What you can learn from the movie "Top Gun"

Everyone loves the movie -- Top Gun.

It's a brilliant film and a classic. I love to watch it everytime. But there's more to the movie than just great dogfights and testosterone levels maxing out.

One of the characters is Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. (Tom Cruise)

This guy is a prime example of an alpha-male. He really knows how to get the lady in this movie, and act around other men.

Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School at Miramar, Calif. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted. (I lived near Miramar after moving from Australia last year, and I had know idea that was the base that Top Gun was set at... so cool)

There are three scenes which are particularly interesting to people wanting to be more successful with women. They are:

• When Maverick is in the bar and he talks to her
• When Maverick is the elevator
• When Maverick goes to her house after playing volleyball

What do these have to do with anything?

Good question wingman! When Maverick is in the bar, he acts very direct, and at the same time indifferent to her. He's direct when he follows her into the bathroom, and talks to her. His body language is 100% perfect for attracting. He seems like he could leave anytime and doesn't rely on her. Too many men look like they rely on women, they lean into them. Try leaning back.

When Maverick is the elevator, it seems like he doesn't have the balls to start a conversation with the female character. This is actually sexual tension. The materials of David Deangelo are at work here. He amplifies her attraction to him, by not giving her what she wanted right there. Which is of course -- passion. Instead he gives her a slight smile, (Like Marlon Brando, or James Dean) and she melts. He still doesn't give it to her, he lets her wait. I like to call this active indirect attraction. Where you are seducing her indirectly by being hard to get. It works like a dream, try it out!

Maverick goes to her house after playing volleyball. He's already way late for their planned date (rhymes). He just walks inside, acts indifferent, and goes and takes a shower without asking. This kind of behavior is very alpha-male. Why? Because he acts indifferent to her opinions, or what she would consider appropriate and relies instead of what HE thinks, what HIS reality is.

That is what alpha-male behavior is. Living in your reality. This is the key. Women love to be lead, and alpha-males know how to lead.

Tom Cruise's behavior in Top Gun give perfect examples of the attributes you should practice so you can be MORE successful with women. These are general ideas, not so specific that you do EXACTLY what Maverick does in the film, that's stupid. Take his characteristics.

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Good luck,

Donovan