Chinese TV Station Tried Passing Off Top Gun Footage As Training Exercises
from the now-when-will-the-infringement-suit-hit? dept
Via Gizmodo we learn of the hilarious claim that China Central Television's news broadcast recently showed some imagery purported to show Chinese military training exercises. The only problem is that some folks recognized the footage as coming from the Hollywood movie Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. You can see the screenshots below, comparing the CCTV news footage (on the left) with the identical frame captures from Top Gun:

Of course, I can only assume that China Central Television did not have a license to show Top Gun on TV. What are the chances that someone in Hollywood decides to sue?







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wow
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Official PDRC announcement
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30 seconds
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Giveaway
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Top Gun at CCTV
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Dubbed Version
Rooro, that rov'in feerin',
you've rost that ROV'IN feerin',
Now it's gawn, gawn, gawn, rororo
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Communist plot...
Subliminal messages have been seen, will activate in 2012...
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1) The Chinese use Top Gun movie clips to train their pilots, so it just looks like they are the same clips,
or more realistically,
2) the Chinese use the same special effects team that Top Gun used.
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Some F-5s were sold many years ago to the Taiwanese government, but certainly never to China.
Who knows? Maybe China and Taiwan are at war and engaging in dogfights, but keeping it a secret from the rest of the world.
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Caught!
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Let's all take our shirts off and play volleyball.
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This isn't Catholic School, you sonofabitch....
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You know what they say: If you have to ask....
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Top Gun had a budget of $15-million (Source: Wikipedia). The population of China is 1,331,460,000 (Source: World Bank) - or over 1.3 billion Top Guns that now won't be made. Simple math tells us that 1.997x10^16 or nearly twenty-quadrillion dollars has disappeared as a result of this egregious intellectual property theft.
But that's just the beginning: Top Gun also massively boosted sales of bomber jackets and aviator glasses by around 40%. We can assume by extension that it boosted fighter jet sales approximately the same amount. The cost of an F-16 is around $15-million dollars, so add forty per cent to that and multiply by the number of bomber jackets sold every year, which we don't have a firm stat on but can guess to be around twice the world population since most people own at least two jackets. Add that to our twenty-quadrillion figure, multiply by two (the number of lenses in a pair of Aviators) and you have the truly stomach-churning sum of infinity-million dollars that were lost to this one video alone. Now consider the number of films downloaded on BitTorrent every year and it becomes clear that piracy will bring about the heat death of the universe.
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Training?
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Let's focus on the real issue
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goes to show ya , how the press will force feed garbage to those willing to watch
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There, fixed that for ya. Simple p->q |= q->p thing, ya dig?
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They were not cleared for copyright infringement.
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tom FTW
and that, children, is how Tom Cruise single-handedly defeated china.
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Chinese caught "sampling" Top Gun
If you want to read more, check out http://www.theendoftheinterwebs.com/2011/02/chinese-military-caught-sampling.html
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