Top Gun: Maverick it’s an even bigger movie than most people thought. The film is an absolute success thanks to his amazing practical action sequences with fighters and also for its surprisingly moving story, but it seems to me that there is one thing Top Gun: Maverick not enough people talk about, the fact that Tom Cruise looks small in the movie.
Tom Cruise stands 5 feet 7 inches tall. and although I don’t consider him small, he is taller than me, because I I’m short, he’s definitely shorter than a lot of people he’s played with over the years. We all know. The fact is that in his films of him Tom Cruise usually doesn’t See short, but it does it inside Top Gun: Maverick.
Cruise has several scenes in which he engages in conversations / discussions with his co-star Miles Teller. Teller plays the rooster, Goose’s son Maverick’s friend from the original best gun who died in an accident. Miles Teller is 6’1 “, half a foot taller than Cruise, and the film really shows their height gap in these scenes. Cruise is still looking at Teller.
Ever since Hollywood made films, it has tried to make its heroes look big and strong, and often when the real actor wasn’t that big, that meant shooting from specific angles or even putting smaller actors in boxes to make them at least as tall, if not higher than the people they were with in the shot. Cruise definitely played the part of him in this one, and he’s far from the first. Other actors, like Robert Downey Jr. would also work to appear taller on screen. .
Maybe there is a version of the original best gun where you can actually say that Tom Cruise is shorter than co-star Anthony Edwards, who played Goose which is an inch taller than Miles Teller, but the two are often taken at an angle or while Edwards is leaning or sitting, so the height difference is less noticeable.
And this is still largely the case Top Gun: Maverick also, as well. Indeed, it is only in those main dialogue scenes with Teller that the height situation is evident, but this is These were the moments that pulled me out of the film the most because I realized how many times I had seen Tom Cruise look smaller than his co-stars.
And it was clearly a deliberate decision on the part of the filmmakers. The same steps that were taken before to make Tom Cruise look taller could have been taken here, but they weren’t. The decision was made to film these scenes this way. Shooting like that definitely makes Teller more imposing, which perhaps was what they wanted from the scene.
In the end, as a short person, it was nice to see that Tom Cruise didn’t look very tall. he is always great Top Gun: Maverick even if he’s not the biggest guy there.
Source: Cinemablend
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