Top Gun 2 Uses A Genius Screenwriting Trick To Create Perfection
Top Gun: Maverick's screenplay is structured to make its final act a perfect finale. The long-awaited sequel to the original Top Gun from 1986, Top Gun: Maverick 's four-quadrant audience reception is making it the new summer hit to beat with practically nothing but high praise from all who have seen it. Maverick sets up a high stakes mission that Tom Cruise's Pete «Maverick» Mitchell is training his Top Gun recruits for. The film' script, penned by Ehren Kruger, Christopher Macquarrie, and Eric Warren Singer, plays its cards extremely well in how it builds up to that mission.
Maverick and his recruits, who include the son of his old buddy Goose (Anthony Edwards) bearing the call sign Rooster (Miles Teller), must destroy a weapons system built by an unnamed enemy nation and hidden in a mountain base before it can be launched. Maverick devotes the bulk of its second act to the Mach-10 pushing pilot Maverick to take his team through the logistics of the mission, running multiple flight training scenarios, and getting them up to speed on all of the technical details necessary for success. This benefits Maverick's third act greatly, due to the audience being informed of everything right alongside the characters.
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When Maverick and his young pilots finally embark on the mission, the movie doesn't have to devote any time to filling the audience in on what's happening, what needs to be carried out for the mission, or the sequence of events that have to occur for success. Maverick's entire middle section already breaks all of those details down, with the audience having seen the plan rehearsed and practiced in multiple training scenarios. That allows
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