So many inaccuracies. Was anybody else taken out of the movie by them ?
I think the worst one for me was when the headline on the paper read serial killer. Pretty sure that term wasn't used for another hundred years.
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Yes, me. I'm old enough to remember when phrases like "serial killer" just didn't exist - and I'm not 200 years old. Getting period dialogue right isn't that difficult, especially when the period's not too long ago; it's mostly a matter of consciously avoiding recent slang. But the scriptwriters on this one seemed to have real cloth ears.
"Shut it or I'll shut it for you", forsooth!
So what were serial killers called in your young days?
shareThey hardly existed. Somebody who killed was just called a killer, and they usually did it just the once. Even those who killed more than that didn't do it on what you might call a serial basis with each murder begun from scratch - who ever called Billy the Kid a serial killer?
shareOr were the stories suppressed? There certainly were some, Jack the Ripper Red Riding murders, etc. No all necessarily in your lifetime. :)
It really doesn't make sense that all those thousands of generations of child torture didn't result in at least the same proportion of serial murders as we have now.
Now that I think about it, not many people could afford guns then. Yes, I think that would result in a lot fewer murders.
Maybe you're right and they just called them killers as you say. That's also strange, the police not having some terminology that would separate them from one-time killers. Repeat killers, perhaps?
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