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
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ¿ES ‘TOP GUN’ UNA PELíCULA GAY? SEGúN QUENT TARANTO, Sí
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.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
They’re gay; they reprent the gay man, alright? Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way.
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. 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.
¿ES ‘TOP GUN’ UNA PELíCULA GAY? SEGúN QUENT TARANTO, Sí
“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. 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.