[ SECRET POST #4419 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4419 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Roxane Gay (author)]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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[Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter (formerly King George III in Hamilton)]


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05.
[The ABC Murders]


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[Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile]


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[Marcus Wareing, Gordon Ramsay - Burning Point (documentary)]


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[Parks and Recreation, Ben/Leslie]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I almost have to wonder if that failure was an intentional attempt to generate hype in a cultural environment that thrives on moral outrage...

I'd feel the same about a film that portrays the Columbine kids as avenging badasses on a cool mission, fwiw.

Somehow when you put it that way, I can see your point. Columbine is a lot closer to me than Bundy, I guess. Too soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, maybe it was intentional. The movie was bound to be controversial in the first place. On the other hand if the trailer doesn't reflect the content of the movie at all, that would also be weird, so... I don't know.

Like with the Columbine thing, you could argue that avenging cool badasses was how the kids saw themselves, and you'd have a point. If you said it'd be important to show that part, how they built themselves up, that'd be a point too. If someone gave artistic license as a reason for portraying that part and focusing on it in the trailer for shock and hype and marketing then I can't really argue logically against it, that kind of thing isn't illegal and I'd still say that kind of thing shouldn't be banned. But I can't find it unreasonable that a bunch of people would be up in arms, or that they'd be worried it might influence kids who saw it.

What I wonder most about is Bundy being so far back in the past, at least to people born in the 80s and later, after he was dead. People know of him as "one of those serial killer guys" but generally don't seem to know the details of what he did any more. Maybe the point of the movie is to get people to watch it, thinking it'll be fun, and hit them with all the horrible stuff? It's just hard to imagine how it'll be.