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needforspeed161 · 2 days ago
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Some things I learned reading the original 1986 Top Gun script (because it was part of my English class and I read that shit like a fanfic at 3am giggling and kicking my feet that it was actually contributing to my career now lmaoooo)
-Pete “Maverick” Mitchell was originally called Evan “Maverick” Mitchell
-Slider was the original one in the O club to have the snarky conversation with Goose and Maverick
-Goose lost a drinking game.
-Goose was making gay jokes with an A7 pilot buddy of his that was unnamed.
-Maverick and Goose both rode to NAS Miramar on the back of Mavericks bike and got pulled over by a CHP on the way there and it was very awkward, Maverick was being a little shit to the cop the entire time (YOU GO BABY)
-Iceman saw him get pulled over and that was his first impression of him.
-At the very end they wrote out an entire scene of just Maverick pushing through the crowd of the flight crew to get to Ice so they could stare intensely at eachother in silence before giggling at eachother.
-VAL KILMER WAS NOT KIDDING WHEN HE SAID THERE WASNT MUCH TO ICEMAN ON PAPER SO HE MADE HIM HIMSELF.
-without Val there would have been no volleyball scene, tooth snapping flirting, goose apology, O club interaction (to the degree they had one, they did talk but it was very briefly), or shirtless locker room scene.
-Hollywood and Wolfman are way gayer in the movie, Wolf flirts with girls 24/7 in the script but in the film he’s attatched to Hollywood at the HIP (we love that for them)
-Goose is constantly being flirted with by random women and has to always bring them back to Maverick to convince them he’s ACTUALLY married. (AND MAVERICKS FUCKING RESPONSE WAS “he’s married but he’s not dead’ LIKE PETE HONEY WHAT??)
-Val made Iceman so gay. I’m putting this one in here twice because it’s worthy.
-THEY DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE SCENE WITH CAROLE IN THE BBQ PLACE IN THE SCRIPT LIKE HONEY WHAT!! THATS MRS GOOSE WERE TALKING ABOUT HERE!! SHAME!
-Goose and Mavs interactions in the script were so funny like why’d they cut so many of themmmm.
-Sundowns callsign was changed to Fungus because of a joke and it stuck.
THATS ALL FOR NOW!!
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