[ 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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[Pokemon]


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


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[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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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yawn. This discourse is tedious. It's Bundy, not Dahmer. He was had a facade of charm, handsomeness and kindness and used it. It's not 'glorifying' it's showing an in-character depiction.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I feel like none of these people who are throwing a fit actually know anything about Ted Bundy at all. His entire schtick was his charm - that was what made him so terrifyingly successful. Lots of the women he killed went off with him of their own volition because he seemed so harmless. Hell, a lot of the time he would pretend to have a broken arm or leg and would ask his victims for help doing something like unloading his car. It says something about how good he was at convincing people he was sincere that no one ever questioned him in those situations.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound pretty enamored with him. Gross.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but, how does explaining how he appeared to people during his active killing years (and even during trial) come across as being enamored?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - It doesn't, this thread is rife with trolling.

[(Anonymous)]

My problem is not with the trailer presenting that. My problem is with the trailer presenting just that.

[(Anonymous)]

I read the Anne Rule book and IIRC the police released an accutron sketch and told the public he had introduced himself as Ted. Anne Rule notified her fellow LEOs and told them it definitely wasn't her friend Ted Bundy, but what a weird coincidence.

It wasn't until years later, when he was finally on trial in Florida, that she accepted that he was a serial killer.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. No one who knew him pegged him as being a serial killer because he came across as so very completely normal. That's what separates him from most other serial killers, because usually you get at least a few people saying "yeah I always knew that guy was bad news, he was kind of weird/creepy."

[(Anonymous)]

The trailer is taking it over the top, though. Bundy was relatively handsome and charming, he wasn't some charismatic sexy rockstar with washboard abs. Remember that all the hype about Bundy being handsome, charming, etc. is through the lens of what people expected, i.e. an unwashed psycho with three teeth who went around with his hands down his pants. Contemporary accounts at the time say he was charming and personable in a "nice young man" kind of way, they definitely did not say he was a slightly twinkier version of Burt Reynolds.

So no, that trailer is not an in-character depiction.

[(Anonymous)]

lbr he was a white guy who took a shower, that’s all it took back then to be a “nice young man”

[(Anonymous)]

he was charming enough that he was able to get into law school despite mediocre grades because he got such good letters of recommendation from people he knew. i would call that pretty darn charismatic. most people can't pull that off.

[(Anonymous)]

Movie is from the POV of his longtime girlfriend, who eventually accepted that he wasn't the man she thought he was, right? So the trailer shows what she saw in him at that point?

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't just his girlfriend who had trouble believing it, either. IIRC his name actually came up as a suspect fairly early on into the investigation but the people in law enforcement who knew him dismissed it because he was this nice young law student who spent his time helping others, not the sort of person you would think would be a serial killer at all.