Script To Screen: “Se7en”

The final moments of the climactic scene in the movie Se7en (1995), written by Andrew Kevin Walker, one of the most powerful cinematic moments in recent memory.

Setup: Detectives Mills (Brad Pitt) and Somerset (Morgan Freeman) have been led to a remote location by serial killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey). A box is delivered. The contents of the box are about to be revealed.

Here is the scene from the movie:

I’ll see you in comments for a discussion of this gripping scene from Se7en.

One of the best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.

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