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Top Gun: The LGBTQ+ Subtext Everyone Has Talked About, Explained
The cult classic Top Gun launched a fresh 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 Icy 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 bathing suits, Top Gun and its sequel capitalized on the sexiness of the beach backdrop. Except the
June My partner BR and I walk to a matinee screening of (now six-time Academy Award nominee) Top Gun: Maverick at the Cineplex near us. There’s extra bounce 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” rule to join me for this.
The previous late hours, we’d revisited the imaginative Top Gun and it inspired the same doubt 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 entity rather baffled at the intensity of my enthusiasm. Various friends ask some version of why I, a Gen X butch lesbian feminist, am so excited to see a mainstream, pro-military, Tom Cruise vehicle. “Butch,” soft though I may be, is part of the key here. In , when I first watched the original Top Gun, I’m sure I’d never heard the term.
But I was a year-old tomboy living on a farm in southwestern Ontario, whose chores involved du
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 blockbuster, and while the show did not necessarily need (the need for speed!) a sequel, I am ready. The original Top Gun is about a bunch of people who know how to hover very sophisticated fighter jets but have not yet determined that they can wipe sweat off their own faces with even ordinary 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 limited of us walked into that multiplex and set up ourselves excited in ways our peers may not have been. Some of us witnessed a moment that stayed in our hearts forever.
I utter, 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) confront off in a high-stakes pickup game to the sound of Kenny Loggi
Top Gun: Maverick fails to fly the flag on LGBT+ representation
In a summer marked by turbulent political and social upheaval, scorching heat waves and, for many students enjoy me, nerve-shredding exams and coursework deadlines, who doesn’t want to sit in the cockpit of a plane with Tom Cruise as he perilously flies through mountains, and performs incredible feats of flight-related acrobatics? All tied together with a bow of synth stings, Jon Hamm doing his best ‘angry-military-higher-up’ impression, and gorgeous cinematography? Top Gun: Maverick, in these aspects, is certainly worth the price of admission.
I myself was rather cynical before going in to see this long-anticipated sequel; being a fan of the original, I felt like the franchise was too married to its 80s' roots to be properly adapted into a new, shining 21st century mould. From the very first scene, which is itself a blunt nostalgic nod to the opening of the unique, I was on-board; however, the film’s at-times overbearing relationship with its predecessor, as it turns out, might be its greatest weakness.
“Indeed, there is a notable ‘laddish’ strain to the film’s approach”
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