Top Gun
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Top Gun
Directed by: Tony Scott (Brother of Ridley Scott)
Starring:
Tom Cruise
Kelly McGillis
Val Kilmer
Anthony Edwards
Tom Skerritt
Release date: May 16, 1986
Budget: $15M ($40M in 2022)
Box Office: $357.3M ($952.9M in 2022)
Ratings: IMDb 6.9/10 Rotten Tomatoes 57%
Metacritic 50% Google Users 87%
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Won an academy award and golden globe for best original song, Take My Breath Away. It won a grammy for best Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the Top Gun anthem. Won a people choice award for favorite motion picture. It was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2015.
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Plot:
The film opens with a screen saying: On March 3, 1969 the united states navy established an elite school for the top one percent of it's pilots. It's purpose was to teach the lost oart of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They Succeeded. Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it: Top Gun. It cuts to scenes of planes taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier. Indian ocean, present day. On the bridge, the pilots are made aware of unidentified contacts, and the captain is distressed to learn Maverick and Goose are out for contact. The find two Mig 28s. After acquiring missile lock, the first mig bugs out. The second Mig gets missile lock on Cougar and Merlin, as Maverick moves in to position to engage, he can't shoot and decides to have some fun, goes inverted and flips the mig pilot the bird, while Goose takes a picture. Cougar is freaked out and freezes up. Maverick aborts his landing like Trey after a one night stand, and helps him land. Cougar turns in his wings, as the commander tears into Maverick and Goose, he tells them they are going to Top Gun flight academy. Cut to highway to the danger zone montage. In the training room, they get a briefing from Viper. At the bar they have a contentious meeting with Iceman. Afterwards, Goose bets Maverick $20 to have carnal knowledge of someone at the bar when Maverick sees Charlie across the bar and decides shes lost that lovin' feeling, leading to all the pilots to join in with him and they have a very playful conversation, then she eventually ditches him. The next day back at Top Gun, Maverick recognizes Charlie as a civilian contractor and highly educated. He retells the story of the Mig, which no one believes.
-Fuck, i love Highway to the danger zone. Epic theme.
-Migs engaging I doubt would happen like that
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Maverick and Goose fly their first practice mission and end up out maneuvering Jester and getting target lock, afterwards they buzz the tower. In the locker room, Iceman confronts Maverick, but they are called to Vipers office to get chewed out about the buzz and going below the hard deck. Goose has a heart to heart with Maverick, and He promises not to let Goose down. In class he continues to hit on Charlie, and she gives him her address. Maverick and Goose are playing volley ball against Iceman. He leaves to go to see Charlie, they eat and she asks about the Mig again. He then tells her about his father going missing; he then leaves to take a shower. Gooses wife and kid arrive and cut back to the classroom and they use Mavericks moves as an example of what not to do. Pissed off, he takes off on his bike, and Charlie follows telling him she's fallen for him. They kiss. Cut to the blue sex scene. Going into another exercise, we're informed they're half way through training, and that Iceman is in first place by 3 points. They're up with Viper and Jester, Viper peels off and Maverick leaves Hollywood to get Viper. As he closes in, Jester ends up behind him and he loses. In the locker room, Jester tells him that's the best flying he's seen yet. At the diner with Goose, his wife and Charlie the girls chat. Back to training missions, two weeks until graduation. They're up with Iceman and they engage 3 bogies. As Iceman engages one, Maverick pulls up behind and Iceman disengages, when he does, they're caught in the jet wash and end up in a flat spin. They eject and Goose hits the canopy, killing him.
-Wonder how Jester got his name?
-Why is Maverick playing in jeans?
-The elevator scene was a re-shoot, she wears the hat because she changed her hair for another movie. Same for the sex scene.
-I wonder if the canopy ejecting death is a thing that can happen?
In the hospital, Viper visits telling Maverick he has to let Goose go, that there will be more people that die. He arrives back at base and is packing up Gooses stuff, while his wife and son wait. She tells him he would've kept flying without Maverick. The flight board finds that he was not at fault in the accident and he's returned to active flight duty. In his first mission, he doesn't engage the fight, Viper and Jester discuss if he's lost his edge, but he'll continue. Iceman expresses his condolences, as Maverick quits. Charlie finds him at the diner, Maverick congratulates her on her new job in DC; while she affirms him, and tries to move him forward. He goes to talk to Viper, and realizes he knew his father, and confirmed that his dad "did it right." He then tells Maverick what happened to his father. They discuss his options and he leaves, going by Charlies house, but not stopping. At graduation from Top Gun, he arrives late. Seeing Iceman got the top spot, he congratulates him. They are handed orders about a high tension situation and they are relocated back to the indian ocean. They're briefed about a disabled ship and they're supposed to support the rescue and engage any migs that are in the area. Iceman is up and we see there are 4 migs. Hollywood is shot with a missle, and goes down. They launch Maverick and he moves in, they cannot launch anymore planes because the catapult is broken. Missile is launched at Iceman, but it misses. Maverick flys through the jet wash and almost loses control; he starts freaking out and Iceman is pissed. He asks Goose for help, and he reengages. He shoots down one mig. Another missile fired and missed. As one mig moves around behind Maverick, Iceman gets a shot at another mig, but is then shot by a different mig. Maverick fires a missile and misses, but gets him on the second shot. Maverick pulls the same move he did on Jester, and gets behind the mig, and destroys it. The rest of the migs bug out and they return to the carrier, performing another flyby and buzz the tower. They land to jubilation and celebration, Iceman tells him he's still dangerous, but that they can be wingmen anytime. Somewhere below deck, he throws Gooses dog tags into the ocean, letting him go. He is told he can go anywhere he wants and decides he wants to be an instructor at Top Gun. As he sits at the diner, That Lovin' Feeling starts playing and Charlie appears behind him. They have a very similar conversation to their first one, they embrace and cut to end credits.
-Why is everyone always so sweaty?
-Is dogfighting even a thing anymore?
-If that had happened, it probably would've led to nuclear war in 86.
Top Five Trivia of the movie:
Top 5 Trivia
-The F-14 pilot who "flipped the bird" at the MiG pilot was Scott Altman of VF-51, who eventually became a NASA astronaut flying as pilot on two missions and as commander on two more missions.
-Tom Cruise had to wear lifts in his scenes with Kelly McGillis. Cruise is 5'7" (1.70 m) while McGillis is 5'10" (1.78 m).
-After the "car chase" when Charlie tells Maverick that she didn't want anyone to find out she was falling for him, Maverick originally had a line to say. Tom Cruise forgot the line and "ad libbed" by kissing Kelly McGillis instead. Tony Scott liked it so much, he left the scene like that.
-This film is credited with starting the home video industry. Originally, VHS tapes were priced at $100 upon their first release, and were sold mainly to video stores. This film was priced to own immediately upon release, made possible by Pepsi Cola buying ad space at the beginning of the tape. Since then, pricing VHS tapes to own right away became a common practice.
-Kenny Loggins was not the first choice to record the song "Danger Zone" for the film. TOTO and REO Speedwagon were two of the groups considered prior to Loggins.
Bonus: The real Top Gun School imposes a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the film.
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