David Fincher

He says Fincher described Seven as making a black and white film in colour, with film noir looks and German expressionism style contrast. Adam also says Seven left every crime film for five years with wobbly, scribbled credit sequences, and Lee links it to a Fincher music video. Adam recommends the assembly cut of Alien 3 as Fincher's version, and quotes Fincher as saying he would be less interested in something proposed for Seven than in having cigarettes put out in his eyes.

In their own words

• Adam David Fincher, that's it, thank you. but obviously he's now gone on to most of his films have been massive fucking deals, to the point where I feel that Seven has been forgotten.

  Ep 162 The Perfect Host

• Adam So, you know, it was but yeah, the the Blu-ray looks really fucking nice. And and actually that was one of the things that that came up that I and like I say, I was obsessed with the film, so a lot of sort of stuff notes and things that I took about it were actually me remembering stuff I'd read at the time when I was sort of obsessed over it and everything. And for example, you're saying about like the trouble is with the colors is that David Fincher want basically, I think he's he described it as one of the make a black and white film in color.

  Ep 163 Seven

• Adam And and obviously it's very like sort of film noir, sort of 40s detective, almost German expressionism sort of There's a lot of really dark contrast in it and so.

  Ep 163 Seven

• Adam but yeah, definitely, I think Seven's and also so much of it is just, oh yeah, I remember the 90s because this film basically meant that every serial serial killer film or crime film afterwards for the next five years had wobbly, scribbled credit sequences and those little sort of things like that.

  Ep 163 Seven

• Lee It's funny, watching it I was like, oh, this does remind me of my favorite music video of all time. And then I looked and I was like, oh, yeah, David Fincher had made that music video around this time. So that explains exactly why.

  Ep 163 Seven

• Adam Didn't he. Yeah, but watch watch the assembly cut, that's the key with Alien 3. Watch the one that was kind of David Fincher's version.

  Ep 180 Alien

• Adam And basically it fell through when everyone involved with seven just said, fuck off. I'm not doing that, that sounds like bullshit. In fact, the direct quote from David Fincher was. I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes. And

  Ep 163 Seven