Tom Cruise is undeniably our biggest movie star. He has appeared on many high-grossing movies that are very widely known throughout the world. In his new hit, “Top Gun: Maverick,” Cruise once again achieves something remarkable. The movie, which has gained instant fame, has hauled in more than 1 billion. While he is extraordinary onscreen, Cruise is secretive about his life offscreen.
One of the defining features of the last decade of Cruise’s career is a level of quality. It’s not that he has never made a bad movie, but that, according to Marsh, “recent Cruise films have in common a degree of ambition and enthusiasm that is rare in today’s blockbuster landscape, and when everything works, that effort pays off enormously. You will not see Cruise phoning in a performance.” In each movie, Cruise wants it such that the film was the most important one he has ever done.
The outcome of this devotion is the movie “Top Gun: Maverick”, a sequel to a 35-year-old action movie. The new film is far superior to the original and one of the finest action films in many years. This is the result of Cruise’ insisting on keeping everything real – not only making himself go arduous flight training, but also stressing few computer-generated effects, … Marsh puts it thus: “Some of Cruise’s co-stars over the years have characterized his obsessiveness as extreme to the point of what sounds like cinematic despotism” Indeed, it would be easier and cheaper to do much of this in front of a green screen. “But that’s not Cruise. When it comes to this stuff, he cares too much.”
One of the defining features of the last decade of Cruise’s career is a level of quality. It’s not that he has never made a bad movie, but that, according to Marsh, “recent Cruise films have in common a degree of ambition and enthusiasm that is rare in today’s blockbuster landscape, and when everything works, that effort pays off enormously. You will not see Cruise phoning in a performance.” In each movie, Cruise wants it such that the film was the most important one he has ever done.
The outcome of this devotion is the movie “Top Gun: Maverick”, a sequel to a 35-year-old action movie. The new film is far superior to the original and one of the finest action films in many years. This is the result of Cruise’ insisting on keeping everything real – not only making himself go arduous flight training, but also stressing few computer-generated effects, … Marsh puts it thus: “Some of Cruise’s co-stars over the years have characterized his obsessiveness as extreme to the point of what sounds like cinematic despotism” Indeed, it would be easier and cheaper to do much of this in front of a green screen. “But that’s not Cruise. When it comes to this stuff, he cares too much.”
