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Plot Summary:
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Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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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)
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- 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:
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- Budget:
- $33,000,000
- Revenue:
- $327,311,859
- Color Info:
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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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- The victim tied to the bed for a year was not an animatronic model, but a very skinny actor made up to look even more corpse-like. Bottin used a set of exaggerated teeth to make the head look smaller and more shrunken from malnutrition.
- 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.
- The autopsy of the first killing, as originally scripted was incorrect, according to the research of makeup man Rob Bottin (who viewed a real human autopsy as part of his prep work). The scene was truncated from the original script and shows only the sewn-up corpse of Gluttony, not the actual autopsy.
- One version of the script contained a few scenes following the final confrontation between the detectives and John Doe. In one of them, Somerset is recovering in the hospital after being shot by Mills, and the captain delivers a letter to him from Mills which reads, "You were right. You were right about everything."
- David Fincher makes a cameo a the voice on the phone when Mills answers it in John Doe's apartment.
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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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