Zodiac

Paul Avery: Jesus Harold Christ on rubber crutches, Bobby, what are you doing? You're doing that thing. The thing that we discussed, the thing that I don't like, starts with an L... Robert Graysmith: Oh, looming. 

When one thinks of applying David Fincher movie references into their lives, they probably ask, what's in the box? Or they might try to apply a certain list of rules to a secret club. But it's Fincher's Zodiac that has real life applications ingrained from actual events, perhaps even more so than that Facebook movie of his. The A-team Dennis Rader, the Zodiac Killer titillated a nation by mutilating a few. Zodiac's real life plotline needs relatively no adaptation to form it into a successful mystery/drama, and who better to tell a story that galvanizes crazed misfits than David Fincher? Expertly cast with Robert Downey Jr. as the severely under-appreciated supporting role to Jake Gyllenhaal, the otherwise pretty-boy stoner who happens to nail every nuance of being a newspaper employee. The curiously inquisitive boyscout cartoonist, Robert Graysmith took a life altering obsession with Zodiac and gave us the authoritative book on the subject. From that, we found a bad guy, without which this movie never would have happened.

Let's just dive right into that clip because this part had hearts pounding more so than any other scene with four guys sitting around a table talking.


I'm Not the Zodiac

You want to make police officers poop their pig pants? Replicate the cold gaze of this killer, look into their suspecting eyes and lie, "I'm not (whatever you think I am/did). And if I was, I certainly wouldn't tell you." Who would have thought that Norm sonofaGunderson would have made such a fantastic, believable Zodiac. Take a longer look around that table: expert casting. You've got Casey Jones, Goose, and a guy who has played a cop for Michael Mann. All together, that's one hell of a thrilling roundtable.

Back to Gyllenhaal and Downey Jr. Take a lesson from them and recognize that the best way to become fast friends is to get wasted off of guilty pleasure-style drinks. Order an Aqua Velva the next time you want to get your nerd on and crack some code. Once your friendship has run its course, you run operation One of Us is Crazy and have some sad witty banter like this -

Not that people write a whole lot of books anymore, but if anyone makes the claim of writing a book, please respond like this: "Someone should write a fucking book, that's for sure."

And finally, for the scary. Here's a tip, if the guy with the knife and the gun is trying to have his way with you, don't tell them you're a sociology major...