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"Top Gun 2: Lone Ranger", which was released in North America at the end of May this year, completely exploded at the North American box office!
As of this week, the film has exceeded $400 million at the North American box office, becoming the top North American box office in 2022.
Unexpectedly, 36 years after the release of Tom Cruise's 1986 classic "Top Gun", the sequel is still so good!
The film's foreign media reputation is also quite amazing: Rotten Tomatoes freshness of 97%, CinemaScore ticketing audiences hit the best A+ rating, IMDb more than 150,000 people hit a high score of 8.6/10.
However, whether the film will be released in Chinese mainland is still unknown.
Today, Shi Jun wants to put aside those controversies first, and help you relive the "Top Gun" of that year, as well as the beautiful Atang Brother of that year.
How popular was Top Gun?
First, let's talk about the box office of "Top Gun 2".
The film broke the Atango single-film box office record ($234 million) held by Battle of the Worlds and was the highest-grossing film in North America in his career.
It is also the first film by distributor Paramount to break $400 million at the local box office in the past 13 years.
The hit of the sequel movie has triggered a wave of fans to relive the "Top Gun" 36 years ago.
According to statistics from SambaTV, a well-known data research company, in the week from May 25 to June 1, Top Gun attracted 2 million American home users to watch on various streaming platforms.
This number is comparable to the number of viewers (2.1 million) in HBO Max in the first week of the "Justice League" za-directed edited version, and the actual number of viewers may be higher than this figure due to different statistical calibers.
Released in 1986, Top Gun is one of the most successful air combat films in the history of Hollywood cinema.
It grossed $357 million worldwide at a cost of $15 million, making it the global box office champion of the year.
Tom Cruise, then 24, rose to fame with the film and began more than 30 years of his illustrious history in Hollywood.
"Top Gun" uses thrilling air combat plots and shocking live-action methods to lead this new trend of "American main theme" movies.
In order to create the most realistic air battlefield as possible, the crew received great assistance from the US military.
At that time, 8 active pilots from five Air Force squadrons were used, and five F-14 fighter jets were used to assist in the shooting.
The silver-shining fighter jets chasing each other, or whizzing past the towers, or circling at an altitude of 10,000 meters, are indeed spectacular.
In order to personally perform the flight shots, Brother Tang received various high-intensity training and got a fighter pilot's license by the way.
The film was also hailed as "the most expensive conscription propaganda film ever made by the U.S. Navy."
After the release of the film, it really set off a wave of youth enlistment in the United States, and even created the highest enlistment rate in the history of the United States since World War II.
The young and handsome Brother Atang, by the way, brought fire to the "pilot three-piece suit" - Ray-Ban sunglasses, flying jackets and motorcycles, which was the most fashionable fashion in the hearts of American youth at that time.
The story of "Top Gun" is not complicated, mainly telling the growth story of Pete Mitchell, a naval pilot played by Atango.
Mitchell was sent to the Top Gun training base along with his partner "Stupid Goose" to undergo the most rigorous fighter flight training. He has a talent for flying, but he likes to be strong and unruly, so he does not get into trouble.
During a training accident, the two are forced to abandon the plane and parachute, "Stupid Goose" unfortunately died, Mitchell has been depressed ever since, believing that his fault led to the sacrifice of his friend.
Mitchell meets the beautiful female instructor Charlie (Kelly McGillis), and the two secretly have feelings for each other, which makes him regain his confidence in the original discouragement.
After some efforts to reinvigorate, Mitchell overcame psychological obstacles, was invincible on the battlefield, and embraced the blue sky again.
The story of the hero growing up again after the defeat has been seen by the audience, but the atmosphere created by this film is more moving than the story itself.
Zhang's uninhibited personal heroism, lingering romantic bridge section, coupled with the fledgling Atang Brother's true color, everything is just right.
Brother Tang's handsome appearance in his youth broke people's habitual aesthetics for male stars.
At that time, it was a tough guy like Schwarzenegger on the screen, and this slightly shy "little fresh meat" turned out to be the world, conquering the hearts of a large number of female audiences.
In "Top Gun", Atang Ge contributed a lot of classic shots of male hormone explosion.
For example, riding a motorcycle and racing against an airplane.
For example, playing beach volleyball with teammates, showing a big bodybuilding body.
The film's soundtrack is also shiny.
The familiar melody of Take My Breath Away, sung by the band Berlin, resounded throughout the 1980s and 1990s and won the Academy Award for Best Original Music.
When Brother Atang runs to his beloved heroine and rides a motorcycle in the sunset, the audience's breath is almost taken away.
To add a few behind-the-scenes tidbits about the film.
The English title of "Top Gun" is thought to be the meaning of "top gun", but in fact, this is the abbreviation of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School.
The school is real, and in 1969 the U.S. Navy established a training base in California to train naval pilots in air combat skills.
The film's director, Tony Scott, is the younger brother of the well-known director Ridley Scott.
The two sequels are separated by 36 years, but in fact, they hide a sad past.
Tony Scott
There have always been plans for a sequel, and the director has traveled with Atango to a naval base to select a site. But with the director's suicide death in 2012, the project began to be shelved indefinitely.
Later, because of Brother Tang's insistence, there was a restart of the second part.
By the way, the heroine of the year, Kelly McGillis, she was 7.6 centimeters taller than the 170-centimeter-tall Atango.
When the two play against each other, the director uses the camera to make up for the difference in their height.
Kelly McGillis didn't return in the new film, no way, the years are not spared.
Now she is almost 65 years old, and she is really like the same as when she was then.
"Top Gun 2" of course does not forget to pay tribute to the previous work, and there are many echoing details in the trailer.
For example, the famous scene of Atango riding a motorcycle to blow up the street, and the naked upper body playing on the beach, and the romantic drag racing with the new heroine Jennifer Connery.
The child held by Brother Tang in "Top Gun" is the son of his comrade-in-arms "Stupid Goose".
The character of this child in the new film has a new continuation, and he happens to join Atangge's flying team, code-named "Rooster".
In the face of the children of his deceased teammates, how will the lone ranger played by Brother Atang defeat the demons that have been difficult to let go for many years?
Fang Kimmer, who played the role of "Iceman" in the original version, has rarely acted in recent years because of the influence of throat cancer, and he has also returned to his new work and contributed a wave of emotional killing.
Desperately Sanlang Atang brother
Born on July 3, 1962, Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 this year.
Absolute male protagonist, desperate sanlang, appearance skills, super long standby - these keywords have become his most distinctive personal labels.
Beginning in 1996, Atango made the more famous "Mission Impossible" series of movies, and the "old agent" Ethan Hunter, played by him, has been performing "impossible missions" for more than 20 years.
Relive Atango's classic screen moments.
For example, the classic "sudden stop" scene of "Mission Impossible 1".
Mission Impossible 2 is a adrenaline-pumping freehand rock climber.
Mission Impossible 4 climbs the 828-meter-high Burj Khalifa with bare hands.
"Mission Impossible 5" thrilling "pickpocket plane".
"Mission Impossible 6" He personally crossed a tall building with a broken ankle and challenged the ultra-low-altitude HALO skydive of Air Force level difficulty.
Compared with Brother Atang's level of dedication, his prosperous beauty is simply "negligible".
In fact, before becoming an old agent, Brother Tang originally took the route of the national idol faction.
In 1983, because of the appearance of "Pretty Boy Crazy", he was 21 years old.
In 1986, the star pilot of Top Gun was 24 years old.
In 1988, Charlie, the younger brother who found his affection in "Rain Man", was 26 years old.
In 1994, "Night Interview with vampires" opened up the "ancestor" of male vampires, when he was 32 years old.
In 1996, the sports agent who suffered a blow in "Mr. Sweetheart". He was 34 years old.
In 1999, "Eye-Opening Rings" was "eye-opening". He was 37 years old.
Over the years, Brother Tang has created countless classic roles on the screen with both appearance and acting skills.
Time seemed to be frozen in his body, and there was no trace of the passing.
But the most touching thing is his professionalism.
In "Top Gun 2", in order to achieve realistic effects, almost all the flight shots in the film are real.
The muscle twisting state of Atangge's face is not a special effect, it is all due to the huge impact force that he really bears during the flight.
Nowadays, when filming "Mission Impossible 8", Brother Tang climbed out of the cabin from the plane about 600 meters above the ground and climbed on the wings to perform various high-risk stunts, which made people scared!
What is retirement at age 60? Inexistent.
It seems that the most desperate actor in Hollywood is ready to "fight" all the way to the age of seventy.
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