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The Jigsaw Files is an edit which combines all six Saw-movies into one chronological experience
Fanedit details:
Original film name: Saw
Film studio name: Lionsgate
Film release date: 2004
Original runtime: 103 minutes
New runtime: 140 minutes
Amount of time cut/added: about 40 minutes added/3 Minutes Cut
Intention:
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 backstory told in non-linear fashion, so intertwined that some people lose track about the plot.
Plot:
The Jigsaw Files is the attempt to restructure the flashbacks in linear fashion and tell the story about John Kramer, Jill Tuck, Amanda Young and Mark Hoffman.
The story of this edit starts with John whose wife loses her child in an accident caused by the addict Cecil. Coming believe that people can only appreciate their life when faced with death John starts to construct diabolic traps – the game is about to begin.
Editing details:
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 backstory 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.
Cutlist:
Additional comment:
This is not an edit that tries to evoke the mood of Saw or improve upon the source. It is a tribute to the Saw-franchise to celebrate its consistent flashbacks and intertwined storylines. A lot of the revelations (like the huge twist, the feeling of not knowing where and who Adam and Gordon are) are gone since there is footage before showing the preparation of the traps, this fanedit was made to give fans of the franchise a new experience or to help people to catch up with the plot of this series
Thanks to:
Zagadka, Aaron707, The Kramer Project, Boon, Uncanny Antman, TMBTM, Stankpac, Molcoo
And everyone else who provided motivation from:
www.fanedit.org
www.houseofjigsaw.com
www.sawhouse.net
Technical-Info:
SL NTSC DVD
English
Animated Menus
Special Features:
Trailer Saw VII
The Jigsaw Files II – Teaser
Deleted/Edited Scenes
Fanedit details:
Original film name: Saw
Film studio name: Lionsgate
Film release date: 2004
Original runtime: 103 minutes
New runtime: 140 minutes
Amount of time cut/added: about 40 minutes added/3 Minutes Cut
Intention:
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 backstory told in non-linear fashion, so intertwined that some people lose track about the plot.
Plot:
The Jigsaw Files is the attempt to restructure the flashbacks in linear fashion and tell the story about John Kramer, Jill Tuck, Amanda Young and Mark Hoffman.
The story of this edit starts with John whose wife loses her child in an accident caused by the addict Cecil. Coming believe that people can only appreciate their life when faced with death John starts to construct diabolic traps – the game is about to begin.
Editing details:
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 backstory 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.
Cutlist:
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
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 comment:
This is not an edit that tries to evoke the mood of Saw or improve upon the source. It is a tribute to the Saw-franchise to celebrate its consistent flashbacks and intertwined storylines. A lot of the revelations (like the huge twist, the feeling of not knowing where and who Adam and Gordon are) are gone since there is footage before showing the preparation of the traps, this fanedit was made to give fans of the franchise a new experience or to help people to catch up with the plot of this series
Thanks to:
Zagadka, Aaron707, The Kramer Project, Boon, Uncanny Antman, TMBTM, Stankpac, Molcoo
And everyone else who provided motivation from:
www.fanedit.org
www.houseofjigsaw.com
www.sawhouse.net
Technical-Info:
SL NTSC DVD
English
Animated Menus
Special Features:
Trailer Saw VII
The Jigsaw Files II – Teaser
Deleted/Edited Scenes
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