Hi UKGuy,
I agree with you about the family clearly having a "thing" for films and movies. They had a giant drop down screen in their master bedroom, and as you pointed out several movie posters in the basement. Interviews regarding CS photos, lots of discussion about various VCR tapes noted in each of the bedrooms etc. One small item that is often overlooked is when JR in one of his interviews with LE tells about the extramarital affair he had during his first marriage - comparing it to the move Fatal Attraction and going so far as to boast that he "could have written the screen play for that film. Plus many other examples of a family that loves films.
Not that loving films is anything nefarious by any means, but many seem to agree that the ransom note clearly contains almost verbatim quotes from well known films.
I do believe that PR authored the note and perhaps with JR input. So my next question is: why would either or both of them be so stupid to toss in those types of old tired quotes? Was it because in their own mind(s) the drama unfolding in their own home was far bigger and greater than any blockbuster film they had ever seen? it sure makes me wonder what they were thinking.
CorallaroC,
I reckon since the R's were not career criminals, their experience of crime would be limited the the silver screen, so would likely channel their thoughts through whatever movie genre they thought relevant?
I tend to view the RN as a post-mortem narrative so that those outside the family can imagine how JonBenet ended up dead. Otherwise its definitely RDI.
I think you are right, JR and PR probably bounced off each other in terms of input, but I have no doubt that it was Patsy who authored the RN. She had the skills to structure the paragraphs and the knowledge of grammar to use those movie phrases, as she did, it was no accident.
A real abduction would have criminals using short, terse phrases, sprinkled with criminal street slang. Whereas the the Ransom Note is structured, uses proper grammar, and references movie quotes, all because Patsy is thinking like a Literature Grad' and how to convey the narrative. In other words its the product of an elite, urbanite, educated mind.
I think the movie quotes are in there to inform the reader about the abduction narrative, its the R's way of saying this is for real, except a real criminal would likely not use movie quotes?
Its how we know, although cannot prove, Patsy wrote the RN, it has all the features of an urban perspective on kidnapping, especially one informed by bedside books, and the crime/adventure genre of movies.
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