![]() ![]() One of them, the overweight Dewey "Ox" Oxberger, wants to slim down and be respected by his fellow trainees and women in general. Following in-processing, the recruits introduce themselves and explain their reasons for enlisting. Upon arrival, they meet their fellow recruits and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. The two visit a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training. ![]() Realizing his limited prospects, he decides to join the Army and persuades best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, to join as well. In the course of one day, New York City cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success. Murray stars as John Winger, an immature taxi driver who, after losing his job and his girlfriend, decides to enlist in the United States Army with his friend Russell Ziskey (Ramis). The film's score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. It gives it a great identity of being a picture that relaxes and sees the virtues of the army in all its comical and patriotic glory.Stripes is a 1981 American war comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. I was particularly thinking of the characters in Rushmore and Broken Flowers, when watching those beginning scenes.įinally, the composer Elmer Bernstein punctuates the film with an incredible score. The performance feels like a fascinating pre-cursor to some of his future work in which played truly lost and broken people. However, it is his early scenes that cast an impression, showcasing true vulnerability and fragility that manifests itself in impulsive actions and amusing words. They are amusing and uplifting in equal measures, whilst still reminding the viewer of the hard worn, dedicated life which soldiers have.īill Murray is fantastic as a man with a joke for every occasion. The best moments of the picture are some of the montages that depict the regiment getting trained. One quite apparent example of this is in the character of Captain Stillman, who is played with a great blend of slimy, buffoonish smugness by John Larroquette. Not only in its recruitment of the regular but disturbed schmoes but also in its leaders. The time of which it exists, before some of the major 80s Vietnam pictures gives it a special resonance because it shows that the war was still prevalent in the American consciousness. It feels more like an amusing post-Vietnam film, seemingly showing the pitfalls with how random the draft was, and how young people fought in a crazy war. But its existence within the era of the Cold War still makes it a provocative picture. Though, this can only be observed in hindsight as the Stanley Kubrick Vietnam picture came out in 1987. The picture is very interesting, seeming as though it is directly spoofing, Full Metal Jacket. It was a film that had made me much more interested to seek out his early films, which as of this moment, are at an abysmal two. ![]() He was a key reason that I had decided to watch the American War Comedy picture from 1981-Stripes. He has essentially taken the baton from Robin Williams, an actor who had greatly made my childhood that much more happy-filled and meaningful. Bill Murray in my adult years is an actor who has impressed me a great deal. ![]()
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