Marxism In Top Gun
Riley Priest
Professor James
ENG 1102-CX
1/27/16
Marxist view of Top Gun
An aggressive US Naval Aviator, his Radar Intercept Officer, and a battle to be the best graduate from the Top Gun school in NAS Miramar is a perfect representation that illustrates the Marxist view in Tony Scott’s movie, Top Gun. The movie takes place mainly in Miramar, California at the Top gun school where Naval Aviator, Maverick and his partner, Goose, are sent to train up against the best pilots in the United States. Maverick, like his father who died in battle, flies aggressively not following procedure which gets him into trouble and leads to being the cause of his partner being killed. Throughout the movie we see the unraveling of conflict with Maverick, his attempt …show more content…
The start of the movie, Maverick and Goose are in the Indian Ocean fighting Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG-28s), where Maverick is being very aggressive during the scene. He explains in the movie he gets his aggression from his father who was killed during the Vietnam War. We get the impression that the time period is close to the 1980’s to 1990’s since it’s after the Vietnam War and the pilots from the opening scene are soviets from the star on the side of their planes. Marxist can conclude from this scene that the power being influenced in the movie is how the producer was trying to show American’s dominance to establish world power. The movie then shows the style of clothing as Maverick and Goose arrive in Miramar, California. Though the Naval uniforms have not changed over the past few decades the civilians who were filmed had the 1980’s style clothing along with music which was being played in the bar. Maverick attempt to use a pick up line on Charlie by singing “You never close your eyes anymore, when I kiss your lips,” which was released in 1965 but wasn’t popular until the 1980’s. Also you can tell by the cars in the scene when Maverick is in Miramar, he heads over to Charlie’s house and passes multiple older style cars which help to support it was around the 80’s. From the Marxist view we can conclude the 1980’s time period reflects the style of the movie through a social society in order for the producer to show America’s influence on
Professor James
ENG 1102-CX
1/27/16
Marxist view of Top Gun
An aggressive US Naval Aviator, his Radar Intercept Officer, and a battle to be the best graduate from the Top Gun school in NAS Miramar is a perfect representation that illustrates the Marxist view in Tony Scott’s movie, Top Gun. The movie takes place mainly in Miramar, California at the Top gun school where Naval Aviator, Maverick and his partner, Goose, are sent to train up against the best pilots in the United States. Maverick, like his father who died in battle, flies aggressively not following procedure which gets him into trouble and leads to being the cause of his partner being killed. Throughout the movie we see the unraveling of conflict with Maverick, his attempt …show more content…
The start of the movie, Maverick and Goose are in the Indian Ocean fighting Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG-28s), where Maverick is being very aggressive during the scene. He explains in the movie he gets his aggression from his father who was killed during the Vietnam War. We get the impression that the time period is close to the 1980’s to 1990’s since it’s after the Vietnam War and the pilots from the opening scene are soviets from the star on the side of their planes. Marxist can conclude from this scene that the power being influenced in the movie is how the producer was trying to show American’s dominance to establish world power. The movie then shows the style of clothing as Maverick and Goose arrive in Miramar, California. Though the Naval uniforms have not changed over the past few decades the civilians who were filmed had the 1980’s style clothing along with music which was being played in the bar. Maverick attempt to use a pick up line on Charlie by singing “You never close your eyes anymore, when I kiss your lips,” which was released in 1965 but wasn’t popular until the 1980’s. Also you can tell by the cars in the scene when Maverick is in Miramar, he heads over to Charlie’s house and passes multiple older style cars which help to support it was around the 80’s. From the Marxist view we can conclude the 1980’s time period reflects the style of the movie through a social society in order for the producer to show America’s influence on