The cinema has aroused vocations among our readers

• The Cannes Film Festival puts cinema in the spotlight for about ten days, but all year round, films are released in theaters and we see actors in various roles.

  Each one involves a character with his story, his personality and sometimes, his job.

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  asked its readers if films seen in their youth had influenced their career choice.

  Some of them have managed to realize their dream born by watching

  Top Gun

  or

  The Lion King

  .

Cinema is a dream.

And, sometimes, with a little luck and a lot of tenacity, dreams come true.

That of Philippe begins in 1987. This year, for him, it is that of the baccalaureate.

The end-of-year tests are approaching, and Tom Cruise bursts the screen in

which has just been released.

Philippe applies to join the Air Force after seeing the actor at the controls of a fighter plane.

"I started the selection to be a pilot in February 1988", he recalls.

After “eighteen years of service and 2,000 flying hours”, Philippe does not hide his joy or his gratitude: “I had a wonderful and exciting job.

Thank you Tom Cruise!

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“Live from your passion”

In another register, Tom Cruise, again him, inspired Pascal, today "

in a London bar after having seen

" released in 1988. In this film, the American star juggles with bottles behind a counter to pay his studies.

Aerial stunts of a different kind.

Charles, he probably saw himself becoming an astronaut, like Tom Hanks in "Apollo 13", a landmark space adventure film released in 1995, by director Ron Howard.

“

, I often watched it when I was little.

This pushed me to study aerospace engineering,” he tells us.

Her vocation, Mary found her in 1994. She was 8 years old and her parents took her to see

at the cinema.

“Damn, there are people behind these drawings, I want to do that!

she then said to herself.

After a science baccalaureate, Mary enters an art school under the worried gaze of her parents who fear that their daughter will embark on a risky career.

But today, our reader's parents are relaxed: Mary works for Disney, on a permanent contract, and from her dream job, she “wishes everyone to live from her passion.

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