Top gun lgbt
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 original 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 being 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 ter
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 favor 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 direct nostalgic nod to the opening of the original, I was on-board; however, the film’s at-times overbearing relationship with its predecessor, as it turns out, might be its greatest weakness.
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Top Gun: The LGBTQ+ Subtext Everyone Has Talked About, Explained
The cult classic Top Gun launched a modern 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 b
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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 gay, because Val Kilmer himself literally confirmed it in an interview for Brush Kiss Bang Bang (he talked about his role as a gay character 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 original 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 girl this time?
The amount of queerness in this film AMAZES ME. And it's not subtle, q