Tom Cruise represents one of the last actors who can attract attention for his ability to represent different characters in cinema.
Tom Cruise has a career in the world of acting for many years. To be more precise, there have been four decades of career in which he has starred in many films that have achieved significant success at the box office and also with critics, such as Top Gun (1986), Rain Man (1988), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), War of the Worlds (2005), the Mission: Impossible saga (1996-present), among others.
Now, within the framework of the promotion of his new film Top Gun: Maverick (one of his most recommended action films), some film critics such as Nicole Sperling, who has worked as a critic for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, have attempted to draw attention to the importance of Tom Cruise in the world of acting and entertainment.
According to Nicole Sperling, Tom Cruise represents the last true movie star, in addition to being the one who can still enjoy the great film promotion efforts of the film industries.
This idea arose when at the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise, the protagonist of the film, arrived at the location in a helicopter that landed on an aircraft carrier in San Diego and then walked on an extensive red carpet, surrounded by a group of fighter jets, during a three-hour ceremony that included this group of F-18 fighter jets executing a flyover, with a musical background of the Lady Gaga song recorded especially for the film.
These types of premieres are no longer frequent in Hollywood, Nicole Sperling reminds us, because now premieres happen much more frequently and they are more interested in leading the algorithm of streaming platforms, so digital marketing efforts that accompany the new films in the industry are, rather, through the Internet and with a short validity.
Before, very exotic and flashy premieres were customary in Hollywood, like when Disney transported an aircraft carrier from San Diego to Hawaii for the premiere of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor in 2001. Or when the same studio built a 500-seat theater at the Space Center Kennedy from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the premiere of Armageddon.
Tom Cruise has still received this type of treatment and this is associated with the fact that he is one of the last actors who have demonstrated a power to transcend generations and create characters that have become famous thanks to him. A bit in the style of other actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, says Sperling, but it still remains to be seen in the new generation of actors and actresses who, although at the moment they are extremely successful, are still associated directly and exclusively with some character or franchise, like Zendaya, Tom Holland, Ryan Reynolds and Chris Pratt.
Citing film criticism, one of the most important differences between actors like Tom Cruise and others of the moment is that he does not depend on the character to attract the attention of the public, but rather his own career has led him to this. “Now, what counts are the characters. Three actors have played Spider-Man and six have donned the cowl of Batman on the big screen. The public has come to see them all. The Avengers may come together with big box office returns, but how important is it who puts on the costume?”
For his part, Tom Cruise continues to be a star who has been able to transcend generations of viewers who still want to see how he will play his next character and who guarantee a box office success worthy of the good years of Hollywood, in which the system of actors also They were a fundamental part of the credibility of the characters and the box office success of a certain film.
