His twisted agenda involves choosing seven victims who represent egregious examples of transgressions of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He then views himself as akin to the Sword of God, handing out horrific punishment to these sinners. Two cops, an experienced veteran of the streets Morgan Freeman who is about to retire and the ambitious young homicide detective Brad Pitt hired to replace him, team up to capture the perpetrator of these gruesome killings.
Unfortunately, they too become ensnared in his diabolical plan Sign In. Edit Se7en Jump to: Summaries 6 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Mills Gwyneth Paltrow Tracy John Cassini Officer Davis Bob Mack Gluttony Victim Peter Crombie O'Neill Reg E. Santiago R. Lee Ermey Police Captain George Christy Cab Driver Hawthorne James Library Janitor Richard Roundtree Talbot Charline Su Gould Mario Di Donato Fingerprint Technician John C.
California as John C. Mcginley Harrison White John Doe Richard Portnow Beardsley Tudor Sherrard Greasy F. Man Pamala Tyson Wild Bill Michael Massee Paramedic at Massage Parlor as Paul S. Eckstein Harris Savides Pride Victim Brian Evers Duty Sergeant Shannon Wilcox Mark Swarr James Deeth Helicopter Pilot Charles A.
Delivery Man Duffy Gaver Marksman in Helicopter Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Charles S. Cop uncredited Gregory Fennell In , the American artist Chris Burden, whose oeuvre included shutting himself inside a locker for five days and crucifying himself to a Volkswagen Beetle, arranged for a friend to fire a bullet from a small-caliber rifle into his arm as part of a performance piece titled Shoot. In order to make an impact, he must swing for the fences. Se7en embodies and interrogates such blunt-force strategies, enfolding a meditation on—and enactment of—avant-garde artistry in genre-movie packaging.
More significantly, Se7en erects itself as a landmark in the history of serial-killer movies. As with American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs , Se7en draws its strength from a set of well-established conventions while also distancing itself from them.
Whatever else you can say about Se7en , it is not a tap on the shoulder; whatever ambivalences or contradictions David Fincher cultivates in his second feature, he gets, and keeps, our strict attention. It also establishes the morbid mindset necessary to embrace a property like Se7en , which came to Fincher after being rejected by its original director and subjected to studio demands for a more palatable rewrite—i.
The draft with the head in the box, as Fincher is fond of pointing out, was the one that he preferred. Walker wrote Se7en as an anti—love letter to New York after an unhappy stint living there in the s. Pitt had to wear a cast for the rest of filming, which was written into the script ; for scenes that had to be shot that took place earlier than the chase, the actor had to conceal his arm as best he could. To cast the role of a victim who was chained to a bed and starved, producers had only two criteria: the ability to lay down for long periods of time and a very slight frame.
At 98 pounds , actor Michael Reid MacKay fit the profile. Actor Gene Borkan answered a casting call looking for a smarmy lawyer type. Despite extended examinations of tortured, bloated, or insect-infested corpses, virtually all of the actual bloodletting in Se7en takes place before Detectives Somerset Morgan Freeman and Mills arrive on the scene. Fincher originally intended to open the film with scenes of Detective Somerset visiting a home in the country and taking the train back.
But when Fincher had to screen a rough cut for studio executives, he needed some filler.
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