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    crime-lord (Keyser Soze) and an explosion on a boat. This analysis will examine the concluding sequence of the film with particular focus on the use of editing and sound. After Detective

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    mastermind called Keyser Söze is felt. The film starts out with a flashback on a ship, where one of the conmen, Dean Keaton, portrayed by Gabriel Byrne, encounters the infamous Keyser Söze, and gets killed by him. As the film progresses over the history of events that occurred, it becomes clear that each one of the conmen has wronged Söze at some point and Söze is out to seek repayment. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser

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    and accepting his actual way of life as Keyser Söze, curve criminal. Keyser Soze comes out as the unseen antagonist in The Usual Suspects a film that pulls together Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey and a tier-two Baldwin brother in a pretty good piece of cinema. The film revolves around a group of criminals everything from crooked cops to killers to con men who are blackmailed into attacking a drug ship for a legendary figure called Keyser Soze. We never see Soze: he acts through his lawyer instead. The

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    The Usual Suspects Evaluation The Usual Suspects begins at a crime scene, where a large barge has just exploded in San Pedro, California, leaving 27 dead, a sole survivor who is terribly burned, and $91 million worth of “dope” inexplicably missing. A police detective named Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) quickly seeks out the witnesses to the explosion and the key suspect, Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). Verbal retells the events leading up to the barge incident, beginning with the truck containing gun

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    “The Usual Suspects” movie, directed by Bryan Singer, in a plot twist ending, exposed to its audience that it was most ‘unusual’ suspect’, who was “the devil”. A character branded as stupid and crippled was revealed to be Keyser Soze, the character who kills his own kids and wife to show the mob who is in control. Not to mention that he also kills members of the mob and their kids, parents, and friends; burned down their houses; and the people who owed them money. He’s an immoral criminal lord but

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    The Usual Respect Essay

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    being questioned separately they meet up in the cells and discuss doing a job that McManus had heard about. They do this job and another and afterwards are approached by Kobayashi and told that they must complete a job for his boss Keyser Soze (a Hungarian gangster with legendary status is the underworld), the standard shadowy figure often used in the genre. The group is reluctant to do the job an almost suicidal mission to steal dope worth $91 million from a heavily

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    other characters. An example of this is when Keyser Söze comes to kill Dean Keaton during the very first scene of the movie. After shooting Keaton once in the back, Söze walks up to him as he lays on the floor. As he lights a cigarette, the light from the flame illuminates his face just enough for Dean to realize who he was all along. Another big part of lighting is visual sparsity, which is employed during this scene as we have no idea who Keyser Söze is at this

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    reluctant leader of the group the only one who knew what Verbal was capable of. Verbal often turned to him for help such as defending his idea for the taxi heist, surprisingly Keaton actually respected Verbal the most, answering his questions of Keyser Soze and choosing him to

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    The Usual Suspects

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    No one in the world knows who is Keyesr Söze. This makes you think how this could be good when you don’t know who is the devil. Also, make you think if one of the four who were with Verbal was Keyesr. The trick is that people didn’t see him or know if he was existent or not. They could work for

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    In this film, Kint uses Kujan’s belief about Keaton’s involvement in the crime and convinces him the unreal “truth” that Keaton is Keyser Soze. From the start of the interrogation, Kujan has stated that “(he is) smarter than (Kint), (and he) will find out what (he) want to know” (42), and Kint has already managed to bring Keaton, the man who Kujan “has been investigating…for three years”

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