Seven & 8Mm (Classic screenplay)
by Andrew Kevin Walker
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Author: Andrew Kevin WalkerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09
ISBN: 0571200982
Number of pages: 250
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Book Review: "This Is Not Going To Have A Happy Ending"; Indeed
Summary: 4 Stars
Here is Andrew Kevin Walker's justly acclaimed screenplay for "Seven", plus his first draft script for the Joel Schumacher fiasco "8mm." The first script is pretty much intact in David Fincher's brilliant film. The result was the best scary movie of its genre of the 1990's; in my opinion, even better than "The Silence of the Lambs" because of "Seven"'s deeper, darker moral (even theological) vision. Fincher omitted a prologue and epilogue featuring Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and discarded some lines of dialogue, but essentially everything was used. "8mm" is a very different case. As Walker explains in an interview that prefaces the book, director Joel Schumacher dumbed down his script, injecting spurious, lumbering melodrama and blunting the thematic amiguities so the result was a stupid revenge fantasy. (The Nicolas Cage character is given explicit permission to do the things he does in the final act in Schumacher's movie.) To be fair, Walker's original version is so incredibly dark that no Hollywood studio would ever want to film it. It should have been an independent film. In the introductory interview Walker also discusses how he wrote the scripts and how he got an agent to place "Seven" with the studios. He seems like a smart guy who is self-aware enough to keep a check on pretentiousness in his work. I would now like to read his original screenplay for "Sleepy Hollow" and his adaptation of Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage", two other works he mentions in this book.
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