Kevin Spacey plays the character of John Doe in Se7en; the antagonist. He is a relatively unknown character and the audience knows little about his appearance and state of mind until the last 30 minutes where he reveals himself and his disturbing ways. The plot is based on the seven deadly sins.
The writers of the film show our antagonist with secrecy and have concealed his physical appearance til the later stages of the film, however they have written this character in way that you can feel his presence from the very first murder. This makes the audience feel they know the villain.
"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention." When they find who the murderer is the audience would have already discovered how provoking the characters minds is but this is due to the excessive insanity his words are. From the quote above you can see his mind is set on evil and that he has no care for the world.
From the picture below you see the appearance of John Doe an unexpectedly weak but normal looking man. When I witnessed this I was surprised but when you see the interrogation from Mills and Somerset (the protagonists) you realise that these two oppostites (the disturbing mind and weak looking man) seem to be appropriate.
John Doe compared to our character is rather similar in the way that he will not be completely revealed in the opening of our thriller but you will feel the strong presence that the 'Se7en' villain so easily depicts. However our character will not be so disturbing but this is due to the fact (again) that we are unable to expand our projects into a full thriller.
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