What is “Top Gun”?
A: Top Gun is a 1986 American action-drama film.
Who was the director?
A: It was directed by Tony Scott.
Who were the producers?
A: It was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with
Paramount Pictures.
Who wrote the screenplay?
A: The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. and was inspired
by an article titled "Top Guns", published in
California magazine three
years earlier.
Who were the film’s stars?
A: Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis.
What character does Cruise play?
A: Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
He and his Radar Intercept Officer, LTJG Nick "Goose"
Bradshaw (Edwards) are given the chance to do what?
A: Train at the US Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station
Miramar in San Diego, California.
When was Top Gun was released?
A: On May 16, 1986.
Upon its release, the film received what kind of
reviews from film critics?
A: It received generally mixed reviews from film critics.
Four weeks after release, the number of theaters
showing it increased by what percentage?
A: 45%.
Despite its initial mixed critical reaction, the film
was a huge commercial hit, grossing how much against a production budget of
$15 million?
A: $356 million.
The film maintained its popularity over the years and
earned what in 2013?
A: An IMAX 3D re-release.
Additionally, the soundtrack to the film has since
become one of the most popular movie soundtracks to date, reaching what?
A: 9× Platinum certification.
What did the film win both an Academy Award and a
Golden Globe for?
A: "Take My Breath Away" performed by Berlin.
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected
the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it what?
A: "Culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
US Naval Aviator LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and his
Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, stationed in the
Indian Ocean aboard the USS Enterprise, fly what planes?
A: The F-14A Tomcat.
During an interception with two hostile MiG-28s
(portrayed by USN F-5s), Maverick missile-locks on one, while the other
hostile locks onto who?
A: Maverick's wingman, Cougar.
Maverick drives it off, but Cougar is so shaken,
Maverick defies orders and does what?
A: Maverick shepherds him back to the carrier.
Cougar gives up his wings, citing what?
A: His newborn child that he has never seen.
Maverick and Goose are sent in Cougar's place by CAG
"Stinger" to attend what?
A: TOPGUN, the Naval Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar.
The day before TOPGUN starts, Maverick, assisted by
Goose, unsuccessfully does what?
A: approaches a woman at a bar.
What does he learn the next day?
A: That she is astrophysicist and civilian TOPGUN instructor Charlotte
"Charlie" Blackwood.
She later becomes interested in Maverick upon learning
of what?
A: His inverted maneuver with the MiG-28, which disproves US intelligence on
its performance.
On Maverick's first training hop who does he defeat?
A: Instructor LCDR Rick "Jester" Heatherly.
Maverick breaks a major rule of engagement by reckless
flying, immediately followed by what?
A: A second by "buzzing" the control tower at top speed.