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The Usual Suspects

(book in English)

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by Ernest Larson

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > The Usual Suspects
Keywords: Bryan Singer
Publishing Date: 2001
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Modern Classics
Language: English

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Paperback • 96 pages • ? €
5.5 x 7.5 inches (14 x 19 cm)
Also available as an eBook.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-85170-869-2
978-0-85170-869-0

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The Usual Suspects (1995) captivated audiences, a heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Christopher McQuarrie) and Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Spacey). Co-starring with Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite, Spacey plays Verbal Kint, one of a group of talented thieves whose high-stakes operation puts them in confrontation with a mastermind personification of evil – Keyser Soze.

Time has seen The Usual Suspects’ reputation grow and it’s now a major cult movie. But critical views were mixed when the film was first released. Ernest Larsen takes this critical resistance as his starting point. In a wide-ranging study Larsen examines the film’s sophisticated narrative structure and the new spin it puts on older genre conventions and themes. The upshot is a fascinating account of a film whose technical accomplishment and fine ensemble acting have made it an undisputed modern classic of American cinema.

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