‘Seven‘is already considered an absolute classic. Its aesthetic and plot approach spread like a plague throughout the second half of the nineties and early two thousand, catapulting to definitive stardom not only Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, but also its director, David Fincher. His filming is full of juicy anecdotes, and an examination of his visual findings already demonstrates that Fincher was a master of the image even at this early point in his career. By the way, you can check it out on Netflix, Movistar Plus+ and Filmin.
The film tells how a pair of detectives face, in a dark and rainy city, a mysterious murderer who is carrying out a series of ritual crimes inspired by the deadly sins. His identity will not be revealed until the end, finished off by a plot twist that even today continues to impact due to its dark implications. In pre-internet days, when we were not yet at the mercy of the avalanches of spoilersthat ending marked a generation, as did the identity of Kevin Spacey.
To safeguard the surprise, and against the wishes of the producers, who obviously wanted as many stars as possible to shine on the poster, Kevin Spacey asked not to appear in the film’s legendary opening credits. The film’s producers reluctantly agreed, in a shoot that was already becoming tense because Pitt, Freeman and Spacey refused to film an ending that was not scripted, in which the protagonists saved Gwyneth Paltrow’s character from the clutches of John Doe.
But Spacey had another reason, this one much more mundane, for refusing to appear in the opening credits and poster, as he later acknowledged: if he was absent from the marketing, I would not have to attend interviews, press conferences, premieres and presentations of the movie. A real bargain that in no way prevented him from becoming one of the most famous actors in Hollywood, before his subsequent fall from grace and effective cancellation.
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