Top Gun producer Jerry Bckheimer don't have any problem wh Quent Taranto's famo monologue about the movie's gay subtext.
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- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- 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: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
* top gun is gay monologue *
“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?
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. * top gun is gay monologue *
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. “It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy.
TOP GUN PRODUCER FLATTERED BY TARANTO’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT THE FILM’S GAY SUBTEXT
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: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
’More om IndieWireJennifer Jason Leigh Rng wh Quent Taranto to Narrate 'Once Upon a Time Hollywood' AudbookLucy Liu Ph Back Agast Essay Labelg 'Kill Bill' Character an Asian StereotypeTaranto’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. Top Gun producer Jerry Bckheimer don't have any problem wh Quent Taranto's famo monologue about the movie's gay subtext. Top Gun producer Jerry Bckheimer says he’s flattered by Quent Taranto’s famo monologue about the film’s gay subtext.
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.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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.