Rating: 4/5
Every once in a blue moon, some no name band manages to create a timeless musical wonder, and even more less often, that timeless musical wonder features in a timeless movie, and very rarely, does this timeless musical wonder feature in a timeless movie at a timeless scene. One such hit for me is “Take my breath Away” by Berlin which featured in Top Gun in the scene where Kelly McGills chases Tom Cruise on her tiny car and pulls him over.
When you are a teenager of 15 or 16, there is a strange fire which starts to burn inside of you. So when you have heard great deal about the beauty of an actor namely Tom Cruise and then you finally get a chance to watch one of his greatest hit namely Top Gun, where you will see him for the first time, it is an amazingly awing experience.
Top Gun is not just about the cool script, (“you stink”)or about amazing dogfight, or cool jets, it’s much more than that. It’s a completely mesmerizing experience, a whole new dimension, a whole new perspective to view life; especially when you are a teenager. So in that moment of awe and amazement where one sees Tom Cruise with mouth open wide and knees weak(thinking.. O my God! He is beautiful, I never knew such a beauty could exist) and then in the back ground the haunting music of “Take my breath away” starts playing with the haunting sound of Terri Nunn echoes in the room... "Take my Breath Away", it’s just a numbing and paralyzing experience and it really does take your breath away. There and then that moment is stamped in your memory forever. It’s one of the strangest experiences while you are growing up, and every time that song starts playing anywhere, you travel back in time and re live that moment. So when it played on radio while I was driving to work this morning, I felt compelled to write about it that mesmerizing experience where everything was in the right place at the right time (Except for Kelly McGills who is there with Tom Cruise, instead of me!)
So one hit wonder, “Take My breath Away” by Berlin is definitely something that I like. :D
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