Top Gun: Is There Really A Gay Subtext? We Asked...
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- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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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.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
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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. “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. 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?
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.
Go the gay way. Be the gay way. Go for the gay way.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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.
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A very gay even gayer vio! The gayt of them all. )Actually, Top Gun: Maverick Is the Gayt Thg This WeekLast weekend, I ma a gay pilgrimage of my own.
I took my sad ltle self to the nearby Alamo Drafthoe, chowed down on some mozzarella sticks, and lighted the sequel to one of the gayt films of all time, Top Gun: Maverick is a perfect film. And the gayns?