Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Streets-Ahead- t1_j6ng1sn wrote

Reply to comment by SutterCane in Why Film Festivals Are Steering Clear of Controversial Movies by BobRobot77

Tiem for history lesson

  1. Lots of counties had MiGs, the Soviets exported them.

  2. The battle at the end of Top Gun is loosely inspired by a real life incident in 80s where American Tomcats engaged Libyan fighters.

  3. An earlier draft of the script actually specified North Korean enemies.

  4. The insignia on the enemy fighters is fictional.

  5. Nobody at the end seems concerned at all that World War III may have just started.

Whoever they're fighting can be assumed to be a Soviet-aligned country, but it wasn't Big Red itself.

4