Top Gun Maverick: the explanation of the tribute to the beach volleyball game

Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski explained the reason that led him to celebrate the famous beach volleyball game of the first chapter

After so many years, Top Gun made its return to cinemas, with Tom Cruise returning to play the iconic Maverick. Top Gun: Maverick it was released in cinemas a few days ago and revived the myth of a film that really marked the history of cinema. Among the many famous moments of the first chapter dating back to 1986 there is certainly the beach volleyball game on the beach, a moment that director Joseph Kosinski wanted to celebrate in its sequel. Let’s find out the reasons that led him to this decision.

Top Gun Maverick: Kosinski’s homage

First of all, we feel obliged to warn that the rest of the article contains spoiler, so those who have not seen the film and do not want to know anything in advance could choose to stop. If you’ve already seen the film or don’t care about spoilers, go ahead and read.

Having said that, let’s find out what constitutes Kosinski’s homage. The director has practically set up a scene where Maverick plays football on the beach with his students and does it at the sunset, and not in broad daylight as in the case of the beach game. Some differences therefore, but also some similarities, because Maverick remains shirtless and the different time setting symbolizes the different phase of the pilot’s life, closer now to sunset than to full day.

Kosinski’s words

At Screen Rant, the director talked about this new beach scene. Kosinski said that when he started working on the film a lot of people talked to him about the beach volleyball scene and he immediately understood that he could not avoid this confrontation and chose a way to pay homage to her, making her coherent to the story told. Hence the idea of ​​doing it at sunset, to better contextualize it and insert elements that differ from the original.

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