<3 Toschi was a legend, no question
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
"Nothing makes sense anymore."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/9/21/21446089/david-fincher-profile-director-set-stories
George Drakoulias, the film’s music supervisor, remembers visiting Fincher’s office when Zodiac was in preproduction. “The whole bottom floor was just research: books and evidence, transcripts, documents, photographs,” he says. “It was a little frightening, especially given the subject and how deep he had gone into the research.”Graysmith used some pseudonyms in his book, since he implicated individuals as being possible murderers, but Fincher was determined to use only real names, which meant verifying everything with at least two sources. Vanderbilt and Fincher would travel to San Francisco and spend days talking with the cops who’d worked the case when it happened, those who had taken it up in later years, and the two survivors of the killer’s attacks. The shooting script swelled to 202 pages, the depiction of Graysmith shifted, they introduced uncertainties about Zodiac’s criminal capabilities, and Fincher encouraged Vanderbilt to abandon contrived plot conventions like Jake Gyllenhaal’s and Mark Ruffalo’s characters meeting early in the film. “I had had three movies made at this point,” says Vanderbilt. “One was about a killer tooth fairy, one was a John Travolta–Samuel L. Jackson movie that I describe as ‘the one they did together that wasn’t Pulp Fiction,’ and one was The Rundown, which I love, but is the Rock’s second action movie. Doing a serial-killer procedural with David Fincher was a very different world to be in.”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
I heard Fincher got so into his research he actually started murdering people, man.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
one was a John Travolta–Samuel L. Jackson movie that I describe as ‘the one they did together that wasn’t Pulp Fiction
Basic >>>>>>> Pulp Fiction
― neith moon (ledge), Thursday, 24 September 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link
Ha! Travolta's character in that is named TOM HARDY!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
hard to believe this was one year before Iron Man, the pre-Avengers times
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Zodiac's 340-char cipher cracked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
Did the cracking involve someone going to the library?
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
Close! An American software developer for a federal defense contractor, an Aussie Applied Maths scientist + a Belgian warehouse operator/computer programmer who devised the decryption algorithm solver these three used to solve it.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
that's really cool actually
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
He has another video analyzing Graysmith's solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Oh4snhF70
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
v cool
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
i love that first video walking through how they did it, codebreaking is dope imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
The fuckin' library.
(I know I'm not contributing anything here, I just love quoting the movie.)
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
D R I N K M O R EO V A L T I N E“Sonofabitch! It’s a commercial!”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
VG I immediately though of u when Sunny posted this on FB :)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
it def says something about this case that the message ends up (unsurprisingly) being more of the same boring braggadocio
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/03/24/the-solution-of-the-zodiac-killers-340-character-cipher/
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 25 March 2021 08:59 (three years ago) link
huh
https://www.fox13now.com/news/national-news/investigators-say-theyve-finally-identified-the-zodiac-killer
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
I have a slightly used vault that used to belong to Al Capone I'd be interested in selling for $1M or best offer. If interested, please contact me care of FOX NEWS.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
TMZ broke it first but I can't read their article due to work filters
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
The investigators were commissioned by a television producer who obviously wants to hype the audience numbers, so the linked article is rather thin on details. But the guy they name is dead, so libel shouldn't be a legal worry. In other news, the case of Jack the Ripper has finally been solved... for the ninth time!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
the only clue they've revealed is that he had wrinkles on his forehead.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
looking at some zodiac forums, nobody believes the name works as a key to the ciphers. It uses the same bullshit anagramming that Graysmith used -- it produces nonsense text, then rearranges the letters until they make words.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
What do the forums think of that Wolfram decipherment krakow posted?
― lukas, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
nvm https://www.reddit.com/r/ZodiacKiller/comments/kb173t/the_340_has_been_solved/
― lukas, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
Aren't these just normal wrinkles, not scars?
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/10/1862/1048/37073095-Poste.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
yes
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
I need to look him in the eye, and I need to know that it's him.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
No way, that's not him: no glasses!
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
the actual press release on this is much more interesting than anything in the news reports which are all kind of vague:
https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/g9q.07b.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Zodiac-Killer-Press-release-1-1.pdf
― akm, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
intrigued by this 'criminal posse'
― akm, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
i am skeptical purely because it’s Riverside which always felt like a separate set of murders than Vallejo/Bay Area zodiac …but that’s just my nerdy halfassed opinion and there is so much ~un~confirmed that any sense that theyve “got” the guy feels wildly insanely premature
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
where are the claims that the letters in his name decode some of the cyphers coming from
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
The claim is in the press release but they haven’t showed their working yet. One of the case breakers mentioned on Twitter it involves anagrams which doesn’t sound particularly convincing.
― I am using your worlds, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
that's what i saw too
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
yeah I mean these are retired law enforcement. are these usually people we just believe?
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
idk that i believe un-retired law enforcement
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
I don't really follow the case so I don't know how the circumstantial evidence for this suspect compares to that of any other, but it's a good story, and it seems like a big deal that it should be possible to definitively confirm whether or not it was him:
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/zodiac-killer-paul-alfred-doerr/
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link
No idea how credible it is either, but that's a great story
― JRN, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
blank check podcast doing Fincher series, Zodiac episode went up todaynaturally i am now rewatching for the seven zillionth time because it’s the best movie everif i ever get a tattoo it will bea) an aqual velvab) paul avery w cravat c) animal crackers? d) lamp?)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:43 (seven months ago) link
*AQUA goddammit
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:44 (seven months ago) link
This can no longer be ignored.
(I want this to be like the JFK thread, where we drop by with random quotes.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:47 (seven months ago) link
how does one do THAT
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:48 (seven months ago) link
i drop "this can no longer be ignored" into daily life, usually when gesturing to a pile of clean laundry my son has yet to put away.
― omar little, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:50 (seven months ago) link
jesus harold christ on rubber crutches bobby you’re doing that thing the thing we discussed the thing that i dont likestarts with an Lloomingyep
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 October 2023 20:14 (seven months ago) link
you want me to tell him that verbatim or can i spice it up a little
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 October 2023 21:25 (seven months ago) link
Eagle Scout, actually--first class.
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 October 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link