se7en two?

Started by tpfkabi, January 13, 2003, 10:01:25 PM

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cowboykurtis

#45
May 08, 2003, 11:35:14 PM
Quote from: RegularKarate
also... Panic Room is far more stylistic and gimicky than Se7en.

i agree -- seven is a very controlled film -- tell me one shot that was over indulgent or "gimicky". any stylized element of seven is through the lighting and art direction, not the director's need to employ "cool" shots. i feel it's very traditionally told from the visual standpoint.
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godardian

#46
May 09, 2003, 11:02:50 AM
Well, not being willing to put myself through that again (I did re-rent it a couple years ago just to confirm my position, and I barely made it through), I'll just have to say that to me, there is something about David Fincher's mis en scene in Se7en (even the title's a gimmick!)- even in Paltrow and Pitt's apartment- that seems so graphically designed in such a superficial way. Like, "Let's make everything gray yet apocalyptic; that'll sure spell 'doom!'" It just really lacks subtletly. And I think the reason I have a problem with that is that David Fincher seems a very pulp, very non-intellectual, conceptually unsophisticated director with a lot of technical skills, but people rate him with other directors who are genuinely inspired. I mean, obviously, he's not the worst out there- but sometimes it's more irritating to see mediocrity overpraised than it is to see true badness become a box-office success.

That being said, I guess if I had to choose between watching, say, Kangaroo Jack and re-watching Fight Club, I'd sit through Fight Club and enjoy seeing Helena Bonham Carter looking all bad-ass and trying with a fun performance to pull herself out of the rather misogynistic muck she's flailing around in.
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chainsmoking insomniac

#47
June 07, 2003, 11:52:07 AM
I loved her performance in Fight Club.  I just hated the movie.  And I wouldn't allow myself to fall into a position where I had to choose between Kangaroo Jack or Fight Club.  :P
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MacGuffin

#48
October 31, 2006, 10:57:29 AM
Se7en Prequel in the Works
Source: MovieHole

A prequel to one of the best thrillers of the 90s, "Se7en", is about to get underway, says Bloody Disgusting.

Called "Virtue", the film is said to be written as a stand-alone feature but will have some links to the Brad Pitt/Morgan Freeman starring film.

According to the site, a treatment has been written for the film – which at this stage David Fincher, the director of the original, is not mentioned as helming – with the studio now on the lookout for someone that's handy with a pen to flesh out the full screenplay.

Meantime, a separate spin-off of the original "Se7en" film, a comic book series has also been commissioned. The comics will also serve as a prequel to the events of the 1995 film.

"Se7en" fixed on a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well.
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modage

#49
January 04, 2009, 08:49:02 PM
just saw a Fincher Q&A.  he said he would rather have cigarettes put out in his eyes than make a sequel to Se7en.
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Pwaybloe

#50
January 05, 2009, 11:23:59 AM
He didn't say anything about a PREquel, hmmm?

tpfkabi

#51
January 05, 2009, 02:13:57 PM
HAHA.

I don't remember starting this thread at all.

Virtue...the name won't tie it in at all.

I guess they'll have to mention the hell out of Se7en in the promotion so people know.
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