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The Top Gun Volleyball Scene Is Not Homoerotic. It Is Homosexual.
This weekend sees the release of Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited follow-up to the 1986 blockbuster, and while the movie did not necessarily need (the need for speed!) a sequel, I am ready. The original Top Gun is about a bunch of people who perceive how to glide very sophisticated fighter jets but hold not yet determined that they can wipe sweat off their own faces with even plain paper towels. Top Gun blew all the hell up in the summer of '86 for a variety of reasons: the Reagan-era jingoism, Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” the absolute incandescence of a young Tom Cruise. It was a big, sweaty phenomenon.
But Top Gun holds an entirely separate place in some of our hearts. A few of us walked into that multiplex and set up ourselves excited in ways our peers may not own been. Some of us witnessed a moment that stayed in our hearts forever.
I say, of course, of the beach volleyball scene, a one minute and forty second sequence in which a shirtless Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Rick Rossovich (plus a wisely shirtful Anthony Edwards) face off in a high-stakes pickup game to the sound of Kenny
Top Gun: The LGBTQ+ Subtext Everyone Has Talked About, Explained
The cult classic Top Gun launched a new era of cinema upon its release in 1986. A thrilling romance alongside rookie pilot scenes with an epic soundtrack gave all cinephiles something to gush over. Starring Tom Cruise as Maverick and Val Kilmer as Ice, the two foremost friends are jet fighter pilots in training at the Miramar Air Station in San Diego during the Cold War. For practically 60 years, the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was all-encompassing. In the aftermath of Planet War II, NATO was formed, amplifying the post-war tension, which is unfortunately continuing today despite the Cold War ending.
With the Cold War as its backdrop, Top Gun became a beacon of hope, but mostly for the military as many film goers were inspired to participate the Navy, as Screen Rant explains. Yet, despite the overtly masculine text, a much larger subtext is centered in the iconic film. Much like Baywatch was perversely called Babe Watch because of the actors and actresses slow-motion running along the beach in bathing suits, Top Gun and its sequel capitalized on the sexiness of the beach backdrop. Exce
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skycowboy1
This movie is so gay it’s no wonder it was released this month. Save your money.
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Ctony2
Not that I’ve been following reviews, haven’t seen it myself yet…but this is the first negative review (if we wanna dial it that) that I’ve seen about top gun.
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skycowboy3
I was the matching way, everybody was raving about it. I couldn’t consider how hokey it was.
anchorman4
You and several other millions of people are putting this move on an easy pace to >$1 billion at the box office. Too delayed to discourage going to the movies at this direct. The trick to movies is to go to Studio Movie Grill or similar venue…Just fancy fishing. If it aint working, just grab a sip or two.
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SappaCreek5
This movie is so gay
So you’re saying it’s faithful to the original? Tall praise from skycowboy
Esquire – 27 May 22The 'Top Gun' Volleyball Scene Is Not Homoerotic. It Is Homosexual.
To own watched all of this unfold, on the big screen, right in the middle of puberty, was simply not fair.
skycowboy6
Never leave your Buddies behind
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Top Gun: Is There Really A Gay Subtext? We Asked The Writer
Since the iconic Tom Cruise airplane flick came out 30 years ago, fans possess argued the testosterone-fuelled actioner is actually laden with homoerotic subtext – a coming-out movie in blockbuster clothing. But how factual is that?
“I want somebody’s butt, I want it now!”
“You can be my wingman anytime.”
These are just two of the lines in ‘Top Gun’, the 1986 classic set in a flight school for Navy fighter pilots.
Directed by the late Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise as Maverick and Val Kilmer as frenemy Iceman, it was a large summer hit, perceived as a perfect recruitment tool for the Navy and featuring epic dogfights alongside witty guy banter.
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But is there more to it? Legendary US film critic Pauline Kael wrote in her review at the time, “the movie is a shiny homoerotic commercial: the pilots strut around the locker room, towels hanging precariously from their waists.”
And the camera certainly gazes longingly as the actors’ ripped bodies – the hilarious topless volleyball game (never mind the locker ro