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- M (1931) Director: Fritz Lang. If a single film can take credit for shaping the serial killer sub-genre, it’s Fritz Lang’s astonishingly innovative first talkie.
- Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. It’s been well documented that Fincher’s first experience of feature filmmaking was nightmarish. He once told Sight & Sound magazine, “I thought I’d rather die of colon cancer than do another movie”, after the constant studio interference he had to contend with on Alien 3 (1992).
- In the Heat of the Night (1967) Director: Norman Jewison. It’s quite startling to compare and contrast Freeman’s Somerset with Hollywood’s first major black detective hero, Sidney Poitier’s Virgil Tibbs.
- Cruising (1980) Director: William Friedkin. Fincher said that he approached Se7en like a “tiny genre movie, the kind of movie Friedkin might have made after The Exorcist”.
- Natural Dialogue in A Stylized World
- Flawless Structure
- What’s in The Box
- John Doe Is Insane, But We Agree with Him
- Details and Twists That Aren’T Twists
Injected in between the quizzical philosophy and introduction to religious literature, screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker crafted a large amount of detective dialogue that felt both like the familiar jousting of strong personalities and freshly specific to these characters. This aspect is imperative to its re-watchability because, not only is it ente...
Like the blueprints to a perfect haunted house, Se7en’s raw density demands future viewings. It’s amazing how key puzzle pieces fit together in surprising ways – the biggest being the fingerprints of the Sloth victim spelling out “Help me” at the Greed crime scene. In most other mysteries, you’d see this in practice, leading simply to a dead end, a...
It’s well known that there’s another version of the script that shows a fairly rote confrontation in an industrial district of the city where John Doe is holding Tracy hostage. There were other ideas – Mills’ dog’s head being in the box, Somerset shooting Doe, a showdown in a burning church that goes quickly into soap opera territory. None of them ...
Hear me out on this. It would have been easy to make Doe a stock crazy person with a tiny amount of screen time that belied the apotheosis he earns by being discussed and talked about for an hour and a half. The average cop movie would have seen him caught, tossed in that kidnapping/shootout plot, and called it a day. Instead, we get a chance to he...
Had this movie hinged on a twist or on the identity of the killer, it wouldn’t have had nearly the same longevity. The core question would be answered, and rewatching would be all but an academic exercise. Instead, it begs to be seen multiple times because of how complete the world is – etched in every nook and cranny by small details that dim the ...
The second installment of The Directors Series goes into the films and career of director David Fincher, covering his major early commercial works and his breakout as a successful feature director with 1995’s Se7en.
Sep 30, 2020 · September 30, 2020 by admin. Hasitha Fernando revisits David Fincher’s Se7en on its 25th anniversary… 25 years back a creative team consisting of an unproven director and a novice...
Apr 12, 2012 · David Fincher, Brad Pitt, and Morgan Freeman lend their voices and insight into this commentary track for Se7en.
Sep 25, 2014 · In honor of the upcoming Gone Girl, I’m reviewing each film in David Fincher’s staggering career. What it must have been like to see Se7en in 1995. After the diatribe that was Alien 3, David Fincher’s serial killer followup must have struck as a revelation.
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Mar 6, 2023 · David Fincher’s Se7en changed the way psychological thrillers were made and has inspired a litany of dark thrillers since its release.
