#scott movie but without that genuine sprinkle of weird issues

[kraniumet]

every single tony scott movie is queer coded. i don't think every action 80s movie is, and i actually don't think rambo is that gay. commando is pretty gay, that is not a new take. as far as queer coded villains go, mark l. lester, who directed it, has spoken openly on it. the lethal weapons movies were written by shane black, who some people (me, for the first time right now) have described as "only ever making homoerotic christmas movies". beverly hills cop 2 was directed by tony scott. the issue isn't top gun having a normie amount of male gaze mistakenable for gay longing, it's people not drawing gay erotic beverly hills cop fanart. so we agree on that.

#top guns visual language is actually quite peculiar #what these movies have in common is not the form the queer coding takes but the propaganda for the usarican military cop industrial complex #we may belive it was just the virulently sexist 80s idolizing the male form when in fact there was 3 or 4 extremely prolific #directors and screenwriters of the era who's art consistently reads “some flavour of closet case”. #very “people thought freddy mercury was straight”-adjacent #and most importantly. ridley scott directed several movies in the 80s and none of them are gay. #blade runner has a gay character (roy batty) but it's not a gay film. so the closest we get is Legend '85. black rain '89 is like a tony #scott movie but without that genuine sprinkle of weird issues #paul verhooven does make gay movies but almost exclusively about lesbians. etc #post shortening nanoha #i don't watch good movies btw not lately