The purpose of this research paper is to take a closer look at the movie “Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile”, which is a movie based on true events and life of serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how serial killers are portrayed in movies and through which perspective the story is told. To get closer to our purpose we saw to two research questions, firstly how is the character Ted Bundy portrayed through semiotic resources? The second question we asked ourselves is; how can the different types of choices the production make contribute to further romanticizing of a serial killer? To answer these questions we used a multimodal critical discourse analysis method which focuses a lot on the visual elements such as a character's clothing, the way they speak and carry themselves and so on. To carry out the study we analyzed the characters in the movie, how they acted toward each other, what scenes were chosen to be shown in the movie and which parts of the real story were left out and what seemed to be the main focus in the movie. To achieve the purpose of the study the characters have been analyzed, mainly Ted Bundy. But also the different types of active choices the production made to embody Bundy and the events. Like the choice of events and how the story generally relates to reality. The results we got from our research is that the character Ted Bundy in the movie is highly romanticized when you see the way he is portrayed and what kind of scenes were focused on. It also became quite clear that the story is told through Liz’s perspective causing it to be told out of a biased and compromised angle. Our conclusion is that it is quite clear when reading the results that there are tendencies to romanticize the main character even when it comes to serial killers based on real people.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-95258 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Görlin, Filippa, Ekengren, Elin, Krüger, Keeana |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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