Another element Claudio Miranda played with in his own test flights was how speeding vistas visible in the background during low-altitude runs (like the dangerous route Maverick trains his hotshot class of aces on, below the safety standard "hard deck") enhanced a sense of cinematic excitement. "It was great to have foreground mountains and canyons, whatever made it feel exciting," said Miranda. A wide-angle lens mounted on an inward-facing camera was perfect for showing the ground on both sides of the jet, with Tom Cruise centered. "Normally it's not a flattering lens because if people get off to the side, they get stretched in a funny way. But since Cruise stays mainly in the middle of it, it doesn't hurt and looks kind of bad ass to see all this ground around him," he said. "The great thing that you see on the F/A-18, the wings actually bend," said Miranda. "They flap back and forth. You see those wings when they're pulling the G's and you see his face, and you see the wings bending in the other direction." One "epic" sequence achieved practically was Maverick's "illegal" practice run, in which he steals a jet to prove to his trainees and to the Navy brass that the mission is, indeed, possible. "I even think that it kind of looks like CG, but it's not," said Miranda. "It's totally real. They had a Blue Angel who can go below spec level and even, I think, push to 50 feet. And that's what you see when it goes over the desert floor."
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