Great cinema film – Thirty-six years later, the myth of “Top Gun” still resonates

– Thirty-six years later, the myth of “Top Gun” still resonates

Cleaner, darker, prisoner of his clichés, the rewriting of 1986’s “Top Gun” shows how much he founded a genre in itself, revealing of his times.

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Hollywood producers bring back one of the children of 80s cinema, Tom Cruise, now a veteran, an instructor but still stunning. Going back to a cult film like “Top Gun”, borrowed from his time, is not trivial, however.

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This damn bunch of cheeky youngsters, in jackets and Ray-Bans, the smiles of those who own the world, are back on the tarmac in Miramar, California. Thirty-six years after the release on the screens of Tony Scott’s “Top Gun”, which has become a cult film, a reference – adored, ironic or hated – for several generations, “Maverick” returns to service in an expected – or feared – sequel – for almost ten years.

An operation that simply could not present itself as one of those simple Hollywood sequels capable of ruining the legacy of a successful film, as the 1986 release marked the spirits on several levels. The very promotion of the opus version 2022 (shot in 2018) hesitates in its relationship to the initial monument. Both “recreation”, “sequel”, “nostalgia and reflection on the past”, “a Maverick brought back to our time”, we read in the mouth of Tom Cruise who owes a lot to the first blockbuster. And justly. Because the “Top Gun” of 86 betrays a lot of its time, what it has become says a lot about ours as well.