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Contents:
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
- HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
- TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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“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.
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.
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
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. * top gun gay allegory *
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.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Wh Tom Cise's Maverick breakg box office rerds, a vio of Quent Taranto hilarly revealg the gay subtext of the origal Top Gun is makg the rounds on the terwebz, Early on Rervoir Dogs, Quent Taranto’s 1992 feature directorial but, the soon-to-be tr who also played a small role the film as Mr. Brown, tells * top gun gay allegory *
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.”.
REVISG QUENT TARANTO’S BRILLIANT RANT ABOUT THE GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘TOP GUN’
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. A ’90s Clip Of Quent Taranto Explag How ‘Top Gun’ Is Secretly A Movie About ‘A Man’s Stggle Wh His Own Homosexualy’.
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.
HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
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. I say all this as straight male veteran who knew about the movie’s reputatn for havg some gay unrton before watchg: I am actively watchg this movie for the first time sce childhood.
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
Did… did everyone realize how goddamn gay this film was when me out?
The Origal Top Gun Was My Sweaty, Sexy Gay Salvatn. Iceman and Maverick jetted lifavg homoeroticism past a generatn of nservative parents.
You see, the mid-1990s Christian suburbs of Chigo, where dial-up ter age was closely monored, Top Gun was my gay porn. For me, the movie was a seri of homoerotic scen buildg to climax.