25 years later..how “Top Gun” made America love war
Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist for help in such painful circumstances?
Hollywood.
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good article..this movie was a recruitment drive..
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Brand placement in the movies (re holding a coke or smoking a joint) has always been around in the movie biz. I loved Top Gun, but I am always up for a dog fight and for the hero and heroine. Just a good shootem up love story. I want to be in a movie where I get to lauanch a multi-nulclear war head on the bad guys…with a long fuse that is. I think it was called, Dr. Strangelove,
who are the bad guys?
The bad guys…anybody, but me. Remember “King Cockroach”
king cockroach was cool
maybe we are the bad guys?
That’s bad…real bad.