Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Film critic Pauline Kael once said Top Gun wasn’t so much a movie as it was an aspiration to be the movie’s iconic movie poster.
We’re not sure that’s what director Tony Scott had in mind when he made the film, but we have to agree.We’re also not sure that Scott realized that he’d also made one of the most homoerotic films in the American canon.
To recap the plot: a group of hotshot, young Airforce pilots try to survive their training–and their hormones–to become the head of their class.That’s it.