David Fincher: "Mindhunter’’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Executive producer David Fincher talks delving deeper into the psyche of serial killers in season two of "Mindhunter".

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. In this first season of Mind Hunter, there's a line spoken by one of the characters about studying the intersection between sociopathy and fame, which you can say is kind of the subtext, almost everything that my guest, David Fincher, has done.
0:30.3	The new season of Mind Hunter premieres in about a month, what, August is it?
0:33.9	Yes, yes.
0:35.1	Is there a date in August?
0:36.7	Yes, there is now.
0:38.0	I'm not sure.
0:38.7	I guess I'm allowed to say it, but yeah, it's going to be the 16th.
0:42.9	Okay.
0:43.5	Well, we're about a month ahead, but I want to talk to you about that theme, and it's so integral to the show, but it's been so integral to almost so much stuff you've done, hasn't it?
0:52.4	That the idea of going after really modern-day narcissism.
0:57.4	Well, I guess
1:00.3	I hate being reduced
1:02.2	so eloquently
1:04.2	and quickly.
1:06.5	But I mean, it's
1:08.1	definitely, it definitely informs
1:10.3	this. It has informed some of the other serial killer work, you know,
1:15.4	It was definitely a part of Zodiac.
1:18.0	Seven as well.
1:19.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:20.1	I mean, Seven, I think, is a little more, I don't think,
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