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"The Usual Suspects"


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"The Usual Suspects"
A look at how editing creates suspense and involves the viewer in the final sequence from the film "The Usual Suspects".
1,337 words (approx. 5.3 pages) | 0 sources | 2002 United Kingdom


Paper Summary:

This paper analyses the editing and suspense of the final sequence of the film "The Usual Suspects". It looks at Bryan Singer?s use of editing in order to create suspense by examing the scene, shot by shot. It also assesses each of the methods used such as cross-cutting, with a detailed look at desired effects and actual effects.

From the Paper:

"The cross-cutting of perspectives continues, Verbal limps and drags himself down the street; while the car driving slowly behind; and Kujan has reached the steps outside the police station. It is at this point when an attack from the trailing car is anticipated. Singer then stops the chase in its tracks to give his final, blatant clues to the audience. We cut between two perspectives. An objective view of Verbal's posture changing to prove he is not a cripple, the final part of his act; and a subjective POV shot in the police station viewing the fax containing a sketch of his face. The car then stops, verbal gets in, and they drive off. This is where our link with Kujan ends. He is given neither of these last two clues/facts within the film. His case is catch Keyser, and ours just figure out who Keyser is, to which Singer given us all the clues."

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APA Citation:

"The Usual Suspects" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.co.uk/Essay-The-Usual-Suspects/45844

MLA Citation:

""The Usual Suspects"" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.co.uk/Essay-The-Usual-Suspects/45844>




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Nov 21, 2003
I am currently in the last year of my degree in film studies, a subject i have been studying since A-level, and intend to study for at MA level next year. My current place of study, the Unveristy of Exeter, has a ever increasing reputation within the subject of film, and has also attracted, in recent years, a number of reknowned acamedic tutors.
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