State power denounced in the Clint Eastwood film “Changeling”

A script full of anger and distrust towards the police.

The screenplay for ``Changeling'' was written by J. Michael Straczynski. A former journalist, he developed an extraordinary interest in the Gordon Northcott case that occurred in the late 1920s, and researched it thoroughly, pulling out past court records. He completed a draft of the script in just 11 days.

The incident was extremely gruesome, with Gordon Northcott, a young man who ran a chicken farm in Riverside, California, kidnapping dozens of boys, sexually abusing them, and then murdering them. But what was even worse was the police response. When her 9-year-old son Walter suddenly disappears, his mother Christine Collins asks the police to investigate. However, when her son was handed over to her five months later, he was a completely different person with a different face, height, and personality.

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Christine objects, but the police, not wanting to lose their face, don't take matters into account at all, saying, ``The problem lies with the mother who can't identify her own son.'' In reality, the real boy Walter was kidnapped and murdered by Northcott. The incident became a big news story that caused a stir in the world, with people saying, ``If the police had investigated properly, there would have been no casualties.''

Straczynski's screenplay, full of anger and distrust of the police, was blacklisted in 2006 (a blacklist is a group of people who upload scenarios that have not yet been made into movies on their homepage, looking for a good movie star). (This is a system that matches filmmakers.) The first person to notice this script was hitmaker Ron Howard, known for his work on `` Apollo 13 '' (1995) and `` A Beautiful Mind '' (2001). However, due to schedule constraints, it was not possible to direct the film, so I decided to provide logistical support as a producer. The person who ultimately decided to direct this work was Clint Eastwood, who agreed to direct the film the same day he finished reading the script.

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