Post by flummery on Mar 20, 2006 23:54:55 GMT -4
Came across this interview with Leigh Whannell, and it has a bit of detail about Zep on this page...
actionadventure.about.com/od/celebrityinterviews/a/102505whannell_4.htm
"Thinking back to Saw, what did Zep the orderly do that he didn’t appreciate life enough?
You’ve got to remember, in the editing of a film certain things get lost. It depends what you have time for. Zep was a guy who was this lowly guy on the hospital food chain who let himself get pushed around. Again, a backstory that I wrote down. You didn’t see it as much in the film, but I know it. He’s this friendless guy, lives on his own, has no relationships, he’s very awkward socially. This is the character of Zep so Jigsaw was kind of waking him up, giving him a little bit of power in a way. Zep was different to a lot of other players in the game, because he was helping Jigsaw in a way. In his mind, he believed he wasn’t a victim. He believed that he, even though he was to some degree, he believed that he’d been given some power. And Jigsaw, the villain, needs someone to help him. So that’s who Zep was."
It's probably not anything we at this board hadn't figured out already, but it's a nice confirmation of it.
actionadventure.about.com/od/celebrityinterviews/a/102505whannell_4.htm
"Thinking back to Saw, what did Zep the orderly do that he didn’t appreciate life enough?
You’ve got to remember, in the editing of a film certain things get lost. It depends what you have time for. Zep was a guy who was this lowly guy on the hospital food chain who let himself get pushed around. Again, a backstory that I wrote down. You didn’t see it as much in the film, but I know it. He’s this friendless guy, lives on his own, has no relationships, he’s very awkward socially. This is the character of Zep so Jigsaw was kind of waking him up, giving him a little bit of power in a way. Zep was different to a lot of other players in the game, because he was helping Jigsaw in a way. In his mind, he believed he wasn’t a victim. He believed that he, even though he was to some degree, he believed that he’d been given some power. And Jigsaw, the villain, needs someone to help him. So that’s who Zep was."
It's probably not anything we at this board hadn't figured out already, but it's a nice confirmation of it.
