Dad issues abound in Top Gun

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It's about a handful of guys competing against each other at a top tier Navy flight school, sure, but Sarah, Alex and special guest Clementine Ford unpack Top Gun's dad themes and there is plenty to sort through.

What happens when, haunted by questions about your father's death and legacy, you become the cockiest fighter pilot in the Navy?

Top Gun is, of course, the story of Maverick, Goose, Iceman and a bunch of 1980s cool dudes competing for the Top Gun trophy but it's also stuffed to the brim with dad themes. For Maverick, who grew up haunted by the specter of his father, everyone he encounters becomes—whether he knows it or not—a father figure. We talk all the dad themes, military themes, and—of course—homoeroticism Tony Scott stuffed into this 1986 classic.

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0:00.0	The elite, Best and best.
0:14.0	We'll make you better.
0:16.0	I'm Maverick.
0:17.0	Maverick?
0:18.0	Maverick?
0:19.0	Is your mother not like you or something?
0:21.0	You're everyone's problem.
0:24.0	That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe.
0:27.0	I don't like you because you're dangerous.
0:29.0	That's right. And although we're not at war, we must always act as though we are in.
0:34.3	You think your name's going to be on that plaque?
0:38.4	Yes, sir.
0:40.2	That's pretty arrogant, considering the company you're in.
0:43.0	I like that in the pilot.
0:45.0	Is that why you fly the way you do?
0:48.0	Trying to prove something,
0:50.0	something, something, something,
0:51.0	something, Sarah.
0:57.0	Alex.
0:59.0	Alex.
1:00.0	Just remind our listeners quickly what the show why our dads is about. on your
1:03.7	listeners quickly, dads is about. We are discussing movies through a dad lens
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