The Usual Suspects: Difference between revisions

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** Where's the cocaine?

** Where did the van with all the money go {{spoiler|after Hockney gets shot?}}

* [[All There Is to Know About The Crying Game]]

* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]

* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Kobayashi

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|All but one of the Suspects die in the final shootout, but Fenster dies before the third act.}}

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* [[Conveniently Cellmates]]: The main characters first meet in a jail cell, and this is revealed to be part of Keyser Söze's plot.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Screenwriter Chris McQuarrie is one of the cops conducting the line-up -- he ad-libs the "English, please" remark to Fenster when Benicio del Toro mumbles his line.

* [[Dead Man Switch]]: Kobayashi lets the protagonists know that if he dies under suspicious circumstances, his boss Keyser Söze will immediately know who did it and take revenge on them and their families. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance]] of course as Keyser is Kint so it's not just a bluff. He'll know because he's there.}}

* [[Dead-Man Switch]]: Kobayashi lets the protagonists know that if he dies under suspicious circumstances, his boss Keyser Söze will immediately know who did it and take revenge on them and their families. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance]] of course as Keyser is Kint so it's not just a bluff. He'll know because he's there.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hockney.

{{quote| '''Cop:''' We can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.<br />

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* [[The Faceless]]

* [[Faking the Dead]]: Keaton is infamous within the New York underworld for having done this to dodge a murder rap.

* [[Five Man Band]]/[[Five Bad Band]]

* [[Five-Man Band]]/[[Five-Bad Band]]

** [[The Hero]]: Keaton, who Verbal admires and turns into the main character and cool-headed leader of the Suspects during his flashbacks.

** [[The Lancer]]: McManus, the hotheaded, impulsive opposite of Keaton, and, as Verbal tells it, the initial leader of the Suspects.

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* [[Kill Them All]]: In the end {{spoiler|all the suspects except for Verbal die -- though this is more or less hinted at in the first scene of the movie, almost making it a Foregone Conclusion.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Fenster. Del Toro basically added this characterization himself. The character on the page was pretty flat nondescript.

* [[Line of Sight Name]]: {{spoiler|Many details from Verbal's story turn out to be taken from objects in the room. Verbal is seen looking around the room before his interrogation, and a later shot even shows him looking up at the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup.}}

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: {{spoiler|Many details from Verbal's story turn out to be taken from objects in the room. Verbal is seen looking around the room before his interrogation, and a later shot even shows him looking up at the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup.}}

* [[Living Legend]]: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

* [[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.}}

* [[~~Names~~ the Same]]: Almost: FBI agent [[Twenty Four|Jack Bayer]].

* [[Name's the Same]]: Almost: FBI agent [[Twenty Four|Jack Bayer]].

* [[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}}

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* [[Seamless Spontaneous Lie]]: {{spoiler|The entire movie is one long example.}}

* [[Scheherezade Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Verbal/Söze uses his tale-spinning talent to outwit his captors.}}

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Connections]]: Söze is able to manipulate law enforcement agencies to a truly disturbing extent. {{spoiler|Despite admitting (as Verbal Kint) to a raft of crimes, the most the police can hit him with is a minor weapons charge. Rabin says he's "protected from up on high by the prince of darkness." Later on, Kint's story includes Kobayashi saying that Söze arranged the line up to gather up the five crooks whose crimes had interfered with Söze and get them to repay their "debt".}}

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Söze is able to manipulate law enforcement agencies to a truly disturbing extent. {{spoiler|Despite admitting (as Verbal Kint) to a raft of crimes, the most the police can hit him with is a minor weapons charge. Rabin says he's "protected from up on high by the prince of darkness." Later on, Kint's story includes Kobayashi saying that Söze arranged the line up to gather up the five crooks whose crimes had interfered with Söze and get them to repay their "debt".}}

* [[Self Proclaimed Liar]]: Verbal is not only an admitted con artist, but there are several scenes where he will say something Kujan doubts, admit to lying, and then revise his story.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|The end reveals that Verbal Kint's story, which comprises the bulk of the film, is a fabrication}}.