Is Top Gun a gay movie? According to Quentin Tarantino, yes

There are quite a few moviegoers who like the verbiage of the American director, screenwriter and performer. Quentin Tarantino. The heroes of the feature films that he writes and performs talk a lot, or many of them, one might say, do not shut their mouths even under water. Even in a scene from Jackie Brown (1997), the justification for shooting a certain person four times is that “she won’t shut up.” Therefore, we cannot be surprised by what he releases on Top Shooter: Air Idols (1986) in another film.

Although in fact it is not from his lips that crazy opinion about who plays the main role in Tom Cruise’s Pete Mitchell, the latter on the orders of the late Tony Scott, comes from the lips of Sid, one of the fictional creatures who are given life and what develops into Sleep with me (1994). This is a dramatic romantic comedy by the generous little Rory Kelly, a New York filmmaker with only one film to his credit: Some kind of girl (1998).

“Do you want to know which screenplay is one of the best ever written in the history of Hollywood?” Quentin Tarantino’s character asks Dwayne Todd Field. And he replies:the best weapon“. Because “it’s fucking great” because of what it tells: not “the story of a bunch of macho fighter pilots”, but the story of “a man struggling with his homosexuality”. Which maybe Tom Cruise doesn’t like, because according to the Scientology he professes, it’s a perversion.

Delusional monologue about “Top Gun”

“You have the Maverick, which is at its limit, and also the Iceman. [Val Kilmer] and all his team. They are gay, they represent gays. And they say: “Come on, come on the side of the gays!” continues Syd, for whom Charlie Blackwood Kelly McGillis, who does not repeat himself in a satisfactory Top Shooter: MaverickJoseph Kosinski (2022), “heterosexual” and “says, ‘No, no, no! Come to the normal side, respect the rules. and Pete Mitchell fight this dichotomy “Throughout the entire film”.

“They go to her house and it looks like they’re going to have sex” but it doesn’t happen, instead “he gets on his motorcycle and drives away and she thinks, ‘What the hell is going on here?’ “. And “in the next scene, we see her, she’s in the elevator, dressed as a man,” including “the same jacket as Iceman.” Because “she’s like, ‘OK, this is how I’m going to get this guy. He’s on the gay side, so I’ll get him back from there.“” with such a “trick”.

“But the real end of the movie is when they fight the MiGs, because that’s going over to the gay side,” Quentin Tarantino’s Sid says with undying enthusiasm. “It’s a fucking gay air force and they’re kicking Russian asses (…). And when they finish and land, Iceman, what he kept trying to be a maverick, he finally got it. And what is their last line of dialogue when they are happy together? Drum roll, please.

Quentin Tarantino should not be confused with his character in Sleep with Me.

In any case, we must not confuse the private ideas of a particular character with the ideas of the person who makes up his personality and writes what he says about them. American he would only like to contribute his humorous talent. And producer Jerry Bruckheimer has already explained that “people can interpret it however they want”; and a year ago, editor Chris Lebenzon stated, “We laughed at this homoerotic take on the volleyball game scene. You look at it and say, “Maybe I’m right, but it wasn’t done on purpose.”