{"id":1508226,"date":"2022-06-08T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508226"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:19:25","slug":"six-80s-classics-that-deserve-the-top-gun-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-80s-classics-that-deserve-the-top-gun-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Six \u201980s Classics That Deserve the \u2018Top Gun\u2019 Treatment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsix-80s-classics-that-deserve-the-top-gun-treatment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood loves to copy success stories until the ink runs dry on the studio printer.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0 \u201cHalloween\u201d made horror history in 1978, \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d emerged among dozens of inferior slasher clones. Similarly, the 1981 classic \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d gave way to \u201cRomancing the Stone,\u201d \u201cFirewalker\u201d and \u201cKing Solomon\u2019s Mines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Hollywood will likely try to replicate the runaway success of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d the only way it knows how \u2013 bringing other \u201980s classics back from the cinematic grave. In fact, it\u2019s already doing so with 1987\u2019s \u201cDirty Dancing.\u201d Only, it\u2019s not that easy \u2013 and not just because two \u201cDirty Dancing\u201d projects already crashed and burned (a prequel and TV remake, to be exact).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop Gun\u201d has a special place in the hearts of many movie goers, and star Tom Cruise refuses to age as he stares down his upcoming 60th birthday on July 3. Still, the following \u201980s classics could be updated with the right cultural finesse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Creator John Hughes is gone, but a sequel built around Matthew Broderick\u2019s iconic character could work if the studio gets creative. What if Ferris was now a middle-aged worker drone, pummeled by a brutal mortgage and loveless marriage? Picture Broderick\u2019s antihero summoning that ol\u2019 Ferris spirit one more time, rekindling his former self in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Teens gravitated toward Ferris in the \u201980s because he was the ultimate rebel \u2013 smart, sassy and eager to blaze his own trail. Today\u2019s 40- and 50-somethings could use their own Ferris Bueller, especially at a time when simply sharing the wrong joke on Twitter can bring both doom and gloom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajor League\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baseball looks very different than it did in this 1989 comedy smash. Sure, there were a couple of sequels back in the day (\u201994 &#038; \u201998), but why not give the kids of these classic characters a chance at World Series glory? And, along the way, satirize just how much the game, and the culture around it, has changed?<\/p>\n<p>Think of Willie Mays Hayes, Jr. balancing his bustling Instagram account and outfield duties. Imagine an older, wiser Wild Thing (Charlie Sheen) giving the new pitching prospect tips on closing out games \u2013 and handling groupies. Picture Juan Cerrano, son of Pedro (Dennis Haysbert), getting heat for cultural appropriation with his pre-game rituals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Social media meltdowns. Triple-digit contracts. Kneeling superstars. There\u2019s plenty of hay to be made with a new \u201cMajor League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2019Burbs\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this 1989 film, Tom Hanks gets spooked by his neighbors, a ghoulish clan with murky intentions. The movie captured the cloistered nature of the modern suburb, where middle-class types get a tad too nosy about their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>How can Hollywood bring this story into the 21st century you ask? Enter Karen: the modern menace who does more than snoop and peep. The rise of Karens nationwide is perfect fodder for a new \u201cBurbs\u201d installment \u2013 one loaded with Nextdoor-fueled arguments, Ring doorbell videos and, once again, snoopy neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, 2021 already delivered a movie literally called \u201cKaren.\u201d That film ranks among the worst of the year, and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootloose\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 remake with rising, and falling, star Kenny Wormald went nowhere. Why? The 1984 original, as raw as it remains, captured the essence of dance corralled by a fire and brimstone preacher (John Lithgow). The remake couldn\u2019t capture that same soul, and audiences reacted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Why revisit a franchise based on an antiquated premise? Let\u2019s update it for the modern era. A Libertarian college group wants to start a freewheeling dance club on campus, but the usual woke subjects won\u2019t let that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Enter a progressive talk show host backing the censorial forces and a small-town student ready to fight the liberal power at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Voila! \u201cFootloose\u201d for the Cancel Culture age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Outsiders\u201d<\/p>\n<p>S.E. Hinton\u2019s timeless novel inspired a 1983 drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film couldn\u2019t eclipse the source material, but it did introduce a new generation of stars, including Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, and Matt Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>The story focused on young white males navigating \u201960s culture, but adolescents of any generation could relate. Why not revisit the concept with a 21st-century spin? These young white males are under attack from a culture eager to paint them as privileged predators. What\u2019s a rebellious teen to do under that microscope?<\/p>\n<p>Or, perhaps change up the setting. The original centered on Oklahoma teens in turmoil. Why not take teens from the same midwestern state and have them stuck in a progressive big city, ready to rumble with urban teens from a very different culture?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaddyshack\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s 1988 franchise extension might be the worst comedy sequel of all time. That stain is hard to remove, but the snobs vs. slobs motif in the 1980 original is both eternal and sorely missing from today\u2019s pop culture landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The modern-day snobs are the scolds telling us how to act and what causes to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood loves to copy success stories until the ink runs dry on the studio printer. After\u00a0 \u201cHalloween\u201d made horror history in 1978, \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d emerged among dozens of inferior slasher clones. Similarly, the 1981 classic \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d gave way to \u201cRomancing the Stone,\u201d \u201cFirewalker\u201d and \u201cKing Solomon\u2019s Mines.\u201d So Hollywood will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1509026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}