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Overlooked Zodiac compels audiences
4:00 am Sep 10 - by Andy Herren – buzz Writer
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Inspector Mark Ruffalo turns San Francisco upside down looking for an infamous serial killer in Zodiac.
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It is a crime of cinema that David Fincher received more attention and awards for the vastly overrated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button than for his quiet, startlingly compelling 2007 film Zodiac. Focusing not solely on the killer who terrorized San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, Fincher’s film instead presents a painstakingly accurate portrayal of three men whose lives are consumed by the case: San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), and San Francisco police detective Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo). The film contains its fair share of shockingly violent and terrifying scenes, yet its quiet, slow-building sense of dread is what makes Zodiac truly remarkable. One particular scene near the end of the film featuring Graysmith stuck in a house with a man who could potentially be the Zodiac killer is very similar in style to what Fincher used in Seven. But that is one of very few scenes that will remind you of his 1995 film. It’s a testament to Fincher’s talent that this doesn’t feel like a retread of his previous work.
In 2007 only two other films appeared on more Top 10 lists than Zodiac: No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood. Both of those films got the Oscar attention that they deserved, yet Zodiac received not a single nomination. Shameful, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Shameful.
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