Saw II

. On WC's song "The Streets" from his Ghetto Heisman album, he and Snoop Dogg rap about the C-walk's popularity in the mainstream, warning suburban teenagers and other non-gang members that it is a dance for Crips only. (disputed — see talk page). It is said that the popular hip-hop dance, the C-walk (Crip-walk), is meant to spell out one's set as an insult to rival gangs. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Although some argue that he depended on a significant amount of uncuntrolable events to happen, that is not the case because as we later learn it was all a recording and he knew before the cops arrived what was going on. Ice Cube has at times claimed to be a member of the Rollin' 100s Nhood Crips, even though he has no proven ties to this gang (aside from the fact that he is from the same area), and Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy has also claimed to be a Crip in some songs (also without any proof).
Even more so than then the previous film, Jigsaw's diabolic "games" require a large amount of planning, causing some film critics to liken his murderous schemes to Rube Goldberg machines. However, there are also many rappers who are not members of Crips sets, yet take on traits of the Crip image and behavior because they hope to self-promote and sell records by doing so.

Jigsaw is shown, still sitting in Matthew's van, badly beaten but smiling. Recently signed G-Unit rapper Spider Loc is a member of the 97th Street East Coast Crips. Matthews, chained to a pipe, is left in the room alone only with the light from his flashlight and his gun now just out of reach. The late N.W.A member Eazy-E reportedly had ties to the Kelly Park Compton Crips. "Game over," she says, iterating Jigsaw's catchphrase. Snoop Dogg is a former member of the Rollin' 20 Crips in Long Beach (as are Warren G, Nate Dogg, and Goldie Loc), while WC has an affiliation with the 111 Neighborhood Crips in South Central Los Angeles. Matthews then watches helplessly as Amanda closes the door on him. County.

In a series of flashbacks we understand why Jigsaw was happy to sit back while Matthews tore his work up and see that Amanda was the one who brought Daniel back to be placed in the safe. Many popular rappers, in particular West Coast rappers, have close ties to Crips gangs in L.A. Playing the tape, Matthews learns that Amanda has become Jigsaw's protégé and has now taken his place. There have been many different explanations for the origin of the name of the gang:. When Matthews wakes up, he finds an audio cassette player lying next to him. Methods such as the use of college sport team jerseys and hats are sometimes used, but in general, what set a certain gang member claims can be determined solely by their tattoos. He had been there already when the SWAT team came into the building and found Jigsaw, two hours earlier; had Matthews followed the rules to Jigsaw's "game", he would have found his son "in a safe, secure place" just as Jigsaw had told him. In more recent years, however, the Crips have begun to cease the use of colors as a means of identification, since it is likely to draw attention from police.

The timer in the room at Wilson Steel expires and a safe across the room opens to reveal Daniel, wearing an oxygen mask, weary but alive. They usually refer derisively to their rival, the Bloods, as "slobs.". The attacker removes the mask, it is Amanda. Crips also wear blue bandanas and British Knights sport shoes (using the company moniker BK, which the Crips use as a backronym meaning "Blood Killas"). Matthews drops to the floor. The SGCs are seperated into three sub-sets, the nine;139th street, the Foe;134th street, and the deuce;132nd street in the city of Gardena, California and have been known to wear dark-green, the city color of Gardena, in addition to blue to show that the Shotgun Crips are from Gardena. He approaches cautiously, but the person inside, wearing the same animal mask from the first film, leaps up and stabs him in the leg with a syringe. A particular set of Crips, the Grape Street Crips, have been known to wear purple in addition to blue.

Matthews gets into the darkened bathroom, and sees someone lying in the bathtub. One suggested origin of the selected color is traced to the school colors of Washington High School in South L.A. A shot of a syringe here explains how Daniel has survived the exposure to gas. For many years, Crips were characterized by their tendency to wear blue in order to easily identify each other. Meanwhile Detective Matthews enters through a back door, finds the open trapdoor and goes down to search for Daniel. Though violence levels have been reduced somewhat after the conclusion of this peace treaty, gangland killings and warfare persist in heavily gang-controlled areas. We now know how Jigsaw was able to say 'I haven't looked at the monitors for a while but I assume [Daniel] is still sitting in a corner...'. To stem violence between the Crips and Bloods, a peace treaty was recently negotiated, most notably in Watts, the treaty being largely based upon the ideals laid forth by original Crip co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams in his "Tookie Protocol For Peace".

For Kerry and the movie audience it turns out that, as mentioned above, the images on the monitors, shown in the movie in parallel with the events filmed by the video cameras, were not a live feed, but were showing a recording of earlier events, and that the broadcast location where the SWAT team has arrived is not the location where the events have taken place. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the Crips developed intricate networks and a respected reputation with other gangs across America and neighboring countries. While the SWAT team enters what they and Kerry assume to be the same house, Kerry is watching the monitors, confused that the cameras aren't showing them in the house. The Crips made enormous profits from selling crack and gathered the capital to advance themselves in the illicit markets. He moves in to kill Amanda, Daniel suddenly jumps forward, crushing Xavier's ankle and, using the hacksaw from the first movie, slits Xavier's throat, killing him. Now cheap, the Crips could market the highly addictive recreational substance to lower income brackets. Xavier, now insane from the poison, takes his knife and slices a section of skin off the back of his neck. Previously the only available form was an expensive powder; leading to the traditional use of cocaine as a status symbol for the wealthy hedonist.

Amanda tells Xavier that Daniel is dead and that if he kills her, he won't be able to find out the number on his own neck. It was invented by deriving a cheaper process to extract the stimulant from the coca plant. Lawrence Gordon's severed foot are still there, in a state of advanced decay and covered with fungus and mold. In the 1980s, Crips moved into crack sales, a cheaper form of the drug cocaine. The bodies of Adam and Zep, and Dr. Contrary to popular misconception, Crip sets do not feud solely with Bloods, but also other Crip sets — for example, the Rollin' 60s and 83rd Street Gangster Crips ("Eight-Trey") have been rivals since 1979, and their rivalry is currently the largest in L.A. He follows them, cornering them in the infamous bathroom from the first movie. In response, some of the besieged smaller gangs formed an alliance that later became the Bloods.

They go through the hatch just as Xavier breaks through. The Crips became popular throughout southern Los Angeles as more and more youth gangs joined it; at one point they outnumbered non-Crip gangs by 3 to 1. Amanda pushes aside the safe, revealing a trap door underneath. Stanley "Tookie" Williams co-founded the gang in 1971, and started his own gang called the Westside Crips. Amanda and Daniel retreat to the first room as Xavier tries breaking through the door to get at them. The name stuck. He finds the dead bodies of the victims littered throughout the rooms. The name Crips was first introduced in the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper in a description by crime victims of young men with canes, as if they were crippled (though there is some discussion that it may have initially been a simple spelling mistake).

Matthews gets inside, still believing that the video images were live. This evolved to Avenue Cribs and then Cribs as nicknames for the age of the members. Jigsaw gives Matthews the key to get inside. The original name of the gang founded by Raymond Washington in 1969 at the age of 15 was the Baby Avenues, derived from a gang of older boys in the 1960s, named the Avenue Boys with their turf on Central Avenue in East Los Angeles. Jigsaw shows Matthews the house in which the events has taken place. Law enforcement officials dispute this, pointing to the incredible amount of violent crimes the gang members participated in, even in the early years. Almost immediately after this, the police finally locate the broadcast location of the video feed and take off for that location. Williams argued that this was after the two became fed up with random violence in their neighborhood.

Without telling his team, Matthews leaves with Jigsaw in his van. The Crips were founded by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. Xavier reads her number and leaves her to die in the contraption. . She discovers too late that the blades are arranged similar to a Chinese finger trap, preventing her from removing her arms once inside; the edges dig deeper into her flesh the harder she pulls. They are also known to feud with Chicano gangs. On the underside of the box are two holes just wide enough to put one's arms through, once pushed past the blades covering them. The gang has an intense rivalry with the Bloods.

While pursuing Amanda and Daniel, Xavier comes across Addison who has fallen victim to another of Jigsaw's contraptions - a glass box suspended from the ceiling that contains an antidote. New York) where "satellite" Crip gangs are present. She goes back to rescue Daniel. The gang is largely composed of African Americans, but is multiracial in many cities (i.e. Amanda finds Jonas's body and realizes Xavier means to kill them all. What was once a single gang is now a loose network of "franchises" around the United States and Canada. The effects of the toxin are starting to become more severe, and Laura succumbs to the nerve gas. The Crips are mostly identified by the blue color worn by their members.

Addison finds a picture concealing a photo of Daniel and Matthews together, marked "Father and son"; this may make the others hate Daniel for being the son of the cop who framed them all. They are involved in murders, robberies and drug dealing in the Los Angeles area. He kills Jonas by hitting his head with a club with large nails sticking out, and then goes after the others. The Crips, originating in Los Angeles, California, are one of the oldest and most notorious African American gangs in the United States. These numbers are supposed to be the combination to the safe in the first room which holds an antidote. WC (111 Neighborhood Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. The different colors represent colors of the rainbow and putting them in the order of the rainbow will unlock the safe. Warren G (Rollin' 20 Crips) ^{[citation needed]}.

It's in the back of all your minds.". Tray Deee (Insane Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. In the house, for the movie audience seemingly meanwhile, Xavier has snapped and is trying the kill his fellow captives to retrieve the different colored numbers written on the back of their necks (the answer to Jigsaw's cryptic clue "You all possess the combination. Spider Loc (97th Street East Coast Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. Savagely beaten and battered by Matthews, Jigsaw utters his "Game over," catchphrase and finally agrees to take Matthews to the house, but only if he can take him alone. Snoop Dogg (Rollin' 20 Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. After growing tired of listening to Jigsaw and helplessly watching one captive after another die while the timer runs down, Matthews finally snaps and unleashes his rage on the old man. Nate Dogg (Rollin 20 Crips) ^{[citation needed]}.

Daniel helps Amanda out of the pit. MC Eiht (Tragniew Park Compton Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. The door's timer expires, sealing the door forever. Jayo Felony (NHC 47 Blocc Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. He races to the lock but fumbles with it. Eazy-E (Kelly Park Compton Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. Stabbed with dozens of needles, Amanda finally finds it and gives it to Xavier. Daz Dillinger (Rollin' 20 Crips) ^{[citation needed]}.

Xavier grabs Amanda and throws her into the pit, yelling at her to dig through them to find the key. Brotha Lynch Hung (Garden Blocc 24th Street Crips) ^{[citation needed]}. The message says a key is in the pit that will open a door concealing another antidote. Some alleged backronyms for the name include:. Daniel pulls back a sheet to reveal a pit full of syringes. Mis-pronounciation of "The Crypts.". On the tape, Jigsaw condemns him for his life as a drug pusher and states that if he wants to escape, he must wallow in the filth that he made others wallow in. Crip or crib originates from the carrying of a cane or stick — Los Angeles Times 14 April 1992: "Word spread about the tough-looking young men, who some said carried canes and walked with a limp — cripples, or crips, they were called for short.".

Forcing open a door into another room, the captives find another tape, this one marked for Xavier. The most well-known theories tie the current name with "crib" or "crib street" (alluding to an actual street or the young age of the members at the time of the gang's founding). Henceforth, Jigsaw resolved to test the human ability to overcome great suffering in order to save his or her life. However, Jigsaw survived the suicide attempt, despite severe injuries. Through a series of flashbacks, Jigsaw is revealed to be a terminal cancer patient, who attempted suicide by driving his car of a cliff.

Matthews is on the verge of cracking, but decided he has no other choice but to hear Jigsaw out. All the while, the timer is ticking away in the room with the monitors. The game is simple, he just has to sit with Jigsaw--by himself--and listen to what he has to say. The Jigsaw killer insists that Matthews has to play a game to save his son.

Obi is burned to death before they can get him out, and both antidotes are lost. Obi climbs inside to retrieve them, the door closes and the furnace ignites. Laura finds another door which leads to the basement, with another tape marked for Obi which reveals how he had assisted Jigsaw to get the others in the house and explaining that there are two antidote syringes inside a large furnace in the room. The terrified captives begin to explore the house.

Amanda reveals to the others that she has had to play one of Jigsaw's games before, and pleads with them that they have to follow his "rules". The gun discharges into Gus's eye, killing him. The lock is rigged to fire a gun pointing directly at the eyehole. The key has a note warning them not to use it to open the door in the room, but Xavier ignores the message, and turns the key in the lock while Gus looks through the eyehole.

Amanda, (a survivor from the original film) breaks through a loose section of a brick wall in the room they found themselves in, and finds a key and a tape recorder containing a taped message from Jigsaw explaining their predicament: they have been exposed to a deadly toxic nerve gas (specifically sarin, which Jigsaw himself references as having been used in the real-life gas attack on the Tokyo Subway) and will die within 2 hours unless they find the antidotes that are hidden around the house (they are given the clue that they all have the combination to the safe in the back of their mind, and that the combination can be found "over the rainbow"). The story switches to the captives in the house. The police also believe this. However, by showing those images in parallel with the events filmed by the video cameras, the movie suggests that it is a live video feed.

The images on the monitors are not a live feed, but are showing a recording of earlier events. He later notices that all other seven are people he has framed for crimes they did not commit. On one of the monitors, Matthews sees a room with eight people forced to play Jigsaw's latest game; among them is Matthews's own son, Daniel. As they start to take him away, he directs Matthews and the others to an adjoining room, which contains several monitors showing various rooms of a house, along with an electronic timer counting down from 2 hours.

Very ill due to his advanced stage cancer, he offers no further resistance as the SWAT team handcuffs him. After some of the accompanying SWAT team fall prey to one of Jigsaw's booby traps, they find Jigsaw. After his initial reluctance, his former partner, Kerry, finally convinces him to join the team entering the building to arrest Jigsaw. Detective Matthews is called to the scene, as the deceased was his informant, and discovers a message scrawled on the ceiling which reads, "Look Closer, Detective Matthews." Matthews spots an engraving on the metal contraption, and believes he knows where Jigsaw is - the Wilson Steel building.

The terrified man fails to extract the key in time and is killed. As he gets up from the chair, he triggers a timer built into the device. A scalpel has been left for the man to carve the key out from his eye socket, if he chooses to do so. The TV cuts to the man lying on an operating table with a shadowy figure standing over him, as Jigsaw tells him (and an x-ray photo confirms) that the key to unlock the device has been implanted behind his eye.

When the timer goes off, the device will snap closed, impaling the man's head with several sharp nails lining the inside of the device (like an iron maiden). Jigsaw's recorded message tells the man that as punishment for being a police informant, spying upon and betraying others, and for not appreciating life, he has to play Jigsaw's "game". A nearby TV turns on, showing the familiar "clown" figure Jigsaw employed in the first film. A device is secured around his neck.

The film starts off with a man waking up alone, seated in a chair in a grungy, sealed room.
. . Darren Lynn Bousman took over the directing duties of the film, and also co-wrote the story's script with Leigh Whannell, the original film's co-writer.

It was released in most parts of the world on October 28, 2005, but not released in Australia until November 17, 2005. Saw II is the sequel to the 2004 horror/splatter/thriller film Saw. Made for only $4 million, Saw 2 grossed over $116 million worldwide, which includes $87 million in the United States. One of the posters for the upcoming Scary Movie 4 (2006) parodied the "close-up on severed fingers" poster for this film.

Following the film's opening weekend gross of $31.5m, Lions Gate Films commissioned Saw III (which is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2006). The entire movie was shot in 25 days. The whole film was shot in one building. The original poster was used for most other countries, however.

A new poster was produced, still using the fingers but not explicitly showing that they're severed. In August 2005, the MPAA rejected the poster for Saw II which used two severed fingers to resemble "II" in the movie's title. Tagline: Oh yes...there will be blood.. Donnie Wahlberg as Erick Matthews.

Emmanuelle Vaugier as Addison. Shawnee Smith as Amanda. Glenn Plummer as Jonas. Tony Nappo as Gus.

Beverley Mitchell as Laura. Dina Meyer as Kerry. Erik Knudsen as Daniel Matthews. Franky G as Xavier.

John Fallon as Video Techie. Tim Burd as Obi. Tobin Bell as John/Jigsaw.