Tom Cruise and "The Last Samurai" can also be considered to be part of this formula. "Widescreenings" noted that for Tom Cruise's character Daniel Kaffee in "A Few Good Men", "[screenwriter] Aaron Sorkin interestingly takes the opposite approach of "Top Gun", where Cruise also starred as the protagonist. In "Top Gun", Cruise plays Mitchell who is a 'hot shot' military underachiever who makes mistakes because he is trying to outperform his late father. Where Maverick Mitchell needs to rein in the discipline, Daniel Kaffee needs to let it go, finally see what he can do." Sorkin and director Rob Reiner are praised
The Cruise (1998 film) at the Jeonju Film Festival. Among the film's wins are the Wolfgang Statuote Award and the Don Quixote Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, demonstrating the film's international diffusion. "The Cruise" also won the Best Documentary Audience Award and the Feature Competition Special Jury Award at the Newport International Film Festival. The Cruise (1998 film) The Cruise is a 76-minute documentary released in 1998. It was the debut film of Bennett Miller, who became prominent after directing "Capote" (2005). The film records the worldview and personality of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, who was then a guide for bus tours of