{"id":1497250,"date":"2022-05-30T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497250"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:59:59","slug":"top-gun-maverick-responds-to-outcry-replaces-taiwanese-flag-on-tom-cruises-characters-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gun-maverick-responds-to-outcry-replaces-taiwanese-flag-on-tom-cruises-characters-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 Responds To Outcry, Replaces Taiwanese Flag On Tom Cruise\u2019s Character\u2019s Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-gun-maverick-responds-to-outcry-replaces-taiwanese-flag-on-tom-cruises-characters-jacket%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood has chosen the USA over China after it responded to the outcry from fans who noticed the Taiwanese flag was missing from the bomber jacket worn by Tom Cruise\u2019s character in the trailer of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patch, originally seen on the back of Lieutenant Pete \u2018Maverick\u2019 Mitchell\u2019s black leather jacket in the 1986 film \u201cTop Gun,\u201d was missing in the 2019 trailer for the then-long-awaited sequel to the movie, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10868357\/Top-Gun-reinstates-Taiwanese-flag-Mavericks-jacket-removing-trailer-angering-China.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a variety of patches from Mitchell\u2019s father\u2019s tours in Japan and Taiwan from 1963 to 1964. At the time, in place of the flags were random symbols believed to be appealing to the communist nation\u2019s political demands.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket \u2013 only this time it\u2019s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gUxFNFNUKX\">pic.twitter.com\/gUxFNFNUKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmackinnon\/status\/1152241649893945346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, when fans finally got a chance to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-gun-maverick-on-pace-to-be-tom-cruises-largest-box-opening-success-ever-crushing-pre-pandemic-numbers\">59-year-old actor<\/a> reprise his famed character\u2019s role this weekend, they noticed it was back in the worldwide release.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It might just be a middle finger to China. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RqH9BQFFnm\">https:\/\/t.co\/RqH9BQFFnm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VICE (@VICE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VICE\/status\/1530307967115055107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unprecedented,\u201d Ho Siu Bun, a film critic in Hong Kong, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7kb5wd\/tom-cruises-jacket-top-gun-maverick-taiwan-moviegoers-clapping?utm_source=vice_facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=VICE_Twitter&#038;utm_medium=social+\">VICE World News<\/a>. \u201cMajor film studios have never been shy about pandering to the Chinese market. And even if it is a simple scene, editing is very costly. So no one knows why they changed it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Taiwan screening, audiences reportedly cheered and clapped when their flag appeared, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, Tom [Cruise] doesn\u2019t necessarily have to wear the same jacket in the opening scene. There\u2019s no way film producers didn\u2019t know the Republic of China flag would cross the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s red line,\u201d a Taiwanese film writer, who goes by the moniker Knee Joint, wrote on Facebook. The Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan. \u201cBut they still did it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was speculation that the original decision might have been due to the Chinese film distributor and production company Tencent Pictures, which was helping finance the highly-anticipated sequel with Paramount. However, it ended up backing out over the \u201cfilm\u2019s themes and closeness with the US military,\u201d which could upset China.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is turning out to be Cruise\u2019s biggest opening of his career and is projected to bring in more than $150 million at the box office over the Memorial Day weekend four-day release, the Hollywood Reporter reported. It is also turning out to be the largest opening a film has ever had at the domestic box office during the same holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this publication, there was no word yet on a release date in China, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood has chosen the USA over China after it responded to the outcry from fans who noticed the Taiwanese flag was missing from the bomber jacket worn by Tom Cruise\u2019s character in the trailer of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d The patch, originally seen on the back of Lieutenant Pete \u2018Maverick\u2019 Mitchell\u2019s black leather jacket in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1497287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}