#Fincher

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Killer (David Fincher, 2023)

[jakegyllenbaalz]

brad pitt as tyler durden (fight club, 1999)

[kleoshe]

Heh. None of you will ever understand fight club like me. Heh. I’m just. So sick and twisted. You wouldn’t understand…..

[mysharona1987]

[finchers-ipad]

when i’m wearing my fight club/se7en shirt and some says “i like your shirt :)”

and not “OH MY GOD!!! i love fight club/se7en, can you please break the film down into the stages of production, explain what went on behind the scenes, the responses to the film when it came out and all of Fincher’s directorial choices? can you also tell me all of the fight club/se7en fun facts you know!!! :3”

[thechurchofsplatterdaysaints]

"Become vengeance, David. Become wrath."

Se7en (1995) Dir. David Fincher

[visceral-rage]

This semester I'll have to make a short film based on David Fincher's directing style for uni!! It's gonna be a long long project. Right now I'm gathering as much information as I can, so if you know any good resource I would totally appreciate it!!!!

I'm mainly looking for

- books/blogs/articles on David Fincher

- tips on filmmaking

- tips on cameras, lights, sets

- anything else that could be useful!

I'd be so so thankful!! 💛💛💛

[y0urfavoritevirgo]

“i beat tyler durden”

[harrison-abbott]

Jesse Eisenberg has obsessive compulsive disorder in real life, and he later said that playing the character in this movie tapped in with the characteristics that he had struggled to fight against his whole life.

The Winklevoss twins were actually played by one actor, Armie Hammer. However, they used a model, Josh Pence, for some of the scenes when they were together, whose face was replaced with CGI to mimic Hammer’s.

The studio initially wanted to cut off 30 pages of the script. But Fincher resent it in by asking them to read it in a speedy manner, and they accepted the whole draft.

During the scene in the night club when Eisenberg and Timberlake are discussing what next to do with the project, there was no noise in the background: and the extras were miming and dancing to no noise. Fincher still required Eisenberg and Timberlake to shout as if they were in a pumping environment. So that they could add in the extra dance music noise later on.

[primespec]

Fight Club (1999) – David Fincher

[questionabledecisionsismyname]

I do

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Killer (David Fincher, 2023)

[kelvingemstone]

FINCHER THE KILLER TRAILER OUT....OH PISS COLOURED CINEMATOGRAPHY I MISSED YOU SO

[the-tigrou]

A private show was necessary here 

 Fincher © @AlicornofNature 

Klaro © Me

[roughridingrednecks]

Fincher

[finchers-ipad]

SE7EN FUN FACTS!! (SPOILER WARNING)

these are my favourite facts/little details about the production!!! a lot of them are from the dvd commentary, ‘David Fincher: Mindgames’ book and other random interviews i have consumed! :)

(thank you to @loosebonez for giving to an excuse to dump these and itch my brain!!)

- Fincher wanted to keep Kevin Spacy out of the marketing campaign for se7en so that his reveal would be all the more shocking, this included not having him in trailers, posters and even his name not being on the opening credits (and on letterboxd Spacey’s name isn’t at the top of the cast list like it normally would be for such a big role but it’s at the very bottom of the cast list, which is very cool and epic of letterboxd)

- (related) in the promotional material , the scene of John Doe’s phone call to Mills and Somerset is included, and because they were keeping Kevin Spacy out of the campaign, FINCHER DOES THE VOICE OF JOHN DOE WHICH IS SO FUCKING COOL!!

- Fincher wanted the film to be a “no colour, colour movie” and therefore kept the production and set design to a very gray/black/green colour pallet so that when colour is used it has impact and draws the audiences attention (seen most notably with the colour red for blood, Johns prison outfit being red to show he is a threat and stand out and the neon red cross over John Doe’s bed)

- Fincher was sent the wrong script when being asked to do the film, as there was multiple versions of the ending, and the ending he was supposed to be sent was one where Mills’s dog’s head is in the box at the end instead of Tracys head. it was in Brad Pitt’s contract that he would only do the film if it had the head in the box ending

- an extra in the back of the barbershop scene was drunk on set, and the extra sat in the chair was worried that he was going to cut him with a straight razor (which was real and not a prop because the props department ran out of them lmao)

- Clive Piercy and John Sabel, who designed John Doe’s diary’s spent 2 months and around $15000 (i found that number online but idk how accurate it is) to HANDWRITE a lot of the diary’s. obviously not all of them are hand written but the ones given close ups on camera and in the opening credits are. there are around 2000 notebooks. there is a special feature section on the dvd where you can listen to them explain how they created them and the ideas behind the information they put in them, it’s very interesting i highly recommend it :3

- in the back of the leather store scene, John Doe can be seen looking at Mills and Somerset through the window from the outside, he even has a limp like the guy working there mentioned. he has a limp because he cut his leg on a window when Mills was chasing him earlier in the film.

- se7en was heavily inspired by the neo-nior films of the 70’s such as ‘The French Connection’

- Andrew Kevin Walker (the scriptwriter) makes a cameo at the beginning of the film as the dead guy at the first crime scene before the opening credits

- Fincher and Arthur Max (production designer) wanted the city that the film is set to be nameless and unrecognisable, which lets the audience think that this type of crime can be going on in any city and all around them. they ensured the anonymity of the city by removing and changing street signs, creating police cars with their own unique design to the film. they also did no large establishing shots of the city, and if they did, they were shots of building exteriors and general unrecognisable images

-Fincher and Pitt both agreed that Mills is a selfish character, and should be presented as such. they amplified this by adding David and Tracey’s dogs last minute, to show that he is so selfish as to move these big dogs into a small city apartment

- there is a deleted scene of Somerset checking out a new house in the country side, which would have been at the beginning of the film and they really liked this cute little cottage that they filmed it at but it was RIGHT next to a maximum security prison so they had to put these massive barrels of hay in-front of the barbed wire to block the view of the prison 😭

- not a fact but the dvd commentary for se7en is available on spotify and it has the audio from the film too which is really cool (please listen to it just to hear how crazy Arthur Max’s voice is)

THANK YOU FOR READING MY INFO DUMP!!! i fucking love this film (if you couldn’t tell already) and i honestly probably have more facts but these are my favourites that come to mind!!! crazy film with silly guys that established Fincher as a director :) (sorry about any spelling mistakes) <3