Sunday 25 May 2014

Hunger Games assistant director speaks out about son"s California shooting ...


  • Father of mass torpedo Elliot Rodger, 22, has oral of ‘inconceivable pain’

  • Peter Rodger, who helped approach Hunger Games, offers victims sympathy

  • Says family called military weeks ago after Elliot put sinister videos online

  • Revealed Elliot was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism

  • Elliot lived in oppulance California home with family and gathering black BMW

  • Grandmother conspicuous he was ‘very disturbed’ and had mental health issues


By

Nick Craven

and Ben Ellery

and Chris Pleasance



Published:


22:07, 24 May 2014




|
Updated:


13:45, 25 May 2014





The father of mass torpedo Elliot Rodger has oral of his ‘inconceivable pain’ after his son shot 6 people upheld in Santa Barbara yesterday before murdering himself.


In a matter released by his warn Alan Shifman, father Peter Rodger said: ‘The Rodger family offers their deepest caring and magnetism to a families concerned in this terrible tragedy.


‘We are experiencing a many improbable pain, and a hearts go out to everybody involved.’


Shifman combined that

family called military several weeks ago after being dumbfounded by YouTube

videos ‘regarding self-murder and a murdering of people’ that Elliot had

been posting.


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Elliot Rodger (left) is graphic during a Hunger Games premiere with his father Peter (right). Peter has oral of his


Elliot Rodger (left) is graphic during a Hunger Games premiere with his father Peter (right). Peter has oral of his ‘inconceivable pain’ after training his son was obliged for sharpened 6 people dead



With his hair painted blonde, Elliot removed being a smallest child in his category during Topanga Elementary School


With his hair painted blonde, Elliot removed being a smallest child in his category during Topanga Elementary School


Police interviewed Elliot Rodger and found him to be a ‘perfectly polite, kind and smashing human,’ he added.


Mr Rodger combined that a family are staunchly opposite guns, mindful he had no thought how his son got reason of a firearm.


Police did not find a story of guns, yet did contend Rodger ‘didn’t have a lot of friends,’ and didn’t have any girlfriends.


He was diagnosed during an progressing age with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism definition he had problems with amicable interaction.


Rodger was vital with roommates during a Independent Living Institute in Santa Barbara, a trickery that offers ‘living skills instruction to assistance adults with disabilities to live some-more exclusively in their communities,’ according to a website.


Shifman added: ‘My clients’ goal in life will be to try and forestall any such tragedies from ever function again.


‘This country, this universe needs to residence mental illness and a ramifications from not noticing these illnesses.’


On

a surface, Elliot had all a immature masculine in his prime

could wish for: loving, rich parents, a oppulance family home in

California, a possibility to brew with Hollywood A-listers, and a neat BMW

at a age of usually 22.


Peter Rodger, father of Elliot, is seen in open for a initial time given his son


Peter Rodger, father of Elliot, is seen in open for a initial time given his son’s lethal sharpened spree



Peter says a Rodger family will persevere a rest of their lives to creation certain zero like this happens again


Peter has also offering his sympathies to a families of a victims


In a statement, a family’s warn conspicuous they will be devoting their lives to lifting recognition of mental health issues and creation certain zero like this happens again



But

beneath a sun-kissed lifestyle, a unfortunate loneliness and sexual

frustration were chewing divided and would finally expostulate him to a madness

of his horrific, intentional mass murder.


The

repeated thesis of his middle torture is transparent in countless disturbing

videos he put out on YouTube and amicable network postings as he

increasingly seemed to spend some-more time vital his life in cyberspace

rather than in a genuine world.


Time after time, he talked of his inability to get a girlfriend, admissing that even yet he had been by college, he had never kissed a girl, let alone had sex.


A design emerged of a uneasy immature masculine whose associate students were enjoying a epicurean lifestyle of surfing, open breaks and sorority parties, while he was left out, after undergoing therapy.


Over time, his mild defence for fraternisation and sex grown a darker corner until a indicate where he betrothed ‘retribution’ on women in general.


On a aspect Elliot seemed to have everything, yet he was diagnosed with Asperger


On a aspect Elliot seemed to have everything, yet he was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism definition he struggled in amicable situations







Two years ago, on his YouTube channel,

Rodger set a tinge for what was to come, posting a video of fellow

students merrymaking in Isla Vista, a city where he complicated during University

of California, Santa Barbara, where it is believed he was studying

politics and philosophy.


In an concomitant comment, he wrote: ‘It angers me so most to see these people carrying so most fun here.


‘I’m a ideal worldly gentleman, yet these inhuman girls usually like to be with a repulsive douchebags.’


Around

a year ago he began posting on an internet forum called  Puahate – a

site describing itself as a ‘Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement’ and offers

advice to group on how to collect adult women.


For his initial post he wrote: ‘Revenge is something to live for’ on a thread patrician ‘I have zero to live for.’


As

Rodger’s ‘vlogs’ or video blogs, became some-more and some-more chilling, his

worried family asked him to mislay some of them from a internet only

three weeks ago.


Elliot


Elliot’s grandfather, George Rodger, lonesome a D-Day landings and after founded Magnum print agency


A

good-looking boy, it is unfit to contend what caused Rodger’s problem

with women, yet detached from his parents’ divorce, there are no clues in

his credentials as to a deeply uneasy loner he would become.


He was innate in Aug 1991 in Lambeth, South London, a scion of a family steeped in photography and a cinema.


His Malaysian-born mom Li Chin, now 53, and film executive father Peter, 49, changed to America’s West Coast when Elliot was 5 and his younger sister Georgia usually a baby.


Elliot’s grandfather, British photographer George Rodger, was one of a founders of a eminent Magnum print agency, and lonesome a D-Day landings in 1944.


He was also a initial photographer to enter a thoroughness camps during Bergen-Belsen, an knowledge that left a durability sense on him, according to his widow Lois ‘Jinx’ Rodger, herself a publisher and design editor.


Speaking from her home in Kent, Elliot’s grandmother, 89, explained that he had suffered mental health issues for some time.


She said: ‘He was a really uneasy boy. He lived in California yet of march I’d famous him. This is usually one of those really comfortless things. we don’t wish to speak about it any more. This is a rather formidable time.’


Peter Rodger desired assisting his father on jobs and shortly picked adult a passion for photography. His possess career began in advertising, filming and photographing commercials for cosmetics, cars and clothing.



Yesterday, a family crony told The Mail on Sunday that Peter and Li Chin divorced shortly after relocating to a US and Peter after married Soumaya Akaaboune, a French singer of Moroccan-French skirmish who seemed in Hollywood blockbuster Green Zone.


She was once married to Jamie Harris, son of a late shade fable Richard Harris.


Elliot’s early life was spent in Calabasas in a hills west of a San Fernando Valley, on a corner of Los Angeles.


He removed in one Facebook posting ‘being a smallest child in a class’ when he was photographed during Topanga Elementary School nearby his home, aged seven, in 1998.


His naturally dim hair seemed to have been painted blond.


While Elliot’s father usually became a large actor in Hollywood comparatively recently, it’s transparent his mom competence also have been well-connected from a sketch taken in a late 1980s, display Michael Jackson, along with Harrison Ford and Star Wars executive George Lucas, who has his arm around Li Chin.


Peter Rodger’s possess breakthrough into Hollywood came in 2009, when Elliot was aged 17, with a recover of his film documentary Oh My God, featuring Ringo Starr, Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrmann and their views on organized religion.



Elliot, who was innate in Lambeth, South London, came behind to revisit 3 years ago on a outing that took in a London Eye, Harrods and a Houses of Parliament


Elliot, who was innate in Lambeth, South London, came behind to revisit 3 years ago on a outing that took in a London Eye, Harrods and a Houses of Parliament



But he done it transparent that a success had been achieved during some cost to his family life.


The

devise took Peter to 23 countries and he conspicuous in an talk that the

prior 3 years had been tough on his family. He enclosed Elliot

in a on-screen credits, along with his sister Georgia.


He said: ‘I put my family by a lot of problems creation this film since we was divided a prolonged time.’


Of

children, added: ‘Kids are a purest form of humans. It’s when the

influences around them start inspiring them – their parents, their

schools, their society, their culture, their country, their belief

systems – that they start to turn a people they are.


‘I

find children to be eventually pristine in heart. If we are looking for

Godliness certainly we are going to find Godliness in children.’


Peter Rodger became partner executive on a 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence.


Elliot was photographed during a film’s Hollywood premiere alongside his father, stepmother, and Sylvester Stallone.


By then, he was enrolled during University of California, Santa Barbara, yet he done it transparent in one of his earlier, some-more poignant, blogs, he hated university life – since he felt so released from a amicable life.


In one of Elliot’s some-more new videos, he conspicuous that he was happiest during his childhood when things were some-more ‘fair’, yet what accurately he meant wasn’t clear.


Elliot was means to means a outing to London 3 years ago, holding in a Houses of Parliament, Harrods and a London Eye, posting photos online.


But by Jan final year it was transparent his amicable rejecting had fuelled loathing in him when he wrote: ‘If we could recover a pathogen that would kill any singular masculine on Earth, solely for yourself since we would have a antidote, would we do it?


‘You will be a usually masculine left, with all a females. You would be means to have your collect of any pleasing lady we want, as good as carrying dealt reprisal on a group who took them from you. Imagine how gratifying that would be.’


Six people died and 7 were harmed on Friday after Elliot non-stop glow in a tyro community before branch a gun on himself


Six people died and 7 were harmed on Friday after Elliot non-stop glow in a tyro community before branch a gun on himself



By June, he wrote: ‘Once women are brought to their knees, things can be reformed. The earlier this happens, a better.’


Three months ago, he started posting YouTube videos. Again, they started innocuously – ‘Enjoying a nightfall in Santa Barbara’ and ‘Awesome perspective of LA from a alighting airplane’.


Last month, a print on Facebook showed Elliot with his father and step-brother Jazz on a garden swingseat. The physique denunciation spoke volumes. While a younger child and his father embraced, Elliot sat sulking during a finish of a seat.


Then in a final week or so, he ramped adult his YouTube activity and started articulate about how he hated women in his videos.


Widely ridiculed, he had turn a mini luminary on a Puahate site.


Saying goodbye to Puahate he wrote: ‘You’re all sceptical of my 10/10 pretty-boy face. This site is full of stupid, disgusting, mentally ill degenerates who take pleasure in putting down others.


‘That is all we have to contend on here. Goodbye.’


Additional stating Chris Hastings and Mark Nicol


He mimicked American psycho – he wanted to be a star: Analysis by Dr Adam Lankford


Elliot Rodger was perplexing to act out a purpose of a film star when he went on his murdering debauch – to make adult for a fact he felt like a disaster in genuine life. Clearly he did not feel he had a standing he deserved.


In his final YouTube video, that he categorically filmed to leave a legacy, he casts himself as a film star.


In another of his clips he appears to anxiety a film American Psycho, and it competence be that he has taken a categorical character, Patrick Bateman, as a purpose model.


American Psycho follows anti-hero Patrick Bateman, a son of a US banker, who mutilates and kills prostitutes after carrying sex with them


American Psycho follows anti-hero Patrick Bateman, a son of a US banker, who mutilates and kills prostitutes after carrying sex with them



Bateman, played by Christian Bale, is a successful Wall Street landowner who picks adult women and afterwards butchers them after sex.


The irony is that Bale’s impression is both intimately successful and a killer.


But for Rodger, his passionate disappointment was a pushing force behind a anger. However, both share low feelings of passionate enterprise for women and charge towards them.


There are parallels between Rodger and a Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who fantasised about a thought that Steven Spielberg would make a film about their lives.


Some competence consider that since his father worked as an partner executive on The Hunger Games, that involves teenagers murdering teens, that could have planted a seed in him to go on a rampage.


But we consider his father’s success in Hollywood is some-more relevant, as it competence have heightened his possess feelings of inadequacy.


Rodger is a classical uproar killer: young, male, removed and intimately frustrated. And he seemed to have a conspicuous plant mentality.



‘The irony is that Bale’s impression is both intimately successful and a killer. But for Rodger, his passionate disappointment was a pushing force behind a anger’



In his video he says things such as: ‘You forced me to humour all my life and now I’ll make we all suffer.’


He blamed his pang on others, and therefore felt his assault was righteous. It was a uneasy reality.


He felt he was a plant of all of humanity. we consider he was suicidal, and dictated to kill himself after a shooting.


If we feel as if a whole universe is opposite you, it creates it easier to start aggressive pointless people – and afterwards kill yourself.


Dr Lankford is highbrow of rapist probity studies during a University of Alabama.


Hunger Games showed a teenage bloodbath


Controversial film The Hunger Games contained aroused scenes of teen forced to quarrel to a death


Controversial film The Hunger Games contained aroused scenes of teen forced to quarrel to a death



The recover of The Hunger Games in 2012 caused a charge of criticism from relatives and psychologists who conspicuous a film was too aroused for youngsters.


The film depicts a total universe in that teenagers are forced to kill any other in a  gladiatorial-style contest.


It was primarily given a 15 certificate by a British Board of Film Classification, yet this was lowered to 12A after producers concluded to cuts.


This meant that children aged 12 and over could see it on their own, while younger children could go with an adult.


Some relatives conspicuous children had turn unsettled examination a film, and experts conspicuous there was a risk that a assault decorated on a shade could turn ‘hard-wired’ into immature children’s brains.


At one indicate in a film, many of a contestants die in a bloodbath, while in another scene, a child is mauled by a container of deteriorated dogs before being shot in a conduct with an arrow.


The film also shows a lady of 12 being stabbed with a stalk and another teenage girl’s skull being strike with a rock.



 








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Maz,


Planet Earth,


7 hours ago


This will be used by a NRA to contend that he was mentally uneasy and that is since he killed – hence take a concentration off a fact that he had 3 guns and 400 rounds of ammunition. It will never change as prolonged as lobbyists are around saved by a NRA. Wake adult people.






Vic Tor Mel Drew,


Llareggub, United Kingdom,


7 hours ago


Land of a giveaway as prolonged as we have a gun in your hand,it’s mocking this arrange of thing helps a NRA,more people will buy guns currently since of this tragedy.





Twenty-four May,


Sunny side of a street, United States,


7 hours ago


Each time a mass murdering occurs mindful wags sustain a emanate of mental health caring as yet mental health caring was out of strech of or was somehow being funded from a perpetrator. It is apropos some-more and some-more apparent that it is not so most a miss of mental health caring as it is a fact that there is a graphic chasm separating ill people from a caring that they so desperately need. This competence be due to ill people not being means to demonstrate their mental breach in therapy so as to obtain service or to entrance collection to assistance themselves. Possibly it competence paint therapists or psychiatric professionals who are incompetent.





Sassy1,


London uk,


7 hours ago


24 hour carer/ bodyguard would have been useful






Keyser Soze,


London, United Kingdom,


7 hours ago


There’s too most assault in a media that children are simply unprotected to. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.





AI,


Chicago, United States,


7 hours ago


The film attention in California anyone compared with it, generally southern California is coddled by a authorities…

The military are usually confronting inner investigations now, is since these events are usually too large to brush underneath a carpet or demeanour a other way…





JCas,


Soton,


7 hours ago


.. one waste chairman though good warn ; and that’s it..





Rachel,


Thun,


7 hours ago


Why did his family usually call a military and not go and see their son themselves? They upheld shortcoming on to others rather than creation certain their son got a diagnosis he clearly indispensable and safeguarding others from his ruthless intentions. This child was apparently marred in element ways, yet not in a ways that count. As ever when these mass murders occur, we have to consternation how such a uneasy chairman was authorised to squeeze firearms ?





original,


Up North, United Kingdom,


7 hours ago


One really uneasy guy.






gr8gal,


Sydney, Australia,


7 hours ago


I do not acquit his iniquitous crime, yet we do know what it means to humour from Aspergers and be socially ostracised, alone and disconnected. To that end, we can see how worried he would have been and it’s like a ticking time explosve when one has mental health issues as well. To have finished this approach was variable and comfortless for a victims. It so happens his explosve detonated since with other sufferers, they usually cope somehow or humour in silence.



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