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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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- 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.)
- All the building numbers in the opening scene start with 7. The climactic delivery was scheduled for 7pm.
- David Fincher makes a cameo a the voice on the phone when Mills answers it in John Doe's apartment.
- Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso Freeman, played the part of a fingerprint technician.
- 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."
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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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