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? Go the gay way, go the gay way.
Go the gay way.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Be the gay way. 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.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
” 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.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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. “It is a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy, ” he says the film.
They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right?