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visit NU.edu-forthslash-v-e-t. If you listen to this podcast, odds are you've seen the 1986

blockbuster Top Gun dozens of times. You know the storyline, and you love the exciting flying

cinematography, but what do you know about how the film was actually made? Now, I'm not just

talking about what we learned from Pete Pettigrew way back on episode 21. You remember him,

he was the Navy's advisor to Paramount. I'm talking about the boots on the ground,

lieutenants who arranged the actual flying sequences, improvised the in-flight dialogue after filming,

and for that matter helped the movie makers come up with a storyline that we all know and love,

but did not necessarily start out that way. So anyway, we get in there and here's these

civilians, I don't know who they are, and they have these little eight and a half by 11 things

they call treatments. They give us a little brief like, hey, we're going to make this movie about

this and such and such. So they give us this thing to read, and it's 30 seconds you can hear people

laughing out loud, they're snickering, it's like, that's the kind of stuff that's coming out,

and these people are shocked, I mean, they're used to people kissing the ring,

right? We're like, no, no, no, no, this is ridiculous. Well, to give you an idea,

and the original script, Kelly McGillis, was a waitress that had been ands a steakhouse in an aerobics

instructor. Right.

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