Watch Quent Taranto Expla Why 'Top Gun' Is A Gay Movie

Contents:

• JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
• TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
• HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
• BT TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS
• TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS
• TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC

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.

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

Here's a look at the gay subtext that everyone's been talkg about. Homoeroticism may seem like a juxtaposn to the 100% straight male crowd, but the subtext this scene Top Gun exemplifi how everyone is a ltle b gay.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

A ma ponent of this ntext is that the ultimate man is not only for straight men, but for gay men as well. Consirg all of the factors, ’s not surprisg ary-centric films will have homoerotic unrton: beg a man means beg an emotnls 6-pack who don’t thk. US Football and Homoerotic Subtext.

BT TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS

That said, this sport, which engross a natn for several months each year, also v speculatn for s homoerotic overton. Soclogist Alan Duns even published a paper that scrib the gay subtext the language ach e to “spire” their players, as Out Sports reports.

Why Top Gun's Gay Subtext Persists. As much as football has homoerotic overton, beach volleyball follows closely behd, short swim tnks and all.

TOP GUN GAY QUOT & SAYGS

Though the moment that tly seals the al on the homoerotic overton of the scene are the shirtls and sweaty men agast the backdrop of the sun settg on the beach, cht bumpg. 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.

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.

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

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? 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.