It sold the idea that war is clean, war can be won … nobody in the movie ever mentions that he just started World War Three!” military.”Ĭruise himself acknowledged 30 years ago in an interview with Playboy that many criticized Top Gun as an “irresponsible … right-wing film to promote the Navy.” Director Oliver Stone, in even harsher comments to the publication in 1988, said Top Gun “was essentially a fascist movie.
“From 1989 to 2018,” the publication continues, “the Pentagon’s Office on Entertainment … worked closely with favored directors such as Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, producer of Transformers (2007), and helped promote sci-fi films where superheroes saved civilization with military weapons in alliance with the U.S. According to the professor, “hey, decide what films get made and what films get shelved, and buy off film-makers by promising them access to the Pentagon’s toys. “The Pentagon and CIA are equivalent to The Godfather,” states Roger Stahl, a professor of communications studies at the University of Georgia and director of documentaries on the subject, in comments cited by Covert Action magazine. “Similar to the original film,” the entertainment website Indiewire says, “‘Top Gun’ producers met with Pentagon military leaders … the Pentagon had total veto power over the script in return for the production receiving access to advanced warfare weapons.”Īccording to Fortune, Paramount Pictures “paid as much as $11,374 an hour to use the advanced fighter planes” while “Cruise ended up flying more than a dozen sorties for the new movie.” Glen Roberts, head of the Pentagon’s Entertainment Media Office, outlined the terms for Pentagon cooperation, telling the publication that a movie must “uphold the integrity of the military.” According to the New Statesman, Cruise was “initially reluctant” to participate in the picture until he was assured that the movie’s central theme was “about excellence” rather than a specific conflict. However, all of Top Gun: Maverick’s imagery is tailored to present sanitized and mythological images of war and combat. The largely “apolitical” character of the movie’s conflict allows many to simply enjoy the high-G stunts of the pilots.
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Millions have turned out to see this film, perhaps drawn by the big name cast, the desire to be free of the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic in the first weeks of summer and increasingly unaffordable gas and food costs. “For the first time in his four-decade career, Tom Cruise, 59, has a movie that has a real shot at joining the billion-dollar club at the global box office,” crows Yahoo! Finance. Since its release on May 27 in the United States, Top Gun: Maverick has grossed more than $292 million domestically and over $557 million internationally as of this writing. The new sequel has grossed hundreds of millions of dollars in ticket sales. Though not stated, it is hinted that the opponent is either Iran or Russia. There, he must assemble a strike team of new recruits in order to carry out a dangerous mission against an enemy force secretly enriching uranium. In the sequel, directed by Joseph Kosinski and co-produced by Bruckheimer and Cruise, Mitchell has been demoted from a test flight program (in which the lead character pilots a hypersonic aircraft, donated for the scene courtesy of military contractor Lockheed Martin) to the role of instructor at the same Top Gun flight school from the first movie.
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