Chinese/Top Gun propaganda
A reader sent us a link to a Foreign Policy blog entry that links a Chinese propaganda video to shots from the movie Top Gun. Apparently, the Chinese edited the video to look like their J-10 fighter could take on an F-5;
In the newscast, the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.
A net user who went by the name “??” (Liu Yi) pointed out that the jet that the J-10 “hit” is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. Looking at the screenshots juxtaposition, one cannot fail to find that even flame, smoke and the way the splinters fly look the same.
You can check out the screenshots at the link and decide for yourself.
Category: Military issues
Looks like someone might end up flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong after all this is over.
Considering that the Chinese are stealing all sorts of things from us or pirating movies, music, books, etc., I find this somehow fitting.
Also considering that the movie was supposed to be a propaganda film anyway to make the F14 and the Top Gun program appear so unbeatable to the Soviets, I think that the makers of the movie should feel honored that the Chinese decided to steal their idea 24 years later. Of course, it won’t have the same effect today that it did back then…
I wonder who the Chinese Tom Cruise is?
So instead of Goose, is his call sign Peking Duck?
Not sure about China’s but here is the North Korean version.
Best comment:
IMDB trivia for film:
-Half of DPRK jet fuel? reserves were used in shooting this film and half the nation’s food was used for catering for cast and crew
-The video footage was shot in hi-def quality for North Korean standards
-A video game based on the film is in the works, but unlike the American version, it will be first available in 2014 for their 4-bit consoles
-Enemy F-5 fighters were actually “Mig-28s”
-The “alert 5” aircraft had to be re-scripted to “alert 2” due to lack of spares
Little more trivia for you–remember the Navy EP-3 incident off Hainin Island about 10 years ago? Remember the name of the Chinese pilot who wrecked into the American plane?
Wang Wei. Yup–couldn’t make it up if I tried.