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To me this movie does to genre filmmaking what L’Avventura did to narrative cinema in the 1960s, in the sense that in L’Avventura, all of a sudden, the central character disappears, and you’re just left with abstract issues of what was really going on in life around that character.
Here you have the notion that everything is in place for a classic narrative — a serial killer, the cops, a smart guy from everyday life, the ciphers. Everything should fall in place and there should be a resolution, and here you’re only left with question mark after question mark, which ultimately is what real life is about, and it’s very rarely acknowledged by cinema.
What amazed me at the time and still does is the connection with Seven, because it’s like the anti-Seven. It’s this incredible exercise in dialectics. In American cinema, I don’t see an equivalent.
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January 30th
14:47
14:47
bamfs
12:06
![This is a wonderful Downeyism. He had this little bar trick he wanted to do. [laughs] He showed it to me… He said, “Can I do that?” And I said, “Absolutely.” 26 takes later, he was beside himself. So frustrated, so fed up, because we needed it to match now the master shot to the coverage. And so one of those great moments of inspiration turns into the actor’s albatross. - David Fincher](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfuqh0BAGF1qztqsao1_1280.png)
This is a wonderful Downeyism. He had this little bar trick he wanted to do. [laughs] He showed it to me… He said, “Can I do that?” And I said, “Absolutely.” 26 takes later, he was beside himself. So frustrated, so fed up, because we needed it to match now the master shot to the coverage. And so one of those great moments of inspiration turns into the actor’s albatross. - David Fincher
January 29th
15:46
15:46
Easy To Be Hard by Three Dog Night. From the Zodiac soundtrack.
David Fincher on choosing Easy To Be Hard as the opening song for Zodiac:
“It was odd ‘cuz I was in 2nd or 3rd grade when this whole thing happened [the Zodiac murders]. And I remember so vividly driving through Sonoma from Vallejo. It’s an area known as Black Point. And I remember being at the back of my parents’ ‘65 Impala, windows rolled down, it was the beginning of summer, and you can smell eucalyptus and this song was playing on the radio. There was something about it when I heard it. It transported me personally to the summer of 1969 which is, again, purely a subjective thing. And, you know, making movies ultimately is a wholly subjective thing. But I remember just feeling very misty when I heard that music playing over those pictures.”
July 24th
08:46
08:46
Memories of Murder: VFX for Zodiac
Matte World’s work on the film, including videos and before-and-after slides. Super neato
08:36
On location for Zodiac.
