‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is Actually the Gayt Movie of the Year

Contents:

• JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
• TOP GUN PRODUCER FLATTERED BY TARANTO’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT THE FILM’S GAY SUBTEXT
• ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR

JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’

“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. 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. 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.

TOP GUN PRODUCER FLATTERED BY TARANTO’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT THE FILM’S GAY SUBTEXT

“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.

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.

‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR

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A gay subtext was ed beg read to the movie almost om the very begng, somethg that was easy to do given scen like the famo shirtls beach volleyball game. Filmmaker Taranto then took thgs to the next level when he performed a monologue for the 1994 die movie Sleep Wh Me which his character spells out tail jt how much of a secret gay film Top Gun really is. Producer Bckheimer was the latt to be asked for his rellectns about Top Gun, and he fact addrsed the gay readg of the movie and specifilly Taranto’s monologue.

Briefly, Sid’s argument is that the character of Maverick is nflicted about his sexualy, and that the entire story of Top Gun is a symbolic tug of war between Val Kilmer’s Iceman (who reprents what Sid lls “the gay way”) and Kelly McGillis’ Charlie (who reprents “heterosexualy”). Sid pots out that at one pot Maverick outright rejects Charlie’s sexual advanc, and orr to w him, Charlie mt drs like Iceman and brg Maverick “back om the gay way. ” Sid then rells that the movie ends wh “the gay way” wng as Maverick and Iceman exchange double-entendr about “ridg each other’s tails.