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- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRERFOLLOWTOP 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
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 subplot *
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
* top gun gay subplot *
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.”And the mera certaly gaz longgly as the actors’ ripped bodi – the hilar topls volleyball game (never md the locker room scen) is proof enough of that.“We didn’t wre as that,” Jack Epps Jr, the movie’s -wrer, tells Yahoo. Appearg as an actor 1994 die ‘Sleep Wh Me’, the wrer/director livers a speech wrten by his ‘Pulp Fictn’ -thor Roger Avary which hilarly re-imag the ‘Top Gun’ plot.“It is a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy,” he says the film.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRERFOLLOWTOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right?
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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? We wrote locker room scen bee that’s where you get that sense of muny.”He also suggts director Tony Stt had somethg to do wh .“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.