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''An Officer and a Gentleman'' is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who is the drill instructor training him and his class at Aviation Officer Candidate School. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford. It starred Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett, Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, and was produced by Lorimar Productions for Paramount Pictures. The film's title uses an old expression from the British Royal Navy and subsequently from the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, as being charged with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" (from 1860). ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' was commercially released in the U.S. on July 28, 1982. == Plot == Zachary "Zack" Mayo (Richard Gere) is preparing to report to Aviation Officer Candidate School. As he is doing so, he has brief flashbacks of his childhood. After the death of his unnamed mother (who committed suicide), an adolescent Zack was sent to live with his only living relative, his father Byron Mayo (Robert Loggia), who is stationed in the Philippines. The elder Mayo, a chief petty officer boatswain's mate, made no attempt to hide his heavy drinking or extramarital sex from a young Zack. When Zack needed help, Byron said he did not ask to get married nor be a father. The flashbacks advance to the present, where Zack has just graduated college and informs his father he will going to AOCS. Byron, who hates officers, says he will learn about the "real Navy" soon enough, but Zack is determined to go through with his childhood hopes of being a Navy pilot. Zack and his fellow AOCs are "welcomed" by their head drill instructor, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett, Jr.). Foley makes it clear that the 13-week program is designed to eliminate officer candidates who are not suitable to earn their "prize"—a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and flight training worth over $1,000,000. Foley warns the male candidates about the "Puget Sound Debs"—young women in the area who dream of marrying a naval aviator to escape their dull, local lives. They scout the regiment for officer candidates, and will feign pregnancy or actually ''become'' pregnant to trap them. Zack becomes friends with fellow candidates Sid Worley (David Keith), Emiliano Della Serra (Tony Plana), Lionel Perryman (Harold Sylvester), and female candidate Casey Seeger (Lisa Eilbacher). Zack and Sid meet two local girls – factory workers – at a Navy-hosted dance. Zack begins a romantic relationship with Paula Pokrifki (Debra Winger) and Sid with Lynette Pomeroy (Lisa Blount). Foley rides Zack mercilessly, believing he lacks motivation and is not a team player. When Zack's side business of selling pre-shined shoes and belt buckles is discovered, Foley hazes him for a weekend in an attempt to make him DOR ("Drop on Request", a Navy term for requesting termination of training〔(CNATRAINST 1542.98C: Drop on Request ) Retrieved September 18, 2012〕), but Zack refuses to give in. Foley says Mayo will be declared unfit, which frightens Zack into admitting he has no options in civilian life. Satisfied that Zack has come to a crucial self-realization, Foley punishes Mayo by making him clean all the urinals, but does not recommend attrition. Henceforth, Zack starts behaving like a team player. Zack and Paula spend the next weekend together and she takes him home for dinner to meet her family. Her stepfather behaves strangely, and when Zack asks why, she shows him an old picture of her real father. He was an AOC who had an affair with her mother, but deserted her following his commissioning and refused to marry her when she became pregnant with Paula. Zack is close to breaking the record time for negotiating the obstacle course, but Seeger faces disqualification when she can't negotiate the 12-foot-high wall. Zack abandons his attempt to break the course record in order to coach Seeger over the wall, and she makes it. Zack attends dinner with Sid and his parents and learns that Sid has a long-time girlfriend back home. Sid plans to marry her after he receives his commission. Meanwhile, Lynette has been dropping hints to Sid that she may be pregnant. Sid agonizes over this possibility, especially when Lynette tells him she won't have an abortion. After having a severe anxiety attack during a high-altitude simulation in a pressure chamber, Sid realizes he joined up out of a sense of obligation to his family and DORs. He leaves the base without saying goodbye, so Zack and Paula go out to look for him. Sid goes to Lynette's house and proposes marriage. She is elated until he tells her he DORed, and she won't be marrying a navy pilot after all. Disgusted, she turns him down and confesses she wasn't pregnant. She says she thought he understood. She wants to marry an aviator, and live an exciting life overseas. She berates him for dropping out and gives back the engagement ring Sid bought her. Crushed, Sid goes to the motel where he and Lynette spent his free weekends, and asks for their old room. Zack and Paula arrive shortly after Sid leaves and ask about Sid's whereabouts. Zack curses Lynette for trying to trick Sid, and he and Paula rush off to search for him. Zack finds Sid hanging from the shower head in his motel room. Paula tries to comfort Zack, but he rejects her and heads back to base with the intent to DOR himself. Foley won't let him go so close to graduation and felt bad about what happened to Worley, and orders Zack into an unofficial martial arts bout. Although Zack dominates for most of the fight, Foley wins by kicking Zack in the groin and then tells him he can quit now if he wants to. Zack shows up for graduation and is sworn into the Navy with his class. Following naval tradition, he receives his first salute from Foley in exchange for a US silver dollar. While tradition calls for the drill instructor to place the coin in his left shirt pocket, Foley places the coin in his right pocket, acknowledging that Zack was a special candidate. Zack thanks him for not giving up on him and tells him he never would have made it without him. While leaving the base, he sees Foley "welcoming" a set of new candidates for basic training, having been in their position 13 weeks ago. Zack, now Ensign Mayo with orders to flight training, seeks out Paula at the factory where she works and declares his love to her. He picks her up and walks out with her in his arms to the applause of her co-workers, including Lynette. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「An Officer and a Gentleman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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