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'Top Gun: Maverick' Director Joseph Kosinski & Editor Eddie Hamilton

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Top Gun

Chris McCorray wrote this script and was involved throughout the post-production along with Joe because in ski and Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise but as the writer of the film the way that he structured the training sequences was so elegant. We would we would cut back to the classroom sometimes so you would get the kind of full face emotional reactions to what was going on when we were cutting to the tack room. You're kind of rolling the emotion from the classroom over into the aerial sequence and also teaching the audience about the stakes of the mission.

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