“面对连环杀手”导演的目标是用真实的犯罪故事来揭露“黑暗力量”
‘Confronting a Serial Killer’ Director Aims to Expose ‘Dark Forces’ With True Crime Stories
几年前，在导演乔·贝林格（Joe Berlinger）开始制作有关泰德·邦迪（Ted Bundy）的Docu系列和叙事专题之前，他问他的女儿他们对连环杀手的了解。他说，两者都是大学生和“原型邦德受害者”，他们俩都不知道邦迪是谁，更不用说他的罪行了。尽管他已经看到了此类项目的推翻，许多人都想知道为什么连环杀手为什么连续杀手他说，应该得到如此大的平台，贝林格认为重要的是要让“人们知道这件事确实发生了”很重要。”“你不能足够提醒人们，那里有一个黑暗的力量需要防御。”这是柏林人进行2019年Netflix docu系列的动机的一部分，“与杀手的对话：泰德·邦迪录音带”和2019年的剧本剧院电影“极度邪恶，令人震惊的邪恶和邪恶”，由扎克·埃夫隆（Zac Efron）担任邦迪（Bundy）。作者吉利安·劳伦（Jillian Lauren）试图将寒冷案件与连环杀手塞缪尔·利特尔（Samuel Little）相匹配的作家吉利安·劳伦（Jillian Lauren）试图将Starz的新的五部分纪录片。贝林格在邦迪项目的二人组二人组合两年后首次亮相，他承认这种类型所收到的批评在制作这个新系列时从未远离他的脑海，但值得在聚光灯下引起杀手的是镜头。 “对我来说，进行演出的全部原因是通过吉利安的角度来做，并使之成为一个非常注重受害者的表演，”贝林格告诉《综艺》。塞缪尔·利特尔（Samuel Little）是一名职业罪犯，最终被捕并被定罪。他的第一次谋杀罪是在1982年，尽管他没有因犯罪而被起诉，但他被转移到另一个州的管辖权，同时审判另一名妇女的谋杀案。他是UL在后来的案件中及时释放，因为证人不信任。实际上，他因1987年，1989年和1994年发生的谋杀罪而被定罪 - 但直到2012年，对于第三次前两名和2018年的谋杀案。在他与劳伦（Lauren）交谈期间，他承认了更多的罪行，在他于2020年12月去世之前，他声称杀死了93名妇女。猎物是妇女 - 主要是有色人种，性工作者和吸毒者的妇女，或者是某些组合三件事，这就是为什么伯林格觉得自己能够逃脱了这么长时间的工作，以及为什么他想对我们的刑事司法系统中的“内置种族和性别偏见”发光。”他是一个警察逮捕的人，注意小事，但他们怀疑他主要是捕食黑人性工作者，这就是冷漠的地方：执法部门并没有被迫将他带到街上，因为因为受害者是较低的受害者不幸的是，贝林格说。这名妇女参加了性工作，所以当她站起来作证时，在1980年代中期几乎没有被绑架和勒死她时，仅仅因为她的兼职职业而被视为可信。几十年后，柏林格（Berlinger）拍摄了与她“面对连环杀手”的采访，并捕捉了当今的检察官加里·雷姆佩尔（Gary Rempel），在此期间他表现出同样的偏见。在他身上，”伯林格说。 “我们没有为此计划；我们不知道谈话会这样。劳里（Laurie）要求与[他]见面。这是我拍摄过的最不舒服的场景之一，因为我不想重新创造劳里（Laurie）。偏见的揭示，即使相机关闭后，他仍然没有意识到他说的话。那就是危险。关于某些PEO的机构偏见#MeToo和#BlackLivesMatter的运动有助于提供文化觉醒，因此重塑了人们对犯罪故事的讲述方式。伯林格指出，在小小的情况下，“强大的妇女要让这个怪物负责。”他引用了劳伦（Lauren）的作品，lapd det。 Mitzi Roberts，洛杉矶代理D.A.贝林格指出，贝丝·西尔弗曼（Beth Silverman）和一些幸存的受害者，例如巴罗斯·劳伦（Barros.lauren），他的第一本书是关于她在后宫时光的回忆录，“是一个非常善解人意的人”。这种同情心激发了她想要解决案件并为幸存的家庭成员而关闭的案件，并了解Little行动背后的动机。这使这个故事绕开了童年时代的忽视故事，并可能是年轻时的家庭关系。她的同理心也几乎没有帮助她，并承认他花了多年否认的罪行，贝林格继续说道。纪录片记录了许多劳Ren与当时在监狱里的Little进行的对话，并向他送给她各种受害者的绘画。她在节目中说的那样，她与魔鬼的打交道仍然有几十个无与伦比的案件，她将继续与他沟通直到他去世。他以为自己有一个朋友，她认为她与魔鬼达成了这种不正当的交易\u200b\u200b，这是一种获取书籍信息的工具，更重要的是解决案件。已经设定了“与Starz的“面对连环杀手”和演出的推出计划（在SXSW上首次亮相，然后在2021年初在线性上首播）。唯一改变的是，他在结局剧集结束时添加了一张标题卡，以提及小死亡。当他分享了该系列中涉及的Little的死“为每个人创造了很多情感戏剧”，但他承认他是DI的d不要考虑在节目中添加其他任何事情来回应它。“他的死让我们所有人都令人失望，因为从美学上讲，与魔鬼达成这笔交易，这将是一个引人注目的结局。当您知道他死了，而与魔鬼打交道的那样，这可能是一个不太强大的结局。”“ 他继续。“那真是一个黑暗的旅程。”“面对连环杀手”于4月18日晚上9点首映。在Starz上。
A few years ago, before director-producer Joe Berlinger embarked upon making a docu series and narrative feature about Ted Bundy, he asked his daughters what they knew about the serial killer. Both were college-aged and "the prototypical Bundy victim," he says, and neither one of them knew who Bundy was, let alone the extent of his crimes.
Although he was already seeing pushback on such projects, with many wondering why serial killers should get such large platforms, Berlinger felt it was important to make "people aware that this stuff really happens," he says. "You can't remind people enough that there are dark forces out there that one needs to guard against."
That was part of the motivation for Berlinger doing the 2019 Netflix docu-series "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes" and 2019 scripted feature film "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" starring Zac Efron as Bundy.
The same belief fueled his work on "Confronting a Serial Killer," his new five-part docuseries for Starz that follows author Jillian Lauren's attempt to match cold cases to serial killer Samuel Little. Debuting two years after his duo of Bundy projects, Berlinger admits the criticism the genre has received was never far from his mind while making this new series, but what made it worth putting a killer in the spotlight was the lens through which he would be seen.
"For me, the whole reason to do the show was to do it through Jillian's point of view and to make it a very victim-focused show," Berlinger tells Variety. "It's shining a light on decades of a system that does not value a certain kind of victim."
Samuel Little was a career criminal who was first arrested on small charges, such as theft, before eventually admitting to and being convicted of murder. His first murder charge came in 1982, and while he was not indicted for that crime, he was transferred to a different state's jurisdiction to be tried for another woman's murder concurrently. He was ultimately acquitted in that later case because the witnesses were not trusted.
Eventually he was convicted for murders that took place in 1987, 1989 and 1994 -- but not until 2012 for those first two and 2018 for the third. During his time talking to Lauren he confessed to many more crimes, and before he died in December 2020 he was claiming to have killed 93 women.
Little preyed upon women -- primarily women of color, sex workers and drug addicts, or some combination of those three things, and that is why Berlinger feels he was able to get away with what he was doing for so long, and why he wanted to shine a light on the "built-in racial and gender bias in our criminal justice system."
"He was a guy who the police arrested, paid attention to for the petty crimes, but their suspicions that he was mainly preying upon Black sex workers, that's where the indifference came in: law enforcement did not feel compelled to bring him off the street because the victims were victims who were of lower priority," Berlinger says.
Laurie Barros was, unfortunately, one such victim. The woman had participated in sex work so when she took the stand to testify that Little abducted and strangled her in the mid-1980s, she wasn't seen as credible, simply because of her part-time profession. Decades later, Berlinger filmed interviews with her for "Confronting a Serial Killer" and also captured a present-day sit-down with prosecutor Gary Rempel, during which he displays these same biases.
"That scene was so staggering and we actually took it easy on him," Berlinger says. "We didn't plan for this; we didn't know that conversation was going to go this way. Laurie asked to meet with [him]. It was one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever filmed because I didn't want to re-traumatize Laurie. The revealing of the biases, even after the camera was turned off, he still doesn't realize what he said. And that's the danger. There is this institutional bias about certain kinds of people that has affected all levels of society."
The #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements have helped provide cultural awakenings and therefore have reshaped the way people think about how crime stories are told. Berlinger points out that in the case of Little, "it took strong women to hold this monster accountable." He cites the work of Lauren, LAPD Det. Mitzi Roberts, Los Angeles deputy D.A. Beth Silverman and some of the surviving victims such as Barros.
Lauren, whose first book was a memoir about her time in a harem, "is a very empathetic person," Berlinger notes. That empathy fueled her wanting to solve cases and get closure for surviving family members, as well as to understand the motive behind Little's actions. This sees the story detour into tales of childhood neglect and possible inappropriate familial relations as a young adult. Her empathy also helped Little open up to her and admit to crimes he had spent years denying, Berlinger continues. The docuseries records many of Lauren's conversations with Little, who was in prison at the time, and shows the drawings he sent her of his various victims.
"Jillian is so committed to continuing to match. There's still several dozen unmatched cases, and her deal with the devil, as she says in the show, was she would continue to communicate with him until he died. He thought he had a friend and she thought she had this perverse deal with the devil that was a vehicle to get information for her book and more importantly to solve the cases," Berlinger says.
Little's death in December came after Berlinger had already turned in cuts of "Confronting a Serial Killer" to Starz and the rollout plan for the show (debuting at SXSW and then premiering on linear in early 2021) was already set. The only thing that changed was that he added a title card at the end of the finale episode to mention Little's death.
While he shares that Little's death "created a lot of emotional drama for everyone" involved in the series, he admits he did not consider adding anything else to the show to respond to it.
"His death was disappointing to all of us because aesthetically it would be a compelling ending for her to be stuck with this deal with the devil. It's probably a less-impactful ending when you know he's died [and] that deal with the devil has ended," he says.
But on a personal level when it comes to Lauren, "I'm actually happy for her that he's dead," he continues. "It was such a dark journey."
"Confronting a Serial Killer" premieres April 18 at 9 p.m. on Starz.
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