Top Gun

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One of the first films to be selected for the Cinema 52 project, in which a subject watches a film 5 [...]	D
Tom Cruise, John Stockwell and Rick Rossovich appeared together in the 1983 movie Losin' It .	D
The love scene between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis was included at the behest of the studio who we [...]	D
Various artists auditioned to song writers/producers Tom Whitmore and Georgio Morroder to win the ri [...]	D
All of Maverick's stunt flying in the film was done by Scott D. Altman, who later went on to become [...]	D
Tom Cruise was initially reluctant to take on the film, thinking it would just be Flashdance (1983) [...]	D
At six feet five inches tall Tim Robbins is unlikely to have been able to be a naval aviator as he w [...]	D
Stunt pilot Art Scholl was killed during the production of the movie, aged 54. He died when his Pitt [...]	D
Matthew Modine turned down the role of Maverick because he objected to the film's Cold War politics. [...]	D
Tom Cruise later objected to the film's sanitized portrayal of war. In a 1990 Playboy interview, he [...]	D
Both John Carpenter and David Cronenberg turned down the chance to direct.	D
Art Scholl, the stunt man that was killed while filming Top Gun, was also the pilot in the motorcycl [...]	D
Giorgio Moroder had Danger Zone written mostly but for legal reasons couldn't use his planned band f [...]	D
During the filming of Top Gun, most of the actors playing the F-14 Fighter Pilots including Val Kilm [...]	D
Anthony Edwards, Michael Ironside, and Rick Rossovich all appeared on the TV series "ER"	D
After the "car chase" when Charlie tells Maverick that she didn't want anyone to find out she was fa [...]	D
Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan later appeared in Genio per amore (1994).	D
The U.S.S. Oriskany launched John McCain on his fateful flight to The Hanoi Hilton, during the Vietn [...]	D
Instead of the songs from the film's iconic soundtrack, the first trailer for the movie only feature [...]	D
Throughout the years many films tried to emulate various aspects of the movie in mostly failed attem [...]	D
Tom Cruise's flight suit was later put on display at Planet Hollywood.	D
In 1986, jet fuel was pretty cheap - about 1 dollar per gallon. However, Paramount still paid 10,000 [...]	D
From the very beginning, the filmmakers wanted Tom Cruise for Maverick. He kept turning it down unti [...]	D
Maverick's father is named Duke Mitchell, a military pilot died in November 5, 1965 during Vietnam W [...]	D
"Take My Breath Away" was also offered to The Motels, who subsequently recorded and submitted their [...]	D
During the filming of some sequences from civilian aircraft, longtime Hollywood stunt pilot Art Scho [...]	D
First film role for Adrian Pasdar (who portrays Chipper).	D
Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood's character metamorphosed out of a character called 'Kirsten Lindstrom [...]	D
Michael Ironside stated, in the DVD commentary, that he was so convincing as an officer, that when h [...]	D
Most of the actors who portrayed F-14 crewmembers received backseat rides in the F-14, and several o [...]	D
The naval pilots who performed the onscreen dogfights were only paid an extra $23 on top of their us [...]	D
Rick Rossovich (the actor who played 'Slider') stated in the DVD commentary that he was kicked off t [...]	D
The character of Charlie was originally written as just an accessory to the male lead. Then head of [...]	D
Most of the cockpit sequences were shot on the ground because most of the cast looked like they were [...]	D
Louis Gossett Jr. was considered for the role of Viper. Gossett, however, did play the older, mentor [...]	D
Tom Cruise had to wear lifts in his scenes with Kelly McGillis. Cruise is 5'7" (1.70 m) while McGill [...]	D
This was Tony Scott's first experience with filming in the Super 35 format. This was chosen due to t [...]	D
Numerous critics complained that the movie largely amounted to a Navy recruitment film. The U.S. Nav [...]	D
Charlie's Porsche 356 Speedster is a replica. Instead of a Porsche logo on the front, it appears to [...]	D
In the ending scene on the ship, when Commander Stinger asks Maverick, "Where would you like to go?" [...]	D
Tom Cruise first met Tony Scott while working for his brother, Ridley Scott, on Legend (1985). Cruis [...]	D
When Charlie finds Maverick drinking in the airport bar after Goose's death, she tells the bartender [...]	D
Veteran stunt coordinator and helicopter pilot Monty Jordan was on set frequently during filming, an [...]	D
This film is credited with starting the home video industry. Originally, VHS tapes were priced at $1 [...]	D
Early in the movie, Viper explains that Top Gun was established because the kill ratio went from 12 [...]	D
The character portrayed by Kelly McGillis is based on Christine Fox, a civilian flight instructor th [...]	D
Tatum O'Neal, Jodie Foster, Daryl Hannah, Diane Lane, Sarah Jessica Parker and Linda Hamilton all tu [...]	D
Tim Robbins later became well known for his relationship with Susan Sarandon. Sarandon appeared in T [...]	D
The Japanese release of the film has four different dubs: the 1989 Fuji TV dub, the 2005 NTV dub, th [...]	D
Tom Cruise had never ridden a motorcycle until this film. He went to House of Motorcycles in El Cajo [...]	D
During the final furball, Stinger orders, "Ready Willard and Simkin on cats 3 and 4" - a reference t [...]	D
Berlin's song "Take My Breath Away" was originally considered for the soundtrack of 9 settimane e 1/ [...]	D
Kenny Loggins's upbeat song Danger Zone is played three times in the film, which is more than any ot [...]	D
During a break in the filming of the hangar scene a group of Navy officers being used as extras appr [...]	D
Kelly McGillis fell for Barry Tubb (Wolfman), literally. "She fell down in the middle of the street, [...]	D
In early drafts of the film, the character (Tim Robbins) whose call sign is Merlin actually had the [...]	D
One of the unused call-signs 'Tombstone' can be seen on a black fighter pilot helmet with three red [...]	D
Don Simpson was known for being a very hands-on producer but was noticeably absent during the making [...]	D
The film was originally going to have a scene near the end where Maverick visited Goose's grave. A f [...]	D
When the students are being briefed by Charlie in the hangar, Maverick explains that he gave "the bi [...]	D
Meg Ryan went on to play the love interest of two of her cast mates in subsequent films: Val Kilmer [...]	D
When Tom Cruise went up in a real F-14 for the first time, he was with Lieutenant Commander Lloyd "B [...]	D
The first shot of Charlie entering the hangar is of her legs. The real-life person her character was [...]	D
Second movie released in 1986 where the aircraft carrier USS Ranger substituted for the USS Enterpri [...]	D
During the pilot briefing before the final air battle, Stinger mentions that the MiGs carry the Exoc [...]	D
For the opening of the film, director Tony Scott wanted to shoot aircraft taking off and landing on [...]	D
Contrary to common belief Maverick (Tom Cruise) does not actually qualify as Top Gun from Miramar, i [...]	D
Bryan Adams was asked to allow his song "Only the Strong Survive" on the soundtrack, but he refused [...]	D
The motorcycle ridden by Tom Cruise in the movie is a Kawasaki Ninja 900/GPz900R, then the fastest p [...]	D
Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis didn't get along during or after filming. However, they did briefly re [...]	D
Paramount Pictures commissioned Grumman, the makers of the F-14, to develop and install special came [...]	D
When Maverick and Goose are being chewed out the first time at Miramar the tower chief is covered in [...]	D
On the Missile Control Panel were the following labels: SP/PH- Sparrow (Medium Range Missile) / Phoe [...]	D
Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2015.	D
Warren Skaaren and Chip Proser did uncredited rewrites on the screenplay.	D
A test audience, who saw the movie before it was released, were annoyed that there was no love scene [...]	D
Tom Cruise said that Maverick was the first character he ever played who was "larger than life." It [...]	D
An original draft of the script specified that the final showdown involved North Korean aircraft. Th [...]	D
Anthony Edwards is the only actor who didn't vomit while in the fighter jets.	D
Tom Cruise's payday for the film was $1 million - the first time he had earned that much.	D
Merlin is seen as Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) two times in the movie: at the beginning as Cougar's [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The address that Charlie (Kelly McGillis) gives Maverick (Tom Cruise), when inviting him to dinner, [...]	D
To capitalize on the film's popularity, the Navy set up booths outside theaters in order to recruit [...]	D
The leather jacket Maverick wears has the American flag on the back, over it it says FAR EAST CRUISE [...]	D
Meg Ryan and Anthony Edwards became an item after filming concluded.	D
Although the title is "Top Gun", the preferred usage in the military is "Topgun" as seen on the caps [...]	D
Discussing a possible sequel was one of the last things Tony Scott did with Tom Cruise before he com [...]	D
It is reported that the title of the popular racing video game franchise Need for Speed was inspired [...]	D
Anthony Edwards had no idea he was going to sing and pretend to play piano in one scene. Tony Scott [...]	D
When Maverick receives his orders to the carrier following the graduation ceremony, there is a pilot [...]	D
While Navy squadrons do stencil crew names onto aircraft, the airplanes are not assigned for mission [...]	D
Linda Fiorentino told Charlie Rose that she turned down the role of Charlie Blackwood because it glo [...]	D
Pete "Maverick" Mitchell's first name was Evan in early scripts of the film. It was later changed to [...]	D
Julianne Phillips was in consideration for the part of Charlie.	D
The scene in which Maverick follows Charlie into the bathroom, was filmed at the Headquarters Buildi [...]	D
Barry Tubb ("Wolfman") appears in the hangar briefing wearing a cowboy hat. A native of Snyder, Texa [...]	D
While many terms used in the movie either match or are closely based on real terms used by naval avi [...]	D
Charlie Blackwood is based on a woman named Christine Fox who is tall, blonde, leggy, and has a penc [...]	D
First feature film role for Clarence Gilyard Jr. (who portrays Sundown), all of his previous filmed [...]	D
Judas Priest were asked to contribute the song "Reckless" to the soundtrack, but declined because th [...]	D
The call sign 'Sundown' is a reference to VF-111, a squadron of F-14s called The Sundowners that hav [...]	D
Goose saying "You kill me" when he laughs about Iceman's joke about the plaques for the alternates i [...]	D
The piano scene and the final bar/jukebox scene were shot in a San Diego restaurant called Kansas Ci [...]	D
The squadron patch "Maverick" and "Goose" are seen wearing, which reads "VF-1" is actually that of V [...]	D
The aircraft used for the fictional MiG-28s are Northrop F-5E (single seat) and F (two seat) Tiger I [...]	D
Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins later appeared in La guerra dei mondi (2005)	D
In production at the same time as L'aquila d'acciaio (1986), another air force gung ho movie.	D
The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Tim Robbins and one Oscar nominee: Tom Cruise.	D
Terri Nunn of Berlin states in an interview that she and her band were in Taiwan when they received [...]	D
Just before the film started production, one of the producers announced that they wanted to use the [...]	D
John Travolta was considered for the role of Maverick, but his agent's asking price for him was too [...]	D
In Spain, Ghost Rider call-sign was translated literally as "Jinete Fantasma", instead the real "Mot [...]	D
Giorgio Moroder wrote most of the music for the songs on the soundtrack. Tom Whitlock, who wrote the [...]	D
The signature volleyball scene featuring a glistening Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer has remained a pop c [...]	D
Charlie's house is actually located in Oceanside, California, and still stands today as a tourist at [...]	D
This movie was made with the close cooperation of, and script oversight by, the U.S. Military and th [...]	D
Tony Scott calls the film the "purest form of escapism" and says it "mainlines entertainment."	D
In the UK, in May 2022, when Sky re-showed this to tie in with the release of "Top Gun: Maverick", t [...]	D
The final combat scenes were inspired by 2 real life incidents, the capture of the US Navy spyship U [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
When the film was first released on VHS, it included a fighter pilot-themed Diet Pepsi commercial pr [...]	D
Jon Voight was considered for the role of Viper.	D
The F-14 pilot who "flipped the bird" at the MiG pilot was Scott D. Altman of VF-51, who eventually [...]	D
Rick Rossovich (Slider) co-starred in the 1st season of ER. A show Anthony Edwards (Goose) was well [...]	D
Following the movie, some of the F-5s used as the "MiG-28s" maintained their black paint schemes and [...]	D
Two video games based very loosely on the movie were released on the Nintendo NES. While the first g [...]	D
Top Gun (1986) was the highest grossing film of 1986. It took in 177 million dollars in the U.S. alo [...]	D
In the last fight scene, where Iceman is hit and has to shutdown an engine, the footage of the engin [...]	D
This is the eighth acting credit of both Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan. They were the same age during the [...]	D
In order to stay in character, Tom Cruise would sit far away from the rest of the cast in between ta [...]	D
Counting mentioned and not otherwise mentioned in the movie but only by their callsigns, real names [...]	D
The song Charlie and Maverick discuss at her house is 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay' by Otis Reddi [...]	D
The producers knew the film was big when leather jackets and white t-shirts became "in" again.	D
The ship that Viper served on with Maverick's father, the U.S.S. Oriskany, was the first United Stat [...]	D
Kelly McGillis was cast because the producers loved her in Witness - Il testimone (1985).	D
Kenny Loggins was not the first choice to record the song "Danger Zone" for the film. TOTO and REO S [...]	D
A script for "Top Gun 2" was completed shortly after the release of the film, but it broke down in p [...]	D
When Maverick and Charlie are talking after their dinner at her house, she says Maverick is the only [...]	D
Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan would later co-star in The Doors (1991).	D
An official release of Harold Faltermeyer's score for the film has never been done. Two pieces of sc [...]	D
Goose's real name is Nick Bradshaw, which was never mentioned, but can be seen very briefly when Mav [...]	D
No one had ever "buzzed the tower" at Miramar before. The Navy pilots, who were flying the scenes fo [...]	D
Harold Faltermeyer's music score was the first to be performed and recorded on the polyphonic 16 bit [...]	D
Goose plays Great Balls of Fire, by Jerry Lee Lewis, on the piano. His wife is played by Meg Ryan, w [...]	D
The Pentagon charged Paramount Pictures $1.8 million to use all of their planes and aircraft carrier [...]	D
Tom Whitlock wrote the lyrics for "Take My Breath Away" while driving home from the studio, and then [...]	D
According to Steve Lukather, the producers of Top Gun approached the band TOTO which offered two son [...]	D
Tom Cruise (Maverick) is 16 days older than Anthony Edwards (Goose).	D
James Tolkan's character is referred to as "Stinger" in the credits, but is never addressed as anyth [...]	D
The pilot that gets "flipped off" by Maverick and Goose is Admiral Robert Willard, the lead flight c [...]	D
According to Anthony Edwards, "A lot of the humor was discovered at the moment. The script was skele [...]	D
The original soundtrack release initially only included original songs written expressly for the mov [...]	D
When Maverick tells Charlie his name, she teasingly asks if his parents were being mean to him. Nine [...]	D
Many of the actors of the film's cast appeared on Oliver Stone's films: Tom Cruise starred in Nato i [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
The trick of hitting the air brakes and letting the MiG fly by was used by Robert L. Scott in God is [...]	D
Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So [...]	D
In 1996, the video game Top Gun: Fire at Will was released on PC and Playstation. This would be the [...]	D
Riding on the back of this film's success, the U.S. Navy set up recruiting booths in the major cinem [...]	D
Charlie's "older man" date at the officer's club is the real-life "Viper", Pete Pettigrew. He is a r [...]	D
The exchange "call the ball", "[X] has the ball" is a part of real life carrier landings. The "ball" [...]	D
Goose was originally to have died in a flaming crash aboard an aircraft carrier, but the Navy object [...]	D
Val Kilmer would play the late vocalist Jim Morrison in the 1991 biopic "The Doors." In 2012's music [...]	D
Tom Skerritt was also in Alien (1979), directed by Tony Scott's older brother, Ridley Scott.	D
In the elevator scene as Maverick enters, there is a framed photograph of a ship on the wall behind [...]	D
During a 2014 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), Jimmy asked Tom Cruise about the first time h [...]	D
Tony Scott was hired to direct because he filmed an ad of a car racing a jet, similar to one scene.	D
Brooke Shields and Debra Winger were strongly considered for the role of Charlie Blackwood, but prod [...]	D
Goose plays "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis in the company of his wife, played by Meg Ryan. [...]	D
Due to their roles as movie villains, the "MiG" pilots have no name or identity, never talk, and the [...]	D
In several locker scenes, one of the lockers is labeled as belonging to "TEX". This is the call sign [...]	D
In the last scene, in which Maverick is sitting at the counter, and you see someone go to the jukebo [...]	D
Tony Scott had only a few minutes to film the sex scene.	D
During the opening dogfight, music from Ladro di donne (1984), also composed by Harold Faltermeyer, [...]	D
One of the deck officers on the carrier is named Scott, a reference to director Tony Scott.	D
Over the course of the movie a prior incident that Maverick had with an Admiral's daughter named Pen [...]	D
In 2011 China Central Television News broadcast a training exercise by the People's Liberation Army [...]	D
Mickey Rourke was offered a role, but turned it down.	D
In the beginning it is revealed that Maverick was put "in hack" twice. This is Naval slang for being [...]	D
Voted #3 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.	D
In preparation for his role, Tom Cruise was allowed to take three rides in the F-14 Tomcat. He vomit [...]	D
The line "I feel the need...the need for speed" ranked at number 94 of AFI's list of 100 Years 100 M [...]	D
Aircraft carriers used in the film were USS Ranger (CV-61) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65).	D
The tension between Maverick and Iceman isn't just down to good acting, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer ke [...]	D
The Pentagon demanded script approval to ensure that the Navy was portrayed in a positive light. The [...]	D
The call-sign 'Ghost Rider' that Maverick uses for his plane was the name of a real F-14 squadron (V [...]	D
Considering how the 1980s were somewhat notorious for pushing out sequels to popular movies, "Top Gu [...]	D
The Navy only authorised two actual missile shots to be filmed for the film. You can clearly pick ou [...]	D
Cougar was supposed to have crashed while trying to land back on the carrier, and his death was supp [...]	D
The film was inspired by an article in the May 1983 issue of "California" magazine about the U.S. Na [...]	D
Val Kilmer appeared with Tom Cruise's wife, Nicole Kidman, in Batman Forever. Anthony Edwards appear [...]	D
Ally Sheedy turned down the role of Charlie because she didn't think that anyone would want to see a [...]	D
Val Kilmer did not want to be in this film, but was forced to by contractual obligations. Tony Scott [...]	D
Goose's real name is Nick Bradshaw. His name is briefly seen on a flight patch on top of his dresser [...]	D
Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson had to convince Paramount Pictures chairman Frank Mancuso to green [...]	D
The highest-grossing movie of 1986.	D
There were online debates on various websites and on YouTube on who was responsible for Goose's deat [...]	D
Director Tony Scott and producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson were so impressed with the song [...]	D
The elevator scene (in which Maverick and Charlie meet after his workout) was filmed post-production [...]	D

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