Simon Mayo

Here we go, starting at number 12, Top Gun Maverick.

This is a reissue and this from Jonathan Smith.

Dear Insure and Ensure, speaking as somewhat of a pedant.

Okay.

Has so much ever been spent on a movie to correct a single typo?

See attached.

So I'll show you this.

He sent us like a split screen thing.

And at the top, so this is like the text that comes up at the beginning.

of Top Gun, right, Top Gun 1986.

It says, on March the 3rd, 1969, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top 1% of its pilots.

Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure, I-N-S-U-R-E, that the handful of men, blah, blah, blah, they succeeded.

Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapon School.

The Flyers call it Top Gun.

Top Gun.

Right.

And then Top Gun Maverick has exactly the same scroll, except that lost out of aerial combat and to Ensure, E-N-S-U-R-E, that the handful of men.

Okay, so the Flyers called it Top Gun.

So in between Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick, they learnt to spell.

To spell.