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We have another guest blogger for the Official TomCruise.com Blog! You guys are really rockin’ the guest blog submissions. ‘Cruising to be an Actor’ is a creative piece that integrates Darwins desire to become an actor with a few movie titles you might recognize. In this amazing essay, he writes about his love for movies, using Tom Cruise movie titles as phrases to enrich his essay and tell us about his future aspirations. Thanks, Darwin for your awesome work.

“My endless love for movies really taps my wallet sometimes. With an interest in acting, I’m one of the outsiders looking in, and sometimes I think I’m losin’ it because getting all the right moves as an actor is risky business for a future legend in the film industry. Any top gun in the movies certainly knows the color of money, and drinking a cocktail with some young guns in the business won’t get you an acting gig any more than rain comes from a rainman. I wasn’t born on the Fourth of July where fireworks last for days of thunder and celebration which can be heard either near or far and away. I also wasn’t born yesterday, so I can spot a few good men giving the firm interview for a mission impossible task, once, twice, or three times, like Jerry Maguire in search of fame and money with his eyes wide shut. Like the simple beauty of a magnolia, a director the likes of Stanley Kubrick knew how to make great films with outstanding actors. For the rest of us, it would be like looking past a vanilla sky to see a space station. I could give a minority report in Texas on the Austin powers of persuading a casting director to see my talent in a crowd. I would cut through the competition like the last samurai, using my Martial Art skills as collateral while waging a war of the worlds, fighting lions for lambs in a tropic thunder of awesome technique. Even the German Valkyrie could not stop my passion to become an actor like Tom Cruise knight and day.”

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“YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!”

This iconic movie line was immortalized in the Tom Cruise movie A Few Good Men, which made its worldwide premiere in December of 1992.

This video clip shows the iconic scene from the movie where Jack Nicholson’s character, Col. Nathan Jessup utters the movie line that went down in movie history, thanks to the Tom Cruise movie timeline:

Entertainment powerhouse magazine Variety crowned the Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson film as “a big-time, mainstream Hollywood movie par excellence.” In this movie for the ages, Tom plays a young and inexperienced military lawyer by the name of Daniel Kaffe who is tasked with defending two pigheaded navy men accused of murdering their counterpart. Col. Nathan Jessup, however, initially appears cooperative with the defense but is later suspected by Lt. Kaffe to have been involved in the murder. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Kaffe comes dangerously close to corrupting Col. Jessup’s honorable reputation. It is essentially the clashing of ideals of a superior and his military subordinate, as the movie tagline expresses:

“In the heart of the nation’s capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.”

Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson’s conflict-laden relationship ensues from this clash, as Tom tries to deal with Nicholson’s less than democratic authority. The power struggle between Kaffee and Jessep continues in this climactic scene where Jessep addresses the court on “Code Red.” Kaffee isn’t too happy about Jessep’s bold defiance, and sets him straight with little sympathy and a lot of righteous anger.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times definitely understands the impact that this film has had in our society in saying: “A Few Good Men is a big commercial entertainment of unusually satisfying order.” The “Code Red” speech and “You can’t handle the truth” quote have definitely made a great impact in entertainment culture!

A Few Good Men Movie Trivia:

Steven Spielberg provided some of the dialogue for the film, including “You can’t HANDLE the truth!”

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Tom Cruise Movie ‘Magnolia’ Released in Blu-Ray DVD

February 1, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
‘Magnolia’, the Tom Cruise film that was deemed “one of the best movies of the year” by Rolling Stone has made its high-definition video debut. ‘Magnolia’ was released in the year 2000 when Tom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his powerful performance in the film.
‘Magnolia’ [...]

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Tom Cruise Movies by Tiffany Noelli, Guest Blogger

January 29, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
Here’s another guest blog entry, submitted by Tiffany Noelli from Brazil! Obrigao, Tiffany!
First in Portuguese, then in English:
“Filmes Tom Cruise”
Tom Cruise já nem precisa provar que é um ator versátil. Eu vi todos os filmes que ele atuou, inclusive “Coquetel“, que está super novinho, história mais teen. E o outro mais [...]

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Aspiring Twitter Actors, Actresses, Screenwriters, & Directors With #MovieDreams

January 26, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
Movies as a visual medium, evoke emotion, elicit sentiment and satisfy our need to see the impossible achieved right before our eyes. Recently, movies like ‘District 9’ and ‘Avatar’ have stretched our ability  to imagine what is possible, as the world of digital characters and human actors converge. Movies not only [...]

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Martin Scorsese Receives Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes

January 22, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
Here in the Official Tom Cruise Blog, we wrote about how Martin Scorsese, who worked with Tom Cruise in ‘The Color of Money” was set to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, an award that recognizes outstanding achievement in moviemaking. Sunday night, January 17, 2010, [...]

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Tom Cruise Honored with Aviation Award

January 20, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
We’ve seen Tom Cruise fly planes in the Tom film classic, “Top Gun”, the highest grossing aviation film of all time. Unbeknownst to many, Tom’s love for flying planes is not limited to the silver screen. In his youth, Tom hung a photo of a P-51 Mustang in his bedroom. Now [...]

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The ‘Knight and Day’ Real Time Web Fan Page is Live on TomCruise.com!

January 14, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
We here at TomCruise.com have created a page that is from you and for YOU!
This page is a page created by YOU, the media, and TomCruise.com every second. A real-time constantly updating page full of tweets, widgets, official movie site updates, pictures, news, interviews,  and blogs related to the Tom Cruise [...]

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The ‘Knight and Day’ Movie Real-Time Web App!

January 11, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
The TomCruise.com team proudly presents the ‘Knight and Day’ Movie Real-Time Web App, a widget that includes ‘Knight and Day’ updates and links from the Web, including Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and TomCruise.com. It’s all you wanna know about ‘Knight and Day’ served in a shiny silver widget!
The best [...]

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Knight and Day Movie Actor Marc Blucas Speaks at Mercyhurst College in PA

January 7, 2010

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog:
In ‘Knight and Day’, co-starring with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, Marc Blucas plays the firefighter ex-boyfriend of Cameron.  Marc Blucas has had a shining, stellar career, starting from his first bit part role in a Whoopi Goldberg film, to a long acting stint as Sarah Michelle Gellar’s boyfriend in [...]

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