Top gun 2 continues to dominate the North American box office this week. It is expected to win us $84.5 million in the second week of release, only 33% lower than the first week's box office, making it the biggest drop in the first week's billion plus films in film history (the father on the right took his son to see the original 36 years ago, and now the son has paid back to his father):
"Batman" and "Dr. strange 2" had the same strong box office in the first week, but fell by 50% and 67% respectively in the second week. Even Liang Tang's own mission impossible 6: total collapse failed to exceed 100 million (US $61.2 million) in the first week, but fell 42.5% in the second week.
Chris lebenzon and Billy Weber, who once acted as film editors for the 86 version of top gun, recalled the secret behind the scenes when they were interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter and revealed that tonyscott, the film director, nearly lost his job because of the beach volleyball game.
Under the blue sea, blue sky and scorching sun, the glittering sweat swam around the male body. Tony Scott, who was born in advertising, was very fascinated by this scene. He even recorded the scores of both sides for a whole day, making it like a real game. Charlie McGuire, the production manager of the studio, was furious: "I'm going to let him go... I've been shooting this all day."
This scene appeared in the film for less than two minutes, but it became a classic scene of the film. Later, the studio was angry again. The pilots in the film wore breathing masks. The beauty of the soup was wasted. It was simply a natural thing. The studio called and scolded everyone.
But the breathing mask saved the film, because the dialogue between the pilots was a post match - thanks to the breathing mask, the post dubbing didn't have to worry about the mouth shape, so the actors could say anything.
Weber recalled that Tony took the script to the naval flight school in Nevada to find students to shoot flight scenes. Nearly 90% of the air scenes were shot there. When the pilot saw the script, he told Tony:
"It's really cool, but there's nothing we can do."
"What do you mean?"
"Planes can't do this."
Restricted by the rules, the aircraft cannot be too close to the camera on the ground, and the helicopter will be overturned by the airflow. Tony later found a mountain and transported all the people and equipment to the top of the mountain. Then he pointed to the shooting point and asked the pilot, "can you fly around us?" So Tony took a lot of flying shots there with people, and accumulated about 100000 feet of film.
Weber and lebenzon recalled that Tony took them back to the editing room to study every foot of film: This was the first time the lone ranger went to flight school, and that was before he crashed the plane, and so on. Coherent but meaningless flight scenes are split into various air combat scenes.
Then they asked the actors to take close-up pictures with helmets on, without dialogue or lines. Then insert a close-up of the helmet into the flight lens to form a montage with actors on stage but still meaningless.
After spending a few months in the editing room, they asked the pilot to appreciate the results, and then asked the pilot for advice: "what would the people in the cockpit say in this case? They should not appear to be laymen, but also let the audience know what happened."
Weber said that the pilots helped a lot. For example, the concise expression "there is a MIG at six o'clock" was contributed by the pilots. Fortunately, the actors all have masks, so they don't need to talk about their mouth shapes.
The whole film used 200000 feet of film, which was not too much. The scene of Liang Tang pushing Kelly down was shot later, and there was no such paragraph in the original version.
Lebenzon explained that the exhibitors in New York and the west coast were satisfied with the sample film, but the exhibitors in Chicago asked for more scenes of men and women, so they dragged them back to make up the scenes of "elevator awkward encounter" and "take my breath away".
The scene where Kelly walks into the bar and drops money into the jukebox is not at the end of the film. This scene originally took place on an aircraft carrier and was shot unsuccessfully three times. Scott took it away. Since the protagonists and actresses have already rolled the sheets, Scott used this one and placed it at the end of the film to form "hearing songs and knowing women" in order not to disappoint the audience.
At that time, liangtang had gone to the set of money itself, and Kelly's hair turned dark, so she appeared in the elevator wearing a hat. This is the only scene in the whole film where she wore a hat. "Take my breath away" takes a silhouette in dark light.
"Take my breath away" later won the Oscar for best original song, which is the only Oscar for the film. But lebenzon recalled that Scott opposed using the song at that time.
Despite the great success of the film, the film company has no intention of making a sequel, because air war movies are too difficult to make, and people will die if they are not careful. The creative team racked their brains to shoot all the films for the flight, so they came up with top gun. Weber revealed that some of the films may have been reused several times.