Goose, truly the most stand-up family man of anyone in this movie, grounds Maverick, telling him the showing off has to stop because it's risking both of their careers and ability to even graduate from Topgun.
As the calm but insistent request hits Maverick, he tells Goose, "You're my family. I won't let you down," and you know it's true because Maverick would never want to do anything to jeopardize Goose's well-being.
Maverick and Goose's relationship has a major impact on Top Gun. In an otherwise testosterone-filled, traditionally masculine, sweat-filled picture of a certain kind of revered heroism, Maverick and Goose bring some necessary softness and sweetness.
Their relationship and power couple status in Top Gun illuminates the importance of sensitivity, of feeling, of retaining a connection to your own humanity in a field which trains pilots to be critical and make the tough decisions. Maverick and Goose are bonded for life through their shared passions but help make each other better people. Their example is a reminder tenderness isn't gendered and male friendships don't have to be rooted in some performance of masculinity with eradicates any kind of love or deep emotion.
For all of this to be shown in a movie like Top Gun in the mids? Downright fantastic, if you ask me. And then there's Goose's death , which has a profound impact on Maverick's life. He has spent more time thinking about Stranger Things than the writers of Stranger Things, and he has never seen a Star War.
By Cathal Gunning Published Sep 19, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Key Release Dates. As their altitude drops rapidly, Maverick and Goose are pinned to the side of the cockpit by the centrifugal forces.
Maverick is pinned too far forward to reach his ejection handle, which is located above the seat back, and orders Goose to pull his. Goose struggles to reach it, but finally manages to pull it and both men are ejected from the plane. However, because the F is still in a spin, the canopy is not blown far enough away from the plane and Goose's ejection seat fires him head first into the ejected canopy, breaking his neck and killing him instantly.
His parachute managed to activate and he gently landed in the ocean below, where Maverick pulled his body into the life-raft. Maverick blamed himself for Gooses' death, and when he gave Goose's personal belongings to his wife Carol, she revealed that "He loved flying with" him and that even though he would have hated it, "he would have flown anyway, without" Maverick.
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