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:
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
Two years later, he doubled down on that reputatn wh a meo Rory Kelly’s die dramedy Sleep Wh Me, which he lays out the many reasons why Top Gun, wh s many homoerotic unrton, is actually a gay film. “It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy. They’re gay; they reprent the gay man, alright?
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way.
Be the gay way.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
Go for the gay way. Last year, when Top Gun celebrated s 35th anniversary, Vulture asked producer Jerry Bckheimer about the film’s standg as an inic moment gay cema. And what said was: “You’re gay now.
Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic. ” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic.
The volleyball scene is homosexual.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg.
The volleyball scene didn’t make gay. Sce the inic Tom Cise airplane flick me out 30 years ago, fans have argued the ttosterone-fuelled actner is actually lan wh homoerotic subtext – a g-out movie blockbter clothg. Legendary US film cric Ple Kael wrote her review at the time, “the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial: the pilots stt around the locker room, towels hangg prerly om their waists.