretty desperately, and had bad coffee."[nine]
The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle "was built from a 1973-1978-era GMC Motorhome," but no one knows what verbal year it was.[ten] It was designed to resemble "a family Winnebago — with a overnice color scheme and convenient interior — but came with bulletproof shields and flamethrowers."[11] [12]
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
Stripes was released on June 26, 1981, and grossed $i,892,000 in 1,074 screens on opening day. It placed 5th overall for the weekend with $half dozen,152,166. Information technology eventually grossed $85,297,000 in North America, making information technology the fifth nigh popular 1981 film at the The states and Canadian box office.[thirteen]
Critical response [edit]
Stripes was well received by critics and audiences. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show has an approval rating of 88% based on 40 reviews, with a rating average of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A raucous military one-act that features Neb Murray and his merry cohorts approaching the peak of their talents."[xiv]
In his Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert praised it as "an anarchic slob picture show, a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological. It'southward a lot of fun."[xv] Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "a lazy but amiable comedy" and praised Murray for achieving "a sardonically exaggerated calm that can exist very entertaining".[xvi]
Gary Arnold, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, "Stripes squanders at least an hour belaboring situations contradicted from the start past Murray's personality. The premise and star remain out of whack until the rambling, diffuse screenplay finally struggles beyond bones grooming".[17] Time wrote, "Stripes volition proceed potential felons off the streets for 2 hours. Few people seem to be asking, these days, that movies do more".[xviii]
Home media [edit]
Stripes was released on VHS by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video.
The film was released on DVD on June seven, 2005, a release which includes both the original theatrical cutting and an extended cut that runs about 18 minutes longer than the theatrical cut.[19] Extra features include vi deleted scenes; audio commentary by Reitman and Goldberg; an hour-long documentary titled "Stars & Stripes" that includes the reminiscences of the screenwriters, Reitman, Diehl, Laroquette, Murray, Reinhold, Soles and Young; and the original trailer.[20]
The extended cut expands on several scenes and includes an excised subplot in which Winger and Ziskey (who takes 6 hits of Elmo's LSD under the impression that it is Dramamine) go AWOL past stowing away on a special forces paratrooper mission. They get lost in a jungle and are captured by Spanish-speaking guerrillas. They are taken to campsite and nearly shot before Winger saves the twenty-four hour period by singing the chorus of Tito Rodriguez'due south "Quando, Quando, Quando", effectively winning over their captors. Winger and Ziskey then leave and rejoin the special forces unit of measurement as it is re-boarding the plane.
In January 2012, the extended cut of the flick was released on Blu-ray.[21] [22]
Re-release [edit]
For the 40th anniversary of the moving picture'southward release, Stripes re-opened in theaters on August 29 to September ii, 2021, with a special introduction from Pecker Murray and Ivan Reitman.[23] [24]
Run across likewise [edit]
- Ghostbusters – a 1984 comedy film also directed by Reitman, starring Murray and Ramis, and scored by Bernstein
Notes [edit]
- ^ The 2d highest U.S. armed services ornamentation, after the Medal of Honor.[ii] [iii]
References [edit]
- ^ "Stripes, Box Role Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March nine, 2012.
- ^ "Wear of Decorations, Service Medals, Badges, Unit Awards, and Appurtenances". Regular army Regulation 670–ane: Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia (PDF). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Ground forces. January 26, 2021. pp. fifty–55. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
- ^ "Order of precedence by category of medal" (PDF). Department of the Army Pamphlet 670–1: Guide to the Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia. Washington, DC: U.S. Section of the Ground forces. January 26, 2021. pp. 259–262. Retrieved Baronial 29, 2021.
- ^ a b c d due east f thou h i Gillis, Michael (2006). "Stars and Stripes". Stripes Special Edition DVD. Columbia Pictures.
- ^ Caldwell, Sara C.; Kielson, Marie-Eve South. (2000). Then You Want to be A Screenwriter: How to Face the Fears and Accept the Risks. New York: Allworth Printing. p. 77. ISBN978-1-58115-062-ix.
- ^ Rabin, Nathan (May 14, 2010). "Random Roles: P.J. Soles". The Onion A.V. Club . Retrieved May 19, 2010.
- ^ a b "Dorsum to the 80s: Interview with Conrad Dunn". Kickin' information technology Old Schoolhouse. Feb 6, 2011. Retrieved July sixteen, 2015.
- ^ Robb, David L. (2004). Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies. Amherst, Due north.Y.: Prometheus Books. ISBN978-1591021827.
- ^ Meyers, Kate (March 19, 1993). "Hail Murray". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved April 14, 2009.
- ^ Foley, Aaron (February 24, 2014). "A Cursory History Of The Iconic Vehicles In Harold Ramis Films". Jalopnik. Gawker Media. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ Sununu, John E. (October 28, 2013). "Upkeep-assail vehicle; Police departments don't demand expensive military-grade equipment". The Boston Globe . Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ Hardigree, Matt (February 25, 2008). "The X Best Post-Apocalyptic Survival Vehicles". Jalopnik. Gawker Media. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ "Stripes". Box Function Mojo. December 11, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
- ^ "Stripes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (January ane, 1981). "Stripes". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (June 26, 1981). "'Stripes' and the Biggest Wise Guy in the Army". The New York Times . Retrieved April 14, 2009.
- ^ Arnold, Gary (June 26, 1981). "Depression-Ranking Stripes". The Washington Postal service.
- ^ "Rushes". Fourth dimension. July 6, 1981. Archived from the original on October 15, 2010. Retrieved April xiv, 2009.
- ^ Gruenwedel, Erik (Apr 15, 2005). "Ivan Reitman Creates A Different 'Stripes'". hive4media.com . Retrieved September 29, 2019.
- ^ Weinberg, Scott (June 7, 2005). "Stripes: Extended Edition". DVD Talk . Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- ^ "Stripes (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]". Amazon.com . Retrieved Feb 15, 2022.
- ^ Liebman, Martin (October 22, 2011). "Stripes Blu-ray Review". Blu-ray.com . Retrieved Feb fifteen, 2022.
- ^ Dick, Jeremy (July 20, 2021). "Stripes Returns to Movie Theaters This Summertime". MovieWeb . Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ^ Adams, Kirby (Baronial 25, 2021). "twoscore years ago, 'Stripes' starring Neb Murray was filmed in Kentucky. Wait back at the movie". The Courier-Periodical . Retrieved January half dozen, 2022.
External links [edit]
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