Top Gun

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

We're feeling the need for speed on this week's episode. Three decades later, Maverick remains one of the roles that Tom Cruise is most recognized for and the style of filmmaking that movies like this helped usher in is still being imitated in modern blockbusters. It's a great big serving of 80s cheese, so let's see if Top Gun is still the best of the best or if we've lost that loving feeling.

Topics include: the influx of commercial directors from the UK to Hollywood and how their sensibilities helped shape modern filmmaking, the Pentagon's final approval over the script and what elements they wanted changed, the insurmountable problem the love story subplot faces, whether or not Iceman might actually be the only one making sense here, why we're intrigued by the upcoming sequel, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Top Gun?
0:06.6	Hello and welcome Top Gun? Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.3	I'm Chris.
0:32.9	I'm Donna.
0:33.6	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.2	And today we're revisiting Top Gun.
0:53.3	Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Top Gun. To call Top Gunn a pop-gun might be a bit of an understatement.
0:58.4	It wasn't just the highest grossing film of 1986.
1:01.3	This was a movie that had a dramatic and observable impact on the real world.
1:06.2	Sales of aviator sunglasses spiked.
1:08.7	White t-shirts and leather jackets were suddenly cool again. And the U.S.
1:12.4	Navy saw a 500% increase in the number of recruits interested in entering their aviation program.
1:20.4	That was also one of the main criticisms leveled at the film, that it amounted to little more than the
1:25.1	most expensive recruitment video ever made,
1:28.0	which is not entirely inaccurate. The Pentagon had final say on the way the Navy was depicted in the film,
1:33.9	which led to some pretty significant script changes that were designed to downplay the less savory aspects
1:38.6	and make all of this look more enticing. And if you saw this the summer it was released
1:43.0	and walked out of the theater all amped up,
1:45.5	odds are there was a Navy recruitment booth waiting for you in the lobby. In fact, when Paramount
1:50.2	wanted to put a recruitment ad on the home video release, it was the ad agency for the U.S.
1:54.9	military that told the Pentagon that there would be no point. They said the movie itself was
1:59.6	already the most effective propaganda tool.
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