"Zodiac Killer" and "Memories of Murder", a director's handling of serious events

Halle 2022-04-22 07:01:02

"The Zodiac Killer" and "Memories of Murder" are also adaptations of real serial killer incidents, the difference lies in the director's attitude.

Social homicides can easily become a thing, a TV program like "The Rule of Law Online", and there are many regular viewers who like to watch it.
Do people really want to pursue justice? Sympathy for the victim?
I think it's more that those viewers pass the time in the mediocre daily life, doing laundry and cooking, like watching a story meeting.

Because homicide is at least a very serious matter, adding fuel to other people's stories, turning it into a mystery, twists and turns, constantly exaggerating emotions, and then adding some good-looking plots, and finally becoming those people who are boring in life amateur after-dinner pastime.

In the end, it became something like AV, which I think is extremely disrespectful to the deceased.

Maybe it's the media violence that director Michael Harnick said he emphasized.

Anyway, those boring audiences like to watch it, so they start to make up.

"Zodiac" depends on David Fincher's attitude. The director's cut is 162 minutes long, and the rhythm is obviously too long. It can be seen that the director has already given up the rhythm of commercial films and made a fast-paced story meeting.

Calm and restrained, realistic, like reportage.
"Memories of Murder" exposes the consistent character of the stick. For the sake of looking good, the women continue to undergo plastic surgery collectively, and for commercial value, they do everything they can.
In order to make the movie good-looking, I constantly add fuel to the drama and turn a serious social tragedy into a story meeting. It is true that the story is beautiful, the rhythm is good, and it is rainy and red. . . Do your best to exaggerate the drama of a story.
Finally, a serious social problem has become a pastime for the sticks.

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Extended Reading

Zodiac quotes

  • Melvin Belli: Inspector Toschi.

    [holds up bloodied shirt piece]

    Melvin Belli: It is my belief that this is a window into this man's soul. Killing is his compulsion. Even though he tries to ignore it, it drives him. It's in his blood.

    Dave Toschi: Maybe. Or maybe he just likes the attention.

  • [Graysmith visits with Ken Narlow in Napa]

    Robert Graysmith: Does the name Rick Marshall mean anything to you?

    Ken Narlow: [it does] What are you after?

    Robert Graysmith: What have you got?

    Ken Narlow: Hypothetically, you just named my favorite suspect in the whole case. This is off the record. Couple of years back, I was trying to get Marshall's prints. I handed him a photo. He looks at it. He's about to give it back and he says, "My goodness, I got fingerprints all over this." And he wipes them off.

    Robert Graysmith: Why didn't you test him for handwriting?

    Ken Narlow: Because when they finally did run his prints... they cleared him against the one in Stine's cab.

    Robert Graysmith: So it's not him?

    Ken Narlow: Maybe yes, maybe no.

    Robert Graysmith: No? What do you mean?

    Ken Narlow: Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene. If he had the foresight to bring gloves with him, how the hell's he gonna accidentally leave a print behind?

    Robert Graysmith: But it was in the victim's blood.

    Ken Narlow: Could have been one of the bystanders, or a cop just reaches out... Boom. False print.

    Robert Graysmith: But that print disqualified 2,500 suspects.

    Ken Narlow: Which is why we used handwriting.

    Robert Graysmith: But not for Rick Marshall.

    Ken Narlow: S.F.P.D. saw a handwritten sign in the window of his house, decided it looked nothing like the Z letters, so they moved on.

    Robert Graysmith: How do they know Rick Marshall wrote the sign?

    Ken Narlow: [smiles] My thoughts exactly. Rick Marshall was a Navy man. He received code training. He was also a projectionist at a silent film theater.

    Robert Graysmith: How do I get a copy of Rick Marshall's handwriting?

    Ken Narlow: Three ways. One, get a warrant; which you can't. Two, get him to volunteer; which he won't.

    Robert Graysmith: Yeah, and three?

    Ken Narlow: Get creative.