With the release of Top Gun: Maverick, conservative pundits have taken the culture war to the skies.
onservative pundits have taken the culture war to the skies, hailing the blockbuster as a patriotic, anti-“woke” display of militarism and masculinity. They have also cited its record-breaking box office performance—$160.5 million domestically over the long weekend—as proof that the public is on their side.
The long-awaited sequel picks up more than three decades after the original, with Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played bybeing called on to train a squadron of elite U.S. Navy pilots for a bombing run on a “rogue” state’s uranium enrichment plant. At no point in the film are questions raised about why the U.S. is bombing this other country, which, by going unnamed, has led to a media. The climax sees Cruise take off from a U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier while flying a F/A-18E Super Hornet.
Aside from the Defense Department propaganda inherent to most of Hollywood’s military-themed creations, the film is not overtly political in a way that is recognizable to Americans who have grown accustomed to Air Force flyovers at the Super Bowl and World Series. In many regards,feels like a product of the ’80s—a decade that saw the U.S. invading countries like Grenada and Panama while also in the throes of the Cold War with Russia.
This has led many conservatives to project their own cultural aspirations onto the film. “It’s very patriotic, the film. I mean, the military is a bunch of good-looking young people who are going out to defend the country…and the international order,” saidof the film. “That’s awesome.
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