Top gun lgbt
June My partner BR and I saunter to a matinee screening of (now six-time Academy Award nominee) Top Gun: Maverick at the Cineplex near us. There’s extra rebound in my step and excitement in my voice. When we arrive, I purchase popcorn in the ridiculous—and ridiculously overpriced—Pete “Maverick” Mitchell souvenir popcorn bucket. This delights and disturbs BR, who has made a grudging exception to her “no creepy Scientologists’ movies” governance to join me for this.
The previous night, we’d revisited the original Top Gun and it inspired the similar question it always does: Why is it so damn satisfying? And why is the long-awaited sequel also so entirely enjoyable to me? What has me watching and wondering and rewatching and feeling?
BR is not alone in being rather confused at the intensity of my enthusiasm. Various friends request some version of why I, a Gen X butch lesbian feminist, am so excited to see a mainstream, pro-military, Tom Cruise vehicle. “Butch,” mushy though I may be, is part of the key here. In , when I first watched the first Top Gun, I’m sure I’d never heard the ter
Top Gun: The LGBTQ+ Subtext Everyone Has Talked About, Explained
The cult classic Top Gun launched a recent era of cinema upon its release in 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 best friends are jet fighter pilots in training at the Miramar Air Station in San Diego during the Chilly War. For practically 60 years, the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was all-encompassing. In the aftermath of World 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 movie goers were inspired to join 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 b
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This is my first time seeing Top Gun, because it&#;s really not a movie that appeals to me in any way. But I had a free IMAX ticket, and I thought it would at least hold some camp value. I can&#;t imagine how anyone ever took this production seriously. Judging from the somber older men&#;tough guys, too&#;in the audience, people apparently still grab it seriously. This is the campiest, gayest movie this side of Showgirls. And it&#;s unbelievably sweaty. This is the sweatiest goddamn movie I&#;ve ever seen. Everyone is constantly dripping sweat, just having sweat pumping out of their faces. It&#;s pretty horrendous. Despite the entire movie not only being incredibly goofy but also increasingly simple, it does acquire it&#;s share of genuine pleasures, aside from the campy, unintentional joys. Some of the aerial sequences look great, especially in IMAX, and the 3D seems to fit the movie nicely, though since I&#;ve never seen it in 2D I can&#;t say for sure. But that&#;s pretty much it. The lie down of the movie is just absolute insane garbage, but impro
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don't mind me i'm thinking about how Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Tom "Iceman" Kazansky are both CANONICALLY QUEER.
That's right folks, you read that correctly. I present to you the evidence:
Regarding Iceman, we all knew he was same-sex attracted, because Val Kilmer himself literally confirmed it in an interview for Embrace Kiss Bang Bang (he talked about his role as a gay personality in the film and said that it wasn't his first; he admitted top gun was his first gay role.)
And for Maverick, the canon evidence was in the authentic Top Gun itself - in a scene that SO many people the o-club scene, Goose tells Maverick when they're making a bet that Maverick "must have carnal knowledge, of a woman this time."
That line right there implies that Maverick has hit on people before that AREN'T women-- because if Maverick was completely straight, why would Goose need to specify that Maverick needs to hit on a gal this time?
The amount of queerness in this production AMAZES ME. And it's not subtle, q