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(Right) In Top Gun, Tom Cruise plays a cocky Navy Pilot who doesn't play to play by the rules and so who is good. he might get away with it. (Below) Cruise confronts his rival (Val Kilm, left), a by-book-theatrist.
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Maverick Mitchell, the best young
Navy pilot in the air, the producers of
Top Gun bad only one actor in mind.
That was Tom Cruise. With relatively few roles to his credit, Cruise has become one of the most sought after and popular young performers in mo-
tion pictures.
From his first appearance on screen in *Taps*, Cruise had a certain something that made him stand out from the outcrow of the crowd. By the time he starred in *Risky Business* dancing in his underwear to the music of Bob Seger, the world knew a new star. Certain people just can't be held back from achieving success, and it seemed obvious that Cruise was one of those special people.
Now Cruise is playing a character that might be described in just the same way. Lt Pete "Mavrick" Mitchell is also a golden boy, but he's a golden boy of the sky. He is a F14 fighter pilot who's been selectively chosen to participate in the Navy's prestigious Fighter Weapons School, or as it is known to the pilots, the Top Gun program.
The few who are privileged to be *Top Gun* students are chosen from the Navy's top air crews. Because the Navy's F-14 pilots already represent the best the Navy has to offer, the Top Gunners are the best of the best, the excelling elite. After an
intensive program that includes simulated in air dogights and hours of classroom study, the Top Gun graduates return to their commands and share their new expertise with the other crews in their suitron.
These aerial cowboys are a special
brewed, a description most readily supported by the pilots. During the production of *Top Gun*, Tom Cruise met many a Top Gunner and one of them summed up his slightly modest attitude about his line of work by saying "there are only four occupations worthy of a man actor, rock star, jet fighter pilot or President of the United States." That not the sort of statement you get from a shrinking violet. It's also not an attitude that is overly tolerant with outsiders. But Tom Cruise managed nonetheless to earn the pilots' respect. Said one Top Gun pilot "Tom took his role very seriously. He looked like a pilot, studied like a pilot and sometimes even partied like a girl. Fortunately for him, he still made the salary of a movie star."
The pilot Cruise plays in Top Gun is considered one of the best in the Navy's program. But Maverick Mitchfield is achieving his success without necessarily playing by the rules. He prefers to fly by instinct, a notion that keeps him in hot
water with his superiors. He may win more doghits than any other pilot, but he's only a few steps away from being booted out of the program.
Matters are only worsened when he falls in love with a civilian specialist assigned to the program. Playing Charlotte Blackwood, the forbidden love interest, is Kelly McGillis. You might remember McGillis from an even more complicated romance in *Witness*, when she played the Amish widow in love with Harrison Ford's Philadelphia detective.
Roundting out the cast are more of Hollywood's promising new faces. Playing Mawrick's radar intercept officer—his one partner in the air—is Anthony Edwards of *Revenge of the Neds and Gotcha* playing his chief competition for the distinction of top Top Guner is Val Killmer of *Top Secret* and Real Gentius.
Also in the cast are Tom Skerrit, playing the Top Gun commanding officer and Michael Ironsides, playing the Top Gun instructor.
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