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Year:
2007 |
Rated:
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Starring:
Robert Downey, Anthony Edwards, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Gary Oldman, Bijou Phillips, Mark Ruffalo |
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Directed
by: David Fincher |
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Written
by: James Vanderbilt |
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Based
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Robert Graysmith |
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Music
by: David Shire |
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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures,
Paramount Pictures |
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By Jorge Solis
HUGE
Zodiac is a masterpiece in David Fincher’s collection of
outstanding works, such as Panic Room and Se7en. Imagine a serial
killer movie without the serial killer. It would be like watching
Silence of the Lambs without Hannibal Lecter. Difficult to imagine
but in David Fincher’s hands, you cannot go wrong. |
| What you have are three short stories for three interesting
character-actors. You have the investigation into the Zodiac murders
by reporter Paul Avery, played by Robert Downey Jr. Then you have
the police procedural by Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards, who are
playing real-life inspectors, David Toschi and William Armstrong.
You wonder if it is or isn’t a cat and mouse game between the Zodiac
and cartoonist Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. I say
this because in real life, the Zodiac was never caught by the police
and never went to trial for his murders
in San Francisco. Watch these doomed men attempt to find out who the
mysterious Zodiac is. On a technical note, David Fincher used
hi-definition digital cameras to make this movie. Hi-def cameras
were used in past movies by other filmmakers such as Michael Mann,
Robert Rodriquez, and George Lucas. If you saw Zodiac or any of the
recent Star Wars movies in theaters, you probably saw the digital to
film print and you lost some clear and bright aspects of scenes.
What you lose, you get back on DVD. When you compare Miami Vice,
Collateral, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico to Zodiac, you realize
David Fincher stands out from the rest because he can
bring his own style to a movie and you can never mistake it for
anybody else’s. Look at the night scenes; study the details about
the time the Zodiac
held control over San Francisco, and finally watch how David
Fincher uses Donovan’s song, “Hurdy Gurdy Man” for the gritty
opening. |
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David Fincher did in his press interviews apologize
for the three hour running time when this movie was released. He
said he couldn’t find a way to trim the movie down. You do feel
tired after watching because as I said before, the Zodiac was never
caught. What you do get is one of a kind movie where the monster is
not the focus, but the people who are obsessed with the monsters are.
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