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I bumped into this video about the making of 'Top Gun' the other day. Interesting in many ways. It shows the photographical choices and approaches that they us
by ArnoVW 5y ago
I bumped into this video about the making of 'Top Gun' the other day.
Interesting in many ways. It shows the photographical choices and approaches that they used. The creative process and choices (and the vision and influence of Bruckenheimer).. and the way that the Navy had an influence.
Example: the CO of the Miramar base (where it was shot) had a veto right on the script. He rejected because there was a romance between enlisted, and because there was an in-flight collision. Which resulted in Bruckenheimer finding 'work-arounds' : Charlie becomes an external consultant, the collision becomes a flat spin following a jet wash incident (the CO looked over old accidents to find something suitable)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Knz5LM_FzEE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Knz5LM_FzEE
- rambambram 5y agoAlso saw this recently. I always wondered how movies got access to military bases, jet fighters, and everything.
- scotty79 5y agoRecently I read about Chinese reusing frames from Top Gun as theur military propaganda. It's even funnier that it turns out they just reused US propaganda as theirs.
- ArnoVW 5y agoThat. And since China constitutes a juicy market, the Taiwanese and Japanese flags were removed from Maverick's jacket in the sequel https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/top-gun-sequel-japan-and-taiwan-flags-replaced-on-famous-tom-cruise-jacket-for-new-film-11768384 https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/top-gun-...