What’s Aged the Best?
Score; undercover Jake; poster; period interiors; runaway premise
In the discussion (5)
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- Aged best discussion begins with Scott's reported contractual drinking breaks, then praises Nitzsche's delayed score and Jake's undercover-producer scenes.
- Aged best: the avenging-angel refrigerator sticker, the poster, Ed Begley Jr.'s early role, Hollywood hotel apartments, Mast's apartment and Midwestern wallpaper. The period is praised as fertile fictional ground for disappearances.
- Trackdown is recommended as a related earlier film;1970 sfear narratives and limited missing-person infrastructure make the runaway premise effective. A joke qualifies any claim that finding people was uniquely difficult then.
- Schrader reportedly wrote this alongside Taxi Driver using an extreme drug-and-sleep routine. Adult-industry research and backlash over associating the business with snuff films are discussed; the panel says both church and industry disliked the film.
- A quotation from Schrader introduces Scott's unhappiness during production.