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After Top Gun, the military went Hollywood for good and vice versa

Maverick watches plane take off

The impact of "Top Gun" can't be measured only in terms of its box office success. The release of "Top Gun" alsocorrelated to a sizable boost in Navy recruitment, and these two factors combined led to a massive increase in the number of films being considered and approved to receive military assets in exchange for script approval. This trend has only increased.Hundreds films and television shows have been produced under this arrangement since "Top Gun," and as Hollywood studios have become more dependent on military support, the military has gained more leverage over studios to cave to their conditions. According to Mace Neufeld, producer of 1990's "The Hunt for Red October," the unwritten rule for Hollywood movies depicting the military is either get military cooperation"or forget about making the picture."

For Hollywood, cooperation with the Pentagon is an opportunity to show off stunning visuals of expensive military assets in their films and trailers without having to break the bank on props, sets, and CGI. For the Pentagon, cooperation with Hollywood is cheap advertising, the chance to curate a favorable impression of military service for generations of viewers. It's mutually profitable for the two entities — whether or not it's any good for the state of art or the viewing public is a matter for further debate.



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Maverick and Charlie's biggest scenes were added later

Charlie and Maverick in elevator

"Top Gun" certainly is an action-drama before it's a romance, with Charlie and Maverick's love story riding shotgun. However, two of the duo's most memorable moments — the love scene and elevator scene — were added after filming wrapped. Kelly McGillis confirmed to Yahoo! Entertainment that something felt off during screenings of the movie, so she and Tom Cruise were called back to add the two scenes. WBUR reported that those in attendance at one of the screenings felt the couple's romance needed to play out more on screen.

McGillis also noted that she was well into production on another film — "Made in Heaven" — when these reshoots came around, and she was sporting an entirely different hairstyle and color. If you're wondering why that rather awkward love scene looks the way it does, it's because of the whole hair situation. The actor's silhouettes were used to hide McGillis's dark hair, and it's also why she's wearing a black baseball cap in the elevator scene.



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Why Kelly McGillis and Meg Ryan weren't invited to the Top Gun: Maverick party

Kelly McGillis (L) and Meg Ryan (R)

Kelly McGillis played a much more significant role in "Top Gun" than Meg Ryan, but both played important parts in the Navy flick. As such, it was somewhat shocking to hear neither woman was asked back to star in "Top Gun: Maverick." It's not just that they weren't asked back — they weren't even considered. Director Joseph Kosinski spoke with Insider about why McGillis and Ryan were never on his radar.

"Those weren't stories that we were throwing around," Kosinski told the outlet. The director seemed more focused on moving forward and not reflecting on the past. "I didn't want every storyline to always be looking backward," Kosinski said. "It was important to introduce some new characters." McGillis didn't seem too surprised about not being asked to participate and gave a straightforward response to Entertainment Tonight when the topic arose back in 2019. "I'm old, and I'm fat, and I look age-appropriate for what my age is. And that is not what that whole scene is about. To me, I'd much rather feel absolutely in my skin and who I am at my age as opposed to placing a value on all that other stuff," McGillis proclaimed.



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Traning for Top Gun and Top: Gun Maverick was no joke

Maverick in plane

The original "Top Gun" training wasn't as intense as its sequel, but Tom Cruise noted on "The Graham Norton Show" that it wasn't easy. The actor was able to fly with the Blue Angels, and he had to experience hitting heavy Gs. He recalled at one point hitting 9.5 Gs, meaning you're being hit with nine and a half times your body weight while flying.

For the sequel, the training was put into the hands of Cruise himself — as if that would surprise anyone these days. The stunt master extraordinaire designed the entire program the actors would go through, according to Military.com. The training took about three months and included drills underwater, as aviators needed to be well-prepared in case they had to eject over an ocean. This was also crucial for the cast to learn, which Cruise confirmed to ET Canada, noting he and his co-stars went through ejector seat training, which he also confirmed he did for the original. The actors also had to feel the pressure of 7 Gs, which can be seen all over their faces in an incredible behind-the-scenes training video shared by Paramount Pictures.



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Tom Cruise knew exactly what he wanted regarding effects in Top Gun and its sequel

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In another interview on "The Graham Norton Show" before "Top Gun: Maverick" was confirmed, Tom Cruise revealed that one of his stipulations for the original was that he be filmed in the F-14 Tomcat. He said he made a deal with Paramount Pictures for this to happen, as that was the only footage he wanted to be used in the movie. If it weren't real, he simply wasn't interested.

For "Top Gun: Maverick," Cruise was adamant about there being no CGI in the film, relying solely on practical effects. When he and producer Jerry Bruckheimer caught up with Empire in 2020, Cruise hinted that he didn't want to do the film if they couldn't achieve everything they wanted without the help of CGI. "We just started talking," Cruise said of he and Bruckheimer's early discussions. "And I realized that there were things that we could accomplish cinematically. And I started getting excited about this big challenge of, 'How do we do it?' So I said to Jerry, 'I'll do it if...' meaning, I'm not going to do the CGI stuff."

Cruise and Bruckheimer were more than successful in their venture, with the former saying no movie has even been made like this before and probably never will be again.



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