The signature volleyball scene featuring a glistening Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer has remained a pop culture fascination for 36 years. To capture the magic, Scott burned an entire day on filming, something the studio did not expect for the scene, which was only a paragraph long in the script. That scene was scripted as a real game," editor Chris Lebenzon says on this week's episode of THR's Behind the Screen podcast. "They kept score and everything and Tony shot it like a commercial, and they were angry." Added fellow editor Billy Weber: "The studio was so pissed off. The head of production, Charlie McGuire, he said, 'I'm gonna fire him' because he spent a whole day shooting this scene." Reflects Weber on the anger over that volleyball scene: "And then of course it turns out it's one of the most famous scenes in a movie."

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