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Horrified, Adam soon reaches through Zep's pockets in order to find a key to escape from his own chains. Instead, he finds another tape player, revealing that Zep was in fact, not Jigsaw, but rather another victim in Jigsaw's games. |
Horrified, Adam soon reaches through Zep's pockets in order to find a key to escape from his own chains. Instead, he finds another tape player, revealing that Zep was in fact, not Jigsaw, but rather another victim in Jigsaw's games. |
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The body in the middle of the room rises, exposing the true identity of the Jigsaw Killer. He tells a deeply shocked Adam that the only key to his chains was in the bathtub, in which Adam recalls an object that was swept down the drain when he awoke. Adam grabs the gun on floor, but Jigsaw pushes a button on a little remote, so Adam is given a jolt of electricity that surges through his chains (like he had done before), Adam gets stunned. Jigsaw slowly approaches the open door |
The body in the middle of the room rises, exposing the true identity of the Jigsaw Killer. He tells a deeply shocked Adam that the only key to his chains was in the bathtub, in which Adam recalls an object that was swept down the drain when he awoke. Adam grabs the gun on floor, but Jigsaw pushes a button on a little remote, so Adam is given a jolt of electricity that surges through his chains (like he had done before), Adam gets stunned. Jigsaw slowly approaches the open door and stands in the archway. As this happens, an earlier quote from Jigsaw talking to Amanda is played: "Some people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore." Just when Adam reaches forward and shreiks desperately, Jigsaw yells [[Game over]]!" and slams the door shut. The screen fades to black, and Adam's anguished screaming echoes throughout the room as the credits roll. |
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| SAW | |
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| File:Saw poster.JPG Saw film poster | |
| Directed by | James Wan |
| Written by | James Wan Leigh Whannell |
| Produced by | Gregg Hoffman Peter Block Lark Bernini |
| Starring | Cary Elwes Leigh Whannell Danny Glover Monica Potter |
| Cinematography | David A. Armstrong |
| Edited by | Kevin Greutert |
| Music by | Charlie Clouser Fear Factory Pitbull Daycare Front Line Assembly |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment |
Release dates | October 29, 2004 |
Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,200,000 (estimated) |
Saw is a 2004 thriller / horror movie, directed by James Wan and co-written by Wan and Leigh Whannell. The movie took only 18 days to film and was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 and saw an international release later that year on October 29. The film was originally rated NC-17 for strong graphic violence. This version is available as Saw: Uncut Edition, a DVD special edition of Saw released around the same time that Saw II was released theatrically. The difference between the R rated and the unrated version is minimal. The film is #3 on Bravo's Even Scarier Movie Moments. A sequel, Saw II, was released on October 28, 2005 and another, Saw III, was released on October 27, 2006. Another Saw Film (Saw IV), will be released on October 26, 2007. It is not known if it is a sequel or a prequel.
Taglines:
- Every puzzle has its pieces
- Every piece has a puzzle
- How much blood would you shed to stay alive?
- Live or die? Make your choice.
Plot
As the film begins, an unconscious man is submerged in the water of an old bathtub. He soon regains consciousness, and thrashes out of the bathtub in a panicked state. After a voice speaks to the man, several ceiling lights turn on, revealing the area to be a grimy industrial bathroom with a man on the opposite end. The man introduces himself as Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes), a surgeon. The young man who awoke in the bathtub is later revealed to be a photographer named Adam Faulkner (Leigh Whannell). The two are chained by their ankles to pipes, and in the center of the room, is a bloody corpse. The corpse holds in one hand a revolver, in the other a tape recorder.
Adam and Gordon soon both find envelopes in their pockets. The two open the envelopes to find cassette tapes labeled "Play Me". Along with the tape in Gordon's envelope is a key and a bullet. Upon eventually retrieving the tape player from the corpse, Adam inserts his tape, in which the ominous voice of an unknown man plays. The voice personally addresses Adam, telling him that the room he is in may be the one he dies in, unless he does something about it. As the tape ends, a frightened and confused Adam obtains Doctor Gordon's tape, and plays it as well. The same voice addresses Gordon, alerting him that his wife and daughter will die unless he kills Adam in a set amount of time. The shocked pair desperately tries to escape from their chains, until Doctor Gordon comes to a conclusion of who their captor is.
Gordon explains that the only person capable of their trap is the Jigsaw Killer. Gordon then says that he was once thought to be the true identity of the killer.
In various flashback sequences, two detectives, David Tapp (Danny Glover) and Steven Sing (Ken Leung), are shown examining the aftermaths of the Jigsaw Killer's deadly traps and their victims. Later, Doctor Gordon is called away from his hospital work by the two detectives to discuss his place in the killings. Gordon pleads innocence to his lawyer, but is told to view and listen to Jigsaw's only surviving victim, Amanda Young. Shaken, Amanda explains how she narrowly escaped her gruesome trap. She states that she felt 'helped' by the killer, as it is revealed Jigsaw's true intentions are only to alert people of how they are throwing their lives away.
As the flashbacks end and the film returns to the present, Adam and Gordon discover a video camera in a one-way mirror, recording their movements. Gordon begins thinking about the last thing he said to his daughter. A flashback of his daughter appears. She is lying in her bed, looking into the darkness of her closet. She wakes her mother and says that there's a man in her room. They retrieve Gordon who is typing a paragraph on his laptop. Gordon tucks his daughter in and says there's no such thing as the "bad man". She tells him that she's still scared. Gordon then asks for her foot, which she gives. He takes hold of it and recites This Little Piggy while counting her toes. When he finishes he tickles her from the top of her foot to her stomach. She giggles until his pager beeps. He then starts to leave when Diana asks him if he'll leave forever. Gordon says that he'd never leave her or her mother. After he walks out the door, Diana hears her mother shouting at Gordon, wishing he'd leave. After Gordon leaves, she hears a voice say, "Good night, little girl." She screams. Her mother rushes in to save her. A man covered with a blanket is grabbing Diana. It cuts to a scene with them both tied up. Meanwhile, Detective Tapp, still convinced that Doctor Gordon is the true identity of the Jigsaw Killer, studies more on the killer's location. It is revealed that soon after the film's flashbacks, Tapp's partner Sing was killed in one of Jigsaw's traps, and Tapp's throat was sliced by a cloaked figure, which is Jigsaw.
In the washroom, Gordon finds two cigarettes, a lighter, and a cell phone that only receives calls. At this point, he regains his memory as to what had happened directly before being captured and put into the washroom. He soon gets the idea that he and Adam will fake the latter's death in order to escape. The plan backfires when Adam is given a jolt of electricity that surges through his chains. Afterward, Adam regains his memory as well.
Gordon soon finds that a photograph in Adam's possession reveals a man, Zep (Michael Emerson), an orderly at the hospital Doctor Gordon works at, holding Gordon's wife and child under hostage. Gordon is convinced Zep is the true Jigsaw Killer.
Soon afterwards, the time limit displayed in the room expires, and a panicked Gordon discovers that the only way to escape is to saw off his chained foot. Adam starts to scream when Gordon bites down on his shirt, and start to saw his own leg off. Detective Tapp finds Zep, the two struggle, and Tapp is shot and left for dead. In the washroom, Gordon starts to crawl, grabs the gun from the corpse's hand, and reluctantly shoots Adam. Sobbing, he cries out that he had completed his task and killed Adam.
Zep arrives in the washroom and tells Gordon that the time has expired, until an injured Adam springs to life and tackles Zep. Adam grabs the tank lid from the nearby toilet and smashes Zep's skull with it, killing him. Tearfully, Doctor Gordon tells Adam he needs to leave to find help, he crawls out through the open door.
Horrified, Adam soon reaches through Zep's pockets in order to find a key to escape from his own chains. Instead, he finds another tape player, revealing that Zep was in fact, not Jigsaw, but rather another victim in Jigsaw's games.
The body in the middle of the room rises, exposing the true identity of the Jigsaw Killer. He tells a deeply shocked Adam that the only key to his chains was in the bathtub, in which Adam recalls an object that was swept down the drain when he awoke. Adam grabs the gun on floor, but Jigsaw pushes a button on a little remote, so Adam is given a jolt of electricity that surges through his chains (like he had done before), Adam gets stunned. Jigsaw slowly approaches the open door and stands in the archway. As this happens, an earlier quote from Jigsaw talking to Amanda is played: "Some people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore." Just when Adam reaches forward and shreiks desperately, Jigsaw yells Game over!" and slams the door shut. The screen fades to black, and Adam's anguished screaming echoes throughout the room as the credits roll.
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Response
Saw was a financial success: shot on a meager budget of about US$1.2 million, it earned over $55 million at the box office in the U.S. alone and $102,917,772 worldwide [1]
Critical responses were mixed: Saw earned a 45% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, and a 29% rating from the "cream of the crop" (the most esteemed professional critics), qualifying it as "rotten."[2] Audience response was largely positive, as Saw has both a 74% "fresh" user rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and a 7.6 score on the Internet Movie Database.[3]
See also
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References
- ^ http://imdb.com/title/tt0387564/business Box Office revenue
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/saw/ Rotten Tomatoes reviews
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387564/ IMDb reviews