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Post by Mahoney on May 14, 2019 13:15:45 GMT
Enjoyable film. Well shot, with great music. An effective exploration of an underground subculture. To some it loses points for its ambiguous ending, but I didn’t mind it.
LOL google Bruno Kirby’s alleged involvement. There’s a scene where a guy is fisting another, and the dude doing the fisting looks exactly like Bruno Kirby, but he denied it. Bruno Kirby was rumoured to be gay but never out of the closet.
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Post by yggdrasil on May 14, 2019 14:06:22 GMT
It was certainly an odd career move for Al at the time. Wonder how far the "method acting" went. I think it also got a lot of stick from the gay community at the time.
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Post by Mahoney on May 14, 2019 14:44:59 GMT
It was certainly an odd career move for Al at the time. Wonder how far the "method acting" went. I think it also got a lot of stick from the gay community at the time. Which is a bit silly. I mean William Friedkin had previously directed The Boys in the Band. You’d think that it would be unlikely to be intentionally homophobic.
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Post by yggdrasil on May 14, 2019 14:59:48 GMT
It was certainly an odd career move for Al at the time. Wonder how far the "method acting" went. I think it also got a lot of stick from the gay community at the time. Which is a bit silly. I mean William Friedkin had previously directed The Boys in the Band. You’d think that it would be unlikely to be intentionally homophobic. It was a bit vague in what it was going for, whether conventional thriller, look at an underground scene or exploitation movie and I think it all got a bit mixed up. Seems to have disappeared from view for many years and is due a reappraisal and hi def cut but I doubt that will ever happen. I think Pacino avoids ever mentioning it himself.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 7:29:37 GMT
Enjoyable film. Well shot, with great music. An effective exploration of an underground subculture. To some it loses points for its ambiguous ending, but I didn’t mind it. LOL google Bruno Kirby’s alleged involvement. There’s a scene where a guy is fisting another, and the dude doing the fisting looks exactly like Bruno Kirby, but he denied it. Bruno Kirby was rumoured to be gay but never out of the closet. You have to remember that this movie was made BEFORE "The Plague". I can imagine that things have greatly hanged since then.
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Post by Lilith on May 15, 2019 19:16:23 GMT
I was surprised to see Pacino in this, but I did quite enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 0:32:11 GMT
I was surprised to see Pacino in this, but I did quite enjoy it. Not when you consider the back round story of his character in 1975's "Dog Day Afternoon".
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Post by yggdrasil on May 16, 2019 10:36:20 GMT
I was surprised to see Pacino in this, but I did quite enjoy it. Not when you consider the back round story of his character in 1975's "Dog Day Afternoon". That was a real classic.
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Post by Mahoney on May 23, 2019 12:00:57 GMT
William Friedkin discusses a fascinating story about Cruising
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