Re: Zac Efron, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”
Numerous of fans have criticised that using Zac Efron as Ted Bundy to make him ‘attractive’ and ‘charming’ is glorifying the murderer.
Criticisms were brought to Twitter and one read;
“Can we not sexualise Ted Bundy? He raped, murdered, and decapitated women and had sex with their dead bodies. Not here for this hyper-sexualised Zac Efron film. I know the youth of Twitter will obsess over him, and I’d prefer not to read thirst tweets about a serial murderer.”
- Kayla Stetzel (@KaylaStetzel)
My say to this is that people have a very little understanding of what made Ted Bundy so dangerous. People just love to get mad at things they’re not educated about. The film’s intention was not to sexualise or glorify the murderer. It is to show how Ted Bundy doesn’t fit the norm or the profiling of criminals. Ted Bundy is smart, attractive, went to school and graduated, is ‘charming’ and participated in numerous of community activities such as serving a presidential campaign, was appointed to Seattle CPAC (Crime Prevention Advisory Committee) and became an assistant to Ross David.
Police would pick someone who looks ragged and mouth reeked of alcohol, someone who didn’t graduate and an unfinished school than Ted Bundy because he does not look like the type of guy who would commit a crime. This is to highlight how Ted Bundy won everyone’s trust and manipulated them into believing he is an innocent man. People, especially women [the majority] in the court during that time was there to defend him because he is ‘good-looking’ and ‘nice.’ Women loved him! And that was his thing. The film’s intention was to portray what and how Ted Bundy was on the outside, how he managed to manipulate women.
This leads us to raising awareness. Anyone can be a serial killer. It could be your friend, a teacher, a classmate, a cousin, a relative or a parent. It. Could. Be. Anyone. This is to make people aware that not all nice people are actually nice. Doesn’t mean one individual looks like a serial killer, means that individual is a serial killer.
What I want people to get out of this, and I cannot emphasise this enough, Zac Efron is the perfect person to play Ted Bundy. Zac plays Ted Bundy’s ‘charmingness’ so well, it’s how Ted used to lure his victims. That’s the point of this film, it is to show how he uses his physical appearance and his likeable demeanour as an advantage to trick his victims. It’s not romanticising a murderer, it’s portraying him accurately. And I also want you guys to be cautious, pick your people wisely because we really don’t know what’s going on in one person’s head.
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