TOP GUN | The Navy's $15,000,000 advert
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2022
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TOP GUN was the most expensive advertisement for the US military ever, and TOP GUN: MAVERICK is trying to do the same thing. The Military-Entertainment Complex is the term for the well-documented relationship between the military and Hollywood. TOP GUN is the most famous example of this, but there are dozens or possibly hundreds more. This TOP GUN video essay explores how that movie became the most famous example of the military and the movies, and looks at how TOP GUN: MAVERICK achieved the same thing.
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Top Gun: Maverick Trailer 1: • Top Gun: Maverick - Of...
Top Gun: Maverick Trailer 2: • Top Gun: Maverick | NE...
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SOURCES
1986 Time magazine article: content.time.com/time/subscrib...
1986 LA Times article:
www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
Behind the Movie - Top Gun: • Going Ballistic - Behi...
Vox: www.vox.com/23141487/top-gun-...
Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/t...
New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/mo...
Den of Geek: www.denofgeek.com/movies/tom-...
Tom Cruise at military base: • Navy banking on 'Top G...
Top Gun: Maverick | Behind the Scenes: • BEHIND THE SCENES on T...
Top Gun: Maverick Trailer 1: • Top Gun: Maverick - Of...
Top Gun: Maverick Trailer 2: • Top Gun: Maverick | NE...
1987 Navy recruitment ad: • TOP GUN US NAVY RECRUI...
Own the Sky Navy recruitment ad: • U.S. Air Force Commerc...
The Patch-Wearers: The REAL Top Gun: • Ep. 19: Patch Wearers:...
Independence Day: www.theguardian.com/world/200...
Pacific Rim: www.latimes.com/entertainment...
$33,000,000 Chanel Advert 'The Film' - • CHANEL N°5, the film w... 
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I hope you had the chance to see Top Gun: Maverick in IMAX. If you liked this video, you might enjoy this one I made about IMAX-formatted movies, and why they beat 3D as a truly immersive cinematic experience: ruclips.net/video/efD8F8kXPN0/видео.html
Its not just the US Navy or US Armed Forces that benefit from Top Gun. Even in France, the Marine National and Armée de l’Air (navy and air force) both set up recruiting booths at cinemas on Top Maverick opening weekend.
The Military takes fraternization very seriously. Had Maverick fraternize with an Enlisted and the Navy found out. The second movie would be about him flying for American Air lines.
Seriously they kick people out for that.
In 1986 it was Top Gun, in 1987 The Lost Boys. So on my USA road trip after Uni in 1991 2 stops on the tour were Miramar and Santa Cruz. Along with Ghostbusters and Back to the Future these films defined my teenage years
I think the audio is bit quieter in this video, but i really enjoyed the content as always 🙂
Thanks for letting me know - frustrating to have that issue again! It may be clearer on another device - sorry about that! Thanks for watching, as always.
the lego movie would be the most expensive ad ever
Touché
Plastic pieces, vs real jets? Real ships?
Damn I wasn't planning on it but now I just have to go see this in theathers for that IMAX experience.
Thankfully I'm not American (and have already completed my service) so no naval officers can pick me up afterwards.
It's great in IMAX, definitely one to see in the cinema.
Loved this movie experience in IMAX with Laser!
👍🏻👍🏻
I was already an aircraft nerd without watching the original. This one might be too much to handle.
It's so good! Especially for an aircraft nerd!
@@PentexProductions I was already considering trying to join the RAAF but I'm scared watching this may put me over the edge lol
I agree Top Gun had little choice but to roll with the Navy. Crimson Tide had leeway with the technical production as it may taken cues from Red October. Submarine drama can be done within a studio and retired submariners are available for advisors. The question is how accurate and technical you want a submarine movie to be. Fighter jets are different ball game.
It's such a great movie, and yep definitely an easier one to make on a budget than Top Gun
¡EXCELENTE Pelicula! Muchas gracias, es la segunda Mirabellee.Uno vez que veo este gran obra del cine Western Clásico y me encanta muy buena película. Saludos desde Arenillas, República del Ecuador, Sudamérica. Graciasz y bendiciones *soludos.
worth every penny
I'm not a huge fan of the military, but I have no problem with partnerships like this because it makes for a spectacular film.
Many sailors today are retiring due to top gun, many more of them are enlisting because of the sequel.
Great video as always
Thanks for watching!
I'm surprised no mention of Jimmy Stewart and strategic Air command!
Another good movie clearly made with the help of the Navy: "The Final Countdown (1980)" with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen.
Not only for Navy, but also the other 4 services!!!!!
Although it didn't start my interest in military aviation (Grandad HMS Ark Royal WW2, Uncle HMAS Sydney) it certainly cemented my chosen career choice! Thus leaving good old NZ for the UK where I could fly supersonic fighters :) But, what a great film, and an even better sequel.
No, the "War Department" is today known as "The Department of Defense".
The Pentagon is ONE of their office buildings, but not an organization or hierarchical layer of its own.
For the record, Top Gun: Maverick has a TON of CGI aircraft in it. Most obvious is the climactic dogfight, as the U.S. military had no ability to provide a flyable F-14 or any SU-57s. But even for the F/A-18s, visual effects were relied on very heavily to pull off the flying scenes. Pretty much anytime you see multiple F/A-18s in close formation, there's one real aircraft and the rest are CGI. The CGI planes look very good because the real aircraft in the original shot provides excellent reference, but the way they move isn't always 100% accurate (the weird blind roll-in at 13:48 is an example of this). And while the Navy was happy to throw Gs at actors riding backseat, there was obviously no dogfighting, dodging missiles, threading the needle through bridges, or other high-risk maneuvers happening during those ride-alongs. And no, NONE of the actors were EVER controlling the fighters. When you see them supposedly working controls, that's either happening in a cockpit mockup or a parked aircraft (the latter working very well for low angles where all you would see outside the canopy was sky anyway), or they're faking it during a ride-along in a two-seater Super Hornet.
To be clear, none of this is meant to put down the film. I caught it in theaters and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite much of it being fairly unrealistic. For me at least, I think it even tops the original - especially during the air combat scenes. Like any filmmaking tool, CGI has its positives and negatives and can contribute to incredible films when used well and properly, but does not make a film good or bad all by itself.
Topgun Maverick was originally gonna be backed by investors from China. But later the pulled out as the Government consider it to patriotic and now is banned in 🇨🇳
Also the 🇹🇼 flag is back after being altered in the trailer!
Maverick also worked before the military started screwing that up after the film came out.
I am 4F (a classification of being unfit for service). So the advertisement need not apply to me.
I mean... when you are going to make a movie soley about Mynamar you need the Navy. But if you are making a movie about aliens then well, it doesn't really matter.
🤷♂️ I mean if it worked it was money well spent and yeah . . . It definitely worked.
fwiw air force guys are called airmen, navy are sailors (navy pilots are specifically called aviators), and marines are.... well marines lol, not soldiers. thats the army. no idea what the space force uses edit: apparently it's "guardians".
Man, it's really disgusting how they stand outside of theaters recruiting people. Imagine a young impressionable dude getting excited about the movie, and these pricks manipulating that excitement to get him into Navy. Fun movies, but its really sad that they have to turn them into propaganda to have them made.
Totally. I agree that military can really help people to grow as a person, but it is really shady the way that they advertised the military for this movie.
Ever hear of "America's Army?" That game was built from the ground up as a recruiting tool as well.
This is well interesting. idk if my opinion matters to you, i think you'd benefit from trying to cut down your word count bro, really good points however
My wife of all people talked in to watch "Top Gun: Maverick". I didn't watch the original because of it's relation to the military. But what should I say: I very much enjoyed this movie!
No, that's what not how advertising works. The military didn't pay to have this film made and all the rewards goes to Hollywood.
Let’s rephrase that again. The military sponsors Hollywood movies secretly using tax payers money and they have been doing it for decades.
Anything that is pro-war, make the military looks good, portraying Americans as the good guys, the military will support it. Plus, they give producers access to tanks, jet fighters, helicopters, weapons and even hire real life soldiers to act in their movies.
We found the fed
"all the rewards goes to Hollywood"
I didn't realize all those excited kids signing their lives away outside the theater were heading for showbiz...