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.
Contents:
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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It's also, to put bluntly, one of the most homoerotic movi ever ma. Top Gun's homoeroticism.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
It's tly fascatg how unbridled the homoeroticism of "Top Gun" is.
Google "Top Gun Gay" and you'll get a hefty 1, 390, 000, 000 rults. In her review, cric Ple Kael said that "the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial [... " Quent Taranto would famoly give voice to the theory that the film is actually a gay love story via a typilly Taranto-que monologue the movie "Sleep wh Me.
" But watchg the film 2022 as this relic of unexpected gayns is still a cur experience. There are moments of the movie that are so startlgly gay that they go right back round to beg hetero.
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
In the mentary on the physil releas of the film, Tony Stt said he found spiratn for the athetic of "Top Gun" a book of black and whe photographs by gay photographer Bce Weber. "Everyone was sred bee was famo terms of the gay muny, this book, " said Stt. He also acknowledged that the film had bee popular wh gay dienc.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
It would have been wearily unsurprisg had such rpons eliced gay panic, pecially given the startlg homophobia of the era.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
There's also a thartic thrill to be had wh seeg a film that is pure ary propaganda be this gay, given that was illegal to be out and servg the '80s (the Department of Defense clared 1981 that "the prence the ary environment of persons who engage homosexual nduct or who, by their statements, monstrate a propensy to engage homosexual nduct, serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn.
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