(May 27, 2017)
Cinephilia & Beyond
Slightly more than 22 years ago, David Fincher, a talented filmmaker who made music videos and commercials and was left by his directorial stint on his first feature Alien 3 so disillusioned and bitter he felt “he’d rather die of colon cancer than do another movie,” stumbled upon a script that would renew his faith in the filmmaking business. This particular piece was written by Andrew Kevin Walker, and was deemed too dark and bleak to succeed. The story was largely shaped by Walker’s experience of living in New York City for a couple of years, where he felt alienated, lonely and unhappy. Desperately trying to get his story made, Walker agreed to rewrite the screenplay on the demand of director Jeremiah Chechik (Christmas Vacation), and it was this altered version that should have ended up in Fincher’s hands. But the studio made a mistake, delivering Walker’s original piece to Fincher, who was immediately intrigued and, even when the mistake was explained, chose to insist on the utter darkness Walker envisioned. By mere happenstance, therefore, Se7en found its director and made the first, crucial step on its way to cinematic immortality. […]
The Fincher Analyst 
Interesting to note from slate that Savides {RIP}, not Khondji, shot the beautiful ending. Just as interesting as fact that Fredrik Bäckar, not Cronenweth, shot cold opening & all flashback scenes in GDT, as well as the scene with Blomkvist & Harald ~ one of my favourite scenes, photographically.
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Welcome, Simon! This site was missing those on-point remarks of yours… ;-P
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Thank You. Happy to have stumbled in here, a little late, but greatly looking forward to good things. Excellent work so far Z.
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