Real Genius (5/8) Movie CLIP - A Moral Imperative (1985) HD

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    CLIP DESCRIPTION:
    Chris (Val Kilmer) convinces Mitch (Gabriel Jarret) to stay in school and get even with Kent.
    FILM DESCRIPTION:
    Martha Coolidge directed this comedy taking place at fictional Pacific Tech, concerning incoming freshman Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a high school student whose Science Fair project made important inroads into laser beam technology. Mitch has been recruited by famed physics professor Hathaway (William Atherton), who asks Mitch to work in his laboratory. On campus, Mitch becomes roommates with the brilliant Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), legendary as the smartest freshman in the history of the college; but now, as a senior, he is less interested in his studies and more interested in having fun. It turns out that Hathaway is enlisting his students, unbeknownst to them, as a slave labor force to do research in developing a state-of-the-art laser device for the Defense Department (he uses his government grant funds to build a house). But Chris and Mitch begin to suspect that something is amiss with Hathaway's project.
    CREDITS:
    TM & © Sony (1985)
    Cast: Gabriel Jarret, Val Kilmer
    Director: Martha Coolidge
    Producers: Sam Crespi-Horowitz, Robert Daley, Brian Grazer
    Screenwriters: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 131

  • @TaliaIGhul
    @TaliaIGhul 3 роки тому +85

    Val Kilmer had a great voice. I heard him recently spoke. throat cancer ravaged his throat to a point where he has to have a voice box. It was depressing.

  • @nealwhaley63
    @nealwhaley63 4 роки тому +121

    Why can’t movies be written like this anymore? It’s simple, but it works. It doesn’t preach. It doesn’t talk down to the audience. It just works and that’s all that needs to happen.

    • @Watcher3223
      @Watcher3223 3 роки тому +18

      Exactly.
      The dialogue doesn't talk down to people, it appeals to them.

    • @aliali-ce3yf
      @aliali-ce3yf 2 роки тому +3

      lol, it is preaching, you just like what's being said. and he's absolutely right, but it's still preaching

    • @IanMatthewGray
      @IanMatthewGray 2 роки тому +6

      @@aliali-ce3yf -totally wrong. "preaching" is the writer or writers having an agenda which is completely transparent & often nauseating; this is pure dialogue written brilliantly to demonstrate a subtle point. Big difference, my man.

    • @Raja1938
      @Raja1938 2 роки тому +1

      @@IanMatthewGray Subtle? The moment Val Kilmer's character learns that his research is going to be weaponized, he literally says "This is bad".

    • @IanMatthewGray
      @IanMatthewGray 2 роки тому +1

      @@Raja1938 My comment refers to the video we are commenting upon.

  • @Axess-sv8nq
    @Axess-sv8nq 4 роки тому +94

    "It's a moral imperative!" - I've been saying that for MANY years!! This is one of my favorite films of ALL TIME! I miss movies THIS good!

    • @thenerddirector
      @thenerddirector 3 роки тому +3

      You're the rue of the day!

    • @Axess-sv8nq
      @Axess-sv8nq 3 роки тому +5

      @@thenerddirector "Rue the day?? Who talks like that??" 😂😂

  • @briansimpson5664
    @briansimpson5664 5 років тому +37

    "All science no philosophy" has been the direction our world has been going in for years. Sad when you think more about it. Math and science ALONE don't solve the deepest problems with in our humanity. Step outside the box get creative. Look deeper, use your mind to actually help people. Proving how smart (in the scientific sense) you think you are could only do more harm than good. Ppl must have a good grasp on philosophy to understand what he was really getting at here.

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому +3

      PICARD: Did you read that book I gave you? (Wesley reacts, barely concealing a grimace as he recalls.)
      WESLEY: Some of it.
      PICARD: That's reassuring.
      WESLEY: I just don't have much time.
      PICARD: (re the book in his hand) There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. (Wesley glances over at Picard's book)
      WESLEY: William James sure won't be on my Starfleet exams.
      PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained to deal with technology, and the mechanics of piloting a starship.
      WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy--
      PICARD: It takes more than just that. Open your mind to the past... to history, art, philosophy. And then... (re: the stars) ...this will mean something.
      (Wesley considers this, almost embarrassed as he realizes Picard does truly care about him.)
      Then: PICARD (continuing) Just consider James' wisdom: "Philosophy... is not a technical matter... it is our sense of what life honestly means... our individual way of feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos."
      (then) That's what I want for you.

    • @whatareyoulookingat908
      @whatareyoulookingat908 3 роки тому +4

      As the saying goes.. after a lifetime of climbing a mountain of knowledge, the greatest scientists finally reached the peak only to find there were already theologians and philosophers who had been there for centuries.

  • @CitzenVain714
    @CitzenVain714 11 років тому +29

    Ughhhh...Val Kilmer WAS soooo beautiful ....

  • @Watcher3223
    @Watcher3223 6 років тому +69

    "All science, no philosophy." - Chris Knight (Val Kilmer)
    Meanwhile, in another movie, someone says something that goes along precisely with that statement.
    "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum)

    • @Watcher3223
      @Watcher3223 4 роки тому

      @Ramp Shark Thanks.

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому

      Meanwhile, every scientist blows off this line and says: so, just how deep was that dino dung, anyway? That scene was a bunch of crap!

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому

      Meanwhile, Jerry Hathaway intends to weaponize their laser into an assassination tool.

  • @tommyt1971
    @tommyt1971 8 місяців тому +3

    0:57, a great lesson on the importance of education: “all science, no philosophy”. This is why colleges need to have gen ed requirements that include classes like English comp, literature, art, music and philosophy, history where the professor teaches you how to interpret it: you can learn fact-based sciences only but then you become a regurgitating robot with no interpretive skills. It’s a great thing to know how to question what’s been established and challenge authority.

  • @ladysnake8449
    @ladysnake8449 7 років тому +56

    Moral of the story is that balance is the key for everything in your life.😉

    • @briansimpson5664
      @briansimpson5664 5 років тому +5

      Nailed it. One of the best movies of it's time

  • @SonofTiamat
    @SonofTiamat Рік тому +5

    Everything Chris describes is all foreshadowing for what inevitability happens to him. That he's the one describing it is a red herring for the fact that he will be (already is) a victim to Hathaway's machinations. It also implies that Lazlo may have unknowingly built weapons for the government as well. This all culminates in the restaurant scene where they're celebrating, and you can see the dawning horror on Chris's face

  • @Traumtanzer
    @Traumtanzer 10 років тому +70

    You know, I STILL use the term 'Moral Imperative' to this day...

    • @lpsp442
      @lpsp442 6 років тому +2

      Is this really the origin (or source-mass popularisation) of that saying?? I haven't even heard of this movie before today.

    • @deezreviewz1996
      @deezreviewz1996 5 років тому +4

      This is one of our family sayings as well as "I want my two dollars" (from Better Off Dead).

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому +1

      One simply must. It's a moral imperative.

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому +1

      @@deezreviewz1996 Two Dollars!

  • @snoopymochi562
    @snoopymochi562 5 років тому +23

    I really love this movie. I didn’t expect to like it more than I should.

    • @zeusmasterson4117
      @zeusmasterson4117 2 роки тому

      Check out Psych. He based the character on Chris Knight.

  • @Whodey4life1981
    @Whodey4life1981 8 місяців тому +4

    Hands Down a hidden gem of the 1980s I really wish they would come out with the 4K Ultra Blu ray disc of this movie like they eventually did with another classic Fright Night

  • @snoopymochi562
    @snoopymochi562 4 роки тому +21

    This movie is worth a thousand rewatches.

  • @greg3d4u
    @greg3d4u 11 років тому +32

    "when you're smart, people NEED YOU."
    story of my life. =)

  • @OriginalMACMAN
    @OriginalMACMAN 8 років тому +36

    Take a step back,now take a step forward.... Now take a step back, Now take a step forward.... Now take a step back, Now take a step forwarding.... Now Were Cha Chaing...

  • @Jjjs14
    @Jjjs14 9 років тому +53

    Val Kilmer is sooo gorgeous 😻

    • @arielfangirlmendez
      @arielfangirlmendez 7 років тому +5

      Sahova H. Yeah you should see him batman forever.

    • @eny1103
      @eny1103 6 років тому

      yes but he did need purple shampoo.... his hair was really yellow lol

    • @deezreviewz1996
      @deezreviewz1996 5 років тому

      Willow

  • @KrazyKittyTailz
    @KrazyKittyTailz 10 років тому +28

    I really love Thomas Newman's score during this classic "Real Genius" scene with Chris -n- Mitch......sounds strangely ethereal & inspirational.

  • @jasonbishop6047
    @jasonbishop6047 7 років тому +20

    val kilemer...invented drones....

  • @agalah408
    @agalah408 2 роки тому +5

    I tell friends to watch this movie because it is a Moral Imperative that they do so.

  • @goodvibes-87
    @goodvibes-87 Рік тому +2

    Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) later became "the dark knight" aka Batman in the movie Batman Forever 🦇

  • @yoshana87
    @yoshana87 11 років тому +14

    You have to get even, its a moral imperative!

  • @lazarusblackwell6988
    @lazarusblackwell6988 4 роки тому +10

    Real Genius is a classic

  • @lazarusblackwell6988
    @lazarusblackwell6988 4 роки тому +8

    "When you're smart people need you"
    No one has ever admitted to me that they need me for any reason
    People today are so paranoid of being honest or hearing someone being honest
    Its too "uncomfortable" for them

  • @ubiquitousdiabolus
    @ubiquitousdiabolus 2 роки тому +7

    This is one of the best pep talks in movie history

  • @JB-yg7cl
    @JB-yg7cl 4 роки тому +16

    Classic movie never gets old

  • @Trig242
    @Trig242 4 роки тому +6

    Kent, you know you're not supposed to park that on campus.

    • @Euripides_Panz
      @Euripides_Panz 3 роки тому

      You won't get away with this. You'll rue the day.

  • @Lurker1979
    @Lurker1979 4 роки тому +8

    I love the dialogue of this movie.

  • @etapper
    @etapper 9 років тому +6

    Steam tunnels. Uh huh. So that's what the kids are calling it these days.

  • @agalah408
    @agalah408 2 роки тому +4

    It took me a lot of re-watching this movie to realise something. At the end they were going to test the laser on some cars in the desert. If you look closely at those cars you can see that they had carefully replicated all of the cars in the Kennedy assassination motorcade.

  • @tigerlillyandcassiele2700
    @tigerlillyandcassiele2700 7 років тому +6

    I enjoy using my mind creatively.

  • @thirdmail5403
    @thirdmail5403 3 роки тому +2

    I always thought Mitch was Sarah Jessica Parker's brother back in the day.

  • @Itsjustme222
    @Itsjustme222 7 років тому +7

    love this film

  • @lazarusblackwell6988
    @lazarusblackwell6988 4 роки тому +3

    I live in a country that relies on tourism and trade to get by
    Science is faaaar on the bottom of their priorities

  • @melissamcfarlin6840
    @melissamcfarlin6840 Рік тому +2

    Trivia: Val’s T-shirt has Roy Rogers on it. Val lived next door to Roy and when Roy’s house was sold his parents bought it.

  • @RandomAmerican3000
    @RandomAmerican3000 2 роки тому +3

    0:35 I would have killed for that many Capsela pieces back in the day.

    • @RJ_MacReady
      @RJ_MacReady 2 роки тому

      Haha right? We had it when I was a kid unfortunately we didn't really know what to do with it lol.

  • @jr7392
    @jr7392 Рік тому +1

    I have been practicing for years but I've still never managed to get that nail driven through the 2x4.

  • @DeadpoolGames19
    @DeadpoolGames19 2 роки тому +1

    Get yourselves a friend like Chris Knight

  • @jasonbishop1092
    @jasonbishop1092 8 років тому +4

    im homeless....and in a steam tunnel.

    • @ResidentHope
      @ResidentHope 4 роки тому +1

      Jason Bishop hope you aren’t now

  • @IDIGOASIS
    @IDIGOASIS 2 роки тому +9

    When I first watched this movie as a kid, I never understood the line "when you're smart people need you" and I wondered how was this a bad thing? 20 years later I realize the meaning behind it and it makes so much sense now that I am in the corporate world. Companies will eat you up and spit you out because it's all about profit. The smartest people make companies the most money, and that's all they need you for.

    • @planguy9575
      @planguy9575 2 роки тому +1

      I think that's a little cynical for what the actual point of the line was. That because they are smart and people need them they have much more control over their destiny then they might otherwise think. They can decide what to use their intelligence on because people are so in need of what they are capable of producing. They can decide what they want to do with their lives.

    • @IDIGOASIS
      @IDIGOASIS 2 роки тому +1

      @@planguy9575 When we're first introduced to Chris Knight he is on an interview. It is quite clear that the company needs him for his mind and doesn't care if he is wearing a toy on his head or about his work ethic. This is proof companies just need you to make them MORE money. You don't get it.

    • @planguy9575
      @planguy9575 2 роки тому +1

      @@IDIGOASIS Yeah? Chris can act like a fool and still get hired by those people. Normal people can't do that.

    • @nightfurmoonfang3391
      @nightfurmoonfang3391 2 роки тому

      Or the iron-willed with the resolve to get the job done... just as needed and just as used...

  • @peggypenny1
    @peggypenny1 10 років тому +3

    MY STUDENTS HATED ME CAUSE I BLEW THE BELL CURVE

  • @jarviscarr1327
    @jarviscarr1327 2 роки тому +1

    Very good, Batman, very good

  • @tommym321
    @tommym321 5 років тому +3

    What is the name of that plastic electrical engineering toy on the dresser? I had that when I was a kid

  • @gregorycrysler3902
    @gregorycrysler3902 2 роки тому +4

    This clip should be shown to every high school honor student. It's about having original ideas... and maybe being entertaining. 1 or the other.

  • @jasonb2702
    @jasonb2702 5 років тому +1

    What's a matrix, check out times, Sundays, Sunday driver's?%.... breakfast lunch dinner, hygeinge. 8%..

  • @iceonthesun8880
    @iceonthesun8880 Місяць тому

    Everybody always remembers Val from Tombstone; but, for me....this is the first movie that pops into my head when I hear his name.

  • @jonadrian3346
    @jonadrian3346 Рік тому

    Any other MOVIE ❤️ ERS, NOTICE VaL loves ICE AS BEING NICE IN THIS REal, and HE IS MOST famous FAMOUS FOR BEING 🧊 ICE MAN, AND JIM MORRISON IN THE DOORS, AND THE SAINt. Notice a pattern. Iceman died a HERO ATLEAST

  • @LakeMinnetonka1-x9y
    @LakeMinnetonka1-x9y Місяць тому

    The only thing that would have made this movie better was casting Olivia Munn🎁

  • @wade727nelson
    @wade727nelson 4 роки тому +1

    Hey can you make a clip of the tape recorders in classroom scene? Thanks!

  • @GenerallyTyler
    @GenerallyTyler Рік тому

    A shame Gabriel Jarret (Mitch) is looking like he's might be a real creep recently. Kind of ruins this movie for me.

  • @liamhuffman1896
    @liamhuffman1896 Рік тому +1

    This is probably my favorite scene of the whole movie.

  • @Atreus21
    @Atreus21 Рік тому

    Those spherical plastic things behind the guy on camera left at 0:21. What are those?

  • @moniquecovington161
    @moniquecovington161 2 місяці тому

    My machiah was and is everything to me as Mitch. Monique

  • @Topgun1986fan
    @Topgun1986fan 9 місяців тому

    i live by that whole lecture thank you Val

  • @axelwulf6220
    @axelwulf6220 2 роки тому

    This movie was Animal House meets Revenge of the Nerds, but cleaner and less about panties

  • @deloreanized
    @deloreanized 9 років тому +9

    I totally forgot Sarah Jessica Parker was in this one.

    • @crisvanfan
      @crisvanfan 8 років тому +6

      She wasn't.......

    • @deloreanized
      @deloreanized 8 років тому +2

      Oh, that's why I forgot it in the first place: it never happened. right? Mmmh... my brain is smarter than me. LOL.

    • @tonyincs
      @tonyincs 7 років тому +1

      So 2 years now any nobody has commented on this...? I thought it was a Hoot, and wanted to comment on his looks just the same.

    • @strandedinanisland457
      @strandedinanisland457 4 роки тому

      HAHAHAHA

  • @thebosshow
    @thebosshow 11 років тому +1

    that was capselua in the backorund, the science toy

  • @john-paulnagel2732
    @john-paulnagel2732 6 років тому +1

    Great Movie

  • @44godson
    @44godson Рік тому

    What happened to 6/8? This seems to be missing. 🤔

    • @MM-ql9xj
      @MM-ql9xj 6 місяців тому

      @44godson I don’t know. Maybe that’s against you too?

  • @wking8
    @wking8 2 роки тому

    Just bought this on 4k. Love to see these underrated movies getting a good transfer

  • @Daveedgers2017Dave-nq5vc
    @Daveedgers2017Dave-nq5vc Рік тому

    And then ...... hawaii

  • @jasonbishop4543
    @jasonbishop4543 6 років тому +1

    The saint?

  • @ropeadopefortyseven8684
    @ropeadopefortyseven8684 4 роки тому

    6bbq wings for sale: fire SALE

  • @JanetFayard
    @JanetFayard 2 місяці тому

  • @Ryan-pz4dh
    @Ryan-pz4dh 2 роки тому

    What bugs me the most is that these characters with all their brains don’t seem to get the bigger picture. Hollyfeld cracked when he learned that the things he engineered were killing people? Did he ever think that maybe another engineer in another country (USSR perhaps…) was working on the exact same thing?

    • @wesleywallace4426
      @wesleywallace4426 2 роки тому

      He cracked because he lost his innocence. He didn’t recognize his actions had consequences. He didn’t want to “get back at the Russians” he wanted affirmation.

    • @Ryan-pz4dh
      @Ryan-pz4dh 2 роки тому

      @@wesleywallace4426 well we all have to lose our innocence at some point, it’s part of growing up. What better way to seek affirmation when you know that (from an engineer’s perspective) your life’s work is being put to good use?

  • @TheSkyhorse82
    @TheSkyhorse82 5 років тому

    Can anyone tell me what that thing in the background is at 0:22? Clear thing with the yellow things. I swear I saw one of these as a kid at a friend's place back in the 80s and now I need to know what it was...

  • @thewhitekingofn3580
    @thewhitekingofn3580 3 роки тому

    Oi vey

  • @jasonbishop4543
    @jasonbishop4543 6 років тому

    The saint

  • @jasonb2702
    @jasonb2702 5 років тому

    %

  • @jasonbishop197
    @jasonbishop197 8 років тому

    bingo!

  • @jasonb2702
    @jasonb2702 6 років тому

    ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡