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A tad off topic, but Mindhunter on Netflix is great as well. Produced/Directed by Fincher and has a similar vibe to Zodiac.
The guy that plays Ed Kemper is phenomenal.
A tad off topic, but Mindhunter on Netflix is great as well. Produced/Directed by Fincher and has a similar vibe to Zodiac.
The guy that plays Ed Kemper is phenomenal.
That letter is weird to me because how did Zodiac have the presence of mind to know that someday society would make movies about serial killers? I don't think there was very many of those in 1969 when he was doing his thing. In so many ways it seems Zodiac was not your run of the mill dumb ass. He's thinking of movies about him during a time when that wouldn't be something a person thought about. I mean this is way before internet, and social media, and everyone having 24/7 news cycles. Its just strange to me that a cold blooded killer is talking about movies.
Could have just been exaggeration or an outright fabrication. There is a mental illness where people seek attention in bizarre ways. Its kinda like how many serial killers will have say 20 confirmed killed but will claim to kill 70. They want to make it bigger than it actually is.
So many layers of lying....Baby mamma maybe lies about what happened to her, for attention, and then Zodiak maybe lies about being the one to have done it, for attention, when maybe none of it happened....and did she lie with him in mind, which just makes it creepier that he would then take credit for it!!!! Seems like a dangerous thing to do on her part.....I woulda been scared shitless if I made that up and then ole boy says it was him! They are the only two (and maybe the guy who actually picked her up) who know if its true. LOL
Makes me question the validity of ruling Allen in on shoe size. As for glove size, don't know why Z would leave gloves in the cab. And if he was wearing them should't some DNA be in there? Could be another way of throwing off the police. Ted went to great lengths to disguise himself as Unabomber.
Wow! While this is a totally logical thing to do, this blows my mind and creeps me the fuck out! Lifting jaw up to face!
Here's a potential dry-run close to home.
It's impossible to deny those connections between the three cases. I have a hard time believing that if you took any other high-profile serial killing you'd be able to produce a similar pattern. So yeah, signature vs. M.O.
Sadly, I think I am no longer able to enjoy watching brutality and sick human behavior play out in a movie. I am way to empathetic now that I have a little girl. I can't resist imagining her innocent little mind eventually learning how awful we are capable of treating each other. It sucks because I grew up loving slasher flicks and horror.
I still enjoy violence, just not innocent victims getting repeatedly stabbed as they stare into the camera.
It's to the point that I almost bailed on the movie during the scene in the car with the woman and her baby. Anything happened to that baby and I would've been done.
I don't think there was very many of those in 1969 when he was doing his thing.
Then if it wins, I'll have to watch it. Sorry in advance if it wins
However, consider Dirty Harry from 1971. The antagonist in that film -- Scorpio -- is based on serial killers.
Well... the very concept of a serial killer was a very recent invention. So they couldn't have made many movies about serial killers, because serial killers didn't even exist as a discernible thing in the public consciousness before then.
However, consider Dirty Harry from 1971. The antagonist in that film -- Scorpio -- is based on serial killers. Serial killers were all the buzz back then -- very much a fashionable thing that was in the limelights. So I suppose it would seem inevitable that Hollywood would start cranking out movies about them. Plus, what attention-seeking looney doesn't want a film made about them?
That said, there were films made before 1969 that featured serial killers. They just weren't referred to as serial killers, since that word hadn't been invented yet, they were just referred to as murderers or monsters. Take M or Psycho as two examples.
Remember, that it has to be a film that all of us can acquire and actually see. There was one week were a film won that was so rare that only a single club-member managed to actually procure a copy. (good old chickenluver with his black-belt film-hunting skills)
Ted's IQ = 167. He's like pro sports compared to all of us playing high school or lower.
That would put Woods at one of the smartest people on the planet. How did that happen?
I was looking through people that have high I.Q.'s and its really a mysterious element of the human mind. Ted was looking all scraggly like a street bum and you would never guess he was Einstein level I.Q.
A few that surprised me.
Sharon Stone I.Q. 154
Quentin Tarentino I.Q. 160
James Woods I.Q. 184
That would put Woods at one of the smartest people on the planet. How did that happen?
I think the most natural conclusion at this point is to question the validity of those IQ tests. I highly doubt any of those actors have the math skills to sit around and work on string theory on their day off. 184 in IQ is so outrageously high that is almost certainly has to be false.
Yea, I don't know about that. High I.Q. is no guarantee you will do anything with it. Woods scored almost a perfect score on the S.A.T., a perfect 800 on the verbal and a 779 on the math giving him a 1579/1600. Its a crazy score man. It got him a scholarship to M.I.T.
I've heard about Woods being off the hook smart. Didn't know that about Stone or QT. It'd probably be a bit of a curse. Unless you liked dummies!
All the sudden I want the club to review Salvador.
Normal IQ tests even max out at 162 points. Meaning he must have received some sort of special test to even reach such a high number of 184. One in over 20 million even get 160 or above, meaning there is only 15 people in the USA that has a number over 160, statistically speaking. A score of 184 would make Woods something like the top 5 highest IQ people in all of the USA. With is utterly insane since he didn't even have any higher education in maths at the point he purportedly did that.
Eh, not convinced until I see a report. The number is simply too high. From some short googling, the number seems unsubstantiated.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28536/does-james-woods-have-an-iq-of-180
Its probably safe to say he was genius level even if we can't pinpoint the exact number.
Isn't that sort of suspicious though?
I mean, if you entered the Top 15 highest IQ in the USA list (with absolutely no education in such lofty mathematical matters, which is even rarer) then wouldn't you present some sort of proof of that? Even if he only scored 160 or 150 or 140, that's still superbly high and extremely rare.
The fact that we can't source this debilitates his legitimacy. There are way to many red flags fluttering in the breeze.
Also, I meant to say 180 IQ in that post, not 160.