Saw

Saw (2004)

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Corrected entry: When Adam throws the photo to the doctor, we see it from Tapp's point of view; from the camera behind the mirror. We see it cut from Adam tossing it to Dr. Gordon catching it, however, there is only one camera recording them. A cut would be impossible.

Correction: There is only one camera recording them, but for the movie there are several cameras showing the action from multiple angles. When the scene cuts, it is not meant or required to be the camera recording them.

Corrected entry: The Dr and Adam must be at least 6 meters (6.5 yards) away from each other (both completely stretching out not touching the body in the middle). However, they easily throw pictures back and forth with unflinching accuracy.

Correction: There are only two instances in the movie where a single photo is being thrown. The first time photos were exchanged Lawrence threw his entire wallet to Adam (who returned it), the second time Adam threw the single polaroid to Lawrence, the third time Adam flung a stack of large, stiff photos at Lawrence (and only a few made it all the way across), and finally when Adam throws the picture of Zep to Adam. To throw one single piece of cardboard or stiff, flat plastic that distance is not so difficult as you may think. It requires a certain technique, but it is easy to learn and can be done. And both times he does it, Adam has far from "unerring accuracy". Lawrence has to lie down and reach with his full length to get the photo.

Twotall

Corrected entry: When Dr. Gordon is tucking his daughter into bed, he is wearing a white t-shirt underneath his blue collared shirt, however when he is chained to the pipe in the bathroom with Adam, he is not wearing an undershirt. In both shots the top buttons of his shirt are unbuttoned.

Correction: Dr. Gordon is wearing an undershirt. This is seen when he takes off his blue shirt to use as a tourniquet for cutting off his foot.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Dr. Gordon couldn't dial 911 on the cell phone; the fact is that 911 is considered a high priority number, even though the outgoing calls are blocked. It is impossible and against the law for service providers to block 911 calls.

Shooting Script

Correction: I work customer service for a major cell phone provider and it is true that it is against the law to disable 911 from phones but Jigsaw was a demented killer who went into painful detail in planning these events for every event possible. It would not be imposible to access third party software and block the calls directly from the phone after hacking the hex values in the operating system on the phone. I have used such products myself to enable/disable locked functions on my own phone.

Spaceboy_007

Corrected entry: During the film, the two cigarettes are placed back inside the box, one bloody, one not. One is then given to Adam. Later on when Larry is crying, we see both cigarettes (clean) lying next to him.

!-StOuT-!

Correction: Actually, earlier in the movie you see some flattened cigarettes on the ground while the doctor us shuffling around, long before the box is located.

Corrected entry: The room where Lawrence and Adam are being held in is at least 10 feet underground (we know this because Zep climbs down a ladder whilst running away from Tapp). Lawrence shouldn't be able to get a mobile phone signal, yet he manages to receive two calls.

Migster

Correction: Whether you get a cell phone singal is dependent upon a lot of factors. The depth is not the only one. It would be possible to have a signal.

shortdanzr

Corrected entry: ***SPOILER*** How did the man in the centre of the room (who we know is the mastermind of it all and not dead) get there without an accomplice locking the door? We know a possible accomplice wasn't Zep.

Correction: The door was not locked. Dr. Lawrence couldn't reach it with the chains on. Zep opened it right up at the end. So, it wasn't necessary to lock it. Also, both the Dr. and Adam were unconscious so obviously he set it all up, part of the game.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: The doctor takes the gun from the dead body and places the bullet into the chamber of the gun. The bullet is placed in the chamber which would be directly behind the barrel. the placement would be wrong to fire the bullet on the first pull, because revolvers turn the chamber before the hammer hits the blasting cap of the bullet. so the trigger would have to be fired until the chamber completes a whole circle.

Correction: If you watch carefully, the doctor chambers the gun but then begins cycling through the chambers until it gets into the correct position. I noticed your mistake as well but when seeing the scene a 2nd time, I caught this.

Corrected entry: After cutting his foot the Dr throws away the saw but no blood splatters around.

Correction: He had his shirt wrapped round the wound, which would have prevented blood splattering (he was a doctor remember, and would know how to do this).

Corrected entry: When the man with the candle and flammable substance is reading the combinations on the wall during a camera closeup, he is finally set on fire and burned to death. Based on the camera shot, what was in front of him was a wall with safe combinations on it. Look closely at the candle in his left hand. The fire from the candle never gets close enough to his skin to ignite the flammable substance. There is a puff of flame that comes from in front of him that creates the flash of fire that kills him.

luchador

Correction: This isn't actually a mistake. It's a scene transition. Everything in the scene is sped up, so they aren't actually going to show when the candle burns down to his hand and sets him on fire. Plus, it's a flashback that's being told by one of the detectives. They don't really know how it happened, just that it did.

Corrected entry: When Dr. Gordon is in the parking garage, he stops walking momentarily, and there is a flash of light behind him. We later learn that this flash is actually from Adam's camera. But when Adam is telling his story of following Dr. Gordon, a picture comes onto the screen of the doctor in the garage, but it is a close up of the front of his face. However, earlier in the movie, the flash came from behind him. Adam could not have taken a picture of Dr. Gordon's face from behind him.

Correction: Actually, the flash came from his left side (the light even flashes across his face). The photograph we see later is taken from a left-hand angle.

Corrected entry: SPOILER: The "dead man" turns out to be Jigsaw. How did he position Adam in the tub and get on the floor before Adam woke up? Lawrence was awake when Adam woke up, so how did he not notice what was happening? And if there was a time lapse between Jigsaw's actions and Lawrence awakening, how did Adam not drown in the tub?

Correction: Very simple: the room is so dark they cannot see anything, so Jigsaw had plenty of time to position himself before they found the light switch. It is also explained in Saw 3 that Amanda helped position Adam and the Dr and then turn the lights out on her way out.

Corrected entry: In the scene where the Zep is driving to the toilets with the old black cop driving behind him there is a shot filmed from the front of the Zep's car. Therefore there should be one set of car lights behind him, but there are actually two.

Correction: We also see a set of headlights behind the black cop when a shot is filmed from the front of his vehicle. Is it so unlikely that there could be another driver on the road?

Corrected entry: When Larry is standing by the bedroom door saying goodnight to his daughter, her bedside night light is on. He then flicks off the main light switch and it cuts back to his daughter's bed. The night light is off.

Correction: Some light switches are hooked up to lamps, and are able to be shut off by the switch.

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie Dr Gordon shoots Adam in his left shoulder, later on Adam's wound is on his right shoulder.

Correction: He shoots him in the right shoulder, and the wound is on the right shoulder, no mistake here.

Corrected entry: Why doesn't Dr. Gordon recognise his own patient (Jigsaw), laying before him?

Correction: It was established that Dr. Gordon didn't know his own patients' names (particularly this one) when Zep had to tell the him who the patient was; it's not surprising that he wouldn't recognize the man, especially when the doctor's fearing for his own life (not to mention the fact that Jigsaw's face is covered in blood).

Xofer

Correction: When lying down jigsaw's head is turned facing Adam, making it impossible for Lawrence to see his face/ recognize John.

Corrected entry: The padlocks could have easily been sawed through. Neither of them even tried.

Correction: Adam's saw broke as he tried to cut through everything around him. Do you honestly think that rusty saw could've sawed through that?

Corrected entry: In the very first scene we see Adam in a bath tub with his leg tethered in chains. Adam wakes up and jumps out of the bath. When the light is switched on we see that the chain attached to Adam's leg is just under a foot in length, which prevents him getting anywhere near the bath, let alone have all the slack to actually lie in it. This is illustrated when Adam leans over to the bath to get the bag with the photo in.

Correction: Adam's legs are facing the pole that the chain is attached to and his legs are out of the bath and as the lights are turned on you can see how close the bath is to the pole, allowing the slack he needs.

Corrected entry: When the two detectives break into the old factory and the drills start moving, why don't they just put something solid between the drills and the man's head to block them? They've got time to do so.

Correction: The reason the two cops didn't try to stop the drills is bcause they both were in a state of panic. Danny Glover was too obsessed with Jigsaw to do anything and the Asian cop just wanted to stop the drills. If he had stopped to look for something to put against the drills he may have ran out of time considering they had no idea what items were inside the warehouse. Besides, who says that the drills would have been stopped? They were probably powerful enough to cut through wood or metal, knowing how well Jigsaw is prepared.

Corrected entry: Throughout the entire movie the body in the middle of the floor (the dead guy) constantly changes his feet position, over and over - his foot is either straight down, up and bent, or to the side...

Correction: Not actually being dead might have something to do with that, it's possible that the men chained to the pipes simply didn't notice because they were too focused on their own situation.

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Revealing mistake: After Dr. Lawrence cuts off his leg and is crawling towards the gun, if you look at his dismembered leg, you can make out the shape of his foot hidden beneath his ripped up slacks. (01:29:30)

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Trivia: As is often the case with micro-budget films, the movie was not shot widescreen, but rather was shot on cheaper 4:3 full-frame film stock and cropped for the widescreen theatrical release. Thus director James Wan filmed the movie ahead of time with the knowledge that the tops and bottoms of the frame would be missing from the theatrical cut, and he made sure to compose the shots accordingly. Unfortunately, instead of panning-and-scanning the cropped widescreen release for the full-frame home-video release, the distributors merely uncropped the image. This causes some rather strange and subtle blunders in some full-frame home-video releases, as portions of the frame were visible that shouldn't have been.

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Question: How exactly was Adam supposed to win the game? We know the Doctor had to kill Adam before 6 to live, but how was Adam meant to get out? Was he there solely for the Doctor to kill or was there a way out for him that I've missed?

Answer: Amanda was supposed to put the key around Adam's neck rather than just on his chest. If she had done so as instructed by Jigsaw, he would've been able to unlock his shackle and leave the bathroom. Adam was a voyeur, the irony being that if his key had been placed correctly around his neck, all he would've had to do would be to look around to find it. Adam's tape states, "what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror, " so, again, it's a hint that all Adam would've had to do was look at himself. I noticed as well, Jigsaw says, "the key to that chain is in the bathtub." /IS/ in the bathtub. Not /was/. So Jigsaw probably thought Adam could still get out. He says, "so many people are ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore." So it's like, 'I have taught you this lesson, now you can go free because now you'll appreciate your life unlike you did before'.

Answer: Adam simply had to either unlock his chain with the key, if it hadn't gone down the drain, or cut his foot off to get out. Or he could've pulled an Eric Matthews with the toilet lid and try to get out that way, but that idea wasn't introduced until Saw III. Let's say Lawrence killed Adam before 6AM. Lawrence would win his game, yes. But he's missing a foot, and the door is still locked because Zep or someone would have to unlock it still. But would Zep or John have to help Dr. Gordon and provide medical attention? Ignore Saw 3D for a second and focusing solely on the first film, I'd say I don't think either of them would do so. Lawrence would be left to get help for himself. Imagine if Mark or Paul beat their tests. Would Jigsaw get them help? He didn't try to help Amanda. He let Amanda fetch help for herself. This also shows that Dr. Gordon was supposed to have died at the end of the first film.

Answer: Adam was never supposed to win, I don't recall which movie, I believe it be the 5th where John is talking to Amanda and says how her games were rigged and impossible to win, and Adam and Lawrence were part of Amanda's game.

Even though Amanda (sort of) sabotaged the game, it didn't make it impossible for him to escape. He could've sawed off his foot like Dr. Gordon did later in the film or could've broke his foot with the toilet lid like Eric Matthews did in Saw II.

It's never mentioned in the films that tossing the key in the bathtub was any kind of sabotage. What is said on the commentary or in the script, but doesn't make it into the final cut, has no relevance for the movies.

Answer: It's mentioned multiple times throughout the movie how unambitious and apathetic Adam is, and how angry he is at the world. His game is to actually escape, which he fails because he's quite content to let Dr. Gordon go and get help instead of trying to do something himself. He was meant to be able to roam freely around the room, and that would probably have made his and Dr. Gordon's relationship and interactions a lot more severe and hostile. The reality of it is simple: Saw is a rushed movie. It's fun to speculate and theorize, but the truth is that by the time they got to editing, they had already lost a chunk of footage after only having 18 days to shoot.

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