Plan and Execution

Howard tells Jimmy and Kim they're like "Leopold and Loeb... two sociopaths." Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois in May 1924. They committed the murder - characterized at the time as "the crime of the century" - as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority, which they believed enabled and entitled them to carry out a "perfect crime" without consequences.

Developing the pictures in the darkroom, the camera guy tells Jimmy and Kim that "you can't rush the process." That is correct, but they have obviously enlarged a lot of negatives already. They are in a hurry, and they took a lot more pictures than they actually need. Manual enlarging takes a lot of time, which makes that step the bottleneck. In reality, they would try to avoid enlarging as many negatives as possible by selecting the best pictures beforehand and only blow up those few. For that, you would first make a quick contact print of all the negatives, and go over that with a loupe, not select a few prints after enlarging all the negatives.

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