What is the significance of a dead dog in Se7en?
There is a dead dog shown in the climax of Se7en.
Is there any significance to this image?
Best Answer
None known...
...but there are a couple of possibilities..both involving Mill's dogs.
The Mills' have dogs in their home...
Firstly, it's possibly as a reference to another draft of the script in which it wasn't Tracy's head in the box but the head of one of Mill's dogs..
...according to Brad Pitt, at one point the studio seriously considered putting the head of Mills’s dog in the box, rather than Mills’s wife.
...“With Se7en, I said, ‘I will do it on one condition – the head stays in the box. Put in the contract that the head stays in the box.’”, the actor told Entertainment Weekly in 2011.
Secondly, possibly as a foreshadowing of what is to come.
Mills refers to his dogs as "the kids"...by showing a dead dog it foreshadows the death of Tracey and her unborn child.
Finally, it's just possibly there for comic effect so that John Doe can say..
"I didn't do that!"
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What was the point of Se7en?
Written by David Fincher, Se7en is a simple but bleak crime thriller, centering on two detectives \u2013 a rookie and a veteran \u2013 who work together to hunt a serial killer. This killer is using the seven deadly sins as his motives, going after those he deems need to be treated a lesson.What were the last two sins in seven?
Se7en's finale sees the sins of wrath and envy ultimately committed by Mills and Doe. Doe explains to Mills that he tried to live out his normal life of being happily married and in love with a beautiful woman. But he failed, and thus committed the crime of "envy" by decapitating Tracy.Is Se7en based on a true story?
Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker was inspired by the brutal conditions of New York City, where he lived. He says in the commentary that he could walk down the street and observe one of the Seven Deadly Sins without even trying.What were the seven deaths in seven?
Se7en/Seven: Explaining The Seven Deadly Sins- Gluttony (The Obese Man) Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. ...
- Greed (Eli Gould) ...
- Sloth (Victor) ...
- Lust (The Prostitute) ...
- Pride (The Beautiful Woman) ...
- Envy (John Doe) ...
- Wrath (Detective Mills)
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