Synopsis:

This edit pulls the back story that is weaved throughout the Saw movies and creates a new narrative.

Intentions:

For 6 Years now the Saw-Franchise has created a story that not only progressed forward, but also filled in many blank spots via flashbacks. After 6 movies there is a huge amount of back story told in non-linear fashion, so intertwined that some people lose track about the plot.

Change List:

- Opening montage showing John and the Billy doll with the scene of John talking to William intercut - Cecil starts a fight in Jill’s clinic - John takes Jill to the workshop - Jill loses her baby when Cecil attacks her - Added Amanda and Cecil at the clinic - John and Jill in hospital — - Inserted flashback “Cherish your life” - Art and Jill enter John’s workshop - John gets diagnosed with cancer – montage with music intercut with medical files footage - William denies John an experimental cancer treatment - Suicide attempt - John puts Cecil into the knife-chair - Rigg and Hoffman at Police station - Rigg beats abusive father of schoolgirl - Art tries to sue Rigg - Jill returns to John’s workshop - Seth’s trap (with loudspeaker instead of billy-video) - Hoffman and Fisk arrive at Seth’s murder scene - Hoffman talks to Fisk about Kerry - John abducts Hoffman - Hoffman and John capture Paul - Paul’s trap gets prepared Jigsaw gives Hoffman the penlight from Dr. Gordon Kerry, Sing and Tapp appear at the crime scene - Amanda gets high, when she is drugged we see her remembering the car ride to Jill’s clinic with Cecil Preparation of the reverse beartrap - Reverse beartrap - Amanda leaves the trap - Mark’s trap - Dr. Gordon talking about John Kramer’s medical condition - Interrogation of Gordon and Amanda – trimmed to avoid redundancy - Tapp drives Gordon home - Amanda returns to her room, John is waiting for her - Tapp figures out where Jigsaw’s lair is - Sing gets killed Jigsaw escapes - *re-inserted* Adam meets Amanda - Dr. Gordon’s home - Gordon gets a phone call from Zepp - Adam takes picture of Gordon - Gordon gets captured - Adam returns to his apartment and falls asleep - Amanda gets her first task from Jigsaw - Adam wakes up and gets abducted by Amanda - Amanda enters the bathroom, preparation - Saw 1 without flashbacks various trims to avoid redundancy - Revelation with new final montage.

Additional Notes:

Using Saw I-VI the storyline of Saw I is expanded to almost 2.5 hours to tell everything that happened before the infamous bathroom trap that started the most successful horror-franchise of all time. I tried to keep the canon in mind as much as possible to tell a cohesive story and make it not look like a Youtube Saw-compilation, but with the Seth Baxter trap I removed the video showing Billy the puppet. There is now a loudspeaker telling Seth the rules of his games since this game was made by Hoffman and a Billy tape made by a copycat before we see Billy in a Jigsaw trap is just too abrupt continuity-wise. Also some of the dialogue between Adam and Dr. Gordon is cut — the lines that make sense if you have no clue what is going on, but seem redundant after already having seen 40 minutes of back story and preparing the bathroom. To match the footage of the later Saw’s with the greenish hue of Saw I the edit went through some colour corrections to get rid of the blue (Saw IV), red (Saw V) and grey (Saw VI) hue. Unfortunately by the time of Saw VI the flashbacks have become so washed out that the image quality differs drastically from the previous movies ... a look I sadly didn’t manage to fix.

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