80s mainly

I'm your density. I mean, your destiny.

[pure-cinema]

Pretty Woman (1990)

[pure-cinema]

Paris, Texas (1984)

[viperheroinx]

“He’s already being made into a martyr, he’s become a metaphor for a fallen angel, a messiah. He wasn’t. He was just a boy, a very good-hearted boy who was very fucked-up and had no idea how to implement his good intentions. I don’t want to be comforted by his death. I think it’s right that I’m angry about it, angry at the people who helped him stay sick, and angry at River.“

Martha Plimpton on River’s death for “Esquire”, March 1994

[stand-by-phoenix]

River Phoenix as young Indiana Jones in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989)

[re-cluse]

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[classichorrorblog]

Beetlejuice Directed by Tim Burton (1988)

[standbyphoenix]

River in films: Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989) as Young Indy // dir. Steven Spielberg

“River, you know… I love River’s work, especially when he was in Stand By Me. Harrison was actually the one who suggested River. He said to me, ‘’the guy who looks most like me when I was that age is this actor named River Phoenix’’. It was a Harrison Ford’s idea, because he played Harrison’s son in The Mosquito Coast. So I met River and I thought he was great, and I cast him.’’  — Steven Spielberg on River, 1989. 

[rivjudephoenix]

She recalls as a young child when River would perform on the streets and sing songs about love with his guitar. Or when the family traveled in South America and he went into prisons and comforted inmates by telling them “you’re not a bad person, you just did something that wasn’t right.” He was an activist in his own right, who used his celebrity to shine a light on environmental issues and the unethical treatment of animals. River was a vegan before it became fashionable to be a vegan. 

[…] Her words when she speaks of River drip with love. They linger in a place of reverence and sadness, the kind of place that only a mother who’s lost her son could know intimately, and yet, because of the positivity that oozes from Heart’s soul, because of the ways her son is still getting to make an impact on the Earth after he’s departed it, she’s happy.

- The Village Journal, May 2016

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Bonus:

[mabellonghetti]

Jamie Lee Curtis red carpet looks from the 80s

[losthavenmine]

“I told you not to come in here anymore.”

The Lost Boys (1987)

[periodically80s]

[y2klewks]

Heathers (1988)

[rivjudephoenix]

RIVER: I was thinking about fighting fire with fire, that concept. For the longest time I’ve been offered Japanese commercials. I’ve always turned them down because I don’t want a million dollars to advertise Hitachi or Mitsubishi or, god forbid, Mazda. But, in my later thinking, I can find the lesser of those evils, like, lets say, Japanese jeans or whatever. I can take that money and buy rainforests, which is exactly what I’m going to do. I’m trying to get together 500,000 grand so I can buy 40,000 acres. Man, it’s beautiful stuff. Where I want to do it is in South America

INTERVIEWER: Oh, that’s brilliant!

RIVER: Yeah, I’m gonna spend it all on that. I know these great guys who are very wealthy and are doing it now, these corporate heads who are putting it all into the planet. It’s great to see wealthy good

INTERVIEWER: I’ve never equated those two words before

RIVER: Good and wealthy? [laughs] Neither have I! Let’s face it: everyone who has it abuses it, usually. […] So that’s what I want to do now, whenever I can get jobs that pay me ridiculous amounts of money - because I really don’t think it’s fair people get paid that kind of money for what they do - but, if you redistribute it, and stick to your convictions, and use the money to buy freedom, man, you can turn your money into light

- “The ISIS” Oxford University’s Student Magazine, 1991

[filmgifs]

The Breakfast Club (1985) dir. John Hughes

[artsycinema]

GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese

1990