'Top Gun' guy sails?

[rbgarr]

And Jennifer Connolly is the one at the helm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuszu8V1Xc

Meanwhile:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...zcHT0KMldEO4jY

[Paul Schweiss]

Great scene! One of may in a really fun movie. It had been a really long time since I was in a movie theater and everyone in the place was clapping and cheering at the end.
That sailboat was being driven really hard, and kudos to Connelly if she was handling it all.

[sp_clark]

Neither of 'em wearing a PFD? C'mon man....

[Rich Jones]

And Jennifer Connolly is the one at the helm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuszu8V1Xc

Meanwhile:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...zcHT0KMldEO4jY

As for her sailing the boat, Cruise exclaims, "I don't sail on boats, I land on boats!".

I'm sure there was a crew below deck ready to jump up and take over if things went wrong.
Supposedly, she did take sailing lessons for this movie.

[Paul Pless]

san francisco bay

I mean, the hardest one, which is one that you wouldn’t think, was actually the sailing sequence. Because there was so much out of our control. I had to shoot that scene three times in three different places before we got it. I shot it off the coast of Los Angeles — there was no wind. Then two weeks later, I shot it off the coast of San Diego — there was no wind. Then we took the whole scene and crew up to San Francisco — and the wind blew like hell. So what you’re seeing is Tom and Jennifer Connelly on a very, very fast carbon-fiber racing boat doing 20, 22 knots. We had an America’s Cup team stuffed into the hull of that thing in case anything went wrong. And Claudio Miranda, the cinematographer, and I are on a boat next to it with a Technocrane.

I’m literally holding on to Claudio’s chair for dear life, trying to look at the monitor, and he’s operating the camera. The logistics of being able to pull off a sailing sequence gave me so much more appreciation for … you remember that movie Wind with Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey? I watch that movie now and go, Holy s--t, how did they do that? This is really, really difficult to pull off. So that was an unexpected challenge that was very different than the aerial stuff. But from an aerial point of view, the third act was a monster of logistics, planning, storyboarding, and working in a naval low-level training range up in the Cascades. So that was an extremely complex sequence to figure out. Mav’s low-level, when he proves that the course can be run in two minutes and 15 seconds, was probably the most extreme thing we shot. Just watching that footage, you can see Tom looking directly into the sheer rock face next to him and seeing the shadow from his own jet about 15 feet away. That tells you how extreme the flying was for that sequence. That was probably the most dangerous thing we did.

[Garret]

Only smart to have a skilled crew ready to take over - kinda like checking the ammo in the gun before firing it...

The boat is movin' in the last scene of the clip!

[sp_clark]

We had an America’s Cup team stuffed into the hull of that thing....

Watching that YT clip, first thing came to my mind: they're actors fer crisakes, they're not really doin' that, too risky! Bet there's a vetted crew under decks, doing the hard work by remote or something while footage gets captured.

Second thing was really good greenscreen work there, really good.

Haven't watched the movie yet, might do that the w/e, see what comes after that segment.

[Ian McColgin]

Paul's post (#5) reveals a lot. Much tamer was my experience sailing Marmalade for the opening shots of "The Golden Boys" starring David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, and others. I was dressed as David Carradine and sans glasses looked close enough. The camera was up in an artist studio with radio between the location director and a boat wrangler in the cabin to tell me where to sail. Much fun as the boat wrangler had worked "Master and Commander" among other pix but his all time favorite was the dinghy race in "Wind".

[Breakaway]

An old friend, Gordon Houser, now passed over the bar, worked in several movies as a boat wrangler. In one story he told,and he told plenty, he worked a film wherein Bruce Willis plays water cop. He rigged a separate set of remote controls and docked the boat while jammed into a cuddy and looking through some sort of almost opaque panel on the hull that he could barely see through. Had to make Willis look good coming alongside.

I worked in a movie called, The Librarians, starring Wil Forsyth, Burt Reynolds and Christopher Atkins. They needed someone to run a boat up a ramp and fly onto shore while shooting a Mac10 machine pistol. I landed on a bunch of trash barrels, by design, to break the blow. That still stung.

I also had another bit in a bar fight scene. I am in the background and get clocked and fall down.

The Librarians went straight to video as I recall.

Kevin

[Garret]

I'm in a boat way, way in the background of Jaws.

Got a free lunch!