Dennis Nilsen drama starring David Tennant to air tonight

Whilst there are probably quite a lot of decent 'crime' films and dramatisations, I seem to recall enjoying the Black Panther film, the only one that really caught my imagination was 'Fargo'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(film)

Which I gather was made from the concepts of several real world inspired murders that were stitched together into a film. I often thought of doing something like that myself, not that I have the resources, but something along the lines of a that but where the lead character was simply a non-participant who, by chance was in close proximity to five or six murders, but was never a part of any of them.

For example, he might have delivered pizza to Zahid Younis, parked up in a car park, leaving just as Kiyran Earnshaw and Luke Gaukroger arrived, popped into a garage as Joel Ellis was getting petrol and got lost and stopped to look at his map outside Michael Bryant's house, etc etc. You could go on.

Thats an interesting idea. Reminds me of Tom Waitts Down By Law

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_by_Law_(film)

The bit where they all disclose their crimes.

I think there would need to be a twist.

It could be a 'prison guard' goes through 6 murders in a bizare, semi-sureal condition only to wake at the end to find that their prison van transporting a bunch of murderers has crashed into the river near Wakefield and the dude has relived all their most pressing experiences as they all sadly drowned in the river. It could end with him being given CPR or the electric paddles and waking up and saying, 'thank f**k for that, it was all a dream', but then there could be another twist or two so you never really know.

I have often got the impression, I dont know how, that film directors and writers etc have used the site for ideas.

Yes, Archibald Hall has all the ingredients for a succesful BBC drama

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh46SukWHSs&list=PLrdXyZeNwaAzTU1C8xV-oZAfjkqB9_Ylv&ab_channel=Tudorhead

Ladykillers - Ruth Ellis

I think there is also the issue of nostalgia for the periods to factor in.

The Ruth Ellis video looks dated, but it seems to bring back the sentiment of the 1980s, which I remember. THe subject is mearly the carrier for that nostalgia. I think that is something that makes the Black Kalender somewhat appealing to some, the fact that its like some kind of time machine that people can dip into at will.

I have always looked forward to doing the 1960s and 1970s in the unsolved, but thats in part because they always struck me as the 'golden' years of our culture, but for those of the age where I determined that, the golden age has probably moved on to the 1990s. By golden years, I think you can define that as the years a persons parents were 'young' or courting. The images from family photo albums and the history they contain. THe 1960s and 1970s are probably now as boring to the young people of today as the 1940s were to me, and still are.

I have always thought that the Black Kalendar was useful for people with alsiemers or just old people. I gather that many old people are often desperate for some essence of their past. Being text focussed its harder work, but often when I look at 1980s news clips I really get that sense too.

Even some of the comments in the linked video demonstrate that:

'I've not heard that into and outro music in 37 years. Amazing the memories that come back.'

I suppose the younger we are the more we absorb. Things are new to us and exciting. With age comes experience,
but also repeats. A sense we've seen it all before. Maybe we get nostalgic for a time when we had enthusiasm and no cynicism!

I'm sure teens today, will in thirty years time, look back at 2020 as long-ago halcyon days!

I used to watch Crimewatch from its inception. I've watched old episodes on youtube. This website makes a great double act
with the episodes. Watch the case file, then click on BK to see if it was solved!
World in Action; Rough Justice etc I grew up watching these type of programmes. Real investigative journalists. Not sure it's just
nostalgia. I think television definitely had more of a backbone back then.

I think that it was Rik Mayall and the writers of the Young Ones that stated that they were writing for the first generation that had spent their youth in front of a television. I think that the television as such will play a formative influence in nostalgia in that context. But I think things have changed with people being in front of computers and smart phones. What will they remember?

I'm not saying its bad, but recalling the past wont be as simple because web sites, for example, simply dont exist. Online apps wont exist, complete memories wiped out.

This is why I am a fan of 'the mug', a simple item you can buy from a web site to remember that you were ever on it. Not that I have bought any mugs, but the principle is the same.

Im sure it will all pan out, i'm not trying to be dramatic about the decline of 'nostalgic' potential, but I think it will have an effect and will be made up of things we have not considered.