I also believe that Keaton was involved because he knew he could pin everything on him. He knew the cops hated Keaton and Kujan would specifically want to nail him for this crime, as he was the one to arrest him at the New York lineup. I believe his intentions for spinning this story to Kujan was just for amusement purposes. He even tells a story about how Keaton and the boys brought down corrupt cops just to stick it to them.
The Usual Suspects is a clever film that gives the audience clues from start to finish but still manages to leave us all stunned with the final reveal. The Usual Suspects is available to stream on Amazon Prime. Stream it here. Spent most of my life in various parts of Illinois, including attending college in Evanston.
I have been a life long lover of pop culture, especially television, turned that passion into writing about all things entertainment related. When I'm not writing about pop culture, I can be found channeling Gordon Ramsay by kicking people out the kitchen. Jerrica Tisdale. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Baldwin even admitted he bullied Pollak on the set to establish their character's onscreen tension. The role of Fenster was originally written for an older, veteran character actor, like Harry Dean Stanton.
When Benicio Del Toro was cast, he altered the role entirely by making his thick accent nearly unintelligible. In the DVD commentary, it is revealed that Del Toro deliberately made all of Fenster's dialogue nearly inaudible because his character's only function in the film was to die as a warning for the other characters. Therefore, Del Toro determined his dialogue was entirely irrelevant.
The other actors were encouraged to improvise responses to Fenster's lines. To maintain the air of mystery, Bryan Singer led all five main actors to believe they were playing the role of Keyser Soze while filming The Usual Suspects. Upon screening the film for the first time, Gabriel Byrne was so shocked to learn that his character Dean Keaton was not Keyser Soze that he exited the theater in a fit of rage and began arguing with Singer in the parking lot for 30 minutes. Another way Singer maintained the mysterious nature of Soze's identity was to have five different actors portray him in the film.
Both Kevin Spacey and Gabriel Byrne's are shown in Soze's clothing, while a key grip was chosen for the Hungarian flashback scenes because of his distinctly powerful arms. In addition, composer John Ottman's hand is used for the close-up of Soze lighting a cigarette, and Bryan Singer's feet are used in the tight shot of Soze's shoes.
The most iconic quote in The Usual Suspects is the final line spoken by Keyser Soze: "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Neither the writer nor the director was aware at the time.
Bryan Singer designed The Usual Suspects for viewers to find clues upon repeat viewings. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Following a truck hijack in New York, five criminals are arrested and brought together for questioning.
As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist. Crime Drama Mystery Thriller. Rated R for violence and a substantial amount of strong language. Did you know Edit. Trivia When Redfoot flicks his cigarette into the face of McManus, it was originally intended to hit his chest, so McManus' reaction is actually Stephen Baldwin 's real unscripted reaction, which Bryan Singer decided to keep in the movie.
Goofs When Kobayashi enters the lift with his two bodyguards, Macmanus shoots them. In the next shot we see that Macmanus is sitting on top of the elevator. But the blood of the two bodyguards splashes on the elevator window which in fact should have splashed on the ground since the shots came from above.
It can be argued that the blood splashed in all direction and hence came on the window, but Kobayashi who is standing just next to those bodyguards doesn't even have a drop on him. Quotes [last lines] Verbal : After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. Crazy credits The editor, John Ottman, edited the movie on film.
He felt that all the editing done electronically at the time was horrible because all the good editors were still working on film which is much more difficult. Alternate versions The Australian television version left the line-up scene unedited for language. However, all other scenes with strong language, such as McManus's call for payback at the discovery of Finster's body, were shortened or removed. User reviews 1.
Top review. Better than the sum of its parts. The Usual Suspects is two movies in one. Enjoyable the first time you watch it, even more enjoyable the second time round. It requires a certain amount of commitment, though. Be warned, if you stop concentrating for a moment then the remaining running time of the movie will be spent trying to figure out how what you missed has lead to what you are now watching.
It concerns the story of five felons brought in by the police for a line-up and how those same felons reluctantly end up working for the mysterious and ghost-like Keyser Soze: a legend among the criminal fraternity, a man who no-one has seen and lived, a man so dangerous that he is thought to be the devil himself. The plot is rather intricate so I shan't bother to explain it here but it does rather make me think that Christopher McQuarrie, the writer, kept going to the office in the morning with yet another complexity to add that he thought up the night before.
That's not to say it doesn't work, far from it, but it does leave you reeling from the sheer amount of information and names thrown at you from the offset.
0コメント