MovieChat Forums > Copycat (1995) Discussion > Misplaced Bug

Misplaced Bug

posted 11 years ago by redcavalier27
1 reply | jump to latest

First off, I absolutely enjoy this movie. Very dark & thrilling. But there was one scene that always "bugged" me:

Re: the David Berkowitz killing – in the side mirror of the woman’s car, the presumed killer is seen parked in a light-colored (pale yellow/tan) WV bug. I assumed that killing was going to be a la Ted Bundy. This was misleading, perhaps confusing the audience. Maybe a better scenario would have been to have the killer acquire the WV bug AFTER the Son of Sam killing as he was preparing to next copy Bundy.

[–] MizzNijna 11 years ago

This didn't bother me at all for two reasons. 1. I find it hard to think that Peter would buy a new car after every killing to match the vehicle of choice by the killer he's gonna copy. And 2. Since we don't get a Bundy-kill it is nice to see a reference about Bundy from Peters view.

Besides I heard in a commentary once (for my life I can't remember wich movie it was though) where the director states that "once the audience is ahead of you and know what's coming, they lose interest in watching the film" I find this to be very true. Bundys car is very well known and therefor I think more people than you expected to see a Bundy-kill at this point (I didn't cuz I was ten when I saw it the first time and didn't know about Bundy then) so to mix it up and make it a David B - kill keeps the audience on it's toes. Don't you think?