Top Gun - Inspirations. The primary inspiration for the film was discovered by producer Jerry Bruckheimer when he found an article in the May 1983 issue of California magazine which would form the basis of the film. The article, Top Guns, was about fighter pilots at the Miramar Naval Air Station, located near San Diego, nicknamed "Fightertown USA". Bruckheimer's reaction to the article was instantaneous: "This looks like Star Wars on earth." However, producer Don Simpson, who had worked on Flashdance and B ...

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Top Gun - Awards. "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin (which is played during the Maverick and Charlie love scene) received the Best Song Oscar in 1987. Also in 1987, "Top Gun Anthem" by Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The film was also nominated for three Oscars in that year for Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound. Top G ...

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The Mark VIII kept many of the general features of the Mark I-V series: it had their typical high track run and no revolving turret but two sponsons, one on each side of the tank, armed with a 57 mm gun. But it also resembled the Mark VI-project in that it had more rounded and wider tracks and a large superstructure on top directly beneath the front of which the driver was seated. An innovative feature was the departure from the concept of the box tank with its single space into which all accessories were crammed. The Mark VIII was co ...

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From the early stages during the production of the Top Gun script, it was always known that Tom Cruise was the most wanted actor to play Maverick. As Cruise did originally turn down both Bruckheimer and Simpson, yet worked with the pair to develop the material, both producers knew that Tom needed more persuading to sign on to the project. Cruise who was hot property after releasing All the Right Moves was taken for a joy ride with the "Blue Angels", and after that flight Cruise ran to the neares ...

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Top Gun - Film. Throughout the film 'enemy' fighters are identified as 'MiG-28s'. This designation was never used for a Soviet fighter aircraft in real life; the hostile jets were actually repainted Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs for the single-seat jets, and T-38 Talons for the two-seater jets. Training adversary aircraft were Douglas A-4 Skyhawks. Although not identified in the film, according to the 2004 DVD audio commentary, the enemy fighters are North Korean in origin. Goose's full, real na ...

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Tom Cruise plays Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, a cocky young United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot. Maverick is the son of a fighter pilot shot down during the Vietnam War and listed as missing in action, the details of which haunt Maverick to this very day. The film begins with Maverick and his RIO (Radar Intercept Officer, the back seater in the two-man F-14) "Goose" (Anthony Edwards), flying wing man to lead pilot "Cougar" and his RIO, "Merlin" (Robbins), en route to intercept an unknown inbound (a "bogey"). It turns out to be two e ...

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