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@flybyphoenix
Just booked my 5th ticket to Top Gun Maverick ayyyyy
Convinced Mum to go again
Feeling so uncreative last few days…
Maverick realising Hangman actually really looks up to him in a weird, "pull pigtails" sort of way and wants to fly forever just like Mav so he starts trolling the shit out of him.
"Ah, Hangman, I remember when I was your age... I used to be taller than you are now but man, those G forces... they'll get you over the years..."
"Gosh, it's a hard life... you wouldn't believe how badly my face was sagging, but that fourth facelift really did wonders, you know. Ah, but when you're my age my surgeon probably won't be practising anymore... oh dear..."
"You know the G suit is good for compressing your blood vessels and keeping you conscious and everything, but I'm telling you Hangman, wear it too much and sooner or later you'll need a little blue pill to help the blood, uh, get away from your head, if you catch my drift... I said this to your girlfriend already but if you need any, uh, help... just let me know and I can recommend some good doctors..."
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
The portrayal of Phoenix in Top Gun Maverick is by far my favorite part of the movie, and I’m so glad that Monica Barbaro got to meet some of the real female naval aviators (like my sister!) and really do justice to the character.
For those who don’t know much about the world of naval aviation, one of the biggest scandals in Navy history was Tailhook, back in 1991. Tailhook was an egregious event in which Navy and Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted 80+ women, many of them fellow Navy officers, at a conference for naval aviation (the Tailhook Association). It was an embarrassment and showed just how toxic the culture was in naval aviation - especially surrounding women in (what still is) a very male-dominated community. And remember, the original Top Gun came out in the 80s - before Tailhook.
Fast forward a few decades and you’ve got LT Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, a badass, a TOP GUN graduate, and a character who simply is not treated just as the token woman but is shown to be just as good, if not better, than her peers. She’s shown to be quick on her feet and sharp as a whip. But the movie also shows the realism of her position - women are still underrepresented in jet aviation - and she still sometimes has to deal with the bravado and toxic masculinity of her peers.
My sister is a pilot for the Navy and I’ve spent the last few years in awe of what she and her friends do. But I’ve had the luxury of knowing someone in that position. I hope Phoenix’s character continues to inspire little girls around the country and show them they, too, can fly.
Fly Navy.
Ice: So I hear you taught your new recruits to be a team by having them play football.
Mav: Yeah, that’s right.
Ice: Why not volleyball? The way we always did it in Top Gun?
Mav: Oh, you know, team synergy, plus the lighting that time of day really wasn’t conducive to volleyball…
Ice: You didn’t want to do volleyball because you’re too short for it, aren’t you.
Mav: It’s not my fault Bradley inherited his dad’s giraffe bones!
I’ve literally seen Top Gun Maverick with everybody I know who will agree to see it but I gotta get my ace certification and go that 5th time. Wonder if my mum will agree to go again.
I could go alone but it’s not the same.
I made such a good fire tonight, so cozy and toasty. So warm I can barely get close enough to add another log
Only just occurred to me that when Hangman is introduced, he's introduced as the only serving fighter pilot with a confirmed kill, but everyone rolls their eyes because the guy Hangman took out was "in a museum piece from the Cold War." It's implied that Hangman was flying the most modern plane, perhaps the F-35.
Then at the end of the movie Mav takes out TWO fifth gen planes in "a museum piece from the Cold War."
And Hangman finally gets his own kill of a kind his comrades will respect 🙏
Rooster: So we've made it undetected into enemy territory. You're the genius; what's the plan?
Mav: Uh ...
Mav: ...
Mav: ...
Mav: ...
Mav: wave and smile?
Remember when people used to say “thot”.
Fashionable language dies quickly…
You see Ghost Protocol and you wonder how the fuck Tom Cruise can top it.
Then you see Rogue Nation and you wonder how the fuck he’ll top *that*.
Then you see Fallout, and what the fuck, it’s gotten even better, and that should not be possible.
Then you see Top Gun Maverick which makes Fallout look like fucking amateur hour for how incredible it is.
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning is going to cure cancer at this rate.
you either die thinking rooster was right about the argument, or live long enough to know for certain that mav was.
Nothing more peaceful than gentle rain on a corrugated iron roof…
Top Gun writers’ room, 1985:
Writer 1: Goddamnit, I have to come up with a first name for Goose’s son.
Writer 2: Really? I had to come up with Goose’s surname yesterday.
Writer 1: Can I copy your work?
Writer 2: Sure, just change it up a little so no one notices.
The Next Day:
Director: You named Goose’s son *Bradley Bradshaw*?!
Writer 1: Oh come on boss, he’s in like two scenes and has no lines, it’s not like anyone’s going to care about him anyway.
Director: … Yeah, that checks out.
Top Gun: Maverick writers’ room, 2018:
Director: Why the fuck is my deuteragonist named *Bradley Bradshaw*?!
Bradley still has his parents' old house where he grew up nearby Top Gun, and during training he invites the others over, and for reasons they end up going through his things and they find an old photo album with little Bradley riding his first bike with Mav holding onto the handlebars to keep it steady, little Bradley with ice cream all over his face and Mav beaming next to him, little Bradley blowing out birthday candles with Mav looking on proudly...
Sometimes I like to think about the conversations that would have happened in the Top Gun Maverick writers room.
"Okay so we've got to ask Miles Teller for some pictures of him as a kid, because we've got to show that Mav has been looking out for Bradley his whole life and still loves him even though they haven't spoken in years, so let's put the pictures up around Mav's home."
"So we've got to convey that Iceman and Maverick have continued to have an important relationship in all the intervening decades - how do we do that?" "I know! Make all the naval officers call Ice Mav's guardian angel! Then when Mav misbehaves again after Ice dies, reiterate that he's only still in the navy because Ice protected him!"
"How do we start to convey that things are thawing between Rooster and Mav?" "Let's have Rooster help Mav up when he gets knocked down playing football and just let the camera linger on it!"
"Mav cares for Rooster like a father, how do we show that?" "I've got a line that might work - when Mav gets angry at Rooster coming to save him, he should say something like 'I save YOU - that's the deal!' That's what fathers do for their sons!"
the pilots turning "dogfight football" into a real sport and renaming it "Mav Ball" 👀