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The Philosophy of the Saw Movies:

• Appreciate what you have and take care of your life
• Trust me, the rules are simple, but breaking them can lead to death.
• Be careful, the key to salvation is in your hands
• Don't help them, they have to help themselves
• Don't kill them, but rehabilitate them... put them to the test... if they pass the test, they will become different people
• Everything is interconnected, all separate parts lead to the main
• Everything must be thought through the smallest details… if you know the way a person thinks, there will be no surprises
• Until a person has looked into the eyes of death, it is impossible to guess what he will do for the sake of life.
• It all comes down to one rule: to learn to appreciate your life, you need to personally know death.

Interesting facts about the films of the Saw series

Saw (short film), 2003

• Saw is a 2003 Australian short thriller, 9.5 minutes long. It was directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, who also starred in it.
• The film was originally conceived in order to offer the script for the film "Saw" to other studios and actors. However, Wan and Whannell made the film themselves in 2004.
• The short film was later included in the feature film as a scene with Shawnee Smith, where Amanda Young, instead of David, was wearing a jaw-trap trap.

Saw: The Game of Survival, 2004

• The film was originally rated NC-17 and James Wan had to delete several scenes in order to get an R rating.
• The scene where Stephen Sing chases John was the last filmed
• The scene in which Gordon turns off the lights and then whispers to Adam, hoping to fake his death, was slightly different in the script. Initially, the characters had to saw off the ends of a long pipe with their saws and talk through it. This scene was even filmed, but it was later cut because James Wan decided that this scene would create plot holes, because if the characters can saw off a piece of pipe, they can also saw chains.
• The film was shot in just 18 days
• The scene in which Tapp chases Zep in a car was actually filmed in a garage. Several people rocked the cars to give the illusion of movement.
• The film was originally planned to be released on DVD only.
• The film contains many references to the films of Dario Argento. For example, the killer's sinister doll is a reference to the 1975 film Blood Red.
• When casting agent Amy Lippens asked James Vann who he would like to see in the role of Amanda, Van answered without hesitation: Shawnee Smith, whom he had been in love with in his youth. A couple of days later, much to James' surprise, Amy revealed that Shawnee had agreed to be in the film.
• Tobin Bell, who played the role of "Designer", had to lie motionless on the floor for six days. They did not replace it with a mannequin, since the creators of the tape could not afford it for financial reasons due to the very high cost of a quality mannequin
• The fact that the "corpse" in the center of the room is actually a living person, Lawrence and Adam could guess from several facts. Firstly, when Lawrence took a pistol from the hands of the “corpse” to insert a cartridge into it and kill Adam, there were no used cartridges in the drum, which means that the person lying on the floor did not fire the revolver. Secondly, the lying person did not have a cassette in the audio player, which means that he could not know that he was poisoned.
• According to the DVD commentary, the childhood nightmares of James Wan and Leigh Whannell formed the basis for most of the film's creepy and scary scenes.
• The bathroom scenes were filmed in chronological order to help actors get a better feel for their characters
• Since Tobin Bell's make-up took several hours and the crew didn't want to take long breaks from filming, the scene in which John gets up from the floor was filmed in one take.
• Leigh Whanell revealed that Adam and Lawrence were originally supposed to be locked in an elevator.
• Leigh Whanell had to fill in for missing actors in some scenes. For example, in one of the scenes he played Amanda

Saw 2, 2005

• When the movie posters came out, they said the movie was rated R even though it hadn't even been rated by the MPAA yet.
• The film's script is a revised script by Darren Lynn Bausman, which he offered several times to various studios, but was rejected everywhere due to excessive cruelty.
• In the scene where John sews the key into Michael, John is played by Darren Lynn Bausman.
• The film was shot in just 25 days
• About 120,000 syringes were used for the syringe pit
• While filming the scene in which Obie (Tim Bard) tries to climb out of the oven through a small window, Tim Bard accidentally punches Glenn Plummer (Jonas) in the face. Because of this, I even had to take a half-hour break from filming.
• Shawnee Smith (Amanda) was pregnant during filming but kept it a secret from everyone, including the director. Her daughter later blabbed to Darren Lynn Bausman during lunch.
• Most of the actors didn't get the last 25 pages of the script. This was done to keep the ending of the movie a secret.
• Four people spent four days preparing syringes for the syringe trap - they replaced real needles so that Shawnee would not get hurt during the filming of the scene
• The entire film was filmed in the same building.
• Some of the traps actually worked exactly the way they work in the movie. For example, the Mask of Death really closed, the revolver fired when the key was turned, and Emmanuelle Vaugier could not get her hands out of the blade box without assistance.
• The original syringe pit was a bathroom full of syringes, but film crew thought it wasn't shocking enough
• Initially, Addison was supposed to fall into another trap. According to the DVD commentary, this trap was similar to the chair-and-knife trap from the fourth film, except that Addison had to press her face against a red-hot iron (something like a waffle iron) instead of knives.
• Blade box trap intended for Gus
• When John shows Eric the way, he says that Matthews needs last home left. This is a reference to the 1972 movie

Saw 3, 2006

• For the bathroom scenes, the sets were borrowed from the filmmakers of Scary Movie 4.
• Leigh Whanell wrote the script for the film in one week based on ideas from James Wan.
• Darren Lynn Bausman admitted that the film was very much influenced by the thoughts of the fans expressed on the House of Jigsaw website.
• The film was remade seven times to get an R rating.
• Corbett is named after Leigh Whanell's girlfriend Corbett Tuck
• In the original version of the classroom, Troy was supposed to be hanging from large hooks, but the idea was dropped by the production team. In another version, the chains were supposed to be threaded through his nails, teeth and eyelids.
• The trap Kerry was placed in was originally meant to rip out her limbs, but this trap was later redesigned.
• It was originally planned to make a police officer a victim for the freezer. When it was decided that Danika would be placed in the freezer, she was initially supposed to be dressed in a T-shirt and shorts.
• Several versions of the scene in which Jeff kills John were filmed. The only difference between the scenes is the weapon with which he carries out his revenge.
• There are two director's cuts of the film: Saw III Unrated Edition and Saw III Director's Cut.

Saw 4, 2007

• Leigh Whannell said that the film will answer many of the questions that arose in the third part, and will also reveal the connection between the Death Designer and Obie from the second part.
• The story, according to Bausman, took a new approach, making the manuscript difficult to read. The film will have four stories that develop in parallel, and none of them will touch on the theme of torment.
• This film was sent to theaters under the name "Angel Fish".
• The decision to film a fourth film was made before the third film hit theaters.
• The dog Ivan plays with is owned by Darren Lynn Bausman.
• Initially, Donnie Wahlberg turned down the role of Eric due to a busy schedule, so the writers considered which character they would put on a block of ice (options included Father Rigg and Hoffman). Donnie was able to make time for the film after filming began.
• Alison Luther, who played Jane, is the niece of Darren Lynn Bausman.
• The film was shot in 32 days.
• The women pictured raped by Ivan are played by Bausman's girlfriend, his assistant and lawyer.
• Mark Burg admitted that this is his favorite part of the series.
• The plot is chronologically parallel with the actions of the third part (at the end Strahm kills Jeff).
• There is an alternate ending to the movie. It wasn't completely filmed. In it, Rigg reached his last test but, having learned his lessons, did not enter the room. Eric was dying anyway, which Rigg saw through the glass. It's not entirely clear why Eric died, but it can be assumed that Art pressed the button before time ran out, killing both himself (with the device around his neck) and Eric. From what he saw, Rigg falls to his knees in shock. Hoffman unties himself from his chair and leaves the room. He leans over to Rigg and whispers something in his ear, which sends him into a state of prostration, shock and horror, after which Hoffman disappears into the maze of corridors. After that, Rigg, after recovering a little, had to go down the corridor and turn around the corner, where he was supposed to be shot by Peter Strahm.

Saw 5, 2008

• According to the film's director David Hackle, DVDs of real industrial accidents, disasters, and other incidents were used as visual material to stage the new Jigsaw's original traps.
• The press trap that killed Peter Strahm was designed and painted by the seven-year-old son of David Hackle, the film's director.
• When Agent Strahm descends into the basement of the house where the events of the first part took place, there is a path of blood left by Dr. Gordon on the floor.
• The scene in which Hoffman leaves Gideon with Corbett and talks to Fisk was originally in the ending of the fourth film, but was later cut. Only two second episodes were filmed - entering the room with last game Geoff Strahm and Geoff standing by Jigsaw's bunk
• Danny Glover was offered to play Tapp in a flashback but had to turn it down due to filming Blindness.
• The photograph on Erickson's desk shows Mark Rolston with his real wife.
• In the last trap, animal blood was used instead of artificial blood. David Hackle later admitted that they would never have done this if they knew what a terrible smell comes from her.
• In this part, the phrase "Game Over" is said once, and it is spoken by Agent Strahm.
• IN director's cut the episode where Strahm opens the door and enters the room with Jeff, Lynn, Jigsaw and Amanda was missing. It was also noticeable that the Constructor's voice throughout the film was stretched, both in the original track and in the Russian dubbing it is more rude and menacing.
• At about 13 minutes into the scene, when Jill comes to the lawyer, and he turns on the tape where John left her a message, you can notice the following. The recording is in 3D format, it can be seen by wearing stereo glasses (c+s).

Saw 6, 2009

• After the credits, the director's cut of "Unrated Cut" has a "postscript" in which Amanda warns Jeff's daughter, who is locked up through the keyhole, not to trust whoever will save her, and then a shot of Mark carrying Jeff's daughter out of the building (scene from Saw 5 from a different angle).
• The film was banned for distribution in Spain and Belarus.
• The story is known to have already been written on June 22, 2007, as reported by Oren Coles.
• David Hackle was originally said to direct both the fifth and sixth films, however it was later announced that David would only direct the fifth film. Kevin Grothert is the editor of all parts of the series. He was with her from the very beginning. Tobin Bell said that it is Kevin who creates the wonderful atmosphere of the series. Saw VI was Kevin's debut as a director.
• On July 14, 2009, it became known that Saw 6 was not last film from this series. Not having time to release the sixth part, the writers were already in full swing coming up with a sequel.
• Due to a flaw in the Russian dubbing, many consider Pamela Jenkins to be William's girlfriend, when in fact she is his sister.
• It is also known that casting main character, Simona aired on MTV's Scream Queens.
• The opening scene where two characters must pay to be saved by the flesh is a reference to a Shakespearean play. The Merchant of Venice in which the debtor, who did not pay the debt on time, had to pay with a pound of his own flesh.
• The only film in the series to receive an "X" rating in Spain, which drastically reduced the number of theaters able to show it. It is worth noting that before this rating in Spain received only pornographic films.
• Costas Mandylor did not know until the premiere whether Hoffman survived or not, as they filmed several different endings
• There are several figurines on the table in William's office. One of them is Toronto's CN Tower, where all but the first movie was filmed.
• In one of the first versions of the script, Hoffman had to fight the mafia.
• So far, this is the first film in the series where electronic timers are used on traps.
• Last film in the series to be directed by David Armstrong (he has been with the series since the beginning)
• So far, this is the first film in the series in which John himself appears on the TV screen to convey the rules.
• So far, this is the first film in the series to use a trap that has appeared in the series before (jaw ripper)
• On the commentary for the film, Kevin Grothert noticed that in the scene where Amanda is shaking from withdrawal, Shawnee Smith was actually shaking from the cold, since it was a low temperature in Toronto, and the scene was filmed on the street
• The first film in the series to have no rules for the final trap in the ending
• The post-credits scene in the director's cut was supposed to be different - Corbett had to sing a song, and Amanda had to sing along with her to calm the girl
• During the conversation between William and John at the banquet, Amanda and Jill are standing in the background in the crowd of people. The scene between Jill and Amanda was supposed to start, but it was cut. It was said in the comments that a lot of scenes with Amanda were cut
• It was originally planned to make Jill the same leader of the games as John. This idea was later abandoned.
• The movie was supposed to have a flashback to Jill and John's wedding.
• The news anchor who tells the games continue despite Jigsaw's death is a real Canadian TV presenter
• It was originally planned to reveal that Perez's death was faked as early as the fifth film. It was also originally planned that it was Strahm's idea
• The writers wanted to change the third film, revealing that it was John who hit Dylan (and then the Russian translation of the third part would be correct). This idea was later abandoned.
• Brent was originally supposed to be around 7-8 years old.
• The producers wanted the film to end with Tara taking the lever, meaning neither William's death nor Hoffman's ordeal they wanted to see. Kevin and the writers defended the ending
• The original plan was for a small dialogue between Jill and Hoffman as she attaches the device to him. It was cut because Hoffman wouldn't be able to talk with a ripper in his mouth.

Saw 3D, 2010

• Instead of the usual 9 weeks, the pre-production stage lasted 21 weeks.
• Brit is not in the film, but she survived the events of Saw 5. But Mallik was at the meeting, and one can hardly notice that his previously sawn-off arm seems to have grown together. Also at the meeting, you can see a curly-haired teenager, he could presumably be Daniel Matthews.
• Screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan came up with the Garage trap while writing the script for the fourth film, but the producers considered it too cruel. The writers tried to insert a trap in the fifth and sixth films, but they only managed to use it in the seventh part at the personal request of Kevin Groutert, the director of the film. This episode starred Chester Bennington, lead singer of the bands Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise.
• Only in this part of the franchise did they show death from the "Jawbreaker". In other parts, the victims managed to remove it.
• The movie starts and ends in the same place.
• In this part, the phrase "Game Over" is pronounced 4 times (flashback "Hello, Zapp" (Eng. Hello, Zepp), Jill's farewell, Jill's death, finale). In the other films Saw 2 and Saw 3, this phrase is said 2 times.
• The trap in which Joyce died is shaped like a pig.
• This is the third part of a series that ends with someone being locked in the closet by chaining him to a pipe (in the first part, John locked Adam there, in the second Amanda did the same with Eric Matthews).
• The timer in all movie traps has blue LEDs. In the previous parts of the series, such a timer was used only once, all other timers were with red LEDs.
• The film is banned from showing in Ukraine and Belarus

« Saw: Survival Game"(eng. Saw) is a 2004 American horror film. The film premiered on January 19, 2004. The film was originally intended to be released for sale on video only, but the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival changed that decision. The audience liked the thriller very much and on October 29 it was released in wide release. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $18 million (against a budget of $1.2 million), and the total box office was $103,096,345, of which the film grossed $55,185,045 in the US and $47,911,300 in other countries. In the end, the decision was immediately made to launch a sequel, followed by a whole series of films.

Slogans

• "Each part was a mystery..."
• "How much blood will you shed to stay alive?"
• "There will be a lot of blood."
• "I want to play a game with you."
• “Live or die. The choice is yours"
• “Most in our world do not value life at all, but not you, and not now”
• "I hate murder more than anything"
• "Those who do not value life are not worthy of their lives"

Plot

Adam's face, lying in a bathtub full of water, illuminates some object, which later floats to his feet. Suddenly, Adam opens his eyes. Realizing that he is lying under water, he twitches and, catching the chain with his foot, pulls the plug out of the tub. Water, until recently completely filling the bath, is rapidly draining into the sewer. Together with her, the object that illuminated Adam goes there.

From the shock experienced, Adam falls out of the bathroom onto the floor. The room in which he woke up is plunged into darkness. Standing up, Adam feels that a chain is put on his leg. Holding it in his hand, Adam reaches the pipe to which he is chained. Confused and horrified, he starts calling for help.

After several attempts to yell at someone, Adam comes to the conclusion that he is dead. To this, from the other side of the room, a calm male voice who tells him that it is not. After some time, a man - Dr. Lawrence Gordon - manages to turn on the light.

Getting used to bright light and when they see each other, the prisoners understand that they are both placed on an equal footing - they are chained by the legs with chains to pipes. However, their attention is first drawn to the corpse of a man lying in the center of the room in a pool of blood. In one hand he holds a player, in the other - a revolver. As Adam vomits in disgust, Lawrence approaches the corpse as far as the chain allows him to, trying to get a better look at it. Recovering, Adam looks around, then pays attention to the chain. While Gordon tries to get a better look at the corpse, Adam goes into hysterics, tugging at the chain and screaming hysterically. Lawrence asks if he recognizes their dead cellmate, to which Adam replies in the negative. After chatting with Adam and getting answers to his questions, Lawrence notices that a brand new clock is hanging on the wall, which surprises him.

As the surgeon tries unsuccessfully to open the door, Adam searches himself and finds an envelope in one of his pockets. Opening it, he discovers a cassette for the player, which says "Listen". Lawrence searches himself and finds the same envelope, but in addition to the same cassette, there is also a cartridge and a small key. Both prisoners take turns trying to open the locks on their chains with this key, but nothing comes of them.

Adam turns his attention to the player that their dead cellmate is holding in his hand. After several tries, he manages to reach the player and take it. After listening to their tapes, the prisoners learn that photographer Adam is here because he is following other people. To escape, Adam must do something, and Lawrence must kill Adam before six o'clock, otherwise his family - wife Allison and daughter Diane - will be killed. The kidnapper also says that the man lying in the center of the room shot himself because of a large number poison in his blood. At the end, he adds that there are many clues in the room and that the treasure is marked with a cross, after which he asks the doctor to follow the call of the heart.

Lawrence starts looking around the room to find the heart and suddenly he finds it on the toilet bowl. Adam finds a pair of hacksaws in it, but they fail to cut the chains. The surgeon understands that the saws were left to him not for the chains, but for the legs. Finally, Lawrence guesses who did it. Adam immediately jumps to his feet, demanding an answer from Lawrence, but the doctor reassures him, saying that he only knows about him, but does not know him personally. The last thing he heard about their kidnapper was that the police still hadn't caught him. Gordon says he knows about him because he was a suspect himself and starts telling Adam a story that happened to him five months ago from the very beginning.

The surgeon tells Adam about serial killer, which journalists gave the nickname " Saw". However, as Lawrence notes, he does not kill anyone - he only creates situations in which the victims kill themselves.

Gordon found out about Jigsaw after the latter left a flashlight that belonged to the doctor at the crime scene. During an examination with students of a terminally ill patient named John (which the orderly Sepp told everyone, adding that John was very interesting person hinting that the orderly knows much more about the patients than their attending physician), Gordon is called in for questioning. Detectives David Tapp and Stephen Sing suspect that the surgeon was involved in all of these murders, as his prints were found on the flashlight. However, Gordon has an alibi, which proved to be true. Nevertheless, detectives believe that the doctor can help the investigation. They tell the story of a maniac. One of his victims was the man Paul, a 46-year-old man who attempted suicide. He found himself in a maze of barbed wire. Another - Mark - pretended to be sick. The creator of deadly traps injected him with a dose of slow-acting poison, doused him with a flammable substance and forced him to look for a combination from the safe where the antidote was located from the numbers written on the wall with a candle. Both failed to "win" in deadly game.

However, one person still managed to survive - this is drug addict Amanda Young. The constructor put a device on her that, a minute after activation, will break her jaws. The device could only be opened with a key in the stomach of her cellmate, who had been injected with a large dose of opium.

After the story, Adam begins to suspect the doctor that he is that maniac, the latter replies that he is in the same situation as him, but the photographer does not believe him. Adam then picks up the mirror shard, intending to throw it at Lawrence, and notices it is glass, not a mirror. Then the photographer breaks it. Adam and Lawrence see that a video camera is installed behind the glass, through which they are being watched. Adam, marveling at the doctor's calmness, reminds him of the family, which, apparently, is in this moment located at Pila. Gordon snaps, saying he can't stop thinking about it, and then gives Adam his wallet so he can see his family, advising him to look at his favorite picture of the three of them. But instead, Adam discovers a completely different photograph, which shows Alison and Diane tied up. There is a clue on the back of the photo that tells Adam that the cross Jigsaw mentioned can be seen when the lights are turned off. Meanwhile, Tapp keeps an eye on Gordon's house, believing that he is Jigsaw. Now Tapp is no longer a detective - he was fired from the police because his desire to catch the killer led to the death of his partner Sing, which finally broke Tapp. Now he is obsessed with the desire to find the killer at all costs.

Adam tells Gordon to turn off the lights. In the darkness, they discover the cross mentioned by the killer on one of the walls. Having broken a piece of the wall, the surgeon discovers a box containing several cigarettes, a lighter and mobile phone, which can only receive calls. The cell phone awakens Lawrence's memory and he remembers how he was kidnapped. Lawrence initially says it happened after work, but is later forced to admit that he was kidnapped while leaving his mistress, Carla.

Also in the box found by the doctor is a note in which Jigsaw offers Gordon to kill Adam by dipping cigarettes in poisoned blood, but the surgeon, not wanting to kill the photographer, comes up with a different plan: the photographer, dragging on a cigarette, must simulate death. But the killer violates the plans of his victims - when Adam falls to the floor, Jigsaw sends a current to him through the circuit to check if the doctor really did what he requires of him. The electric shock forces the photographer to give himself away, and thereby disrupts the prisoners' attempt to deceive the Designer, but at the same time acts on Adam like a mobile phone on Lawrence - he remembers how he ended up here.

Around six o'clock, a cell phone rings, and Allison, who is being held hostage by Zapp at their home with her daughter, tells Gordon not to believe Adam. The photographer confesses that Detective Tapp hired him to spy on Gordon. When Adam was in his apartment developing the last pictures with the doctor, he was attacked and kidnapped.

At exactly six o'clock, Sepp turns off the security camera at Gordon's house. At the same time, Allison is released from the rope. Zapp enters the room and forces Allison to call her husband again, at which point she gets into a fight with Zapp. Shots are fired, to which Tapp comes running, who has been watching the doctor's house. After fighting off Tapp, Zapp leaves the house with the intention of killing the doctor. Tapp, having regained consciousness, rushes after Zapp in pursuit.

Lawrence hears only screams and gunshots. At that moment, Jigsaw sends a current to him, and the doctor throws the phone aside in a fit. When he wakes up, the phone starts ringing again - saved thanks to Tapp's intervention, Allison tries to warn her husband about this. But the doctor can't reach the phone. Believing that his wife and daughter are still in danger, Gordon loses his mind and saws off his leg, after which he takes a revolver from the hand of a dead body, loads the cartridge found in the envelope and shoots Adam.

Tapp catches up with Zapp in the building where Adam and Gordon are, but in the struggle, the orderly shoots the former detective in the chest. Afterwards, Zapp enters the bathroom and sees that the surgeon has shot the photographer. After checking on Adam, Zapp points his gun at Lawrence, saying that the surgeon was too late. To Gordon's question "why," Zepp replies, "Those are the rules." At that moment, Adam, who is still alive because Gordon deliberately shot in the shoulder, pounces on Zapp, knocks him down and beats the orderly to death with a toilet bowl lid. Lawrence says to call for help, promises to bring people and crawls out of the room.

Adam is left alone in the room, still chained to the pipe. He searches Zapp's body in hopes of finding the key to his chain. But, to his horror, instead of a key, he finds a player. The photographer realizes that the orderly all this time was the same as themselves, a victim in Jigsaw's deadly game. According to the rules, he had to take Gordon's wife and daughter hostage and, if the doctor did not fulfill the conditions of the "game", kill them, otherwise he would die from the poison in his blood.

Shocked, Adam turns off the player. And at this moment dead body, who has been lying all this time in the middle of the room, begins to slowly rise to his feet. Adam watches in horror as Jigsaw slowly peels off his mask and adjusts to the bright light. Jigsaw notices that the item that went down the drain with the water after Adam woke up was the key to the chain. A series of flashbacks explains that Jigsaw was John, a terminally ill patient of Dr. Gordon's, all along. Adam tries to kill John with Zapp's gun, but he again electrocutes Adam, causing him to drop his gun. John slowly walks to the door, ignoring Adam wildly screaming after him, turns off the light and with the words: “Game over”, closes the door and leaves the photographer in a dark room forever.

History of creation

Before filming

In the sequel to the film, it turns out that Adam died after the events of the first part, and in the triquel it is shown exactly how he died. Until the release of the seventh part, the fate of Dr. Gordon remained unknown, although his presence was felt in every part. For example: limping on right leg a man who "hides" the key behind Michael's eye ("Saw 2"). The Designer himself is an engineer, a mechanic, but not a surgeon. Art’s sewn mouth and Trevor’s eyes, the trap of Morgan and her husband (“Saw 4”) with rods pierced through the arteries, as well as the key in William’s body (“Saw 6”) could only be left by a surgeon.

After the release of Saw 3D, it was revealed that Gordon had survived and Jigsaw made him his assistant (thus confirming the theories above) after saving him from death. After the death of Kramer himself, Gordon was assigned to keep an eye on Mark Hoffman (the first assistant to the Designer), and he fulfilled his mission.

Dr. Gordon is also mentioned in Saw: The Video Game. In his message, the Designer says that he asked a familiar surgeon " replace the bullet with the key in your body».

The process of cutting and sawing is in the blood of a person: starting from a loaf and sausage and ending with trees in three girths and blocks of marble. Without a high-quality and reliable chainsaw, which has gone through its centuries-old and still unfinished path of development, neither a household master nor a professional can now imagine his life and work. Sawing technique has been mastered primitive people as early as eight thousand years ago, with the understanding that came to them that a serrated tool cuts better than a smooth one. The oldest, extant primitive saw for sawing bone and wood was made of whole piece silicon - for such work required a significant application physical strength.

To process stone blocks at the end of the Neolithic era, a silicon plate with teeth appeared, under which, in the process of sawing, sand moistened with water and acting as an abrasive was poured for better friction. Sawing through with such labor was not so necessary: ​​the master made a deep cut, and then split the stone into two parts with a wedge-shaped mallet. It was thanks to the sawing technique that it became possible to give products the right geometric shapes, which became an evolutionary breakthrough in technological and construction processes.

The historical development of the first chainsaw

The key elements that later became part of the design of the very first chainsaw (Walter S. Scheip chain saw, tire, carburetor internal combustion engine) were invented in late XIX century.

The progenitor of the modern chainsaw appeared relatively recently - at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1926, a well-known German mechanical engineer and owner of a machine-building plant "A. Stihl Ingenieursburo» for production washing machines and steam boilers Andreas Stihl A patent was filed for a mechanical chain saw equipped with an electric motor.

The patented chain saw weighed almost half a centner and was operated by two physically strong operator operators. With all the powerful work of engineering, by 1929 it was possible to reduce its solid weight by only a couple of kilograms. Stihl began to look for other ways to increase the power of the tool while reducing its weight, and as an experiment he decided to replace the electric motor with a gasoline one. In the same year, the inventor presented a trial copy of a mechanical chain saw with an internal combustion engine with a power of 6 hp. and weighing 46 kg, it was the very first chainsaw in the world.
This innovative direction has become fundamental for the further evolution of the chainsaw - Stihl issues a patent for the saw chain and tires he created, introduces own production centrifugal clutch and pressurized chain oil lubrication system.

In 1943, Calm, by order of the Wehrmacht for military-strategic purposes, produced a two-handed chainsaw. KS-43. Particularly lightweight, magnesium alloy, blower housing, fuel tank and float carburetor reduced the total weight to 36 kg.

In 1947, lumberjack and Oregon founder Joseph Buford Cox redesigned the saw chain with a new C-shaped steel tooth.

As before, the heavy weight of the tool limited the demand for it among ordinary consumers, and until the end of the forties, the saw remained in demand only as a professional tool for lumberjacks and builders. Introduced in 1950 by STIHL, an ultra-light saw weighing only 16 kilograms was a bombshell, and further design improvements made it possible in 1954 to introduce an even lighter 11-kg model with a two-stroke internal combustion engine to the gardening tool market. And, starting from that moment, the chainsaw was firmly entrenched in the household arsenal of home craftsmen.

1959 was the year of the creation of the gearless, which became a legend among the first chainsaws STIHL Contra with a membrane carburetor that allows rotation of the saw in all spatial planes. The weight of 12.2 kg, which is insignificant compared to previous models, for the first time allowed one operator to work with it, increasing logging productivity by several times. Thus began the era of compact chainsaws.

In the 60s, chain saws continued to improve: an anti-vibration system and an electronic ignition unit were developed by the company Husqvarna the principle of "two masses" with separation of the engine from the handle is proposed.

The developments of the 70s are aimed at creating the most comfortable conditions for working with a chainsaw: there was a handle heating, a QuickStop chain brake, an automatic brake activated by inertial force, a single-lever control system, and a gas lock lever.

In the mid-80s, a side chain tensioner, an Ematic chain lubrication system, an environmentally friendly BioPlus chain adhesive oil, and a two-stroke engine catalyst were developed.

In the 1990s, competition between STIHL and Husqvarna yielded several iconic patents: the toolless chain tensioner and the Air Injection centrifugal air cleaning system.

twenty first century

Improvement and modification of both the chainsaws themselves and their key components continues in our time. New and Newest technologies allow you to make chainsaws more powerful, environmentally friendly and economical.

There are a lot of proven manufacturers of modern, reliable and high-quality chainsaws on the market: these are the ones who stood at the origins of the invention itself STIHL And Husqvarna, and other companies - Japanese ECHO, Italian Oleo Mac, american Partner, South Korean Hyundai.

Few people remember the names of horror film directors and even more so know them by sight. By by and large among professional horror makers, the general public is only familiar with George Romero, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg. Therefore, it would not be superfluous to say that Saw was invented and directed by James Wan, who was only 27 years old when the film was released in 2004. Now James big man: "Astral", "Spell" - all his work. And James is regularly (by cunning, deceit and torture, apparently) forced to make blockbusters, including Fast and Furious 7 and Aquaman.

James Wan is a Chinese who was born in Malaysia and attended an Australian film school where he met Leigh Whannell, a screenwriter. The short film "Saw" was their student work, from which he later grew big movie at the request of admiring Hollywood producers. The complete Saw cost $1.2 million and grossed a hundred (!) times more at the box office. It pays to kill people!

James Wan (left) and British actor Cary Elwes on set

sleepy kingdom

James Wan later admitted that most of the frightening scenes in Saw were based on nightmares he and Whannell had as children. So the film was not at all conceived as a movie exclusively about torture and all kinds of savage constructions - this course was chosen only from the second series. Fans of the genre also especially note the fact that in the first "Saw" women do not die, only guys, and this is a significant deviation from tradition. From childhood nightmares, of course, originates and central image film - a maniac doll on a bicycle. James Wan concocted it himself from scratch, and did not remake it from a toy bought in a store, as props usually do.

Fast and dead

The shooting of the film was given only 18 days, that is, the actors did not even have time to rehearse. In fact, the director had to shoot a couple of rehearsal runs and edit the finished movie from them. The editors of MAXIM have a suspicion that everything is also filmed Russian cinema, only the output is not a horror movie, but a horror movie. Gordon was filmed with a stabilized camera, while Adam was filmed with a shaking handheld to capture the character's sense of nervousness.

Brainless Assault

It's time to move on to the next series of our sawmill. The most interesting thing to notice in Saw 2 is the tiny object in the hand trap scene. As you must remember, the heroine put her hands into the trap according to the task, for which she paid the price. But the viewer can see that at the top of the structure there is a lock with a carefully inserted key! The authors of the film in such a mocking way decided to demonstrate the Constructor's confidence that the victims would not look for any reasonable alternative solutions, but would storm the traps ahead in a panic.

The lock with the key is easy to spot at the very top of the frame.

Don't touch the sacred

As for the third Saw, an even more amusing fact is connected with it. The Ratings Committee of America demanded that a number of especially violent scenes be cut (as was the case with the previous series), but left intact the extremely naturalistic scene of brain surgery. The filmmakers managed to convince officials that this fragment does not have any significant differences from what is shown on TV in popular science and medical programs. A similar happy release of edits befell the autopsy episode in the fourth series of Saw.

Until now, wood is a popular material for craftsmen. They make kitchen utensils, furniture, doors Zhytomyr http://komfort-zt.com.ua and so on. For many centuries, Russian people cut wood, but did not saw, And the boards were not sawn - chipped. They were called tes. The first sawers appeared in Rus', they began to be called tertiniks (from the word “rub”), and this happened in early XVIII centuries .. The saw was known to the world a long time ago ...
Her images are found on Assyrian bas-reliefs. In the last century, in Nineveh, archaeologists dug up a piece of saw with a hole for the handle. This saw had a wide blade, which spoke of good metal and the ability of craftsmen to forge such non-narrow strips. Now pi.ly are not forged, they are stamped. Previously, the teeth were cut with scissors. Or else they were made by a “mosquito” - a lever with a punch. The work went like this: the saw is pulled through one tooth - the punch works, falls. He bit like a mosquito. In ancient times, the saw was fired by immersing it in hot sand. And then the sand seemed to be sawn. And they got a good hardening and beautiful colour metal. There are references to the saw in myths. The ancients believed that the son of Daedalus' sister Perdix invented the compasses and the saw, arousing the envy of his compatriots to such an extent that he was thrown from the Acropolis. However, the gods managed to turn the innocent inventor into a bird on the fly.
The very first sawmills driven by water date back to the fourth century. They were brought in by savvy people, as if in Germany. In Norway, for example, sawmills appeared in the 16th century. England acquired saw mills even later to strengthen her industrial power. .But the first steam saw was launched by an Englishman, At the very beginning of the last century. By the way, a circular saw, or, as it is called, a “circular saw”, was invented two hundred years ago.
When did the saw become “Russified” by coming to the aid of the ax? Peter's decree "On accustoming lumberjacks to sawing firewood" is known. The saw saved not only work time but also wood. Indeed, they cut down the forest - the chips fly. And these are considerable expenses, up to 25 percent of the wood goes to waste. And Peter's decree was also about the preparation of boards. The need for building materials then increased: ships and cities were being built. In 1748, there was a czarist explanation: "To all landowners and other industrialists, try to prepare hand saws in advance." - And here is the official lament of 1756: "Not only saw water and windmills, but hand saws have not yet been started anywhere." As you can see, the ax assistant was slowly introduced into everyday life.
Saws were bought from Europeans, but they began to be made in Russia itself. Distributed to the peasants voluntarily-compulsorily. They took two rubles for them at once, and then demanded another penny from the soul while using them. The audit was carried out special teams. The Senate encouraged the construction of saw mills. At the end of the eighteenth century in the Vyatka province (in the forest region действовало более сорока лесопилок. На Урале железоделательные заводы тоже готовили для себя доски механическим способом. Ну, а в XIX веке пилы стали двигаться и силой пара. К середине прошлого века горные заводы вынуждены были относиться к лесам бережливее.!}
Zgatoustovsky and Botkinsky, the factories have launched the production of Peel. There were also locomobile wooden machines in use, but they were not so widespread. Lumberjacks were still given axes, not saws. It was the same at the beginning of this century - the glory of the ax has not faded to this day! In construction, it is indispensable. A Russian person with his help could make almost any thing out of wood. This is partly why, apparently, the “unnecessary” saw was so difficult to introduce. Moreover, as the old masters believed, it spoils the tree, cuts the fibers and from this the age of the wooden object is short. The boards used for roofing, chipped along the fibers, served many times longer than sawn ones ...