Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The film will open in theaters November 19 via Paramount Pictures. Cruise told Tarantino that the script pushed his character into a new direction that was too appealing to pass up. Tarantino loves “Top Gun” so much, he questioned Tom Cruise’s decision to return for a sequel, the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick.” While appearing on the ReelBlend podcast, the “Pulp Fiction” director said he picked Cruise’s brain about why the actor would make another “Top Gun” without Tony Scott, who passed away in 2012. Coming from Quentin, it’s always a compliment.” Major names include Supergirl ’s Nicole Maines, Caitlin Jenner, Laverne Cox and more, but many critics noted that it was the smaller stories that resonated the most. So there was a great camaraderie and respect between Quentin and Tony. The 2016 documentary The Trans List focuses on eleven transgender Americans and how they navigate life in a country that often ostracizes and erases them. In fact, Quentin came in and helped Tony and myself on ‘Crimson Tide.’ He came in and wrote a couple of scenes for us. And yet there’s a relevance to them, because people believe it.”Īnd Bruckheimer only views the Tarantino monologue as a good thing, adding, “ Tony and Quentin were very good friends. “So we’re surprised every time we hear something talked about, or written about, the films that we make that have no real context for the filmmakers or what the filmmakers wanted to do. “When you make a movie, people can interpret it in any way they want and see something in it that the filmmakers had no idea they were tapping,” Bruckheimer said. Asked by Vulture what he makes of the homoerotic reading of “Top Gun,” Bruckheimer said he embraces it even if that was not the specific intention of the filmmaking team. Tarantino’s monologue and the blatant homoerotic undertones of the film’s signature oiled-up beach volleyball game have long kept “Top Gun” at least tangentially related to gay cinema.
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This reading of the film was immortalized by Quentin Tarantino, who has a single scene in the 1994 movie “Sleep with Me” in which he appears to give a monologue explaining why the Tom Cruise-starring “Top Gun” is really “a story about a man’s struggle with his own homosexuality.” For now, we rounded up 35 of our favorite LGBTQ movies, from a sapphic historical romance to a cheesy early-aughts coming out rom-com and everything in between.“ Top Gun” producer Jerry Bruckheimer celebrated the film’s 35th anniversary this month by reflecting on the movie’s unexpected legacy as a gay film in an interview with Vulture. With more queer-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever before given the opportunity to share their stories, we can only expect more fantastic LGBTQ+ films in the future. While we’re a long way from total inclusivity and gay movies sans stereotypes, the film industry has made recent strides in centering LGBTQ+ characters. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. LGBTQ movies are a rarity, even more so than accurately portrayed queer characters in film nowadays.