To be a bit uncomfortable with the 'glorification' of Ted Bundy

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I'm not usually one to object strongly to these sorts of things but I can't help but feel quite uncomfortable with this.

Having watched the recent Netflix documentary and briefly studying Bundy as part of my University course back in those days, I felt very uneasy watching the new trailer for 'Exteremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile', with it's rock music background etc...

It's not so much the fact that they have a young handsome Zac Efron playing Bundy, after all its well known that one of the main reasons he was able to do what he did was due to his charisma and 'good looks'. For me, it's knowing how egotistical and narcissistic the man was, he'd be relishing the fact that he was becoming a Hollywood star, it's what he'd want.

I've seen people, women, posting on social media about how the new film has made them want to 'shag a serial killer' etc... This man was a vile monster who preyed on over 30 women, one just a girl of 12.

It just doesn't sit right with me!

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor 〜〜
Do you not understand what a '?' at the end of a sentence means?
I wasn't making an opinion - I was asking if that's really the case in this film, as I haven't seen it.

PavlovsDeafDog

I was responding to your 'YANBU'

He was glorified at the time though wasn't he? Throngs of screaming women following him around like he was the Beatles, and the media totally played up to it.

He got what he deserved in the end, though, when he met his maker in Florida’s electric chair.

I’m not usually for the death penalty but wouldn’t have a problem with it in extreme cases like Bundy’s.

Technology was really pivotal re TB. He would have been caught much sooner if the various states were able to communicate more effectively and if his trial weren't televised he wouldn't have gained cult status.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor
Ahah, got it -- except that the YANBU was in answer to the thread title itself, as in general (based on other things I've seen in the past).

But I guess it does seem a bit discombobulated - the YANBU should have been in the beginning of post.
Oops. Sorry

SPOILER ALERT

That bit at the end of EWASE, where is spells out 'AXE' in the window condensation as a way to confess to his ex-partner that he was guilty - did that happen in RL?

You're totally right op.

He got what he deserved in the end, though, when he met his maker in Florida’s electric chair.

He deserved worse than that.

The authorities were also ridiculously incompetent, letting him escape.

Back on op; i understand the judge said some appallingly sympathetic things in court. Nauseating.

I thought it was played well and it was a different take on things

I watched the movie where Mark Harmon played Ted Bundy and I can't watch anything with him in it because I just see Bundy. I also read the book by Anne Ruie who was a friend of his and she had no idea what he was capable of. Horrific.

It had the opposite affect on me , It was a chilling reminder of how people can be controlled ( gas lighted ) At the time of his trial he received a lot of positive attention from girls / women , and in the netflix doc , even the judge seemed to like him ( presumably the same in real life )so I don't think the programme glorifies him , I just think some people are very odd !

You should watch the film Charlie Says ( about Charles Manson) although drugs played a huge part , he also managed to control men as well as women ,

But then so did Hitler

There's an argument about Nazi and racist paraphernalia; that it belongs in museums for the purposes of serious study, not the hands of private collectors.
I think that idea can be carried over to people who have committed these kinds of crimes. The only material that should be made or distributed about them should be for the purpose of understanding what happened, not for entertainment.