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Cast:
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Crew:
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Call The Cops
- police technical advisors
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
- 3rd Street & Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA [exterior, ’Sloth’ apartment]
- Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA [John Doe’s apartment building]
- Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Mojave, California, USA
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Quality Coffee Shop - 1238 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $30,000,000 (USA)
- Color Info:
- Color (DeLuxe)
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Super 35
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm - anamorphic
- Film Length:
- 3548 m
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Trivia:
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- Originally, Somerset drew his pistol with his finger on the trigger. Police officers that were on the set as technical advisors quickly corrected him, as that is not correct police procedure.
- A rejected version of the credits had the same scratchy handwriting and Coil-remixed "Closer to God", but used static images instead of the jumpy, blurred footage used currently. (This credit sequence is in the Criterion laserdisc supplement section.)
- The name of the city in which the movie takes place is never mentioned.
- The original script had a strange, dwarf-like woman as part of the forensics team, appearing in every one of the "cleanups" after a murder and hurling foul language and epithets at Somerset and Mills.
- While filming the scene where Mills chases John Doe in the rain, Brad Pitt fell and his arm went through a car windshield, requiring surgery. This accident was worked into the script of the film.
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Credits Fun:
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- Credits roll down instead of up.
- The opening credits are done over broken, blurred images of John Doe removing the skin from his fingertips and sewing it into his journals.
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