After Fenster dies, the suspects think they can threaten Kobayashi into releasing them from the deal. They kill two of his guards and then put a gun to his head. Who wrote the usual suspects? Christopher McQuarrie. What does Keyser Soze mean in Turkish? Meaning of both Kaiser and Soze names. Who dies in the usual suspects? How long is the usual suspects? Who is Mr Kobayashi? Kobayashi is a lawyer. What's the greatest trick the devil ever pulled? What is the Hungarian guy saying in The Usual Suspects?
Why did verbal kill Keaton? Member since October It's not even a particular way of speaking, it's just flatout a foreign accent.
Re: Kobayashi's accent by Stratego. No, there was no explanation during the film, the writer or director has stated that it's supposed to be a Japanese-Pakistani accent. I would say that it doesn't matter that it sounds like a made-up accent, as Kobayashi is basically made-up himself. Re: Kobayashi's accent by Horror-yo. No problem. It could very well be that Postlethwaite was just failing in his attempt at a Japanese accent, who knows.
But it's definitely a strange accent. That would be some epic instance of failure right there. The Jap accent is nothing like this! One of the ppl I know on Facebook is called 'Kobayashi' something. They just wanted him to stand out as much as possible, even if it meant not being in control totally of what they were doing. Kobayashi is such a strange character, that afterwards you think, "Why didn't I realise it was all made up?! That kinda settles it then.
Still might be fun to ignore that in a suspension of disbelief sorta as if it were edited out in a director's cut. I nearly subscribed earlier to post in the previous thread, but I decided against it because I would mostly have been yelling. What I wanted to say was being said, anyway. I managed to hold off until that damn mecha thread. Yeah, I dislike this interpretation. The whole thing is a movie, after all. Asking 'What really happened' is useless, because none of it did.
I choose to think that what Kint says is mostly true, except for the things we see to be lies. But that's one of many interpretations. I watched the movie several times , and that's the story I come away with. Others see it differently. Although now that I think about it I might not own it.
The Kobayashi-as-Soze interpretation is It's another interpretation. The bomb-shell to bring out in these discussions is the director's commentary on the DVD, which has both Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie the writer.
It's obvious to them that Kint is Soze. I really think they had no idea how many arguments on the internet they were going to spark when they made the movie. It's kind of dismaying, actually, because I don't think they realized how cool a movie they were making.
I'm afraid it might not have been this cool on purpose. But that doesn't make dennil's interpretation bad , it just doesn't jive with the creators'. This comic sums up my feelings on the topic more succinctly than I can. You can interpret a piece of artwork any way you want to, and as long as it's relevant to you , it's a fine interpretation.
I once wrote an essay on Moby Dick where I argued that the reason it's considered a great book, and the reason that any great work is considered great, is because they're open to such introspective interpretation. Not to say that Usual Suspects is on the same level at all, but it wouldn't be nearly as interesting if it wasn't written the way it was. I don't understand these threads. It's a smart and well-played movie, but I never thought there was much room for speculation at the end.
Kobayashi doesn't look like the police drawing that the witness gave them of Soze. Kint does. I get to see a lot of movies from my local library. Sometimes I even check out books. Anyway I think LordFrith says how I view the story. Verbal's account isn't what actually happened.
Even without that 'ending' it was an interesting action film. The 'ending' gave it a nice twist. Just to add, my friends and I who had the disagreement about the interpretation all watched the movie together when we couldn't settle it any other way with the director's commentary, and there was nothing in it that helped either way.
IIRC, it was mostly the director reminiscing about how the scenes were filmed and what the people were like. I don't remember much about the actual plot being discussed. But it was a long time ago, maybe there was something about the interpretation brought up by the OP.
Although I don't remember any disagreement that presupposed that Verbil wasn't Keyser. I think we all thought that was pretty clear. I always liked the idea that the story of Soze is a fabrication on the part of Kint. That is, Kint is Soze, but Kint has invented the persona of Soze in order to deflect blame, distract the police, and scare his enemies.
Then Kint switches back and forth between his two personae as needed. I always assumed that Kint isn't Soze in the sense of the villain, but mostly just a very smart con-man and thief who uses psychology against people.
I think there isn't a correct interpretation. The film doesn't contain the 'answer' so interpretations are all you'll ever have. This is why people can never agree on this issue. Much like in Ocean's Eleven when thingybob says "and I owe you, about the thing, with the guy, at the place? That you're party to a bigger story of which you're witness to only a part.
It's a way to give more depth to the characters you're following - ie fleshing out the narrative. It's also a dirty rotten tease! I too want to watch The Usual Suspects again though. In my case, because the infamous cover pic of the five suspects being photographed is forever re-emerging in different places. It's one hell of a meme. So I want to go back to the original movie again.
He might also be a very smart con-man and thief, but he clearly has connections beyond that. It seems to me that there are two kinds of people who watch this film. Those who actually pay attention to the fucking movie in which case Kint is Keyser Soze and there's no fucking doubt about it at all. It's abundantly obvious. If Kint isn't Keyser Soze the film is just totally pointless and nonsensical.
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