![]() (The rankings were a fiction invented for the film, though the school is real.) In a sort of coda to the story, the pilots do engage in real combat - but we never know who the enemy is, barely get an explanation as to the mission, and mostly see them pulling off daring maneuvers to great acclaim. Top Gun paints the life of an elite pilot as mostly a real-life video game, with young men competing to top the charts at the academy. Hollywood knows how to sell the life of a soldier. Naval aviator applications were claimed to have increased by a staggering 500 percent. ![]() Interest in the armed forces, primarily the Navy and the Air Force, rose that year, though it’s unclear just how much. Military recruiting stations were set up outside movie theaters, catching wannabe flyboys hopped up on adrenaline and vibes. Unlike its protagonist, who came in second at the eponymous elite flight academy, the film ended 1986 the top earner of the year.īut for the Navy, Top Gun was more than just a movie. When the dust settled, the film had brought in over $176 million. In 1986, audiences flocked to theaters to see Tony Scott’s Top Gun, starring a fresh-faced Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a hotshot Navy aviator bent on stardom. It came like a bolt from the blue, a gift from the heavens.
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