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"]]

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

* [[Ax Crazy]]: The backstory for Keyser Söze told by Kint portrays Söze as this.

** 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.}}

* [[Gangsta Style]]: How Söze finishes off {{spoiler|Keaton}}. Hockney also holds his gun to one side in a scene, which is a [[Red Herring]].

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Several, mostly done quite artfully.

** During the jewel heist, McManus aims two pistols and gets kill shots on two different targets who are both grappling with his accomplices, after clearly concentrating hard, ''and'' waiting for a clean pair of shots.

** Keaton uses two pistols during the climax, but again it is handled fairly realistically, as he mostly uses the two guns at very close range, and when he gets a moment to catch his breath and move on he only uses one gun.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: McManus pulls off a few impressive shots, notably the one during the jewel heist.

* [[Indy Ploy]]: {{spoiler|The whole movie is a story Söze pulls out of his ass when he's stuck in police custody.}}

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Keyser Söze}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Saying Too Much]]: {{spoiler|If you listen closely during the final interrogation, Verbal actually says, "I did kill Keaton," but neither the detective nor the audience pick up on it.}}

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

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

{{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."}}

* [[You All Meet in a Cell]]