Tom Cruise is an unmistakeably famous movie star. His latest movie, “Top Gun: Maverick” earned more than one billion dollars, thanks to his powerful charisma and daredevil stunts.
“Top Gun: Maverick” is a movie about a heist mission that is completed while flying at 450 miles per hour. The mission leaders come up with an extreme set of challenges for the pilots: zoom low and quick, vault a steep mountain, turn upside-down, drop into a basin, aim and blow up the target, and survive a near-vertical climb at 9 G’s while simultaneously dodging missiles.
“Top Gun,” the prequel to “Top Gun: Maverick,” made Cruise a movie star and the experience of being a member of the cast stuck with him so much that he was convinced he needed to lead a three-month flight course for the cast of “Top Gun: Maverick,” as he wanted their acting to be as real as possible.
In the new movie, Cruise’s character, Captain Pete Mitchell (who also goes by the callsign ‘Maverick’) prepares a dozen young pilots for a dangerous mission to destroy an underground uranium plant in enemy territory. Behind the scenes, Cruise mimicked his character’s propensity for leadership, coaching his fellow actors’ aerial tolerance from small prop planes to F-18 fighter jets.
“He’s got every kind of pilot’s license that you could possibly imagine — helicopters, jets, whatever,” said Jerry Bruckheimer, one of the film’s producers said.
Cruise, a contender for the most daring actor since Buster Keaton, was persistent in the idea that every stunt be accomplished with practical effects. Each jet had a U.S. Navy pilot at the controls, while its actor spun like a leaf in a tornado. The deserts and snow-peaked mountains in the background are real, and so are many of the performers’ grimaces, squints, and gasps.
“You can’t fake the forces that are put on your body during combat,” said director Joseph Kosinski. “You can’t do it on a sound stage, you can’t do it on a blue screen. You can’t do it with visual effects.”
Cruise has all of the qualities someone could want in a movie superstar and none of the qualities one might expect in a human being. He is a daredevil, movie star, millionaire. But who is he really and how does he manage to play all those roles? Take a watch of his movies to find out.
Source articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/movies/top-gun-maverick-flying-scenes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745960/
“Top Gun: Maverick” is a movie about a heist mission that is completed while flying at 450 miles per hour. The mission leaders come up with an extreme set of challenges for the pilots: zoom low and quick, vault a steep mountain, turn upside-down, drop into a basin, aim and blow up the target, and survive a near-vertical climb at 9 G’s while simultaneously dodging missiles.
“Top Gun,” the prequel to “Top Gun: Maverick,” made Cruise a movie star and the experience of being a member of the cast stuck with him so much that he was convinced he needed to lead a three-month flight course for the cast of “Top Gun: Maverick,” as he wanted their acting to be as real as possible.
In the new movie, Cruise’s character, Captain Pete Mitchell (who also goes by the callsign ‘Maverick’) prepares a dozen young pilots for a dangerous mission to destroy an underground uranium plant in enemy territory. Behind the scenes, Cruise mimicked his character’s propensity for leadership, coaching his fellow actors’ aerial tolerance from small prop planes to F-18 fighter jets.
“He’s got every kind of pilot’s license that you could possibly imagine — helicopters, jets, whatever,” said Jerry Bruckheimer, one of the film’s producers said.
Cruise, a contender for the most daring actor since Buster Keaton, was persistent in the idea that every stunt be accomplished with practical effects. Each jet had a U.S. Navy pilot at the controls, while its actor spun like a leaf in a tornado. The deserts and snow-peaked mountains in the background are real, and so are many of the performers’ grimaces, squints, and gasps.
“You can’t fake the forces that are put on your body during combat,” said director Joseph Kosinski. “You can’t do it on a sound stage, you can’t do it on a blue screen. You can’t do it with visual effects.”
Cruise has all of the qualities someone could want in a movie superstar and none of the qualities one might expect in a human being. He is a daredevil, movie star, millionaire. But who is he really and how does he manage to play all those roles? Take a watch of his movies to find out.
Source articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/movies/top-gun-maverick-flying-scenes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745960/
