Due detective, un esordiente e un veterano, cacciano un serial killer che usa i sette peccati capitali come motivazioni.Due detective, un esordiente e un veterano, cacciano un serial killer che usa i sette peccati capitali come motivazioni.Due detective, un esordiente e un veterano, cacciano un serial killer che usa i sette peccati capitali come motivazioni.
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- Star
- Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 29 vittorie e 44 candidature totali
- Dead Man at 1st Crime Scene
- (as Andy Walker)
- First Guard at the Library
- (as Roscoe Davidson)
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- QuizAs preparation for his traumatic scene in the interrogation room, Leland Orser would hyperventilate, so that his body would be overly saturated with oxygen. He also did not sleep for a few days, in order to achieve his character's disoriented look.
- BlooperWhen the detectives are at the door of John Doe's apartment, John walks into the hallway. He sees them, drops his bag of groceries, pulls a gun, shoots, and runs. The bag is now on the floor, with its contents spilled out. When Mills gives chase, he runs down the same hallway. The dropped bag of groceries has vanished.
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David Mills: Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people.
John Doe: Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!
David Mills: Murderers?
John Doe: A woman...
David Mills: Murderers, John, like yourself?
John Doe: [interrupts] A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever.
- Curiosità sui creditiSPOILER: Kevin Spacey's name is not included in the opening titles to keep the John Doe intrigue going. To compensate, he is listed twice in the closing credits: once before the credits start rolling and once in the rolling credits in order of appearance.
- Versioni alternativeUSA laserdisc edition adds a few scenes deleted from theatrical release as a bonus at the end of the program, including: a prologue where Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is going to buy a country house. He uses his switchblade (seen many times in the final cut, but not explained) to cut out a small piece of wallpaper. There is an extended scene at the Mills' when David (Brad Pitt) is playing with his dogs, and Somerset talks to Tracy. He tells her about the house and shows her the wallpaper. She tells him that it wouldn't be such a good idea to show it to David, saying "He wouldn't understand.". These two scenes establish Somerset's characters better, and the second one helps the viewer understand why the wife chooses Somerset to talk to when she gets pregnant. She knows that Somerset is much more sensible than her husband, and will understand her. The second one however was probably dumped earlier since it is included among the dailies and outtakes and the first one appears as a deleted scene.
- ConnessioniEdited into L'affaire Caravage (2019)
- Colonne sonoreCloser (Precursor)
Written by Trent Reznor
Performed by Nine Inch Nails
Courtesy of Nothing/TVT/Interscope Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products and TVT Records
The strengths of the film include an odd relationship between the two lead cops, who seem loosely based on the two lead cops of the "Lethal Weapon" series, but who (thankfully) never play for laughs, and never really become "buddies" - the young cop is too arrogant, and the older cop has too much experience, which the young cop refuses to acknowledge. The two characters are also brilliantly acted by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt (probably his best performance).
There's one odd flaw in the film - about half-way through, I found that I had learned to "expect the unexpected" from the film, which meant that the rest of the film was predictable in a bizarre way - simply decide where the expected move would be, and then expect the unexpected move instead. The most obvious instance of this is in the finale itself, which could be guessed at least 5 minutes ahead of time.
Normally, this would be a formula for disaster - but fortunately, the high quality of the film-making twists the film into an edge-of-the-seat suspenseful waiting game as we watch with horror the one cop's encounter with the insanity of pure evil.
I didn't want to admire this film (to be honest, I dislike Brad Pitt something fierce), but I'm afraid I must - very professionally made, it delivers its promised suspense all the way.
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- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Police Headquarters)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 33.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 100.125.643 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 13.949.807 USD
- 24 set 1995
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 327.333.559 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 7 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.39 : 1