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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 interior shot of Mills kicking in John Doe's door was directly inspired by trailers for Men in Black, where agents J and K do much the same thing.
- 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.)
- 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."
- R. Lee Ermey originally auditioned for the part of John Doe. After the part was given to Kevin Spacey, Ermey was offered and took the part of the police captain.
- An edited-out sequence near the beginning had Somerset looking over the country home he's planning on moving into. He uses his switchblade to cut loose a rose on a fragment of silk wallpaper and carries it with him throughout the movie. The rose falls out of his jacket as he is taking off his gun before eating with the Mills family. (This touch was edited out, too. Both sequences are in the supplementary section of the Criterion laserdisc.) The rose is briefly visible in the opening scene, sitting atop a handkerchief on Somerset's dresser.
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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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