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- TOP GUN PRODUCER FLATTERED BY TARANTO’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT THE FILM’S GAY SUBTEXT
- REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
TOP GUN PRODUCER FLATTERED BY TARANTO’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT THE FILM’S GAY SUBTEXT
Taranto's -character rant about Top Gun's gay subtext were addrsed by producer Jerry Bckheimer, who took a solid stance on terpretg art. * top gun gay rant *
“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?
REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
* top gun gay rant *
And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. 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. 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. Taranto's -character rant about Top Gun's gay subtext were addrsed by producer Jerry Bckheimer, who took a solid stance on terpretg art.
Top Gun is also, famoly, a very gay movie, acrdg to many crics, scholars, and fans. However, the mera’s foc on glisteng male bodi, the tense emotnal bonds between the male leads, and the general centerg of male homosocial experienc the plot have led a lot of mentators to nsir Top Gun a queer story. In a famo -character rant, Taranto outl the tails of the movie's homoerotic elements, and 35 years after s origal release, producer Jerry Bckheimer has fally rpond.