[The Specialist] Flying through the times 'Top Gun: Maverick'

Do you remember this music playing right now?

Is there a generation that reflexively comes up with a certain movie and a generation that doesn't?

After 36 years, the sequel to the movie 'Top Gun' has been released and is attracting movie fans from all over the world to the theaters.

Last month at the Cannes Film Festival, eight French fighter jets flew over the venue.

It was a courtesy to Tom Cruise, who visited Cannes for the screening of 'Top Gun: Maverick'.

Known for his sassy nose, Khan even awarded Hollywood blockbuster actor Tom Cruise with an honorary Palme d'Or.

Tom Cruise is called 'The Last Movie Star'.

He rose to stardom as a top gun in 1986, and since then, has risen to fame as a world-class star actor by making great films and box office hits such as 'Rain Man', 'Born on the 4th of July', 'Minority Report', and 'Mission Impossible' series.

Tom Cruise appeared in a helicopter in the United States to promote the movie, held a premiere in England attended by Prince William and his wife, and last weekend, he visited Korea and held a red carpet event.

In an era when digital marketing has become the main means of promoting movies, there are only a few movie stars left, such as Tom Cruise, who can hold such a large-scale event and mobilize audiences from all over the world and all generations.

Tom Cruise and the actors trained for four months to adapt to the gravitational acceleration of the F/A-18 fighter.

Six cameras were installed in the cockpit.

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[Miles Teller/Rooster's role: Tom Cruise didn't want CG.

He wanted to fly a real fighter jet.

We agreed.]

Tom Cruise may be the last analog style to resist the digital age.

[It's time to end it, Colonel Maverick.

The colonel should be gone soon.]

[Maybe.

General.

But not today.]

This is 'Chilsu and Mansu', directed by Park Kwang-soo, released in 1988.

The old-fashioned theater sign behind the main characters, Ahn Sung-ki and Park Jung-hoon, is the first Top Gun.

The days of movie advertisements in newspapers were the Cold War era before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

As Russia and China began reform and opening up, the international situation, which was expected to thaw, now faces a new cold war, and Top Gun has a sequel.

Top Gun is not just an entertainment movie, it also has a propaganda character that shows off American hard and soft power.

[Jerry Bruckheimer/Top Gun Producer: Real Top Gun pilots with combat experience helped.

They were fantastic pilots.]

The producers receive tremendous equipment and manpower support, such as US Navy fighter-bombers and warship carriers, to reduce production costs, and the US Department of Defense promotes the reason for the existence of the US military internally and externally.

[Glenn Roberts/Director of the Hollywood Bureau of the Pentagon (Reserve Lieutenant Colonel *during Military.com Podcast): Our mission is to show and protect the credibility and image of the Department of Defense in the entertainment space.]

Top Gun 36 Years of International Situation Unrest Again It was done, and analog was converted to digital.

The classic movie star is almost gone, and a new way of watching movies has emerged: streaming.

Nevertheless, the film is still a window into the world, and life flows with the film.

As the MZ generation sheds tears when they see Marvel's past Spider-Man come together in one movie, watching the active Tom Cruise, who will turn 60 next month, middle-aged movie fans feel the passing of time and gain courage at the same time.

(Planning: Ho-Gun Lee, Composition: Hee-Sook Shin, Video coverage: Jeong Seong-Hwa·Chang-Hyeon Jo, Video editing: Ki-Duk Park, CG: Soo-In Jo, So-Min Um)