Tom Cruise FULL Speech for Top Gun: Maverick Live in Concert | Paramount Movies
Tom Cruise gives a speech introducing Top Gun: Maverick live in concert at Royal Albert Hall in London (9/27/24). Score performed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Lorne Balfe. Featuring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly & More! #ParamountMovies #TopGunMaverick #TomCruise
Thank you. Thank you so much. I love you too. That's why I'm here.
Good evening everyone. Thank you for that. Thank you very much. I feel very honored,
very privileged, very excited to be here with you all tonight and sharing this unique cinematic
orchestral experience with Top Gun Maverick. Live music has been available for silent film
accompaniment since moving pictures were first presented in vaudeville theaters over 120 years
ago. But it wasn't until 1914, around then, where a full symphony orchestra precisely synchronized
with the picture played a live score that was conceived on the operatic composition
of leitmotifs. Now leitmotifs are, for those that don't know, are recurrent themes throughout a
musical or literary composition associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
And the use of leitmotifs redefined cinematic storytelling.
And large symphony orchestras became a necessity at fancy movie palaces.
So it set the standard for the ultimate, at that time, in theatrical grandeur. Now the silent
movie era lasted about 30 years until 1927, the talkies came in, and orchestras now record the
score and it's coupled to the actual picture. Now this evolution set a new standard for the
ultimate in theatrical experience at that time. The power of music and its use in cinema
to deepen our experience of story and our connection to the characters is absolutely
magical. And for the music you're about to hear live tonight, I want to personally thank
the extraordinary talents of Harold Fultemeier, Harold, Hans Zimmer, Lady Gaga,
One Republic, and the gentleman who is here this evening who also produced the score,
our dear friend and brilliant Lauren Balfe. Now also I want to thank tonight's orchestra
and all of your exceptional talents. Thank you. Now I've always wanted to
experience a film like this with a live full symphony orchestra,
synchronized a picture in front of a packed audience,
and the grandeur of a classic movie palace.
Thank you all for being here, and thank you for making this dream come true.
Enjoy, and I'll be here enjoying it with you.