{"id":104787,"date":"2022-06-08T00:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/theres-one-thing-i-absolutely-loved-about-top-gun-maverick-that-no-one-is-really-talking-about\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:52:03","slug":"theres-one-thing-i-absolutely-loved-about-top-gun-maverick-that-no-one-is-really-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/theres-one-thing-i-absolutely-loved-about-top-gun-maverick-that-no-one-is-really-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s One Thing I Absolutely Loved About Top Gun: Maverick That No One Is Really Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Theres-One-Thing-I-Absolutely-Loved-About-Top-Gun-Maverick.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><u><em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em><\/u><u> is an even bigger movie<\/u> than most people thought it would be. The film is an absolute smash due to its <u>incredible practical action sequences with fighter jets<\/u>, and also due to its surprisingly emotional story, but I feel like there\u2019s one thing about <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> that not enough people are talking about, the fact that Tom Cruise looks short in the film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordartsreview.com\/2022\/06\/06\/tom-cruise-height\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stanfordartsreview.com\/2022\/06\/06\/tom-cruise-height\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Tom Cruise is 5\u2019 7\u201d<\/u><\/a> and while I wouldn\u2019t consider that to be short myself, he\u2019s taller than me, because <em>I<\/em> am short, he\u2019s certainly shorter than many of the people he has starred alongside over the years. We all know this. The thing is that generally, in his movies, Tom Cruise doesn\u2019t <em>look<\/em> short, but he does in <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"><\/aside>\n<p>Cruise has multiple scenes where he gets in conversations\/arguments with co-star Miles Teller. <u>Teller plays Rooster, the son of Goose<\/u>, Maverick\u2019s friend from the original <em>Top Gun<\/em> who died in an accident. Miles Teller is 6\u2019 1\u201d, a good half foot taller than Cruise, and the movie actually shows their height discrepancy in these scenes. Cruise is always looking up at Teller.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as Hollywood has been making movies it has tried to make it\u2019s heroes look big and strong, and frequently, when the actual actor wasn\u2019t that big, it meant shooting from specific angles, or even putting shorter actors on boxes to make them at least as tall, if not taller, than the people they were in the shot with. Cruise has certainly done his share of this, and he\u2019s far from the first. Other actors, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/entertainment\/iron-man-star-robert-downy-jr-is-reportedly-notorious-for-wearing-high-heels-while-filming.html\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/entertainment\/iron-man-star-robert-downy-jr-is-reportedly-notorious-for-wearing-high-heels-while-filming.html\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Robert Downey Jr., reportedly also work to make themselves look taller on screen<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s maybe one shot in the original <em>Top Gun<\/em> where you can really tell that Tom Cruise is shorter than <u>co-star Anthony Edwards, who played Goose<\/u>, who is an inch taller than Miles Teller, but the two are frequently shot at angles or while Edwards is leaning or seated, to make the height discrepancy less noticeable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this is still largely the case in <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> as well. It\u2019s really only in these major dialogue scenes with Teller than the height situation is noticeable, but it <em>is<\/em> quite clear. These were the moments I was the most taken out of the movie because I realized how rarely I had seen Tom Cruise look shorter than his co-stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this was clearly an intentional decision on the part of the filmmakers. The same steps that have been taken previously to make Tom Cruise look taller could have been taken here, but they were not. The decision was made to shoot these scenes this way. Shooting this way certainly makes Teller look more imposing, which may have been what they wanted from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, as a short person, it was nice to see Tom Cruise not looking super tall. He\u2019s <u>still awesome in <\/u><u><em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em><\/u>, even if he isn\u2019t the biggest guy there. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gun: Maverick is an even bigger movie than most people thought it would be. The film is an absolute smash due to its incredible practical action sequences with fighter jets, and also due to its surprisingly emotional story, but I feel like there\u2019s one thing about Top Gun: Maverick that not enough people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":104788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1654627924_Theres-One-Thing-I-Absolutely-Loved-About-Top-Gun-Maverick.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}