misleading presentation

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Last Post Sep 12, 2004 6:05 PM by: dave1
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Re: misleading presentation

Sep 12, 2004 6:05 PM
I agree with others in this particular thread. It was strictly hollywood. I posted this in another area and copied and pasted here. There are documentaries already out there about Bundy and Ridgeway. This is my cross post............
There's a lot of pros and cons about this show, pros---some saying how good a movie it was, how chilling bundy's character was, how bundy got into the cop's mind etc.Cons----some saying how misleading the name was, how much it was like some book that was written and many other reasons
I guess many of you aren't old enough to go back in time to the real Bundy situation.
1---no one had to coax Bundy into helping the police. He was more than willing to do it because he never liked the idea that there was another person out there that might be actually killing more people than him. He was very proud of his accomplishments and also felt that he was more intelligent than Ridgeway. Look it up. All factual.
2---Bundy was never handcuffed during any of his interviews with the police.--look at the actual videos.
3---Bundy never smoked.
4 uring those interviews, the police dept. already knew where the victom's
of Bundy were located.
6--Bundy underwent extensive physicalogical testing in order to determine whether he was sane and should be held responsible for his actions.----look it up.
7---During all the actual interviews, there was always 2 detectives present and all interviews were video and audio taped.
8---In the movie,the idea was to show that the murderer only killed because they were hookers, in other words, the scum of the earth. The movie words "I'm not a rapist. I'm a murderer" In fact, Ridgeway was into necrophilia. He had sex with the victoms after they were dead.---look it up----factual.
There's a few people here that said Bundy's role was 'chilling'. Someone even said they couldn't sleep afterward. Apparently, you've never seen Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs and Robert Blake in *In Cold Blood*. There are other portrayals of serial killers that would really send chils up your spine and make you lose sleep.
That show came on and as it progressed, my wife and I looked at each other and both of us,being the same age and remembering very well, the days of Ted Bundy tried to figure out just where the people of this show were getting their information.
9---During those police interviews with Bundy, besides the detectives, there was only one guard present and he wasn't allowed to be videotaped. There also was a cinematographar controling the video and audio from another room.
Just how did this writer get all his so called true facts about what went on?? Look at news archives to find out what went on in that room. The only organization that released any information concerning those interviews was the police dept. Just check out facts before you start saying that this show was factual.

CrimeStoryFan
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Re: misleading presentation

Sep 7, 2004 3:22 PM
I agree with this. The story was a lot more about Bundy and Reichert and bringing closure to the unsolved Bundy murders than it was to the Green River case, even though this is what brought the two men together again.

I thought the acting was stilted and horrible, especially the young detective, he was horrid, and Cary Elwes as Bundy was never very believable.
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misleading presentation

Sep 7, 2004 5:06 AM
Like the rest of your viewers, I was baffled by the content of Riverman. Now that Gary Ridgeway has been found guilty of the slaughter of countless women, I guess we expected the movie to be about how he was caught. It was not a bad production...but I feel that the content had very little to do with the title. I have not read the book that it was based on and I think that if I had, I wouldn't be so mystified. What was the main thread of this teleplay? That Ted Bundy solved the green River Killer case? That Detective Keppel got satisfaction by having Ted confess to crimes Keppel knew he had comitted? I didn't catch how Ted helped solve the mystery of the Green River killings, but we sure got a lot of Ted's background. These two killers were so different...I guess I just didn't get it: I think that true events sometimes make for very weak fiction...if this is about real events, it should have been a documentary...