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{{quote|"My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the [[Shout
''Inside Man'' is a 2006 thriller [[Heist Film]] directed by [[Spike Lee]] about a [[Bank Robbery]]. What seems like a normal hostage-taking robbers versus police siege scenario soon becomes complicated by the unexpected involvement of the bank's owner.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Dalton delivers the [[Opening Monologue]] straight to the audience.
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: During the interrogation, a kid says, to the amusement of Frazier and his partner, that he wasn't scared by the bank robbers with automatic weapons; he's from ''Brooklyn''.
** Late in the movie Frazier's partner advises him to go after his accusers "[[The Godfather
* [[The Caper]]
* [[Caper Rationalization]]: {{spoiler|They're "robbing" the bank to expose the fact that Arthur Case was a financial supporter of Adolf Hitler during World War II. The actual robbery is secondary.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Case}}
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Chal chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya..." (Keep in mind, the man responsible for this [[Ear Worm]] is A.R. Rahman, who won two Oscars and a Golden Globe for his work on [[Slumdog Millionaire]].)
* [[Deal
* [[Diagonal Billing]]: See the page image for an interesting example.
* [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]]: The thieves make the hostages wear the same uniform as them, but with the full knowledge of the police outside. This keeps the police from interfering at first. {{spoiler|It also lets most of the robbers blend into the crowd of freed hostages and escape after the robbery is complete.}}
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Russell's plan involves knowing everything that could happen (it borders on [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]).
* [[Guile Hero]]: Frazier is pretty damn close. Russell flat out says it: "You're too smart to be a cop."
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Frazier's partner is [[Serenity
* [[Hired Guns]]: Madeline is the political variant that will work for anyone, so long as they pay.
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: Not quite the simple [[Bank Robbery]] it seemed at first.
* [[Lost in
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: White, Russell.
* [[Never Hurt an Innocent]]: {{spoiler|The robbers. They threaten repeatedly to kill someone and at one point appear to have shot someone, but it's all just an act to keep everyone guessing.}}
** They don't seem to have any qualms about {{spoiler|''beating up'' the hostages, though some of this, too, may have also been playacting.}}
* [[New York City Cops]]
* [[Noble Bigot
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The female bank robber uses this.
* [[Opening Monologue]]: Covers the ''who'', ''where'', ''what'', ''when'', ''why'', and sets up the ''how''. {{spoiler|By the end you realize that this could count as a subversion: it's more misleading than informative.}}
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