Top Gun has one scene so inic, the sequel shed and went even eper. Here's a look at the gay subtext that everyone's been talkg about.
Contents:
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
* top gun gay volleyball scene *
And what said was: “You’re gay now. Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic. The volleyball scene is homosexual.
Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg. The volleyball scene didn’t make gay.
Y, the scene was homoerotic by sign, arguably the bt exprsn of Stt’s onscreen terpretatn of Bce Weber’s photography. And Paramount executiv were nervo about , too, ightened that Stt may have been takg too much spiratn om Weber — whose artistic photos of nu and sntily clad men were most popular wh the gay muny at the time. Instead, we’re talkg about the mute and a half scene that cemented this movie the md of almost every viewer, om film cric to sual watcher, and gave Top Gun a cult followg among the gay muny.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
That brief scene is filled wh so much homoerotic energy, genue appreciatn of the male body, and stanc of men appreciatg other men’s physique, ’s no wonr why this film has been embraced by the gay muny.
But more than that, Top Gun’s volleyball scene surprisgly enpsulat the plited battle between sexual exploratn, reprsn, and homophobia that happened durg 1980s cema. An era of liberalism the 1960s ntributed to homosexualy beg more accepted.