Cruise or Hanks?
Cruise
In the discussion (5)
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- Cruise is emphatically preferred, with Butch versus Vincent debated and Hanks as Maynard a joke.
- Cruise as Vincent is criticized as potentially too actorly, over-choreographed and unconvincingly drunk.
- Cruise as Butch is defended through boxing weight classes; Vincent draws disagreement, and Jules is a more surprising alternative.
- Hanks’s softness could suit Vincent, but a lack of darkness is argued against him despite the Travolta precedent.
- Cruise is the final choice whether as Butch or Vincent; the running tally becomes 9–9.