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- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- ¿ES ‘TOP GUN’ UNA PELíCULA GAY? SEGúN QUENT TARANTO, Sí
- REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
- TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
- CRíTI EXPLI POR QUé TOP GUN UN CLáSI GAY
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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. * gay innuendo top gun *
“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? And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
* gay innuendo top gun *
They’re sayg no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right?
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
Taranto's -character rant about Top Gun's gay subtext were addrsed by producer Jerry Bckheimer, who took a solid stance on terpretg art. * gay innuendo top gun *
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.
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
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. “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?
REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
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?
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
Go the gay way, go the gay way.
CRíTI EXPLI POR QUé TOP GUN UN CLáSI GAY
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. And what said was: “You’re gay now. Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic.