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Contents:
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
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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.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
“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? And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
They’re sayg no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right?
“Tony has a certa look that he was g stylistilly and you look at that look and ’s a very gay look terms of the haircuts and the styl and the male beefke, ” he says. Jt ask the people who thk ‘The Shg’ is Stanley Kubrick admtg he directed the fake Moon there’s lots of talk of butts and Maverick lls his -pilot Goose “honey”, but do that mean they’re all secretly gay and stgglg to e to terms wh their sexualy?
“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. 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.