Seeking Derangements - SD 88 - Cruising (with Hesse)
Episode Date: October 9, 2021Hesse (@ZeroSuitCamus on twitter) joins us to deconstruct Cruising using marxist film analysis with extra gender and a side of queer. Paul Verhoeven should have made this movie instead. patreon.com/s...eekingderangements - new episodes every week
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🎵 okay we're on
hey hey hey
hey hey hey. Hey, hey, hey, everyone.
We're with Claire Penis,
international Twitter star.
It's Claire Penis.
You retard.
Excuse me, madam.
Oui, oui, Claire Penis.
Okay, we got Max here
and Ben here as usual.
Or do you think it's like Pen penne like the pasta or like panini
like the sandwich no i just i just thought it was like a really funny like like fake identity like
hello my name is claire penis um i'm not i'm not like the other girls no i'm stupid I'm not like the other girls
I'm Italian
but yeah
we're here with Hessa and we're
here to talk a very important movie
1980 Al Pacino
Cruisin
now I want to bring up the first
fact that this is the
second movie
the director of the
this is the movie that the guy who directed the exorcist did
immediately after.
I thought that it was just so crazy that the same guy who made cruising
made the exorcist.
I just didn't see it.
Yeah.
Thank you for the fun fact.
Um,
but yeah,
that's right.
Thank you for reading the Wikipedia page.
shock um but yeah that's right thank you for reading the wikipedia page every time we review a movie or like a tv show or whatever where
take us take a damn screenshot of that it's not something you did not
immediately after reading the second paragraph of the cruising film article on Wikipedia. Y'all, I got so many notes.
I copied and pasted the entire Wikipedia into a Google Doc form
and put it on my phone.
Did you guys know that cruising is a play on words with a dual meaning
because cruising can describe both police officers on patrol
as well as men who are cruising for sex?
I fucking hate y'all.
I come in ready with this to say some
you think you did journalism by just
like people people give glenn greenwald so much money to do exactly the same thing
um but we're here we're reviewing cruising the um yes the movie with al pacino
um i think a quick summary on it is there's a gay guy murderer who's killing other gay guys
the homo killer and al pacino has to go undercover as a gay guy to kind of be would that be a honeypot yeah right yeah kind of
honeypots for like intelligence i'd love to fill up his honey
pedophiles but uh but yeah i mean he's okay gay guys same thing you know they're still uh
targeting lgbt people i think exactly. But yeah, Al Pacino
goes undercover to
catch
this gay serial killer. I don't remember
the character's name. All of my notes say
Al, so you guys are cool if we just refer
to the character as Al. His name is
Steve Burns. I'm sorry.
I'm Steve Burns.
It's so unbelievable.
Why are they keeping this guy
some wasp-ass
middle American name when he's clearly
so Italian by looking at him?
My name's Steve Burns.
My uncle works in sanitation.
He burns the garbage.
That's how he got the name.
I gotta say that the cast was so
incredible.
The cast was incredible.
Karen Allen delivers a stellar performance in this movie. Who's the guy? was so incredible like the cast was actually incredible karen allen karen allen delivers
a stellar performance in this movie and every guy is great in every movie who played gregory
gregory was um oh what's his name something james remar james remar yeah so hot he's so young in
this way okay i think the hottest one was Skip.
Skip is definitely the hottest for me.
Skip is like a total baddie.
And I love how hot all these little leather twinks are.
Because Al Pacino looks more busted in this movie than he does in any movie that i've ever seen clammy
they look so clammy you can i felt like i felt like just waves of like saliva like just it made
me feel wet in like the worst way not in like a hot way like looking at him crazy perspective that
he just did all the godfather movies in this time period and then
the next thing he does is the gayest movie possible yeah yeah and like i remember seeing
the movie like six or seven years ago i do not remember the fisting yeah i do not okay let's get
let's get into it let's get into it before you before you give away the climax shot the fisting
scene let's get what i thought first before we get to the porno the movie opens
it takes place in new york city of course um the opening scene takes place on the hudson river
and the first shot is like this like steamboat and two sailors are there and then they're they're
looking out into the distant river and there's a disembodied arm.
And the guy's like,
Captain, you gotta come look at this.
There's a limp wrist floating in the Hudson. Yeah, I was gonna say,
when they're examining it,
he sees how limp the wrist is and it's like,
you can just put it as an accident.
We got another one.
Okay, also,
I don't know.
A disembodied limp wrist of the week.
I don't know if this is real science or something but for whatever reason shut up shut up the arm the
severed arm when they're at the like morgue has the longest nails like disgusting long long nails also no your nails keep growing after you die yeah oh yeah
it's a post-mortem slay
my nails are giving post-mortem um so yeah the they go to the the morgue there's the what do
you call the coroner is like looking at the body he's like talking to a detective and he's like you know we got another arm found in the hudson looks gay
and then uh it's like what would you is this like a a hard-boiled what's the what's the
name yeah it's a noir yeah like that um detective noir the gay chinatown yeah exactly um and so our next scene is we see
two cops on patrol they apprehended a scene two trans women okay they forced they forced one of
them to give them a blow job yeah and then that's kind of it for for these two characters they
guys in the entire new york police force on chaser patrol
we have to talk a little bit about how busted both of these guys look like they
they went for like the most disgusting uh like herpes ridden like assholes
they could like farm animals
yeah they look like farm
animals that's it's
not about the trans women that way shock
I'm not talking
of you talking about
the cops and the two cops going
back to back and forth before they
start like fucking with the trans people
one of the cops turns to the other cop
and says, one day,
this whole city will explode.
And then it cuts to the next scene.
They predicted 9-11, y'all.
I'm serious!
I'm serious.
And behind the scenes,
Friedkin is like,
yeah, you know, we had a real transsexual
play that one part
and his name was
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed he was a hot
designer out of Egypt and you know
get ahead of him
his agent was playing hardball with us and we had to
settle but then he's like
then I decided not to use
not to use him you know
really? I was like yeah it's just an actor
that's so funny to have a trans woman
there and like willing to act and do this movie which is like and then they're like i know we
let's get let's get a male he's like i gave it to my buddy's younger brother he's trying to break
out of the scene oh my god okay so after this trans woman is forced to give the cop a blowjob
um the camera pans and
tracks this like you know
shadowy figure into a
gay bar um
and we then find out that this is
the killer
um and it's like
yes it is
it is so the first scene is this guy
um the killer
picking up picking up...
Adam Driver.
Picking up a gay guy
at one of these bars
and bringing him...
He never takes his sunglasses off.
He's always smoking a cigarette.
His voice is the most
dubbed over voice of all time.
It sounds like a Giallo movie or something.
It is really dubbed over.
And there are a lot of dubs in this movie you know what i think it's because when they were making the movie gay guys were
protesting it and they would because they're shooting all of this in lower manhattan or like
the upper like near central park or something and gay guys would be protesting it and they'd be
following the film crew around and they would be whistling and banging on pots and pans to fuck up the audio because they didn't want the movie to
be made so a majority of the audio in this movie is overdubbed and that's why it sounds like shit
okay can we take a pause to say why are these gay people protesting we can talk about that we can
talk about that at the end but uh at the end of the review it just makes gay people look so cool
the whole movie even when they're getting
killed
so the killer is yes
as you were saying Jacques he's always wearing
the same thing he has a kind of signature
slay
Tom of Finland
leather jacket
short belt
cop glasses aviator
or Joe Biden
it's Joe Biden glasses.
Joe Biden, y'all.
Don't you start
with that sleepy Joe bullshit.
Is this an aside, but like,
why is the Leather Daddy thing
such, because it's like a cop
fetishization, because they also have nightclubs
all the time. I'm like, why not pick
a different profession for gay guys
to fix them up? Or pick a different profession or something or like a train conductor
or something because they're just as like sartorially distinguished as like cops you know
it's like yeah a lot of options for a train conductor you could be like it's the most
like go on one whistle when you come you could You could really incorporate a lot, I think. It's just, the
leather thing, I don't
really get that much.
I would say a majority
of the movie is shot in these leather gay
bars, more or less.
William Prekin mentions that
in the behind the scenes, and he's like,
It's the name of the director?
Yeah, he's like, in the original novel,
it's like normal gay people
but i was like you know now there's all these leather bars i see all the time and i'm like
you know i don't want to make this a movie about this book because you know
there there's no leather and you know and uh but then i realized i could just put it in the leather
it is an incredibly sauce movie I'm assuming the director is straight
But it is like
How are you as a man making a movie
About gay guys
I love how
Edgy it is it's just like yeah
BDSM it's the worst thing you can do
Besides being gay
And if they're both
BDSM and leather
They're kink shaming
If you've ever bottomed, you've been raped
is essentially the message of this movie.
Exactly.
Yeah, actually, that is true.
Very true.
Yeah, I mean, for a lot of people,
yes, it may as well be true.
That's like a Bible quote or something.
I swear I've heard that before.
John 3.16.
So the killer goes in in he's hanging out
he's hanging out at these the bars are all of course in basements they are um smoke filled
everyone in there is just like sweating out of every single pore everybody is everybody on the exact same spot on stage or they're not moving it's just a bunch
of gay guys just glaring at each other in these bars they're all so serious no one's smiling
once in the entire movie there's not a single smile it's just these guys just in leather like
the the punk band the germs did the. So it's just like California punk.
Like that.
And it's just these sweaty guys glaring at each other.
And just pacing in these bars.
I don't want to jump.
It looks like the least fun time imaginable.
First of all, it looks like the coolest gay bar I've ever seen.
I've never seen a gay bar that looked like that in there. Except in orleans at the phoenix where people are like fucking in the bar still
gay bars like that yeah i mean like these bars are i think all mostly still exist in new york
they're like dying i think all these ones are gentrified and like greenwich village and stuff
like there's a lot of like rape a baby in there. There's nothing worse than... They're not like advancing to like
hard, like EBM and doing poppers.
They're like sacrificing a child
to Moloch.
It's all like prospect park
like sex parties now
that you get invited to in like an email chain.
I have not attended Do Not Go,
but that's the closest thing
I know happening to that in the city
there's a notorious circuit gay now yeah i'm a circuit gay
i thought i noticed something new about your kitchen um you live in hell you just stop there
i live in hell so the killer goes in he um spots a guy coincidentally this guy does look like a lot like al pacino al pacino has not
been you know pictured in the movie yet he takes that guy home um and he murders him by by stabbing
him in the back um after tying him up in a bds somewhat yeah so this is like my favorite scene
because it's such a good scene it is really good scene. It was a perfect horror scene.
Yeah, it's really scary.
It's really fucking scary.
Yeah.
We've all been there.
We've all been there.
Oh my god.
A lot of times all of us probably could have been
literally stabbed in the back.
I
should have been dead already for the times that i was like okay i
agreed to be chained the moment you decided to accept the moment you decided to accept payment
and cake is it's when you lost one time i was one time i was dating this guy who was like yeah i'm
a sex worker it's like the first person i met that said was that they were a sex worker and we were
hooking up and he said okay i just want to chain you to all fours to the bed and put a blindfold on you and
just like do whatever i want and i was like sure like what what's what's the worst that could
happen i was down and i i want to say before i even finish the story it was a good time okay
you did not you did not get killed so the first thing is i just got
immediately punched in the face oh so he did start beating you up he mentioned jock got killed by a
killer but by one of those uh like a cruiser or cruising killers you know yeah no totally
i can get him involved you know you have to like get up all the gay clubs in Denver.
The cops would be like, sir,
are you Jacques' brother? We have some tragic news for you.
And it has a veil at the funeral.
Oh.
Box of Kleenex and a veil.
Okay, so
a guy that looks like Pacino
is dead.
We have to get through this shock.
Okay, I just want to say one last thing.
We're literally two minutes into the movie.
Just one thing, one thing, one thing.
Okay, go ahead.
I thought that getting punched in the face
or the blindfold was shocking.
And I was like, oh, nothing's going to top this.
And then I got tased.
God.
Okay, that was it.
But it was a great time.
It was a great time.
And then we had sex.
I wish I had the ability to remotely
tase you.
I could just press it.
It would be so useful.
Anyways, we are proceeding
with the movie.
Okay.
Since this gay guy is dead that looks like al pacino um it's i don't know how many men before this have been killed but it's becoming
kind of a problem and so the police there's a scene where the police are like okay we have
to try something new and al pacino now makes his entrance into the movie he's called into the sergeant's office
and the sergeant is like do you like cocks we got a weird one for you buddy um he yeah he like
asks albany's like have you ever ever sucked a cock i have the i have the quote right here he
said he's like i'm calling OSHA. Sir.
I love the whole thing. He says,
Let me ask you something.
Have you ever had your cock sucked by a man?
A man? No.
Ever been porked?
Or had a man smoke your pork?
You've got to be kidding.
He's like, damn.
So basically the sergeant tells,
the captain tells him,
look, you want a promotion?
We need you to do this all for us
because just too many gay guys are being murdered.
You look like the kind of guy
that the pretty gay killer loves.
Well, he says that the killer has a type that,
you know, dark guys.
You're the same type as the victims
and then he says
um late 20s
I know
that's how old Pacino is supposed to be
also let's be honest
the type is just Italian
the type is just
Italian guy
can you imagine how much better
this movie would have been if they had John Travolta instead?
Oh my god.
John Travolta would have been
squirting the whole time.
He would have been too
horny to act in this movie.
Do y'all think that Al Pacino
is bad at acting in this or something?
No, but he just doesn't fit.
He's just like some...
Does Al Pacino have gay face? No, he doesn't. He does look the entire movie like he doesn't fit. He's just like some... Does Al Pacino have gay face?
No, he doesn't.
He does look the entire movie like he doesn't want to be there.
He is screaming like,
I need to be back in my mama's kitchen
and I need to be selling her sauce.
I think Al Pacino...
He's retreating to that safe space.
He can tell.
He has borderline gay face.
I think he does.
Borderline.
Maybe.
He's just... The only thing I see him and I think he does. Borderline. Maybe. He's just...
The only thing I see him in,
I think, is on Caccino.
Like, the time has passed.
Yeah, but gay...
Sorry, Max.
Gay Italians exist.
I don't know.
No, no, no.
Why you're trying to erase them.
That's what they look like.
They're 93 pounds,
and they're going to waste away in the wind.
Or they're like 800 pounds
and shiny as fuck.
And Al Pacino isn't either.
Al Pacino is just like some guy.
He's like some Italian guy.
Regardless of whether or not he's gay,
he does say yes to the job.
I loved imagining that like, you know,
the kind of like cliche, like pre-climax,
like moment that's always in all like cop movies
where it's like, you've gone too far
detectives need to turn in your gun and your badge if his if his sergeant was like detective
turn in your dildo and your popper this case this case is going to your head man
you're threatening you're threatening the department. So Al says yes.
Al says yes.
And he moves, of course,
to an apartment on Christopher Street to be undercover and live in a gay neighborhood.
And he meets a neighbor of his in the hallway.
A gay guy, of course.
Al's wearing a wife beater.
His neighbor is also wearing a wife beater.
Ted!
His neighbor says...
Ted.
That's his name.
His neighbor Ted.
Sorry.
His neighbor Ted is wearing a wife beater
that just says Christopher Street on it.
Yeah.
Oh, I love that.
I love that.
It's so funny.
He's throwing away old gay porn magazines.
Yeah. Yeah. old crusted over
uh porn and then he's like our lady neighbor like hey you throwing away any good stuff
yeah yeah yeah and he's there's like a funny little aside where he's like don't he's like
leave them aside our landlady sells them um but i love it i love the christopher street wife beater because it's like it'd be like
today just like uh like a little like nb person wearing a like shirt that just says like myrtle
broadway what is what is what is christopher's racist white girl just wearing a tank top that
says dime square i only know what christopher
street is like from this movie what is it like it's just a gay street um but it's the greenwich
village right it's like it can't be near yes it's not sexy anymore i mean no it's not it's not sexy
anymore there's no sexy places left in Manhattan except for the suicide
building in Chinatown.
What about my apartment?
Hessa's apartment.
In the next scene,
let's see. So he moves to Christopher Street.
He meets his neighbor.
They go and get coffee and they talk about
the killer. Al seems to be
very good, honestly, at talking
to gay guys. He doesn't seem weird out at
all um recently his neighbor's normal his neighbor's pretty chill guy his neighbor like
well his neighbor is the only neighbor they walk and they talk they change out of their
wife beaters and they both put on button up shirts that are half unbuttoned. Half unbuttoned and eight sizes too big.
Already got the gay wardrobe down.
He's, I think, doing pretty well at this.
And then in the scene after this,
Al's job is basically, at this point,
going into these bars
and trying to get murdered, honestly.
That's his job.
He's going into a leather bar
and being like,
who wants who
wants to kill me i'm gonna stand in the corner over here please someone try to kill me
let's be real every time that i dress slutty i'm like hey come here and fuck me or come and kill me
exactly come here and fuck me or come and kill me. Gay sex murder me. Exactly. It's the death dryer. She's getting
sick to him. Oh my god.
He starts doing...
I mean, out of us three, Jacques is
closest to the... The most murderable.
Well, you're closest to the
killer's type. You're kind of
far off, but I think he'd go for you.
Maybe Max. So far, yes.
I'm a little too swarthy for that.
You're a little too swarthy.
I'm too pale.
Yes, okay, that's fine. That's all you wanted to say, Jock.
Just wanted to call me pale.
Okay, so in the next scene,
Al is starting to kind of, I think,
trying to get his grip on what gay nightlife
is like in this scene.
And so he goes into a gay sex shop of sorts and um he sees an array of
bandanas and he's like there's like you know a bunch of different colored bandanas and then he
asks the the shopkeep like what what are these about buddy the shopkeep goes into a 12-minute monologue about what each bandana means.
Guy's like, this one's for bottoms.
This one's for piss.
Like blue, Hank, in your left back pocket means you want a blowjob.
Right pocket means you give one.
The green one left side says you're a hustler.
Right side, you're a buyer.
Yellow one left side means you give golden shower right side
you receive the red one please say anything you want if the red bandana is tied around your bicep
that means you want a fist if it's tied around your your gaping asshole it means you want to get
fisted it's so stupid it's like god i'm showing up there like wearing all the bandanas fuck all that
if i really wanted to get killed i would wear all the bandanas pulling pulling a string of
every bandana out of your top hat and looking around to see what's coming over.
I'd have one as a bow around my head, one as a bow around my
neck, two bows.
It'll be perfect. So Al kind of
spazzes out a bit. He's like, thank you, sir.
And then he runs out of the shop.
He does the art as a walk where he just
doesn't even say goodbye. He just goes,
oh, okay, bye.
See you later.
He's like, blurgg and then he runs out of the shop he has a big blurk moment i'm gonna go home think about it i'm sure
you'll make the right choice the song that's playing in this part is like so goofy like i'm
sorry but it's like the goofiest shit on earth. Like the intro song was also.
So then the next thing Al goes back, he goes back again to the like he's got a taste for sex bar dungeon.
In this case, he is now wearing a yellow bandana in his back pocket, which means he wants to piss on someone as he as he very well knows and then
he's doing he's he's sitting in the corner looking around seeing who wants to murder him
and then a guy with another yellow bandana in his pocket walks over this guy's like hey what are you
into no he says you in the water sports and then al is like no No, I just, I like to watch.
Later.
Yeah.
And then he gets scolded by the guy for appropriating piss play culture.
He's like,
If you like to watch,
take that hanky out of your pocket, asshole.
It's kind of the bar for appropriating culture.
I mean, it's beautiful.
Piss culture.
The beautiful city.
Honestly, it happens so often in this. It's so great.
I know. I would do the same.
There's kind of like an element of
Curb Your Enthusiasm to this movie.
It's just like
bouncing between locations, getting yelled at by
people. I mean, it makes sense.
If you see that,
if you take that into account, it makes sense
for Al Pacino to be in that
role, you know? Because if someone who looks like Al Pacino pacino to be in that role you know because if
someone who looks like al pacino came up to do all that all those things you would also yell at him
some like you know a pasty white guy with you know who looks like he's you know cold sweating
his way like through like withdrawal of some sort even ask you like hey what do these bandanas
stand for whatever i just have to say
this too i wrote sweaty seven times on different lines in my notes everyone is sweaty in this movie
they're just like hosing these guys down before they roll tape i feel like i would have really
done well on christopher street in these bars you wouldn't have you kind of have like a classic
pervert look to you.
It's so crazy.
That broke Hessa
hearing that I have the classic
gay pervert face.
You do.
You do.
I don't know why.
Usually I'm very sensitive.
You either look like a sea lion or like a menacing pervert.
For whatever reason, I'm liking this.
This is a good...
You're feeling affirmed.
Well, usually I would feel like this is you teasing me.
Y'all, I got rid of gender dysphoria now that I'm single and I date no one.
So also they're all pockmarked.
Everyone in this movie is pockmarked and sweaty. Well well because they hadn't invented accutane until the 80s i'm not i'm not i don't it's fine this is this is
before they invented skinny blonde twinks this is exactly okay also not a single blonde man in this
movie not a single blonde man in this movie no no no there's a couple ginger ted's ginger there's ted he's ginger ted is
strawberry blonde come on yes yeah thank you okay fine oh my god there is one blonde guy with a
mustache and yeah oh that's true but those don't count really hot that is true every single guy
so they are um do you think the cast was actually gay? No. Al gets scolded. No, absolutely not. Of course not.
Absolutely.
I know from the behind the scenes that most of them were straight.
Yeah.
Everyone's straight.
Such a shame.
That's good acting.
So the next scene after Al gets scolded is in Central Park.
They are a bunch of gay guys hanging out in the park at night near the infamous Bramble,
which was a notorious cruising spot now i
think all that happens is the bramble in the bramble is like that like karen videos like that
one that one guy who was bird watching and then that one walked up to him yeah that happened because
of her dog or something and she like called the police on him that guy was there cruising he was
a he's a gay marvel blurred and he was going there and he
was cruising i i i don't believe the bird watcher inheritance he's trying to fuck it's like noon
he's like pretending to hold like a double dildo up to his eyes like binoculars I'm just here bird watching like an immediate
Patagonia vest
this shirtless with a
Patagonia vest on
you can like see his harness over one of his shoulders
um so
at the bramble
bunch of gay guys are hanging out there the killer
walks up and
you know lures a guy out into the bramble
and kills him the thing that i don't
understand is that like why are all of these guys into the killer he has such killer vibes
they loved his mystique and his allure you you know, as a mysterious person. Listen, you go to somebody and you're like, hey, I love Grateful Dead.
What music are you into?
Yeah, I'm into the screams of children.
Have you ever listened to Peter Soto by your side?
His voice, it sounds like the Batman voice.
He's like, oh, you made me do this.
You know what I realized?
Like this watch I think
his voice when he's like
the killer
like in the scene where he kills someone
I think it's the actor that plays his dad
oh that would make sense
oh
that would make sense
spoilers for the end of the movie
there's some daddy drama
I don't really understand what the
daddy is yeah i love it's very amorphous yeah we can get to the daddy issues because there's a
whole like scene with the dad but i love the cop scene i love the batman voice thing because
i was imagining that this takes place in like the same universe as Batman and this is like Batman's other night job
where he like he serves
the public by going around and murdering
a bunch of gay guys
that's where he finds Robin
he's getting rid of the degenerates exactly
that overdub really does have that
uh jalo movie feel
yeah
he also said that literally five minutes ago
no I know
I'm just relating it again we have it recorded
in the next scene um al is yet again going to another gay club um he gets kicked out this time
for seeming like a cop and when he is walking out... Wait, can we
please talk about the cop scene?
We will get there, Jacques. You're breezing
right over it. Keep going.
Okay, I think it's later. Jacques,
I have it laid out in front of me chronologically.
Okay, never mind. You go.
So, Alice followed outside
of the gay bar by...
No, that's the cop club scene.
Oh, okay. Go ahead go ahead jock so thank you
okay so let me just paint you the picture of what he walks down into because this this scene i don't
understand how i forgot about it maybe i've never really thought about cops intelligently until
the last like few years or whatever but when i originally saw this movie i did not remember this
i don't know why he walks down the stairs to a cop themed night now i don't even know how
they could pull this off today they would it couldn't happen but it was like a hundred gay men
fucking kissing sucking all in cop uniforms it's literally like the nypd's nightmare oh my god it's like it's like a toxic masculinity
nightmare they're being toxic they're being toxically masculine yes
i can't believe i can't believe imagine going into one of these clubs as a woman
like you think like gay bars
are like bad and annoying and misogynistic
now which they are but like imagine going
into one of these bars
you would be
sacrificed
if you're trans
mask
you can either do injections or this gel
they give you and you're not allowed to
work with children with the you're not allowed to use the gel if you work with children because
you can like rub it off on them and yeah and it's like like acid everyone i feel like it's the same
in these clubs like if you're a woman and you walk in you just start like growing a beard
just like so much testosterone in the air. Like aerosol testosterone.
Totally.
Okay, so then Al gets kicked out of the cop night
because they think that he's actually a cop.
Or you know, he's not dressed like a cop.
No, no, they think he's a cop at one point.
They say, what are you?
He's kicked out and then he's followed.
He's followed outside of the bar by this guy
who tries to fuck him.
This hottie.
Who I think is the first like actually
really hot guy in the movie we don't find out that he's this character he's a he's a character
named um skip lee um i'm guessing it was something to do like a general
did he had a general lee vibe to me. A Confederate vibe.
Anyway.
So he, then what happens?
Oh, so at this night, the killer strikes again because the killer is at that bar.
Oh, no.
He goes into a little porno theater in the back of the bar
and kills another guy who looked exactly like Al Pacino
by stabbing him in the back.
I want to make a comment about this scene.
It was so weird to hear punk music playing at like a sex arcade.
I have never been to a sex arcade or a bathhouse.
They would dare play the germs.
I mean,
they exist.
We exist.
Jock.
I feel like the last time I went to a bathhouse
or an arcade, I heard
a Fireworks by Katy Perry
over the speakers.
It would have been so funny if Fireworks by Katy Perry
was playing while he murdered him instead.
It's a fun...
It's Two Weeks by FK Twigs.
So he kills the guy and in something that comes comes into play later there's a close-up
scene of the killer pushing a core a bloody quarter into the uh little like like receptacle
that you put money into to play the movie um so then what happens oh the next scene is the cop like um al's boss being called into like
a higher office to talk to his boss's boss and the it's not the da whatever the top cop
is like top cop the kamala of the movie yeah it's like it's like listen listen buddy we we've got
all these homos they're pissed because they keep getting murdered.
We need this case solved.
The homos are rioting.
I'm going to throw up my ass about all the homos that are dying.
Now I have to fucking do something.
By this point,
Pacino has done nothing.
And he's just nothing.
It's just scenes of him
going out to the clubs and
probably having sex like at at
these sex clubs yeah just blending in you know in quotation marks i honestly he goes home to to like
bang his beautiful dime piece of a wife yeah beautiful wife so um and like he's like crying
in the shower because he can't get it up
now really putting the heat on him too much go ahead go ahead okay thank you so much
sorry i was trying to express how hot karen allen is in this movie and you're just you're just
barreling ahead without even without even a care for one
of the most beautiful dames of the screen so i i just assume every transition of the scene where
al pacino is walking off in the distance in the gay clubs or leaving the gay clubs that he's having
sex yeah like maybe i misunderstood the undertones of the movie. Maybe that's not what's really happening. I assumed he was having movie...
I assumed he was at least second cock.
There were 40 minutes of the movie
that the director had to cut
because they were too graphic.
And in those scenes,
the director was saying
that it made the movie a bit more ambiguous
because they implied more heavily
that Al Pacino was having gay sex.
But how much more heavily can they imply
without showing full penetration?
I mean, he's literally watching guys suck nightsticks
and get fisted.
Yeah.
But he looks, like, grossed out.
Yeah.
The director...
But not grossed out enough to leave.
Like, there's some intrigue.
He's still there.
He's still showing up.
He's still there.
I read something last night
that the director said that the movie was supposed to be about two types of fears.
The fear of being murdered and the fear of becoming gay.
Yeah, of being gay.
Same thing.
And I was like, wow.
Those are the two types of fears.
Those are the only types of fears.
The two genders, exactly.
So now Al is really getting the um the pressure put on him
um meanwhile the cops recover some fingerprints that were that was left on the quarter um so
the killer's fingerprints have now been um they've been had um let's see he okay he goes back to a club again and he does poppers
al decides to do he like i love this scene it is like one like movies can never really
accurately approximate like what drugs feel like it's very rare that you see a drug scene where
it's like that is what it feels like but al starts dancing with this guy who tries to pick him up
and then he starts the guy passes him a bandana after it looks like getting like how you get
chloroformed like yeah it's like no it's like ether it's like ether you've never done before
i thought it was poppers oh he's doing ether well no no no well i it was poppers in the movie but
you do ether on a rag too too. Yeah. Like that.
Yeah, but at the club.
Hey, hey, we're dancing to Ignition or like Steps to the Name of Love.
Hang on.
Let me get my ether rag out to enjoy this moment.
I honestly remember being handed an ether rag when I was 15 at the bar.
Okay, well.
What kind of bar is it?
Louisiana's pulling you down. Artiana's atmosphere this is an art
it's very different now i was not offered ether when i was there a bunch of just like
nbs were mean to me has has the scene where where uh skip lee is getting interrogated happened
yeah sorry sorry
don't mean to jump ahead just back to the club he does poppers and in the the effect they used to um
simulate uh being high on poppers is just like a really shaky kind of like uh uh like yeah like
you can trail like the trails of movement very good it looks like like it's going into a dream sequence or
something i yeah hessa you go he's dancing like elaine from seinfeld had like the part of her
brain that controls motion like disconnected he's doing the chicken dance the fucking thing
and like the robot and shit no he does a lot of like jerking
and it's a lot of like it's like if John McCain
was dancing because his elbows are fixed
they're bent and he's just moving them
at the shoulder like this
he looks like one of those German
roid heads on ecstasy at a hardcore
festival yeah you know what I'm
talking about like bald and they're like
just like he's so violent
the way he's dancing in the scene
he's not having a good time he's tweaking the fuck out he's doing he's doing his signature
really pouty angry face it looks like that video of hitler stimming like during the
36 little things it's a good trouble for posting that a lot but like it's such a funny video exactly okay so while he's dancing he he sees skip um at the bar and he
talks to a bartender and he's like who's that guy over there and he points at skip lee and the
bartender says like he's he's a scumbag stay away from him he's he's no good he's gonna he's gonna
raw dog you and ghost you al don't don't don't and so he's gonna give you rectal chlamydia he leaves and gets into a
cop car that's scouting the club and he talks to the cop in the front and he's like look at that
guy that that guy's a suspect and he's been canceled by the waiter yeah he says that guy
skip something i can't remember what his last name is and the bartender told him like he told
like yeah a half hour al is so bad and his job is a cop
if it were me if it were me and they're like going to this gay bar and tell me which one
is killing someone i would be like okay it's the guy over there who has most of his face obscured. It's the guy smoking American
Spirits blacks.
Oh my god. Those are
my favorite. Those are the best ones.
Let's see.
The most likely to be murdered is also
the most likely to be a murderer.
What a surprise.
Okay.
Y'all, first of all, y'all are always making this
jump that I'm stupid.
And then the days that I'm stupid. You're always so stable, aren't you?
And then the days that I'm not stupid,
I'm an evil genius murderer.
No, baby, you're... Choose a...
You are simply slaying the game today, Jacques.
And so then in the next scene,
the cops go up.
These are different cops.
These are like other cops.
Different cops?
Different cops go up and they bother.
Are these the chaser cops or not?
No, the chaser cops.
The chaser cops.
They go back up and they bother the same trans woman from earlier.
And she's just trying to play a game of dice on the side of the street with her bros.
She's like playing dice. The cops go up and they're like do you know who this guy skip lee is and she what she's like no she gives them his last name is what she does yeah yeah and then
she tells them where he works i believe these aren't the chaser cops this is the the other cop
guy who's the guy this movie's like based on i see
i see yeah okay so she basically this guy's frank serpico right
she gives uh them a lead on skip and tells them where he works they then go out to the like
steakhouse skip lee works we love that um it's also so hard to tell the men in this movie apart
yeah they all look like each other's gay brother i mean when they catch the murderer the first time
i saw this movie i was like oh no they got the wrong guy but it is the same actor but it is also
like the wrong guy right well i think the the ending is kind of as to who the murder is maybe
open-ended i don't know clearly they didn't have a budget to have as many extras as they needed
40 minutes of porno that they shot accidentally wait wait wait hold up and we're supposed to
remove from the movie do you have to have a cry do you have to have a criterion collection
subscription to see this 40 minutes no no the
40 minutes it was destroyed they
burned it Universal Studios
gave it to the Catholic Church
another
another sus ass guy was like
wait let me find let me find
a way to watch
40 minutes of gay porn for my
job
Al Pacino must have really sucked a cock good.
If they deleted it.
He's a method actor.
I don't think he's that method.
He deleted it.
This is going to turn the country gay if we show it.
It's like when Riff Raff was like,
yeah, I got signed to Mad Decent
because I was at a party with Diplo
and I rapped over a beat so hard
that he deleted the beat.
And then Diplo's telling the same story. He's like, I black Diplo, and I rapped over a beat so hard that he deleted the beat.
And then Diplo's telling the same story.
He's like, I blacked out drunk, and I woke up,
and he was signed to the company.
That's so sick.
So they go to the steakhouse.
They profile Skip.
Then they have a meeting.
The cops, like everyone on this case, has a meeting.
And they pull out a knife, and they're're like this is the knife the killer's using
but it just looks like any regular
knife like it's not a gun
it's literally
it's literally
a Ruth Chris steakhouse
like knife
that's been sharpened
without the little bristles
exactly
what do you call the little edges of a knife ser the little bristles exactly exactly whatever you call what do you call the little serrated knife yeah yeah yes yes yes one of them bristly knives whatever you knew what i
was talking about we didn't know what you're talking about so that's so then they're like
okay let's try to get this guy skip we think he might be the killer so they put a wire on al al once again goes back out to the
gay bars then picks up skip they go back to a hotel room that al rented um and they're there
they began to have sex there are two cops stationed in the car outside yeah well they can i
they're like undressing or whatever let me articulate this Neanderthals thought here.
They're literally in the bedroom talking
and then for whatever reason,
the wire that Al Pacino disconnects.
And so they immediately rush into the building.
Well, the cops outside, the cops are outside.
They're hearing mostly static,
but then there're you know clips
of al being like should i can you tie me up and put me on the bed like he's trying again trying
very hard to get murdered that's too weird man but you know what the one thing that happens after
you get tied up and put on the bed is that you get stabbed in the back like that's not
anyways so the cops of course i think assume that that might be happening so they rush in they knock on the
door um and they open it and al pacino is naked ass up hands hog tied behind his back and then
they they bring both skip and al into an interrogation room i know this is the third time i've said it but this is the
best moment this scene is so funny okay they're just like they're like listen listen up you
faggots we know you're killing each other they are so mean to them it's so illegal what they
are doing i know it's a movie but i'm like this is like nine different lawsuits they the one of the critical things that
like one of their biggest tactics to try to scare out of particularly uh what's his name
not uh skip okay they're trying to get the information out of skip al pacino's just going
with it pretending to be another scared gay guy and they bring in a uh naked giant black man uh he has a little yeah and a jock strap he's wearing
a cowboy hat and he comes in in the middle of the scene unannounced there's no there's like
no information that opens the door it's dead silent it's like a fucking it's filmed like a
wes anderson movie like the way that it's done it seems like it's the first black person you see in the entire movie basically exactly it literally is and i think the only
black person that's in the movie he walks in and just slaps the shit out of al like so hard so
funny it's so funny freaking out he's like who the hell is that
i felt the same i'm like what the fuck is going on why it isn't like almost naked black guy just
walks in for me that's the moment the first time i was watching this movie where i'm like this is
one of the best movies i've ever seen this is like i cannot believe what i just saw so then
they separate the two it just goes off it's just like just so quickly that they're just like and
it's almost like they're making fun of them while it's happening like just so quickly that they're just like and it's almost like
they're making fun of them while it's happening oh totally they are they're like they're gonna
break this i'm gonna break the fag literally and so they separate the two they bring alan to
another room and alice like why the fuck did you slap me so hard and the black guy who we you know
can now assume is a cop in on it yeah says nothing he doesn't
even like respond he's like so al pacino responds by throwing his cowboy hat off of the top of his
head out of the window into the alleyway that's a gateway if the guy punches you way too hard
you know like and you flip his hat that was kind of of baller i i respect that it's pretty gay
it is it's a baller but it is like it's what i would do i wouldn't punch that guy i would like
like knock his hat off um and so then they they continue to interrogate skip they're clearly i
mean what i thought they just have a lot of pressure on them to like nail a suspect and
like whatever kind of gay guy we can get let's just get one of them they try to pin it on skip and the keep in mind they have fingerprints
they have the killer's fingerprints and so what they do they already know now they
and they did like a semen analysis on cum that was found in one of the dead bodies earlier and
they're like there's no sperm in this semen the killer shooting blanks that's something they said early on during that scene is like maybe he had a
vasectomy oh so wait and so they say they're like okay let's do that let's do a ball test on this
talking about skip fill the sink and if they float he's got spermia if he doesn't float exactly
which they do you're doing the like salem witch trial test to this gay guy's balls spermia if he doesn't float exactly which they just bring they're doing
the like salem witch trial test to this gay guy's balls to see if he has sperm
and they're like well let's make him jack off in front of us and then let's
make see if his balls float in a sink um and they again they have fingerprints there's no
reason they need to do a ball test. Yeah.
I mean, this movie is a realist.
It's just the horniest movie.
It's just the horniest movie you've ever seen besides The Mask.
It's hella horny.
So Al, then he goes home to his girlfriend,
not to his Pietaa-terre and christopher street and his girlfriend is like what the hell is going on you know he's like i don't even care
i don't even care anymore and he like takes some orange juice out of the fridge and drinks half of
it and spills the rest on the ground and she's like what's going on with you he's like i don't
i don't even know and in this scene he seems throughout the movie he's progressively dressing gayer and gayer when
he's off duty like his shirt he's looking like a member of the people by this point like he just
used to look like bob the builder before but like after after that 45 minute mark he just goes a
full like leather top to bottom he squeaks when he when he like
he there's a lot of noise when he talks when he moves he's got this little punk joey ramone
looking he's carrying leather wrist bracelets with the little metal studs in them it's like
very hot topic 1998 carrying like 17 keys on him he jingles when she walks i love the jingling i
think it's very gay that's very old it's seeming very gay and then his girlfriend basically breaks
up with him um he then i didn't see that talks to his captain and is like look we just did a
bunch of illegal shit to this gay guy who is not the killer. And he is like, I can't
do this anymore. I can't handle it.
Well, the cat that goes like, well, you think you're going gay?
You think you're
liking this job
a little too much, man? Is that what you want
out? You're uncomfortable?
Al responds to that by just saying, quote,
things are happening. Stuff is
going down. And quote, I can't
deal with it. He's like, I'm not scared, just so you know. Something else is going down and quote i can't deal with it he's like i'm not scared just
so you know yeah something else is going on it's like i'm quite i'm questioning this this movie is
literally this movie is literally the sexual awakening of al pacino i mean yeah and so the
sergeant tells him he can't quit and alice just like okay i guess i'll keep doing this thing
that's destroying my relationships and
making me go insane um he's like yeah he's like being gay for pay but not even having sex he's
like being gay for honor murdered gay for honor there's no honor he's being gay for
he wants to get like a little plaque and uh nypd union uh imagine it goes for him the best it
possibly could right he catches the killer this is what happens but imagine best case scenario okay
for al he catches the killer and he is lauded as the one guy who who caught the homo killer but he
did it by being gay like he would not be everyone would be making fun of him
cops would be like oh fag caught the fag like how many dicks do you have to suck to get that guy
like there's yeah there would not be much honor in it best case scenario yeah um and so the movie
kind of like it goes into this this is like i would say the second half of the movie it kind
of peters out it It really loses traction.
It kind of falls off a cliff. The scenes are slower. There's less
violence going on per second.
It's the post-coital
act of the movie.
Yeah, but there's no post-nut clarity.
I tried re-watching it this
morning and I fell asleep after this part.
Yeah.
The reason why... then they actually have to
find out like after you're done with all the drama you actually have to find out who the killer is
and like that's not the point of this movie well he finds out in like one second and then he like
by like looking at the old yeah yeah yeah a columbia teacher yeah he like looks at the yearbook and sees like Adam Driver
in it and he's like yo
that's the guy this is a gay guy
I've seen at clubs before
and so yeah the Columbia
professor that was murdered Al finds
out that one of his students he's seen at these clubs and so then
Al just starts literally stalking
this gay guy
he does the exact same thing that he did
to the other guy to skip yeah
yeah yeah he breaks into he breaks into this guy's apartment through the air conditioning vent which
i've had happen before not great um and he just kind of rifles through his stuff and he finds in
the supposed killer's closet like 40 letters to his dad um and for whatever reason you're supposed
to understand at this point that that the killer's motivation is solely based on daddy issues it's
not even clarified there's a background in like there's a scene where the killer the guy that
alice scouting um the adam character is walking through a park um and
before this you can kind of assume that from the content of the letters that this guy is crazy
because he's writing the the content of these letters were like i saw a big black mass at the
at the park today i think i'm having a breakthrough you can kind of okay like this guy's like off the
rails he finds so much like creepy drawings al finds like creepy drawings in his room and so then the killer goes into the park
in probably a fit of schizophrenia and has a um a hallucination of his father and his dad is
sitting there this like just old ass white guy is there. And he's like, you got to do it.
You got to do it.
Say that.
Say I made you do it.
And the thing that the killer says every time he kills a gay guy is, quote, you made me do this in the Batman voice.
He says it was very.
It was it was obviously very inspired slash taken from friday the 13th jason vorhees with the friday
the 13th killer such a hallucinations of his mom saying kill them michael or kill them what jason
but yeah that was so i was so disappointed so i was like yeah it is really lazy it's just like a
lazy non-gay guys are fucked up by their dads which like yeah
but like in really interesting and like like and like very variable ways um and in no way in no way
does it like communicate that it was so bad that it would drive this guy to kill a bunch of gays
you know the best part about any horror movie is finding it's finding out like
an interesting motivation yeah yeah like don't even don't your daddy like give me a fucking
break you fucking columbia trust fund baby little at this point that this is just al pacino just
trying to get out of uh like having this assignment. If he finds a killer, no matter
who, he just needs to find out
if there's a fucked up gay guy who may
have any connection
to any of the other victims
and be done with it.
I guess it's just the point of these scenes,
but it's just so boring.
Can I say something
really inappropriate also?
Where is AIDS in this movie
this is pre this is pre-aids this is like 78 they had it in 77 78 pre-aids this is before the aids
became yes this is before it happened the pandora's box that had blonde plinks in it
when this happened when these leather when the first blonde man walked into one
of these leather bars that created aids um they're like finally a bottom is here so this all comes to
a head where um the killer comes back from having this um kind of hallucination of his out in the
park he pulls out two leather boots from his closet pulls out
the knife from the boot puts them on and then he goes out cruising al follows him cruising at night
they walk into a park they hook up um al is about to go down on the killer when the killer pulls out
a knife and then al stands up and stabs him and incapacitates him before the killer could
stab Al.
It was a very boring
fight.
It was a really boring fight, Max.
That whole scene, it's like a role reversal
too because the killer is the one who's
afraid of Al Pacino
because Al Pacino has gone full psycho
at this point and is just like
being gay.
Extra clammy is extra nasty
he's looking very clammy
being a sexuality
is a spectrum that goes from straight
to murderer
so then the next scene the killer is
in the
hospital bed of course he wasn't killed by the stab
from Al Pacino.
One of the cops is just...
When did that happen?
I must have really...
The dabs had taken
some really successful blows to your consciousness.
I'll be honest. I was looking at
bootleg Telfar
bags from China
from AliExpress.
They're selling them on Kinaw Street.
I can buy you a fake telphar bag please
yeah well i already okay it's gonna cost you three hundred dollars
marked just under the price of a real one um so uh yeah they're like we have the fingerprints
from the quarter it's this guy he's in the hospital bed the killer has been found um really boring climax
but then there's a twist which i think kind of muddies the water as to whether or not the killer
is the killer um al while this is happening he breaks into the maybe did he break into his neighbor's apartment before he killed the killer?
No, no, no.
He breaks in before
when Gregory's in there, when James
Remar's in there, and he's
like,
James Remar, but then leaves.
They have this sassiness
also like an incomprehensible
action.
It's only there to show that Al is like completely
losing his mind. He breaks into
his neighbor's Ted.
He breaks into his apartment and gets into a huge fight
with Ted's boyfriend who has yet to
have been in the movie. He was out writing musical
or something.
He's a dancer named Gregory
Millenates, which is such a fun...
It's like naming a dancer...
It's like being a dancer named like
Johnny Parmesan
it's a sassy aioli
honestly
he is the only
like kind of
his character
is like the most baseline level
gay of the whole entire movie
he's a theater
he's like how dare you and
he's like a victorian era
he literally he's virtually the hottest person in the movie
normal gay guy in that is the only normal gay guy i mean this is the only purview we get into like
musical theater gays as opposed to like
leather uh like those are the real perverts that's what the movie is musical theater gay
that is true oh yes dissertation on the origins of musical theater
columbia to study the origins of musical theater is so funny i'm sorry it's like the most gay
serial killer thing you could do i'm like i'm sorry i don't believe
this judy garland researcher is out here killing people come on so al has a psychotic break where
he he he forces his way into his neighbor's apartment he's looking for ted but then of
course gets into a huge fight with his boyfriend ted isn't there why is al looking for ted who
knows so then yeah they want to fuck they want to fuck. They want to consummate this. He's obsessed with Ted.
And then the whole thing I talked about earlier
where he killed the killer happened.
He wants to make sure he's gay or not gay.
That's so hot.
But after the killer has been fingered,
the cop is the sergeant, Al's boss,
is then called to another murder scene of a gay guy.
It is that neighbor.
It is that neighbor, Ted,
who has been found dead in a bathroom the killer
could not have done it he was in custody who could have done it al is kind of missing right
and then he he did he showed up at karen allen's place karen allen came home and he was shaving in
the bathroom and he's like hey we're dating again just so you know i'm done being gay hey i'm gonna give you eight yeah and she's like great
i'm gonna give you great so she's like so happy to have you back honey there's no yeah she just
basically says okay fine so then and then begins to start putting on his glasses but it's the
killer's costume that she puts on yeah she puts on the little Tom of Finland cop hat
and the leather jacket and the aviators.
And then it's like, oh, was Al Pacino the killer?
And then the movie ends.
Yeah, he becomes the killer at the very end of The Last Guy.
Ironically, a very gay ending to a great film.
Very gay.
And a strong beginning.
It was the ending it was a
crazy so this was crazy yeah this movie i can't imagine it's wild i can't imagine that this movie
was that commercially successful but was it in circulation widely throughout theaters
it's like william friedkin Al Pacino's big name.
Let me see how much...
The Exorcist was big.
If this is his movie after The Exorcist.
I'm sure it had a big release.
This is my thing.
I just really wish
the movie had some kind of better reason
that he was killing gay people.
Same, yeah.
I wish there was obviously an undertone of
self-loathing.
There was obviously some kind of undertone of
self-loathing gay people that
just hate being gay or
whatever. I agree. I'm going to clarify
and say that that is
a very reasonable
realistic, I guess you know
having a mean dad
having a mean dad could make you kill people
I mean if you are schizophrenic
like someone like that you know like there's no
there's no telling
there's no reason why it has to be like a gay
exclusive thing but like I don't know fuck it
like stranger things have happened
but it's just such a boring thing
like detail to it you don't
have reality to play with in this case like it's a it's a movie like the rules don't apply it could
be about anything why is it the mean dad yeah it's such a cop out it's like a total cop out
yeah it makes me want to be molested come on like i know how to be molested or something
there's just they just do they do
the same thing but even lazier like the the killer has uh like hallucination where his dad is like
whip the thing out take it take your willy out no one's gonna believe you if you tell anyone
he hallucinates his dad and his dad comes in like
i'm back from my business i'm back from the navy
I'm back from my business trip I'm back from the Navy
I'm glad to be back here in America
I miss Thailand so much
His dad is just Carson Kressley
That would have been cooler
He's like the worst gay in the world
and he's my papi.
Hello, son.
My boy.
I would love to see...
We're going to Majorca.
I would love to see this movie redone
today in a kind of like
due date, Pineapple Express
kind of style.
Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen?
Seth Rogen, yeah.
Judd Apatow interpretation of cruising?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I honestly love anything that Judd Apatow does.
A Wes Anderson interpretation of cruising
would also be pretty good.
It was really late.
It was probably like 4 a.m.
when I finished cruising last night.
And I was like, damn,
I got to watch a nancy myers movie
just to kind of clear this my palate just kind of bring me back down i had to watch it's complicated
so i mean i didn't get to bed till six cruising was too scary too scary okay this is the thing
and people can make fun of me a lot but like things that are not that scary that movie legit
scared me and i was
like sleeping in bed with someone so i should have been scared the first scene was really scary
the first scene is terrifying it's like one of the like scariest murder scenes like
in a totally yeah really because it felt the actor being murdered the actor being murdered
yeah looks like he's actually being killed yeah i mean overall pretty good movie
the behind the scenes some funny stuff that happened is like william friedkin is like so
i knew i wanted to do cruising and i was like i only watched like the first 20 minutes of it but
like he was like i knew i wanted to do cruising so i got a bunch of these guys that i knew that would have been able to help and
it's just like all these cops that like helped him on the french connection it's like yeah i was like
i gotta be i i'm like yeah i could tell you all about this stuff and it's like all literally just
all cops like no gay people whatsoever involved at all and like he's like the one cop was like you know i had to go undercover as a gay guy
for a while you know and uh you know all this stuff you know the 250 pound black
officer uh jockstrap you know all this stuff that really happens it's like what the fuck
they don't do that anymore man listen this this is why this is why black lives matter is taking away uh oh my god
representation in police yep that's why oh my god gay lives matter cruising lives matter
yeah yeah i wrote something really funny oh go Oh, go ahead. I was watching this movie
and I was like, this is a really weird way
to tell me that blue lives matter.
Yeah.
That cop scene where the club
cop scene... The dicks I sucked for this badge.
How many
dicks you think I sucked to be
the sheriff of NYPD?
There's like a photo in the behind the scenes thing too
that's really funny of William Friedkin
like in a leather bar
wearing a shirt that just says The Exorcist
on it. That's so cool.
That is like what
queer people in Bushwick wear now.
Yeah.
Like for the
XXLTs.
He was ahead of his time.
Literally whatever horror movie promo t-shirt
he was wearing is now worth $700 on eBay.
And someone in Bushwick with daddy's or mommy's money
is buying it.
All the straight guys here wear those
when they're not wearing wearing soccer jerseys.
They're wearing Gremlins 2 t-shirts and shit.
I got so addicted to the dangerous world
of buying vintage t-shirts.
There's nothing more dangerous than getting into eBay
and buying vintage t-shirts.
It's worse than heroin or dabs it's way more
addictive the strongest drug um do we have any final words on the movie i would recommend it
it's fun it's a fun obviously i it's a great movie overall you left you're left a little bit
with nothing at the end. But, yeah.
It was great. I mean, honestly, I prefer
Showgirls or
something like that would have
been a lot better. You gotta come back and roll to
Showgirls.
I want more movies.
In the eternal words of the New York
Times culture team,
it's a fun romp.
It's a romp and a rave folks yeah
it's worth a lot for sure yeah i already said this already but one of the best lines from the
movie was one day this whole city will explode which was literally a 9-11 prophecy. 9-11 premonition, exactly.
I love being a 9-11 truther
to the degree that you're like, cruising predicted
this. Someone on cruising knew this was
going to happen. That part in Hyper
Normalization where they're showing all the movies
and like where stuff in New York
is exploding and it's a clip of cruising.
It's the fisting scene.
Four seconds of a guy like putting Crisco all over his forearm.
Oh, my.
And the middlemen of society knew a big collapse would be coming.
The face that the guy who's getting fisted is making is so like.
It's so funny.
It's so stupid because the face he's making,
he's getting a pinky inside of him. He's like. It's very funny. It's so stupid because the face he's making, he's getting a pinky inside of him.
He's like, ooh!
It's very dainty.
He's too dainty for getting...
I was so pissed when I saw it.
I was like, come on, man.
Just wiggle around a little bit at least.
There's not accurate enough fisty representation in this film.
I was like, look like you're getting fisted or don't do it
when the gay guys are protesting it
Jacques would be a guy there holding a sign
this is what you look like when you get fisted
I'm just gonna
have to guess that
fisting in the
1980s was really
you know 2D or
low tech or whatever.
Low tech fisting, exactly.
They haven't figured out how to get the thumb in yet.
I don't know.
They're going like this.
The swan dive technology.
Okay, with that, should we wrap?
Yeah, I think this is a good place to end.
I'm going to see if I have any other notes or any last news stories to say.
Thank you for having us.
Are you a New Yorkian?
Yeah, I'm a New Yorker.
What do you do in life?
What do I do in life?
Yeah, do you have any?
This is now transitioning
into a Terry Gross-style interview.
I just wanted to know.
I'm sure the listeners out there want to know who you are,
because I don't know.
Yeah, I'm on Twitter at Sirisu Camu.
I do, you know, I wrote a movie that's coming out soon.
That's just going to be announced soon.
But I can't talk about it. Oh, you can be announced soon. But I can't talk about it.
Oh, you can't say the name. I can't talk about it yet.
So you're a screenwriter?
Yeah.
Cool. Okay.
She's working on the new Marvel
Iron Man 5.
I'm from Buffalo
originally.
Okay. That's all the questions I have.
Thank you all for listening
thank you all for listening thanks so much for coming on hesa thanks for having me
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