The Jinx director Andrew Jarecki interview

May 22, 2024 08:47

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Andrew Jarecki reveals how they discovered Robert Durst's bathroom confession two years after it was recorded ( Read more... )

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lovelylaura23 May 22 2024, 18:42:06 UTC
Fuck Robert Durst....

Andrew doesn't sit well with me at all tho.

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megzzy May 22 2024, 18:52:32 UTC
I don’t know too much about him. What don’t you like about Andrew?

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lovelylaura23 May 22 2024, 19:49:56 UTC
Well to start with.... I don't think it took them two years before they noticed the ~confession. Plus there's this:

In April 2019, during Durst's trial, a transcript from the series revealed that Durst's final remarks had been edited and presented out of order. According to the transcript filed in court, Durst's complete remarks were as follows:

"[Unintelligible] I don't know what you expected to get. I don't know what's in the house. Oh, I want this. Killed them all, of course. [Unintelligible] I want to do something new. There's nothing new about that. [Inaudible - possibly "disaster."] He was right. I was wrong. The burping. I'm having difficulty with the question. What the hell did I do?"

Not only did he hold onto the confession for 2 years.... he apparently cut it and rearranged the sentences to make it seem even more damningthan it already was.

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artemisofluna May 23 2024, 01:48:17 UTC
He DID say "that's you, you're caught" tho, which was much more damning to me than anything else, since "killed them all, of course" could have been him being facetious. But the "welp, you got caught, buddy" to himself is pretty much done and dusted.

PS I am not defending Jareki here, I also think he's super sus. I just meant I still feel like what he said was an admission, even though it was edited. If that makes sense?

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megzzy May 22 2024, 18:51:49 UTC
All Good Things wasn’t great, but I thought Ryan and Kirsten were really good in it.

The Jinx is so well done. Honestly, probably the best documentary I can recall watching.

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my_moloko May 22 2024, 18:53:56 UTC
I still can't get over the trial footage from this week's episode with Durst fully admitting he would lie on the stand as he is being cross examined.

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yousaidlog May 22 2024, 19:00:27 UTC
Minor minor perjury!

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megzzy May 22 2024, 19:05:56 UTC
Hey he only perjured himself maaaaaybe 5 times! Lmao

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espressotorte May 22 2024, 19:14:24 UTC
Apparently being rich unlocks different levels of perjury us poors don't have access to

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cherrynorth May 22 2024, 19:07:26 UTC
Jimmy is just unbearable

TIL that Andrew was a co-founder of Moviefone?? And he's a nepo baby?? Fascinating. That explains how he could dedicate years and years of his life to this project. Maybe another reason why Robert Durst was receptive to him, too.

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silverstarry May 23 2024, 02:02:33 UTC

I never bothered looking into him so after I saw your post, I read his wikipedia page and he also wrote the theme song for Felicity?!

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cherrynorth May 23 2024, 02:24:35 UTC
Lmao yes! I need to look that up, I never watched Felicity.

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silverstarry May 23 2024, 02:33:41 UTC


TBH the song I always associate with Felicity is The Power of Goodbye by Madonna because it was used in the promo for S1 and I swear I saw this ad (and heard this song) a million times by the time the pilot aired. Even before I went searching for it, I could hear the song and picture Keri Russell standing on a street corner with her curls blowing in slow motion.

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eerilybeloved May 22 2024, 19:32:21 UTC
I still can’t believe he was found not guilty at his first trial. Admits to dismembering and disposing of someone and walks away scot free. Unreal.

Hilarious that Durst’s ego ended up being his own downfall by participating in his documentary

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frelling_tralk May 22 2024, 20:12:53 UTC
I thought it was heavily implied that he probably paid off a couple of the jurors in that trial, an earlier episode showed us how one of them suddenly became besties with Robert Durst afterwards

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eerilybeloved May 22 2024, 21:04:32 UTC
That juror was such an idiot. Definitely desperate to jump on Durst’s payroll

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