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## Contents Acknowledgments 6 1 Off-screen, behind the Scenes 7 2 Heist Noir 23 3 On the Side of a Bus 53 4 The Shattered Coffee-cup 75 Notes 89 Credits 91 1 Off-screen, behind the Scenes Bryan Singer, who directed The Usual Suspects, prodded its scriptwriter Christopher McQuarrie to produce something like nine rewrites before he was satisfied that the story they'd developed was airtight. At the front of each version of the script, according to Singer, they 'put a quote from "Sympathy for the Devil": "Please allow me to introduce myself / hope you guess my name. But what is bothering you / is the nature of my game."' 1 In the scene that introduces the finished film just such a crucial guess is made. The rest of the film proceeds to spell out the nature of the game. The first shot, following the credits and a title ('San Pedro, California -last night'), is an extreme close-up of an open matchbook set aflame. A cranked audio track makes the sudden flash sound like an The opening conflagration A light dawns in this stricken man's eyes. He says, 'Can't feel my legs ... Keyser', enunciating the name as if for the first time. His paralysis is set off against this mysterious source of pow

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Author

Ernest Larsen; British Film Institute

Publisher

The British Film Institute

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781839020742

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (192 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14