[Transfer] Peng Jun, Zhou Liang: "Tomcat" in and out of play-Looking back on the 20th anniversary of the movie "Rising Clouds"

Patsy 2021-10-20 17:24:43

"TOP GUN", as a promotional film for the US Navy's conscription, has been enthusiastically sought after by Chinese fans including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwanese film fans since it was released in Hong Kong, China on July 10, 1986, and has achieved great success. The reasons for its success can be explored from three aspects: the translation of the film title in line with the characteristics of Chinese culture-"The Great Aspirations"; as a conscription fixation, it strives to highlight the advanced high-tech factors, strong patriotic complex and personal heroes. Doctrine is fascinating; at the end of the Cold War, the popularity of movies is closely related to the international and domestic background at that time, and it plays a positive role in the construction of war culture.

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Top Gun quotes

  • Maverick: [to Cougar and Merlin while up in the air] Any of you boys seen an aircraft-carrier around here?

  • [Charlie has just given Maverick her address while pretending to turn down his date offer]

    Slider: Crashed and burned! Huh, Mav?

    Maverick: Slider...

    [sniffs]

    Maverick: You stink!