Top Gun: An untentnal gay classic

Contents:

• JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
• CRíTI EXPLI POR QUé TOP GUN UN CLáSI GAY
• TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
• HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
• ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
• TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
• THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
• ¿ES ‘TOP GUN’ UNA PELíCULA GAY? SEGúN QUENT TARANTO, Sí

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

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. 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.

CRíTI EXPLI POR QUé TOP GUN UN CLáSI GAY

“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. In a newly rurfaced clip of Taranto’s small meo part Sleep Wh Me (1994) the director sentially plays himself, passnately argug his se for why he believ Top Gun is really about homosexualy.

TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER

” In the Sleep Wh Me scene, Taranto shar his theory wh a character played by Todd Fields that Top Gun is actually a full-fledged tale of homosexualy disguised as ary propaganda.

” Moreover, Taranto go on to suggt: “It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

” Taranto ntu by suggtg that Maverick’s relatnship wh Charlie reprents heterosexualy, and the stggle he fac tryg to do what is expected by society, vers acceptg his tth as a gay man. ’” Taranto believ that by the end of the movie, Maverick’s teractn wh Iceman, his petn throughout the film, nfirms his acceptance of his homosexualy. This theory do make a lot of sense, nsirg the highly homoerotic subtext that ns through the film, such as highly eroticised scen of oiled mcly men flexg the sun ont of each other, and the often palpable tensn between the male characters.

Algunos crítis en su momento vieron un claro mensaje trasfondo gay. La crora también recuerda que en su momento un buen análisis l tema lo hizo Quent Taranto en la cta Sleep Wh Me, Rory Kelly, don hace un meo y aprovecha para explir cómo Top Gun evintemente una historia homosexual.

Pero en realidad la historia la lucha un hombre n su propia homosexualidad. Todos son gays. Y le dicen: ‘¡Úe a nosotros, sé gay!

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

Y ellos le dicen ‘no, ge el mo gay’. La quími que los personaj masculos tienen entre sí y la importancia que le da la cta a cómo se relacnan ayuda a fomentar ta perspectiva gay. Pero el verdaro fal la película cuando luchan ntra los MiG porque la transición al lado gay.

TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC

Ellos son la jodida fuerza aérea gay y tán pateándole el culo a los sos (... Para mentar las cursidas a favor la perspectiva gay la cta, la tora l artículo enta que el mismo Tony Stt nfó haber spirado la téti la película en un libro fotografías en blan y negro Bce Weber, un fotógrafo gay. Parece que al director no le moltó que la gente terpretara así su película o que se volviera muy popular n la unidad gay.

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.

THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN

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. “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.

¿ES ‘TOP GUN’ UNA PELíCULA GAY? SEGúN QUENT TARANTO, Sí

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? Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia. Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Healy was seen kissg bassist Ross MacDonald after cricizg Malaysia’s stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience.

Not as easy as looks” was cricised for kissg a male fan at a 2019 ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also has laws agast homosexual acts, media reported.