History Film / AnOfficerAndAGentleman

A 1982 romantic drama directed by Creator/TaylorHackford, starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/DebraWinger, Creator/DavidKeith, and Creator/LouisGossettJr.

* CoitusEnsues: Right in the middle of the film is a rather lengthy sex scene between Mayo and Paula.

* LadyAndKnight: The story was in part conceived as a modernized version of the knight in shining armor. Mayor rides a motorcycle not a horse, but all in white he rescues Paula from the drudgery of factory work.

A 1982 romantic drama directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/DebraWinger, Creator/DavidKeith, and Creator/LouisGossettJr.

->''"You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer."''

* QuittingToGetMarried: David Keith's character (Jim Worley) is an naval officer candidate who has a fling with one of the town girls (as candidates often do) named Lynette; she reports that she is pregnant in order to [[TheBabyTrap get him to marry her]], but then he quits the navy to marry her. Lynette had wanted to be a navy officer's wife, so she dumps him (and informs him that she wasn't pregnant after all). He hangs himself.

*** Although they were excluded from combat, [[http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2014/02/21/40-years-of-women-in-naval-aviation/ Navy women began flying jets in the 1970s.]]
** Both Mayo and Sid are set on going on to flight school and flying jets after completing OCS. Navy and Marine Corps pilot candidates must be no older than 26 in order to enter flight training. Gere was 33 and Keith was 28 when the movie was filmed.

* NotSoDifferent: Lynette attempts to invoke this when Paula calls her out for faking a pregnancy, which ultimately leads to [[spoiler:Sid's suicide]], stating that Paula is trying to do the same thing to Zack. Except Paula isn't.

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** The location of Aviation Officer Candidate School is wrong. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, where this movie is set, is in actuality, just a base for anti-submarine patrol airplanes such as the P-3 Orion. Navy OCS is in Newport Rhode Island now, and during that time, the aviation OCS was at Naval Air Station Pensacola in /Florida.

A 1982 romantic drama directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/DebraWinger, Creator/DavidKeith, and Louis Gossett Jr.

* ColorblindCasting: Sgt. Foley was originally written as a short white Southerner.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sid resigning from OCS when Lynette insinuates that he knocked her up is actually quite a foolhardy decision. Had he commissioned into the Navy, then married Lynette, his status as a naval officer would have allowed them to live quite comfortably. They would have received free housing, free healthcare, travel allowances, subsidized groceries at the PX, free on base schooling for the kid, access to the Officers Club, not to mention veterans benefits and size able retirement benefits had he made it to twenty years. The kid would even have access to financial aid for college bound military dependents. Lynette wasn't entirely off base for yelling at him when he quit.

** Subverted since[[spoiler:Lynette's cheer of Paula in the end is bittersweet as she realizes that she is never leaving her dismal factory life]].

A 1982 romantic drama directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Creator/RichardGere, Debra Winger, Creator/DavidKeith, and Louis Gossett Jr.

** Actually, she's not the only female. There are a few extremely brief shots of a couple of other females, but they have no lines and are in the BlinkAndYou'llMissIt category.

** Actually, she's not the only female. There are a few extremely brief shots of a couple of other females, but they have no lines and are in the BlinkAndYoullMissIt category.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Love lift us up where we belong..."'']]

Despite the name, the movie is ''not'' the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] for the OfficerAndAGentleman trope.

** The location of Aviation Officer Candidate School is also wrong. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, where this movie is set, is in actuality, just a base for anti-submarine patrol airplanes such as the P-3 Orion. Navy OCS is in Newport Rhode Island now, and during that time, the aviation OCS was at Naval Air Station Pensacola in /Florida.
** Also, Casey /Seeger would at that time, never been allowed to fly jets, like she wanted to. Women were excluded from flying combat aircraft and serving onboard ships, so Casey would have been relegated to shore based helicopters or patrol planes.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable:[[spoiler:It doesn't work though, as Sid was already dead.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sid resigning from OCS when Lynette insinuates that he knocked her up, is actually quite a foolhardy decision. Had he commissioned into the Navy, then married Lynette, his status as a naval officer would have allowed them to live quite comfortably. They would have received free housing, free healthcare, travel allowances, subsidized groceries at the PX, free on base schooling for the kid, access to the Officers Club, not to mention veterans benefits and size able retirement benefits had he made it to twenty years. The kid would even have access to financial aid for college bound military dependents. Lynette wasn't entirely off base for yelling at him when he quit.

-->"Look over there... look at her. She decided to ''stay'', instead of taking liberty on this weekend. She may not make it throught the program, but she's got more ''[[HeartIsAnAwesomePower heart]]'' and ''character'' than you will ''ever'' have! [[{{Bathos}} And stop eyeballing me, boy]]!"

* HonorBeforeReason: Arguably, Sid Worley, who drops out of the program with only two weeks remaining [[spoiler:when he thinks Lynette is pregnant with his child.]]

** Subverted since[[spoiler:Lynette's cheer of Paula in the end is bittersweet as she realizes that she is never leaving her dismal factory life.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Lynette attempts to invoke this when Paula calls her out for faking a pregnancy, which ultimately leads to [[spoiler: Sid's suicide]], stating that Paula is trying to do the same thing to Zack. Except Paula isn't.

* ScaryBlackMan: Sgt. Foley, part and parcel of his DrillSergeantNasty role.
** A case of TruthInTelevision: While doing research, screenwriter Douglas Stewart found out that all of the top drill instructors at Pensacola were African-American, which inspired the casting of Louis Gossett Jr.
** And Gossett had good training; the military adviser for the film was Creator/RLeeErmey.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Casey, who wants to be a female naval aviator and win the approval of her father. She gets a HeroicBSOD when Sgt. Foley exposes her weakness and [[Main/WhatTheHellHero calls her out]] on it.
-->"You're one of those girls who couldn't get enough of daddy's attention because he really wanted a ''son!''"

%%* TheMusical: Coming next November, in Japan, staged by the {{Takarazuka}}.

** Averted ([[{{Blackface}} for good reason, in this case]]) in the Takarazuka version, [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lagtrb7pvs1qduvu8o1_500.jpg with Kaname Ouki as Foley.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Lynette attempts to invoke this when Paula calls her out for faking a pregnancy, which ultimately leads to [[spoiler: Sid's suicide], stating that Paula is trying to do the same thing to Zack. Except Paula isn't.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: [[spoiler:It doesn't work though, as Sid was already dead.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Sid's girlfriend, Lynette. [[spoiler:She lies to Sid about being pregnant, setting off a chain of events that leads to Sid's suicide. Yet by the end of the movie, she appears no worse for wear, whose only repercussion is to cheer Paula as she's being carried off in Zack's arms.]]