How the Pentagon Changed the Plot of ‘Top Gun’

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Did you know that Charlie Blackwood, Kelly McGillis’ character in Top Gun, was originally meant to be a Navy colleague of Tom Cruise’s Maverick? Or that the enemy in the film was supposed to be North Korea before producers agreed to a request from the Pentagon to leave the enemy country unnamed?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Hickey details the plot changes in his new book You Are What You Watch, which looks at how movies and TV affect everything from our biology to our beliefs.

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