Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you’ve got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 48 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys are joined by founder and podcast host at InSession Film JD Duran to discuss the latest film in their Tony Scott series, Top Gun (1986).
The Tony Scott series heads into the DANGER ZONE this week at Ryan, Jay and JD dive into one of the most popular films of the 1980s, Top Gun. After The Hunger, Scott was brought on to make a film fighter pilots in the Navy after a successful profile article done in “California” magazine. Used as both a vessel to entertain audiences and recruit young Americans into the military, Scott ultimately made a subversive, deeply emotional action packed spectacle that launch himself and the film’s star, Tom Cruise, into the figures we know them today. In this lengthy, entertaining discussion, the guys talk about their relationship with Top Gun, famous aerial warfare moments in history, Cruise’s rise as a movie star, the beach volleyball scene, the film’s soundtrack, the homosexual, hyper masculine undertones throughout the film. They also talk about how the film handles grief, the modern phenomenon that was Top Gun: Maverick, and what the guys call signs would be.
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This podcast runs 2h25m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Tony Scott with a review of his next film, Days of Thunder. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let’s get into it.
Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro)
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