ZODIAC

ZODIAC

2007 

Direct:  DAVID FINDER [Make Ruffola/Jake Gyllenhall/Robert Dowing Junier]

For example: Fight club/The game/Panic Room/Gone girl/Alien3/Girl with dragon tattoo etc

CRIME - THRILLER

SERIAL KILLER --> calm ---> victim --> investigation --- > victim ---> Tracing ---> closing on him --> PATTERN...

HOW DOES ZODIAC PLAY WITH SERIAL KILLER CONVENTION:

1. There's no closure - in real life they never cought the ZODIAC
2. There's no calm, - NO EQUILIBRIUM >>start with killing<<
3. The investigators are never in CONTROL

NARRATIVE RANGE

UNRESTRICTED (Big Picture)

The audience knows more and sees more than the characters

• killings
• killers never gets caught
• 1968 - 1996

RESTRICTED (Detail)

The characters and the audience learn the story at the same time

• Detail of care
• Arthur Leign Allen becomes a suspect
• Has complicated the investigation