What Were The Clues In "The Usual Suspects"

Factual Questions
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Thought that after at least a year of lurking, I should perhaps make some posts.

Someone once told me that the film “The Usual Suspects” contained a number of subtle clues that enabled alert viewers to guess the ending before it became totally obvious from the messageboard. IIRC, they even claimed that some of these clues were only visible when watching the movie in widescreen.

What were the clues?

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SPOILER!!! This info assumes you have seen the movie and know the ending.

Well, one of the ‘clues’ was that when Verbal shoots the guy in the parking garage, he uses his ‘crippled’ hand (which, in the police station he couldn’t even use to light a cigarette).

btw, there are some problems about thread titles with quotation marks in them. Hopefully one of the mods can fix it.

–sublight.

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Also, a few hints can be found in the Internet Movie Database’s trivia pages.

–sublight.

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Hey staz, are you the Staz? The Staz from that Macintosh software company of the same name?

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My apologies for losing part of the title of the thread! I don’t know why I just don’t post a new thread entitled “I Am A Complete Computing Moron”.

Thanks for the tips.

friedo, I am not related to Staz Software. In fact, I hadn’t even heard of them until you posted that question. Staz is merely a nickname I had at school.

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When The Usual Suspects leave the jail for the first time, watch how Verbal holds his cigarette…very Hungarian-like.

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I haven’t watched my DVD in about a year, but I seem to recall that on the audio commentary, the writer and director point out that the “using the crippled hand to shoot in the garage” thing is a UL, and that Verbal didn’t use his crippled hand. Now I’ll have to go watch it again, poor me, eh?

I seem to recall that either the word Keyser or the word Soze means “talkative” in Hungarian, thus talkative = Verbal. But I won’t swear to this.

Great film.

Sir Rhosis

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Verbal Kint’s story of Kaysa Sousza’a past in Turkey was a fabrication. Clue: The film sequence accompanying Verbal’s voiceover contained a reference to the Antonio Banderas film, Desperado.