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From: Jasper
Date: Monday, October 16, 2006
Time: 07:19:44 PM
I was hoping that someone who had seen Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie would jump in here. “Spilt milk” could have more significance than we have explored. ……….Everyone has heard the expressions, “That’s water under the bridge,” and “There’s no use crying over spilt milk.” Both of theses expressions are meant to advise people who are obsessing over something in the past that cannot be changed to move on. And both of these expressions in literal of figurative incarnations are recurring themes with Mark Fuhrman. One way or another it appears that he was compelled to get them into his movie just as he crammed so many other movies into the double homicide of Ron and Nicole and the framing of O.J. Simpson. It is beyond me that some people still can’t see that Fuhrman followed the identical patterns in his movie that the Bundy killer did with the positioning of the bodies, the placement of the clues and Fuhrman’s part in bringing them together. It is beyond me that some people still can’t see that Murder in Greenwich had more to do with O.J. and Nicole than it did with Michael and Martha. ……….None of us succeeds 100% of the time in 100% of the things we attempt. There are always things we have no control over, which impinge on our ability to do things the way we want to do them. We don’t always have the time or money we need, the physical of personnel resources, the tools or the final say. This is especially true in a project as expensive and complex as producing a movie. As the producer you can take as active or passive a role as you please in every aspect of the project from the writing and directing to the casting, editing and props. But the executive producer and the studio heads set the time and money limits for what you can and can’t do. ………….The astonishing thing about Fuhrman’s 88-minute movie is that he was able to work in so much from so many of the movies that went into the concept and execution of the Bundy murder/frame-up as only he could have conceived it and carried it out. ……….. ALL of the key casting choices and at least three of the “minor” ones had to be Fuhrman’s because of their names http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0339422/fullcredits , their physical appearance or their real life connections to O.J. Simpson. The mannequins in the red dresses had to be Fuhrman’s idea. The mailbox had to be Fuhrman’s. All of the water and fire scenes had to be his. The bear and the bare foot scenes had to be his. The decision to structure the screenplay around Maggie Grace as Martha Moxley’s ghost, to dress characters the way they were dressed in key scenes had to be his. The invention of characters named Hildy Southerlyn and Lancaster had to be Fuhrman’s inventions. The changing of name Ix to Foster (as in Foster City) had to be Fuhrman’s change. ……….We know that a blood and water scene was deleted because we saw it in an early trailer for the USA television network release (it isn’t in the video version). We don’t know how many other scenes were deleted but I believe one of them involved spilt milk. We got the water under the Brooklyn Bridge (a possible substitute for the Golden Gate Bridge) in the scene where Fuhrman and Weeks visit Morris Banks. I’m sure that Fuhrman tried to get the spilt milk in with the scene where a kid swings at a milk carton with a baseball bat and misses. He still manages to get the idea across in a conversation he has with Dorothy about the night Martha died. Why did he do that? –Jasper