The Usual Suspects: Difference between revisions

* [[Bad Boss]]: Söze's minions are disposable, and his enemies...

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:

** Those who speak Hungarian get to hear a cut off joke from Hockney finished by two Hungarian mooks later in the film.

** Speakers of Turkish get a hint at a major spoiler, as Söze is Turkish for {{spoiler|"talks too much"}}.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: {{spoiler|Agent Kujan. His constant flaunting of his intelligence to Verbal returns to bite him in the ending.}}

* [[Clueless Mystery]]

* [[Consummate Liar]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint A.K.A. Keyser Söze. The Mind Screw really sets in when you realize that everything you think you know about Keyser Söze comes from Keyser Söze. Then there's the fact that Keyser Söze was essentially screwed as he was being questioned about Keyser Söze and had to come up with a story on the spot. It goes to show how smooth an operator Verbal is when he is able to grab names and details from wanted posters in the room he's being questioned in and get the agent he's talking to to buy it hook, line and sinker. Not to mention the discipline and mental awareness to maintain an awkward limp and hand posture; just one slip and he'd have a much more difficult story to explain.}}

* [[Lost in Translation]]: In-film example. {{spoiler|The Hungarian translator the cops get, who speaks it with a strong American accent and thus isn't a native, mishears one word he translates as "package" instead of "guy" because it's native Hungarian slang. The sentence thus reads "We picked up a package" instead of "We picked up a guy".}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|Keyser Söze is speculated to be German or Turkish. Kaiser, a homonym of Keyser, is the German word for emperor, and Söze means "talks too much" in Turkish, making Keyser Söze "Emperor Talks Too Much," a hint that he is "Verbal" Kint, who says he's accused of talking too much.}}

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Some early trailers for the film implied that the main characters, in a combination of self-preservation and [[Even Evil Has Standards|horror at Keyser Söze's activities]], were banding together to take him down.

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint}}

* [[Two Aliases One Character]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint/Keyser Söze}}

* [[The Unfettered]]: Keyser Soze.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Keyser Söze himself killing his wife and child to stop the home invaders from using them as hostages, then killing all but one of the invaders (so he'd go tell his associates), then going out and killing everyone connected with the people who did the home invasion of his house, including people whose only connection was that that owed money to them or had dealings with them.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Verbal. {{spoiler|Kujan constantly accuses him of lying, and ultimately Verbal confirms Kujan's preconceived notion that Keaton was Keyser Söze. Of course, Verbal wanted him to think that all along.}} Also, {{spoiler|Kint narrates things he wasn't actually there to see. Unless he was Soze.}}

* [[Urban Legends]]: Keyser Söze himself is one.

{{quote| "He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. 'Rat on your pop, and Keyser Söze will get you.' And no one ever really believes."}}

 

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