The winner takes it all..
BAM! TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY! AHA! This one’s a bit more…depressing…. BUT I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW “The Winner Takes it All” BY ABBA IS SO TOP GUN (1986) CODED! LIKE ACTUALLY! Warning in advance, professional yapper here ->
ESPECIALLY THESE CHUNKS OF LYRICS:
“I don't wanna talk about things we've gone through, though it's hurting me, now it's history.
I've played all my cards and that's what you've done too.
Nothing more to say, no more ace to play.
The winner takes it all, The loser's standing small. Beside the victory, that's her destiny.”
“The gods may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice.
And someone way down here loses someone dear.
The winner takes it all (takes it all)
The loser has to fall (has to fall)
It's simple and it's plain (it's so plain)
Why should I complain? (Why complain?)”
“The judges will decide (will decide)
The likes of me abide (me abide)
Spectators of the show (of the show)
Always staying low (staying low)
The game is on again (on again)
A lover or a friend (or a friend)
A big thing or a small (big or small)
The winner takes it all (takes it all)
I don't wanna talk If it makes you feel sad.
And I understand, You've come to shake my hand.
I apologize If it makes you feel bad, Seeing me so tense. No self-confidence.
But you see, The winner takes it all
The winner takes it all
So the winner takes it all
And the loser has to fall
Throw the dice, cold as ice
Way down here, someone dear
Takes it all, has to fall
And it's plain, why complain?”
LIKE HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOO??????? ARE WE JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND NOT NOTICE THESE? I would talk about the whole song, but i’m sparing your ears (eyes???)
Especailly the lines: “The gods may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice(man— sorry had to). And someone way down here lost someone dear”
LIKE? THATS SO MAV AND GOOSE. Maverick being the one who lost someone dear to him and the only family he’s got, and goose bring the one maverick is mourning.
and maybe the lyrics of “The judges will decide, the likes of me abide. spectators of the show always staying low”
This part could be like- maybe the court room (??) where they cleared maverick of doing anything wrong, but maybe the spectators could’ve been ice and slider, who are witnessing the fellow aviators grief first hand.
and then we got the final part that really sets it off is: “I don’t want to talk if it makes you feel sad. And I understand, you’ve come to shake my hand. (MAVERICK CONGRATULATING ICEMAN AND SLIDER ON GETTING FIRST) I apologize if it makes you feel bad seeing me so tense, no self confidence (QUITTING TOPGUN??? MAV GONNA TURN IN HIS WINGS/DOESNT HAVE ENERGY ANYMORE TO BE AN AVIATOR??) But you see, the winner takes it all”
blah blah blah angwy blah blah blah maverick blah blah blah homosexual aviator tendencies. You get the basic idea i hope- But yeah. Listen to ABBA, and let me yap more about my top gun brain rot obsession thing.
Okay yayayay ya i’m done 😋
"can't two men just be friends?" i mean they can but these ones sure ain't!
the party ended [3 years] ago and [s]he’s still here
icemav’s first kerner family dinner :(
og reference which is abt 3x1.5 px lololol
Phoenix: Do you guys ever have a civilized conversation that doesn't require insulting each other every time you get a chance?
Hangman: No.
Rooster: No.
Phoenix: Right. Didn't think so.
Talk to me goose.
(I miss you)
Hangster but put them on The Bachelor
preach 🙏🙏🙏
The Top Gun fandom treating Mav like some sort of self-destructive, unsocialized, bratty, feral cat that Ice needs to train and discipline will forever and ever be my villain origin story
Mav is a highly competent, highly skilled, highly trained, and highly decorated fighter pilot and Naval officer and is every single inch Ice's equal, which is THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POINT of their 30 year friendship-slash-relationship
They both learn from each other in the first film and have decades of loyalty in the second film and you don't get that sort of deep trust in each other without it being a relationship built on mutual love and admiration for each other's talents and for knowing exactly where each other's strengths lie
They may have differing methods for how they Get Shit Done, but they respect each other more than anything else, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
(ps, Ice is more of a brat to Mav in canon than Mav is to Ice - the only person Mav is an actual brat to in either film is Charlie)
Rooster: What's taking Hangman so long?!
Fanboy: Y'know how he is
Phoenix: He has to get his perfect hair more perfect!
Hangman: Okay, I'm ready! How do I Iook!
Rooster: Fine, now let's go!
Hangman: Fine? I need gorgeous, I'm changing!
The Daggers: NO!
Top Gun + Valentines Day Part Three of Three
Christmas
New Years
Top Gun silliness
i’m like, lowkey new and i lowkey like top gun (not lowkey anymore. i really love top gun)
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