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:
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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.’ He uld go both ways.”. Go the gay way.
Be the gay way. Go for the gay way.’ That is what’s gog on throughout that whole movie.”. 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.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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. Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg.
The volleyball scene didn’t make gay. It's also, to put bluntly, one of the most homoerotic movi ever ma.