{"id":15322,"date":"2016-05-17T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:13:26","slug":"today-in-history-top-gun-the-movie-turns-30-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/17\/today-in-history-top-gun-the-movie-turns-30-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: “Top Gun” The Movie Turns 30 Years Old Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMG, I am feeling old…I remember going to see this like 3 times at the theaters when it first came out (you know you are getting old when you preface a lot of your sentences with “I Remember!”) I have to admit, now when I watch this movie, I find it all a bit corny and cliche’, but in 1986, this movie was all the rage. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cGreat balls of fire!\u201d Aviation classic \u201cTop Gun\u201d turns 30 today.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jerry Bruckheimer\u2019s \u201cTop Gun\u201d is a staple movie among service members and veterans. Released 30 years ago on May 16, 1986, it was the highest grossing film of the year. And you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a naval aviator who hasn\u2019t seen the cult classic. The movie has a little bit of everything, from its killer soundtrack, to light romance, to epic F-14 dogfights.<\/p>\n

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the movie\u2019s release, here are eight little-known facts about \u201cTop Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

1. The film is dedicated to a stunt pilot who died during filming.<\/b><\/p>\n

Art Scholl \u2014 an aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, and flight instructor \u2014 died during the filming of \u201cTop Gun.\u201d His Pitts S-2 camera plane went into a tailspin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Scholl\u2019s chilling last words, \u201cI have a problem \u2014 I have a real problem,\u201d were heard over the radio by the crew.<\/p>\n

2. It cost $10,000 an hour to use F-14s.<\/b><\/p>\n

Shots of the aircraft carrier sequences were filmed aboard the USS Enterprise, showing aircraft from F-14 squadrons VF-114 Aardvarks and VF-213 Black Lions. For every hour of flight time with an F-14, Paramount paid $10,000. Overall, the movie cost about $15 million to produce, which is equal to $32 million today.<\/p>\n

3. Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer didn\u2019t get along during filming.<\/b><\/p>\n

The tension between Maverick and Iceman seems like really good acting, but it isn\u2019t. It turns out that Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer didn\u2019t get along, and as a result, the aggression seen in the movie was organic.<\/p>\n

4. Goose never actually gets a full name in the movie.<\/b><\/p>\n

Goose, portrayed by Anthony Edwards, is never actually named within the movie. He only ever goes by \u201cGoose.\u201d However, his full name is meant to be Nick Bradshaw.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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OMG, I am feeling old…I remember going to see this like 3 times at the theaters when it first came out (you know you are getting old when you preface a lot of your sentences with “I Remember!”) I have to admit, now when I watch this movie, I find it all a bit corny…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,1286,2039,4029,5423],"tags":[4667,1582,11682,11683],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}