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they are, but not by rival gangsters or by the authorities. A film camera watches them. Prince acknowledges that fact at the film’s conclusion, when he looks directly into the lens and says, “Goodnight,” thus violating a longstanding Hollywood taboo. The observed has become the observer. It is in that moment that Mailer best captures the tension between fiction and nonfiction

filmmaking.

Shortly after completing ''Wild 90'', Mailer wrote and directed ''Beyond the

Law''. In it, he plays Pope, a police lieutenant; his acting style is much more restrained than in ''Wild 90''. Once again, he cast a combination of professionals and amateurs. Rip Torn notably appears as Popcorn. Mickey Knox (as Mickey Burke) and Buzz Farber return. Farber plays “Rocco Gibraltar,” a character name that highlights the film’s fictional roots.

Once again Mailer plays with onscreen titles. A series of different title

cards tell us that ''Beyond the Law'' is a film with various alternate titles, perhaps more than any other in film history. The blank spaces below indicate

the numerous changes of title cards:

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 they are, but not by rival gangsters or by the authorities. A film camera watches them. Prince acknowledges that fact at the film’s conclusion, when he looks directly into the lens and says, “Goodnight,” thus violating a longstanding Hollywood taboo. The observed has become the observer. It is in that moment that Mailer best captures the tension between fiction and nonfiction
 filmmaking.
+Shortly after completing ''Wild 90'', Mailer wrote and directed ''Beyond the
+Law''. In it, he plays Pope, a police lieutenant; his acting style is much more restrained than in ''Wild 90''. Once again, he cast a combination of professionals and amateurs. Rip Torn notably appears as Popcorn. Mickey Knox (as Mickey Burke) and Buzz Farber return. Farber plays “Rocco Gibraltar,” a character name that highlights the film’s fictional roots.
+Once again Mailer plays with onscreen titles. A series of different title
+cards tell us that ''Beyond the Law'' is a film with various alternate titles, perhaps more than any other in film history. The blank spaces below indicate
+the numerous changes of title cards: