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Line 1: {{work}} ''~~' ''~~[[The Spanish Prisoner~~'' '~~]]'' is a suspense/crime/mystery film written and directed by [[David Mamet]]. It revolves around Joe Ross, a researcher for an unnamed major company who's recently perfected an unspecified process which is worth a great deal of money. While on a business trip in the caribbean, he meets and befriends a wealthy traveller who offers to advise him and help him get a fair share of the profits. Shortly, however, he begins to question his new friend's motives and intentions. As in most Mamet stories, deceptions and cons pile up as both the protagonist and the audience try to figure out who's telling the truth, and who's part of a plot. ~~----~~ ~~=== This film provides examples of the following tropes: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler\|In multiple scenes throughout the movie, there are Japanese tourists in the background taking pictures. Everyone ignores them, in the end they turn out to be Federal Marshals who were following the whole plot.}} * [[Incurable Cough of Death\|Chekhov's Caugh]]: Joe's best friend, a lawyer, gets a cold that follows him throughout the movie. Subverted when {{spoiler\|he is found stabbed to death in the second act}} * [[The Con]]: Joe spends the whole film trying to figure out what con he's been a victim of. The titular "[[Spanish Prisoner]]" con is but one of many. * [[Didn't See That Coming]]: Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that {{spoiler\|Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on.}} * [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: {{spoiler\|By the end of the film, it's clear that almost literally no one but the protagonist has been telling the truth about anything. The whole thing has been a con within a con within a con.}} Line 20 ⟶ 17: ** {{spoiler\|Then subverted when we find out that Federal agents were following the case from the beginning.}} * [[Out-Gambitted]]: The plotters had a brilliantly detailed and multi-layered plan to get ahold of the process and leave Joe to take the fall. In the end {{spoiler\|the Feds were watching them the entire time and were just letting them proceed to gather evidence.}} * [[Spanish Prisoner]]: [[The Con]] for which the movie is named. The film includes a detailed explanation of this con, the purpose of which exposition is to disguise the fact that it is ''not'' the con being performed. * [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]: {{spoiler\|Joe is saved at the end by Japanese tourists who are in actuality U.S. Marshals.}} Line 25 ⟶ 23: [[Category:The Spanish Prisoner]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Prisoner, The}}