Why is everybody always sweating in Top Gun?

Aviators inside the bar

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Why is everybody always sweating in Top Gun?

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Navy does Navy. They signed up for a reason.

Sweaty men played well with the "hard dick, my arse" crowd

So we could all admire their rock hard, glistening bodies

I love how in the elevator scene Cruise has a towel around his neck but hasn't wiped nary a pore

From what I've always heard, movie sets, especially back before LED lighting, are pretty hot.

You can't have A/c running because the mics will pick it up, and the old tungsten lights were put off tons of heat.

The actors were probably swaeting on set and Tony Scott probably liked the look of it and didn't have them wipe their faces.

... Or... It was all done intentionally to add to the texture of the scene and movie (likely the answer). You see this a lot in Michael Bay films also.

Remember, Tony Scott is the OG stylized mainstream Hollywood action director. Lots of cool, smokey lighting, neons, glistening bodies, and the like. Bay really just ripped off Scott, and kind of took it in his own direction.


All I truly know is, Top Gun's network television premiere on NBC's old Monday night movie in 1989 had one of the coolest openings I could ever remember. LINK

They just don't do shite like this anymore

"Um, tower, there's some dork riding a motorcycle down one of the taxiways shaking his fist at us."

"There's no such thing as the Top Gun Trophy."

"Slider is a lieutenant (junior grade). That's too junior for a Top Gun slot."

Metcalf: That's pretty arrogant considering the company you're in.
Maverick: Yes, sir.
Metcalf: I like that in a pilot.

"Navy leaders would be reprimanded for encouraging arrogance because the Navy spent money on posters that read "excellence without arrogance."


"A hangar isn't the most conducive place for detailed flight briefs." "Anybody who showed up to a flight brief wearing a cowboy hat would have his or her wings pulled on the spot."

"Maverick makes a big deal about how the information regarding his MiG encounter is classified and then proceeds to reveal it in front of the entire group with no idea of whether they have clearance or not. Again, they're briefing in a hangar."

Jester says, "All right, gentlemen, we have a hop to take. The hard deck on this hop will be 10,000 feet. There will be no engagements below that." Of course we haven't briefed any of the other details of this event -- including ACM rules of engagement -- because Charlie has wasted our time hitting on Maverick, but whatever.



"Maverick "hits the brakes" by pushing the throttles forward, which would increase power, not decrease it."

"Maverick explains, "We weren't below the hard deck for more than a few seconds. I had the shot. There was no danger. So I took it." The hard deck simulates the ground, so basically Maverick is saying, "We didn't hit the ground for more than a few seconds . . ."

"Any lieutenant whose fitness report reads "He's a wildcard. Completely unpredictable. Flies by the seat of his pants" would be done flying, not to mention unqualified for a Top Gun slot."

"Viper tells Maverick about the day his dad died like this: "His F-4 was hit. He was wounded but he could have made it back. He stayed in it. Saved three planes before he bought it." And Maverick doesn't respond by saying, "That makes no sense, sir. How does a pilot save three planes after his jet is hit? Why are you bullshitting me?"



79 Cringeworthy errors in Top Gun

No AC back then. Duh!

Similar to most movies in New Orleans have everyone with massive pit stains and only ceiling fans for cooling.

There are a lot of great action movies that get the big things right.

Like knowing how a plane flies - sort of important before the director starts filming plane scenes inside the cockpit.

OP asked the question about things in Top Gun that are sort of absurd.

And the two absurd things that the movie glosses over that aren't action scenes.

Mav saying he can't tell anyone it's classified and then proceeds to tell everyone.

And Viper telling Mav he can't say what happened to his father because it would end his career...and then immediately proceeds to tell Mav what happened to his father.

Before soy consumption ruined men, we used to sweat a lot and did not give a single frick. The 80s was a very sweaty decade.