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Cruising

What’s Aged the Worst?

Sentence deal; dubbed voices; Franco film; headline; height staging; pickup dialogue

In the discussion (8)
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  • The first victim’s wrestling magazines prompt a joking objection to the association with wrestling.
  • The captain’s promise of an eight-year maximum and release in three is questioned, both for leniency and his lack of sentencing authority.
  • The dubbed killer dialogue is a qualified negative, also admired for disorientation and possible use of the father’s voice.
  • Franco’s2013 Interior. Leather Bar. project is criticized as overreach and an unappealing use of money.
  • The project is defended for exploring a straight actor’s unease and producing beautiful, if overly modern, reimagined footage.
  • A newspaper’s anti-gay killer headline is jarring despite being considered period-realistic.
  • The park confrontation conspicuously uses a bench and incline to make Pacino appear as tall as Stuart.
  • The early pickup dialogue about an ostrich feather, a Martian and an ego needing worship is criticized as awkward psychoanalytic writing, despite succeeding within the scene.