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: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
- TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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“Top Gun” producer Jerry Bckheimer celebrated the film’s 35th anniversary this month by reflectg on the movie’s unexpected legacy as a gay film an terview wh Vulture.
This readg of the film was immortalized by Quent Taranto, who has a sgle scene the 1994 movie “Sleep wh Me” which he appears to give a monologue explag why the Tom Cise-starrg “Top Gun” is really “a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy.
They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right? And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
They’re sayg no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? Taranto’s monologue and the blatant homoerotic unrton of the film’s signature oiled-up beach volleyball game have long kept “Top Gun” at least tangentially related to gay cema.
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
Asked by Vulture what he mak of the homoerotic readg of “Top Gun, ” Bckheimer said he embrac even if that was not the specific tentn of the filmmakg team. Here's a look at the gay subtext that everyone's been talkg about. Homoeroticism may seem like a juxtaposn to the 100% straight male crowd, but the subtext this scene Top Gun exemplifi how everyone is a ltle b gay.
A ma ponent of this ntext is that the ultimate man is not only for straight men, but for gay men as well. Consirg all of the factors, ’s not surprisg ary-centric films will have homoerotic unrton: beg a man means beg an emotnls 6-pack who don’t thk.
TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS
US Football and Homoerotic Subtext. That said, this sport, which engross a natn for several months each year, also v speculatn for s homoerotic overton.
Soclogist Alan Duns even published a paper that scrib the gay subtext the language ach e to “spire” their players, as Out Sports reports.
Why Top Gun's Gay Subtext Persists.