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February 07, 2008
Misdefined words: what does "Maverick" mean? QT explains
Sometimes pop has it all over politics... While using the word "Maverick" to describe someone who's old enough to have taken multiple positions on every issue under the sun, doesn't it also ring of other things, like Roger Avary's "party piece" by Quentin Tarantino appropriated in Rory Kelly's Sleep With Me (1994)? "What's a film about, what's it really about? What genre does it take? ... [T]he whole idea, man, is subversion. You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest f---ng scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun... Top Gun is f---ing great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots... It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man. You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the f---ing line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways..." [Clip below.]
Posted by Ray Pride at February 7, 2008 08:52 PM
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