Editing USS Missouri (BB-63) (section)

==Appearances in popular culture==
<!-- ============================== ** The subject of this article has appeared in popular cultural contexts such as films, video games, novels, strip cartoons, and the like. These are mostly trivial mentions, and listing them adds no value to the encyclopedic treatment of the subject.

Before adding items to this section, please read [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Content guide#Popular culture]]. Additions that appear to be insignificant and/or are not attributed to a reliable source WILL be removed.

If an item you have added has been removed and you wish to contest its removal, please start a discussion on this article's talk page proposing that it be restored. ** ============================== -->

[[Cher]] asked to film her 1989 music video of her song "[[If I Could Turn Back Time]]" aboard a US Navy ship and the Navy's Office of Information in Washington approved. The Navy intended to have it filmed aboard ''New Jersey'' because ''Missouri'' would be at sea at the planned time. ''Missouri''{{'}}s information officer told the producer: "We're the most historic battleship in the world. This is where World War II ended. You want to do it on here."{{sfn|Stillwell|pp=294–295}} Cher changed her schedule so that it could be filmed aboard ''Missouri''. The performance was filmed over the [[4th of July]] weekend. "The production people did a spectacular job of rigging the ship with lights; The battleship became a dramatic stage for the...video."{{sfn|Stillwell|p=294}} Her performance was racier than expected with her wearing a very revealing costume and straddling one of the 16-inch guns during a part of the performance.{{sfn|Stillwell|pp=294-295}} The video was mostly well received, especially by the crew, but the Navy received some complaints. Columnist [[Jack Anderson (columnist)|Jack Anderson]] wrote "If battleships could blush, the USS ''Missouri'' would be bright red".{{sfn|Stillwell|pp=294-295}} Afterwards, ''Missouri''{{'}}s captain directed that the song be played when the ship was conducting underway replenishments with other ships.{{sfn|Stillwell|p=295}}

The ship was central to the plot of the 1992 film ''[[Under Siege]]'' (many of the on-ship scenes were shot aboard the similar but older battleship {{USS|Alabama|BB-60|6}}). The ship was also prominently featured in the 2012 sci-fi action film [[Battleship (film)|''Battleship'']]. As ''Missouri'' has not moved under her own power since 1992, shots of the ship at sea were obtained with the help of three tugboats.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/21/battleship_movie_and_the_u_s_s_missouri_is_the_u_s_s_missouri_really_still_seaworthy_.html |title=Fact-Checking Battleship: Could We Really Revive the "Mighty Mo"? |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |first=Forest |last=Wickman |date=21 May 2012 |access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref>