Beach Volleyball Crisis “Top Gun” Behind the Scenes

“Top Gun 2” continued to dominate the North American box office this week. It is expected to win $84.5 million at the box office in its second week of release, a drop of only 33% from its first week’s box office performance, making it the blockbuster with the smallest drop among the first-week over 100 million films in film history (pictured right). My father took his son to read the original work 36 years ago, and now it is time for the son to repay his father):

“Batman” and “Doctor Strange 2” had similarly strong opening weeks, but fell 50 percent and 67 percent, respectively, in their second weeks. Even Liangtang’s own “Mission: Impossible 6: Total Disintegration” failed to exceed 100 million ($61.2 million) in the first week and fell 42.5% in the second week.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Lebenzon and Billy Weber, who were film editors for the 86 edition of “Top Gun,” recalled the behind-the-scenes secrets and revealed that the film’s director, Tony Scott, nearly lost his job because of that beach volleyball.

Under the blue sea, blue sky and scorching sun, glittering sweat swims on the body of the male bodybuilder. Tony Scott, who was a commercial shooter, was very fascinated by this scene. He filmed it for a whole day, and even recorded the scores of both sides, making it like a real game. . Studio production manager Charlie McGuire was furious: “I’m going to get him out of the way… I’ve been filming this all day.”

This scene only appeared in the film for less than two minutes, but it became a classic scene of the film. The studio got angry again later. The pilots in the movie were wearing breathing masks, and the studio boss couldn’t see the handsome face of Tang Tang. Worried that the selling point was not enough, he called and scolded the editor.

But the respirators saved the movie, because the dialogue between the pilots was post-dubbed—thanks to the respirators, the post-dubbing didn’t have to worry about the actor’s mouth shape, and he could say whatever he wanted.

Weber recalled that Tony took the script to the Naval Flying School in Nevada to find cadets to shoot flight sequences, where nearly 90 percent of the aerial scenes were filmed. The pilot told Tony after seeing the script:

“It’s really cool to write, but unfortunately we can’t do anything about it.”

“What do you mean?”

“Airplanes can’t do that.”

Due to the rules, it is impossible for the plane to get too close to the camera on the ground, and the helicopter will be overturned by the wind when it is close to it. Tony later found a mountain, transported all the equipment to the top of the mountain, and then pointed to the shooting point on the mountain and asked the pilot, “Can you fly above us?” About 100,000 feet of film.

Weber and Lebenzon recall Tony taking them back to the editing room to study every foot of film: this one was when the Mavericks first went to flight school, that one was used before he crashed the plane, and so on. Coherent but pointless flying shots are split up for different story scenes, thus forming the backbone of the film.

Then they brought in the actor for a close-up with the helmet on, no dialogue or lines. Insert a close-up of the helmet into the flight shot for a still meaningless montage.

After a few months in the editing room, they brought in the pilots to appreciate the results, and then asked the pilots: “What would the people in the cockpit say in this situation? Not to appear unprofessional, but also to let the audience know what happened. what.”

Weber said that the pilots helped a lot. For example, “there is a MiG at six o’clock” is a concise expression that the pilots contributed. Fortunately, the actors have masks, no need to speak, and they can say anything.

The entire film used 200,000 feet of film, which is not a lot. The scene where Liang Tang pushed down Kelly was made up later, and this scene was not included in the original version.

Lebenzon explained that exhibitors in New York and the West Coast were satisfied with the dailies, but the exhibitors in Chicago asked for more scenes of love and love, so they dragged the two back to make up for “Elevator Embarrassment” and “Elevator”. Take My Breath Away” two scenes.

The scene where Kelly walks into the bar and puts a coin into the jukebox isn’t actually at the end of the film, it was originally shot on the aircraft carrier, and after three unsuccessful shots, Scott removed it. Now that the hero and heroine have already rolled the sheets, in order not to disappoint the audience, Scott retrieved this section and placed it at the end of the film.

At that time, Liang Tang had gone to the set of “The Color of Money”, and Kelly’s hair had turned dark, so she appeared in the elevator wearing a hat, the only scene in the whole film where she wore a hat. “Take My Breath Away” chose to shoot silhouettes in low light conditions.

“Take My Breath Away” later won the Oscar for Best Original Song, the only Oscar for the film. But Lebenzon recalls that at the time Scott objected to using the song.

Despite the film’s great success, the studio has no plans to make a sequel, because air combat movies are too difficult to make. The creative team racked their brains and made use of all the film for the flight to come up with a “Top Gun”. Weber revealed that some of the films may have been reused several times.

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