Saw II is the 2005 American horror film, the sequel to 2004 Saw and the second installment in the Saw franchise , directed and written shared by Darren Lynn Bousman and the creator of the Leigh Whannell series. Movie stars Donnie Wahlberg, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Beverley Mitchell, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Erik Knudsen, Shawnee Smith, and Tobin Bell.
The film features a Jigsaw captured by police, but traps the officer who captures in one of his own games while showing another game of eight people - including the officer's son - that is taking place on a TV monitor at another location. It also explores some of John Kramer's backstory, providing a partial explanation of his reasons for becoming a Jigsaw.
After the financial success of Saw , the sequel is soon given a green light. Leigh Whannell and James Wan are busy preparing for the next film and can not write or direct. Bousman wrote a script called The Desperate before Saw was released and searched for the producer but many studios rejected it. Hoffman received the script and showed it to his colleagues Mark Burg and Oren Koules. It was decided that, with some changes, it could be made into Saw II . Whannell becomes available for rewriting scripts. The film was given a larger budget and was taken from May to June 2005 in Toronto.
Saw II was released on October 28, 2005 and, despite mixed reviews from critics, was a financial success, with an opening of $ 31.9 million and grossing $ 88 million in the United States and Canada. It remains the best-selling film Saw in those countries. Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for her role as Jigsaw in the film. Saw II was released to DVD on February 14, 2006 and topped the first week chart, selling over 3 million units. At that time, this was the best-selling theater DVD in Lionsgate's history.
Video Saw II
Plot
Michael Marks informer woke up in a room with a mask filled with spikes locked in his neck. The video footage tells him that to unlock the device, he has to cut his eyes to get the key. He sets the timer and finds a scalpel, but can not bring himself to pick up the key and get killed after sixty seconds when the mask closes.
In the Marks match scene, Detective Allison Kerry finds a message for his former partner, Eric Matthews, and calls him. Despite not wanting to get involved in the case, Eric was reluctant to join Kerry and Sergeant Daniel Rigg in leading the SWAT team to the factory that generated the keys from Marks traps. There they find and capture John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer, who is weak from cancer. He showed several computer monitors showing eight people trapped in a house; including the only one known to have survived Amanda Young, and Eric Daniel's estranged son. The other victims were called Xavier, Gus, Jonas, Laura, Addison and Obi. A neural agent who fills the house will kill them all within two hours, but Kramer assures Eric that if he follows his own rules of play, by simply talking to John, he will see Daniel again. At Kerry's insistence, Eric agrees to buy time for the technology team to come and track the video signal.
The victims were told by the micro cassette recorder that the antidote was hidden throughout the house; one indoors is safe, and they have a combination with "the numbers behind their mind." Xavier ignores the warning notes and uses the key provided with a tape on the door, which fires a bullet through the peephole when Gus sees it, kills him. They searched the house for more antidotes after the door opened, but to no avail. After finding a door, the group went to the basement where Obi, known to have helped the kidnapping, was forced into a crematorium oven to get two antidotes in it. But inadvertently activating the trap and burning to death before the other can save it, destroys the antidote as well. In another room, Xavier's test is to go to the needle-filled hole and retrieve the antidote. However, she throws Amanda into the hole and although she can pick up the key, they run out of time to unlock the door that contains her antidote and leave her frustrated. Throughout the game, the victims discussed the relationship between them and determined that each had been imprisoned before; with Daniel's only exception.
Meanwhile, John spends time with empty talk and quietly, finally telling Eric that his survival from suicide attempts after his diagnosis is the real reason for his game. With little time left, he wants to inspire others new rewards for life he finds. Not interested in all this, Eric runs out of patience and returns to the monitor. He destroyed several documents and sketches of John on Kerry's suggestion, but failed to provoke John. When the technology team arrives, John reveals the relationship between the victims: Eric has trapped them all for various crimes, and Daniel will be in danger if his identity is found.
After leaving the others, Xavier returns to the safe and finds the colored number on the back of Gus's neck. After realizing the answer to the clues, he kills Jonas with a thorny bat for his number after a brief fight and starts hunting down the others. Laura surrendered to the neurological agent and died, but not before finding clues that revealed Daniel's identity. Addison and Amanda leave her, but Amanda returns after finding Jonas's body. Addison found a glass box containing the antidote, but his arm was trapped in a hole in a fenced arm with a hidden knife, and Xavier left him to die after reading his phone number. Amanda and Daniel find a tunnel in the safe room that leads to the bathroom of the first film. Daniel collapsed inside just before Xavier found him. Amanda notes that she can not read her own number, and she cuts the skin off her neck. As he approached, Daniel, who pretended to faint, jumped and cut his throat with a hacksaw, killing him.
After seeing Xavier chasing after his son, Eric brutally attacked John and forced him to take him home. John's sitting area was revealed as an elevator, which they used to leave the factory. The technology team tracked video sources and Rigg led his team to a home, where they found the VCRs played the previously recorded images. When Kerry realized the game had happened before they found John, the timer ended and a large safe opened, revealing Daniel bound and breathing into an oxygen mask. Eric enters the house alone and eventually finds a bathroom, where he is attacked by a figure of masked pigs. He wakes up in ankles to the pipe; the tape recorder left by Amanda reveals that he is John's accomplice and intends to continue his work after he dies. Amanda appears in the doorway, says "game ends" and seals the door, as Eric screams and is left to die.
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Cast
Production
Development and writing
Saw II immediately turns green after View ' the successful opening weekend of the previous year. Producers need scripts for the sequel but James Wan and Leigh Whannell, director and writer Saw are working on Universal Pictures's Dead Silence . Darren Lynn Bousman's music video director has just finished the script for his first movie The Desperate, and tried to sell it to the studio but gets reacted that the script is very similar to Saw The Desperate . After Hoffman showed the manuscripts to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules, both decided that The Desperate was the initial script they needed for Saw II and two months later, Bousman was flying to Toronto to direct.
Whannell smeared the manuscript, with input from Wan, to bring it into the Saw universe, but saved the characters, traps and deaths of the The Desperate script. Bousman said, "But you can read the script for The Desperate and watch Saw II , and you will not be able to draw a comparison". Wan and Whannell also served as executive producers. All members of the film crew had previously returned: editor Kevin Greutert, cinematographer Armstrong, and composer Charlie Clouser. This became Hoffman's last movie. He died unexpectedly on December 4, 2005.
Only key players and crew members are involved in the end of the full-scripted movie; the rest received only the first 88 pages. If a particular page is rewritten, the old page is shredded. Members are also required to sign a confidentiality agreement that requires them not to release any details of the flow. Reportedly, "four or five" alternate tips were shot to make the final surprise a surprise. Bousman gave the freedom actors to change the dialogue in the manuscript. He says that 95% of the time, the actors go with the script, with about 5% being adlibs, which he says "makes all the difference in the world". Hoffman said in an interview with Fangoria that they listened to fans' advice. For example, instead of showing only the effects of a very dying character in a flashback, they will let it unfold as it happens. This is different from Saw , where most of the violence is implied outside the screen.
Filming and post-production
Saw II was given a larger production budget of $ 4 million, compared to a Saw ' budget that was just over $ 1 million. Marketing budget is an additional $ 2 million. The first shot, involving the shooting of a police car and a SWAT van driving around an industrial pier outside the sound stage, was filmed on April 29, 2005 in Toronto. After two months of pre-production, major photography lasted for 25 days at Toronto's Cinespace Film Studios from 2 May 2005 to June 6, 2005 . The final was filmed on May 25 and 26. Music and sound recorded in July and Saw II are locked on July 16 . It was completely finished by September 9 . Visual effects performed by C.O.R.E. Digital photos and post-production services are provided by Deluxe.
Trap Design
David Hackl, the film production designer, took three weeks to build 27 sets at one stage of the sound. Billy dolls, used in series to give instructions to victims of Jigsaw, were originally created by Wan from rolls of paper towels and papier-mÃÆ'Â ¢ chÃÆ'Ã… ©. Given the larger budget for the sequel, Billy is enhanced with a remote controlled eye and a servo-driven mouth. In one trap, "Space Needle", the character of Smith Amanda is thrown into the pinhole to find the key. In order for this to be done safely, four people, for four days, remove the needle tip from the syringe and replace it with fiber optic tips. They modified a total of 120,000 fake needles. However, this amount is insufficient and the holes should be filled with styrofoam and other materials to make it appear to have more needles. The needles that were apparently attached to Smith were a really dull syringe sticking to the cushion under his shirt. For a particular shot, a forged arm is used.
Bousman came up with an idea where the character's hand would get stuck in a kind of ship and this resulted in a "Hand Trap". This proved to be a challenge but after much discussion, Hackl, property master Jim Murray and art director Michele Brady came up with an appropriate design. They arranged a glass box hung by a chain from the ceiling that contained a syringe with an antidote and which had two hand holes at the bottom. As the Addison Vaugier character puts his hand into the razor blades it will close in his hand and any attempt to pull himself out of the trap will cause him to die bleeding. In order for the trap to be used safely, the prop builder keeps the cuffs moving inside the box and a fake knife that will be pulled from the actress's hand, allowing it to slide his hand out. Hackl then commented that the character does not have to put his hand into the trap because there is a key with a lock on the other side box that will open the tool.
The original idea for the "Furnace Trap" came from a house that had become a crematorium at some point, but this would involve turning the house into a funeral home, so instead it was decided that the furnace would be part of the house boiler system.. The furnace was visualized in the form of a computer model so that Bousman could better understand how shots could be filmed. Using the computer model as a guide, the furnace was built in three days using a cement board and tin with a removable side and the top so that Timothy Burd (Obi) can be filmed crawling inside. The furnace produced a real fire and, in place of Burd, a stunt cast that used a fireproof gel to crawl into the fire.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack Saw II was released on October 25, 2005 by Image Entertainment. The video for "Forget to Remember" was also directed by Bousman.
Release
Saw II was released in New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom on October 28, 2005 ; and November 17, 2005 in Australia. The original teaser poster showing two fingers dotted and bleeding was rejected by the American Picture Film Association. Because the poster was released and managed to "escape" by the MPAA, they issued a release stating that the poster was not approved and unacceptable; Lionsgate removes posters from their website. The image was used instead of the cover of the movie soundtrack. Lionsgate held an annual blood donation "Give Til It Hurts" for the Red Cross and collected 10,154 liters of blood.
Home media
Saw II was released on DVD, VHS, and Universal Media Disc on February 14, 2006 through Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The DVD debuted as number one selling 2.5 million units on the first day. The company then sold 3.9 million units the first week, becoming the best selling DVD theater sold in Lionsgate history.
On October 24, 2006, an Unedited Special Edition was released, while an Unprepared Blu-ray edition was also released with special features on January 23, 2007.
Reception
box office
Saw II opened with $ 31.7 million on 3,879 screens at 2,949 theaters. Three days of opening the Halloween weekend set a Lionsgate record. At that time, the broadest release for Lionsgate and one of the best opening weekends for the horror sequel. For the second weekend fell 47% to generate $ 16.9 million. The film was closed from theaters on January 5, 2006 after 70 days of release.
Saw II opened in the UK with $ 3.8 million on 305 screens, 70% larger than the first installment. Opened in Japan on 67 screens with $ 750,000. Opened up to $ 1.3 million on 173 screens, it was the number one movie in Australia. The film grossed $ 87 million in the United States and Canada and $ 60.7 million in other markets for a total of $ 147.7 million worldwide. The film is the highest grossing film of the series Saw and Lionsgate's fourth best-selling film in the United States and Canada. According to a CinemaScore poll, 53% of the audience is male under 25 years old. The poll also shows that 65% of viewers are familiar with the first film.
Critical response
The film received mixed public reviews from critics, who praised acting, notably Bell and Wahlberg performances, while criticizing the terrible nature of the story. Aggregator reviews Rotten Tomatoes reports that 37% of 119 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 10. The site's consensus is, " Saw II likely will please the strongest blood. original fans, though it might be too awful for those not familiar with the first movie premise ". Metacritic, who scored a weighted average of 100 reviews from major critics, gave the film a score of 40 based on 28 reviews, showing "mixed or average review".
Robert Koehler of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying "cooking a new Rube Goldberg torture device is not enough to make Saw II out of the shadow of its terrible predecessor". Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly gave the movie B minus, saying " Saw II is only slightly better than the B Saw " and that the two films are "more smart and rebellious rather than really terrible ". He praised Bell's performance as a Jigsaw, saying "As a maniac drooping in the flesh, Tobin Bell is, for all the movie gang, Saw II the most difficult horror, Terence Stamp looks like a person reminds General Zod of slowly watching the universe from the nest of his villain. " He ends his review: "Where Saw II is left behind in the novelty of Saw, he leads with a smoother landing, which once again has to blow the wide-open movie, but manage the more interesting job of him. finish original ".
Kevin Crust from the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, calling Saw II "worthy of being followed up by its terrible predecessor". He said his story "is much more focused on the end of the story than the original movie, there is less credibility gap and there are many reversals to satisfy fans". He criticized the use of many flashbacks, saying that it "robs [us] of the pleasure of actually remembering for ourselves". Laura Kern, writing for The New York Times, gave it a mixed review, saying that Bousman "gives the same difficulty, practically no humor and tension to raise the hair, but only after passing a shaky start. like a forensic themed television show rather than a scary movie "and called Greutert's" sly "editing. He calls the sequel "more tricks than treating" and that it "does not really compare to its good predecessor - although it still manages to be an eye opener (and sometimes positively sickening) in itself". Empire ' Kim Newman gave this movie three out of five stars. He says that the film enhances the destructive appeal of Saw "with the seventh -techniques and violent brutal puzzles" and that the game of intellectual Jigsaw made "Hannibal Lecter looks like a compiler of The Sun ' s crosscheck". He ends his review by saying, "It may morally doubt it, but it is a melange of torture, terror and dark depravity that appeals to the sick puppy within us all."
Accolades
Tobin Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for his role as Jigsaw, though the award was given to Hayden Christensen for his role as Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.
References
External links
- Official website (archive)
- Lionsgate page
- Saw II on IMDb
- Saw II in Box Office Mojo
- Saw II at Rotten Tomatoes
- Saw II in Metacritic
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