Posted on 07/28/2015 9:50:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Kitty Genovese's gruesome killing to become feature film
A legendary New York City crime that once inspired soul-searching and public debate is finally coming to the big screen. Spoiler alert: It's called "37," after the number of witnesses who allegedly watched, listened, or did nothing while Queens resident Kitty Genovese was raped and fatally stabbed. Starring "True Detective" actor Michael Potts and "Orange is the New Black" actress Samira Wiley, the 18-day shoot is triggering strong reactions and memories among neighbors, the New York Times reports. "This story had the greatest impact on me as child," a resident said during filming last week. "The whole thing was so horrifying." The shoot is about a mile from the actual crime scene, but a store owner still complained that the neighborhood has already been maligned enough.
The original Times account made mistakes, including the likely number of witnesses (it wasn't 37) and the notion that no one helped (a neighbor comforted Genovese in her final moments, and calls were made to police). But quotes attributed to Genovese—like "Oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!”—reverberate to this day and even rankle neighbors of the current shoot. Actress Christina Brucato, who's portraying Genovese, says she "felt bad" about keeping a neighbor up all night during the murder scene: "They said I couldn’t go all out, but really, it was terrifying," she says. "I couldn’t help but let out some screams." It's the first film by 28-year-old Danish director Puk Grasten, who says "it’s nice to be from the outside: I can look at something and say, 'This is not supposed to be normal.'"
Kitty Genovese Killing Is Retold in the Film ‘37’
Walking her dog through a sun-roasted film set in Queens last Monday, Lois Gillman said she couldn’t believe it at first when she heard about the movie being made, just around the corner from her house.
“This story had the greatest impact on me as child,” she whispered during a break in filming, adding, “The whole thing was so horrifying.”
The movie being shot — “37” — won’t be a horror film. But its story has been haunting New Yorkers for more than 50 years: In the early hours of March 13, 1964, the 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed and sexually assaulted while her neighbors allegedly listened. And watched from their windows. Or closed their drapes. Or turned up the radio to drown out the screams.
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The neighbors "allegedly" did nothing?
I always wondered if this was really true...given the track record of hyperbole and dishonestly I've seen from the press over the years.
I DON’T WANT TO GET INVOLVED.........................
http://nypost.com/2014/02/16/book-reveals-real-story-behind-the-kitty-genovese-murder/
I remember the event very well. It was front page news even in small town Texas.
If only someone had been carrying.
This is why when you are helping someone you never say “somebody call an ambulance!” You point at one person and say “you - what is YOUR name?” When they answer, you repeat it to all and give them specific instructions to (in my most recent case go forward to the first car to stop the train,) call an ambulance, etc. The Genovese tragedy has helped us understand group (mob) psychology and has saved many lives.
I was a kid, but Mom always listened to Paul Harvey, and I recall his telling of this story from that time.
It was/is difficult to understand the apathy and cowardice.
I used to hang out at the bar across the street in the early 70’s. We gave a guy a ride one nite and he started to get rough with my girlfriend. We went our separate ways and later we saw his picture Daily News that he drowned his girlfriend in the tub in that building.
It was all sensationalized.
IIRC, someone was.
It was a neighbor, but he was drunk off his obama and unable to handle things.
Never happened in my neighborhood, when we heard a hue and cry every window would open up and everyone would start screaming, and men would be on the sidewalk giving chase.
More’s the pity.
The problem in New York City in 1964 and to a great extent today is that the NYPD has effectively criminalized the notion of coming to someone else’s aid. My husband told me of a time he was in NYC and stopped a mugger and the first cop to show up tried to arrest my husband for assaulting the mugger! What happened to that cop made the news and my husband showed me the NYT article from 1986!
Things have not changed. The NYPD does not want anyone defending themselves let alone others. DC and any other liberal city are no doubt just the same.
If Michael Potts is portraying her killer Winston Moseley, he’s too dark-skinned. Moseley is light-skinned. He was an administrative building porter when I was an officer at Auburn in the early 80’s. Back then he wore his hair in an unruly afro. I could never understand how he got such a cushy job since he’d previously escaped from Attica during an emergency trip to the outside hospital. He was eventually recaptured, but during his escape he had taken 2-3 people hostage, and raped the man’s wife. And that same woman came regularly to visit him at the prison.
It’s police Union rules. Citizens deterring criminals are in effect scabs.
Some folks, even some on this thread, should read it.
I guess back in '64 many still trusted the press. But given what we know about the press all these years later, folks should revisit what they think happened back then.
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Which is worse? The premise that that 37 people did nothing or the idea that millions of people see no problem with Moseley still living and breathing as we FReep?
Typical ghetto behavior of “Don’t Snitch.” Still happening today.
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