Well there was this man, John Hinckley Jr., the quintessential proto-incel. Having seen Jodie Foster in the movie Taxi Driver, he became obsessed with her. The creepy thing — Foster was only fourteen when she starred in that film.
Anyway, Hinckley kept watching Taxi Driver. Again, and again, and again. And he became convinced that the only way Foster would ever notice him and love him would be for him to do a great act that would make him instantly famous. He figured killing the President of the United States was about as infamous as a man can be — it’d make him the 20th century John Wilkes Booth. He failed to kill President Ronald Reagan, but did cause White House press secretary James Brady to become permanently disabled.
Hinckley Jr. was released from jail in 2016, deemed no longer a threat to himself and others. He served 35 years for his failed presidential assassination. He now makes his living as a painter. The funny thing about his crazy plot is, it never would have worked, even if Foster did have a thing for crazed presidential assassins — she’s openly lesbian.
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