Top Gun
- Year:
- 1986
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TOP GUN:
by
Chip Proser
REVISED:
April 4, 1985
Registered, WGAw.
NOTE:
Aerial dialogue in CAPS is UHF radio;plane to plane, plane to carrier.
Aerial dialogue in small case is ICS;
an inter-cockpit system; a live mike,
TG1 REVISED 04APR85 .
1. EXT. NIGHT. - THE PACIFIC IS ANYTHING BUT
WINDS HOWL. Rain drives horizontal. The sea surges up,
nearly to the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty
Hawk. The carrier plunges, driving its bow into a wall of
grey water. The deck pitches forward and back, rolls left to
right, and yaws in a corkscrew motion. The entire 93,000 ton
behemoth rises and falls in the TYPHOON-DRIVEN SWELL.
2. SOMETHING DROPS DOWN OUT OF THE NIGHT
A ROAR. Silver wings flash by, a cockpit, fiery jet
exhausts. A forty ton monster drops at 120 knots into an area
the size of a tennis court in a CONTROLLED CRASH.
2A. A SHOWER OF SPARKS, A SCREECH OF RUBBER AND METAL as
the gear hits the deck. The hook catches the 3 wire and the
F-14 TOMCAT is slammed to a halt. It's the scariest thing
you've ever seen, the most dangerous maneuver in aviation and
just another day at the office for a Naval Aviator.
TITLES OVER:
HARD DRIVING ROCK AND ROLL - THE CARS - RIDE ME HIGH
3. FLIGHT DECK - THE LANDING SIGNAL OFFICER - (LSO)
Leans almost horizontal into the winds. He holds the pickle,
controlling the landing lights and speaks into a mike. His
calm, professional commands belie the extreme conditions.
LSO:
POWER, POWER...DON'T CLIMB...
4. ANOTHER TOMCAT FLIES OVER THE RAMP
It slams in. The pilot hits full power, catches the wire, slams
to a stop, cuts his engines.
5. OMITTED
Lots of scopes and electronic gear. The CARRIER CONTROL APPROACH
OFFICER (CCA) watches a blip on radar, reaches for his mike key.
7. EXT. THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING - (AERIAL)
We float like gods, above the storm, above the cloud cover,
looking down. From overhead, a probe slides into frame, then
a graceful nose. The cockpit sides by, Pilot, then Radar
Intercept Officer (RIO) barely illuminated by the orange glow
of their instruments. The fuselage gracefully swells to two
enormous air intakes, then variable angle wings, swept back
for high speed flight. Twin tailbooms cant outward,
horizontal stabilizers make constant adjustments. Enormous
twin jet exhaust ports glow red in the moonlight.
8. INT. COCKPIT - (AERIAL)
We become aware of WIND WHISTLE, JET ENGINE SOUNDS, RADIO
STATIC. The pilot, COUGAR, is calm, steady. The Radar
Intercept Officer in the backseat, GOOSE, is a wildman,
always an edge of humor in his voice. A UHF transmission
breaks in..
STRIKE (V.O. filtered)
GHOST RIDER, THIS IS STRIKE... WE
MUSTANG. YOUR VECTOR ZERO NINE ZERO
FOR BOGEY.
Almost immediately the RIO picks up a target and responds.
GOOSE:
CONTACT 20 LEFT AT 25, 900 KNOTS
CLOSURE.
8A. ANGLE - SECOND F-14 - 115 - COUGAR'S WINGMAN
Come in on the cockpit with stenciled name and call signs: LT.
EVAN MITCHELL is the pilot, MAVERICK. In flight suit and oxygen
mask, we can only see his eyes. they are confident. In his
mid-twenties, he is lean, hard, athletic...the archetype fighter
pilot. His rear-seater is LTJG. WALTER MERLIN; WIZARD.
MAVERICK:
Maverick peels off to right, to high cover position; 5 o'clock.
9. INT. GHOST RIDER 117 - COUGAR'S POV
HEADS UP DISPLAY (HUD) glows dimly on the windscreen. Directly
in front of the stick, two CRT screens display data. The bottom
screen shows a radar sweep. Wedged between the instruments is a
snapshot of a pretty young woman with a 2 month-old baby.
GOOSE:
Closing fast. MUSTANG, THIS IS
GHOST RIDER ONE ONE SEVEN. CONTACT
ONE BOGEY, 090 AT 15 MILES, 900
KNOTS OF CLOSURE.
COUGAR:
Look for the trailer.
GOOSE:
I don't see anything. MAVERICK,
YOU HAVE A TRAILER?
10. MAVERICK'S F-14
Flying in combat spread, 1 mile abeam, higher.
GOOSE:
NEGATIVE, COUGAR. LOOKS LIKE HE'S
SINGLE.
11. INT. 117 - COUGAR'S COCKPIT
COUGAR:
HANG BACK AND WATCH FOR HIM. HERE
COMES...MIG ONE.
12. EXT. SKY
Closing at 900 knots, The MiG is a speck, then a flash and a
ROAR, a knife-edge pass at 300 feet. It rockets past his left
wing tip and disappears. Cougar kicks rudder, whips the stick,
screams into a tight turning roll and dives after him. He slams
the throttle forward to ZONE 5 AFTERBURNER.
13. EXT. - MAVERICK'S F-14
Maverick sees a SECOND MiG drop from above onto Cougar's tail.
MAVERICK:
BOGEY ON YOUR SIX. I'M ON HIS.
Maverick swings after him, lights it.
13A. ALL FOUR JETS SCREAM DOWN IN A POWER DIVE.
They punch through cloud cover into the soup.
14. EXT. COUGAR'S F-14
He is closing on the first MiG when a shocking BLIPBLIPBLIPBLIP
tone breaks into their headsets.
GOOSE:
I've got a six strobe. I think
he's locked on us.
COUGAR:
It's a MiG 21. They don't have
radar missiles!
GOOSE:
Let's hope you're right!
COUGAR:
What is he doing?
GOOSE:
He's pissing me off!
Cougar swings mad gyrations, cutting back and forth across the
front MiG's tailpipe, trying to break the lock-on. The TONE grows
more insistant.
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