Top Gun (1986)

Regisseur:

Tony Scott

Drehbuchautoren:

Ehud Yonay (article)
Jim Cash (written by) ...

Premierendatum:

16. Mai 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

From the Producers of Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance [UK Theatrical]

Plot:

The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher.

Plot Keywords:

Flirting | High Five | Spit Take | Aerial Combat | Restroom

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

And all the Air Force got was "Iron Eagle" .....

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 26

3:30 PM

MAX

Besetzung

Tom Cruise	...	Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
Kelly McGillis	...	Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood
Val Kilmer	...	Lt. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky
Anthony Edwards	...	Lt. (j.g.) Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw
Tom Skerritt	...	Cmdr. Mike 'Viper' Metcalf
Michael Ironside	...	Lt. Cmdr. Rick 'Jester' Heatherly
John Stockwell	...	Lt. Bill 'Cougar' Cortell
Barry Tubb	...	Lt. (j.g.) Leonard 'Wolfman' Wolfe
Rick Rossovich	...	Lt. (j.g.) Ron 'Slider' Kerner
Tim Robbins	...	Lt. (j.g.) Sam 'Merlin' Wells
Clarence Gilyard Jr.	...	Sundown
Whip Hubley	...	Lt. Rick 'Hollywood' Neven
James Tolkan	...	Cmdr. Tom 'Stinger' Jordan
Meg Ryan	...	Carol Bradshaw
Adrian Pasdar	...	Chipper

Alternativ:

Top Guns (USA) (working title)
Top Gun - Sie fürchten weder Tod noch Teufel (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

110 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Metrocolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.20 : 1

Tonverfahren:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Altersfreigabe:

Netherlands:6 | Iceland:L | Brazil:Livre | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | UK:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-14 | France:U | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1986) | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 (DVD rating) | Sweden:11 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Drehorte:

Naval Training Center, San Diego, California, USA

Firma:

Paramount Pictures

Dies und das:

When the film was first released on VHS, it included a fighter pilot-themed Diet Pepsi commercial prior to the film.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Cougar is freaking out, he looks twice at his family photo. The altimeter reads 31,500 ft the first time, and *9,300 ft (the first number obscured) a second later. But he is flying straight and level.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Strike: Ghost Rider, this is Strike. We have unknown aircraft inbound Mustang. Your vector zero-nine-zero for bogey.

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Soundtrack:

Danger Zone

And all the Air Force got was "Iron Eagle" .....

If there's ever proof of the cachet of Naval Aviation, this is it. Those poor Air Force guys got a trio of "Iron Eagle" flicks that went from bad to horrible, whereas the Navy flyboys got this great 1980's classic. Sure, it's cheesy and corny, but it makes the cheese and corn taste pretty damn good. A cynic might argue that it's just a two hour long Navy recruiting ad (one that worked for me, two years later I found my ass in Pensacola sweating through AOCS, short for Aviation Officer Candidate School, the program immortalized in "An Officer and a Gentleman") but by making a pro-Navy movie, the filmmakers also got invaluable technical assistance from top Navy aviators, and it shows.

For starters, although this movie takes numerous liberties in order to entertain, the basic setup, in which fighter pilots from the fleet get sent to NAS Miramar, aka, "Top Gun" for intensive training, is 100% accurate. The Navy, back during Vietnam, was getting sick of losing too many pilots in air-to-air combat. The problem, they discovered, was their fighter jocks had been trained for purely long-range missile interceptions, meaning they'd lost their dogfighting skills. And, in Vietnam, several American planes were accidentally shot down by their own side by missiles, so, as a safety factor, enemy planes had to be visually identified, meaning American pilots were back to engaging the enemy at short range, hence the need for dogfighting. The "Top Gun" school was started as a result, and the rest is history.

Now, back to the movie. Tom Cruise is Maverick, a hotshot pilot but also somewhat unstable. If "Risky Business" launched his career as a movie star, then "Top Gun" cemented it. Guys wanted to be like him, and women of course lusted after him. The plot is pure formula, but executed with consummate professionalism. The team who put this movie together knew exactly how to push all the right buttons. But the crème de la crème is surely the flying. I don't think that any movie, before or since, has ever rendered air combat in a more convincing and dramatic fashion. For nearly 100 years fighter pilots have been the modern equivalent of olden knights, men who brought a sense of glamour and romance to the deadly art of war, and this movie gives them a fitting tribute.

8/10