ABSTRACT
The movies Our random sample movies included Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend (1983), Jeannot Szwarc’s Enigma (1983), Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984), Stan Dragoti’s The Man With One Red Shoe (1985), John Glen’s The Living Daylights (1987), and Andrew Davis’ Above the Law (1988). We can describe four of these as thrillers (of which one is a Bond film) and two as comedies. Our informal survey includes references to 18 movies, although we judge that some of these are more relevant for discussion here than others. They include Chuck Workman’s Cuba Crossing (1980), Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch (1980), Charles Jarrott’s The Amateur (1981), Charles Jarrott’s Condorman (1981), James Glickenhaus’ The Soldier (1982), Osamu Dezaki’s The Professional: Golgo 13 (1983), Irvin Kershner’s Never Say Never Again (1983), Joseph Ruben’s Dreamscape (1984), Martha Coolidge’s Real Genius (1985), John Glen’s A View to a Kill (1985), Jeff Kanew’s Gotcha! (1985), Arthur Penn’s Target (1985), John Schlesinger’s The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Clark Worswick’s Agent on Ice (1986), Roger Donaldson’s No Way Out (1987), Buzz Kulik’s Codename: Dancer (or Her Secret Life) (1987), John McTiernan’s Predator (1987), and John Glen’s License to Kill (1989).
