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Embassy of the United States, Havana
Native name
Spanish: Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América La Habana

Chancery Building as seen during President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba. This used to be the US Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, Cuba. Between 1977 and 2015, Switzerland was the protecting power of the United States in Cuba.
Location
Havana, Cuba
Coordinates
23°08′45″N 82°23′16″W / 23.14587°N 82.38765°W / 23.14587; -82.38765Coordinates: 23°08′45″N 82°23′16″W / 23.14587°N 82.38765°W / 23.14587; -82.38765
Embassy
March 1953 – January 3, 1961;
July 20, 2015 – present
Interests Section
September 1, 1977 – July 20, 2015[note 1]
Chargé d'affaires ad interim
Ambassador Scott Hamilton (since 2017)[1]
Location of Embassy of the United States, Havana in Cuba
The Embassy of the United States of America in Havana is the United States of America's diplomatic mission in Cuba. On January 3, 1961, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower severed relations following the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s.[2] In 1977, President Jimmy Carter and President Fidel Castro signed an Interests Sections Agreement that permitted each government to operate out of its former embassy in Havana and Washington D.C., which were called Interests Sections; they were prohibited from flying their respective flags. Cuban President Raúl Castro and US President Barack Obama restored full diplomatic connections on July 20, 2015.[3][4][5]
The building housed the United States Interests Section in Havana between 1977 and 2015, which operated under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy (acting as protecting power). On July 1, 2015 it was announced that with the resumption of diplomatic ties, the building resumed its role as the U.S. Embassy in Cuba on July 20, 2015.[6][7][8][9] The embassy is led by Chargé d'affaires ad interim Ambassador Scott Hamilton.[1][10]
Contents
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1 History
2 Alleged health attacks
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Embassy on the Malecón in the distance beyond the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform, ca. 1973.
The embassy was designed in the Modernist—Brutalist style by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. It is a long and six-story concrete and glass building, completed in 1953. The gardens were designed by Californian landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church. The contractor for the building was Jaime Alberto Mitrani, PE, also a professor of civil engineering at the University of Havana. The embassy complex is located directly on the Bay of Havana and the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform, in proximity to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After the U.S. diplomatic mission became defunct in 1961, the building was not used by American personnel until the opening of the interests section on September 1, 1977.[11] In 1963, Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro ordered the confiscation of the complex, but action was never taken by the Cuban government, though it still claimed right to the property in 2012.[12]
During the period that the complex served as an interests section, the U.S. was represented by Switzerland, and the Swiss maintained both the embassy complex and its effects. Renovations were completed on the complex in 1997. The building was upgraded from an interests section, and returned to its original role as the American embassy in Cuba, on July 20, 2015.[6][7][8][13]
On August 14, 2015, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reopened the American embassy in Havana. Eight congressional lawmakers involved in the policy change also attended.[14][15][16] The three Marines (Larry C. Morris, Mike East, and Jim Tracy) who lowered the United States flag at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba 54 years before presented another flag which was raised by the Marines assigned to the post.[17]
Alleged health attacks[edit]
In August 2017, reports began surfacing that Americans posted at the embassy had been subjected to health-related incidents, dating back to late 2016.[18][19] Two dozen employees of the State Department reported experiencing what were referred to as "health attacks".[19] The State Department determined that the health problems were the result of a deliberate attack,[20] but does not believe the Cuban government is responsible.[21] Affected individuals described mild brain damage similar to a concussion and symptoms such as temporary or permanent hearing loss, memory loss, and nausea.[20] The weapon is thought to be sonic or ultrasonic in nature.[22]
The United States expelled two Cuban diplomats in response to the attacks;[18] the Cuban government offered to cooperate with the US in an investigation of the incidents.[23] In September, the US State Department stated that it was removing non-emergency staff from the US embassy, and warned US citizens not to travel to Cuba.[24]
See also[edit]
Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C.
Cuban Thaw
Canadian Embassy in Havana
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The U.S. and Cuba did not have bilateral diplomatic relations between 1961 and 2015. During this period, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba operated under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Chargé d'Affaires - U.S. Embassy in Cuba".
Jump up ^ United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba Archived July 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. History.
Jump up ^ "Obama moves to restored diplomatic relations at the embassy level on 2014. with Cuba". MSNBC. December 17, 2014. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Obama opens doors to Cuba after 56 years". USA Today. December 17, 2014. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015.
Jump up ^ "U.S., Cuba restore ties after 50 years". Reuters. December 18, 2014. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b "U.S. and Cuba to announce embassy openings". CNN. June 30, 2015. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b "U.S. and Cuba to reopen embassies". Politico. June 30, 2015. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b "US proposes US, Cuba reopen embassies as of July 20: Havana". Business Insider. July 1, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Cuban flag flies at embassy in Washington". USA Today. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Re-establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Cuba" (PDF). United States Department of State. July 20, 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 25, 2017.
Jump up ^ Talking to the Bearded Man: The Swiss Mandate to Represent U.S. Interests in Cuba, 1961–1977. Archived July 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Jump up ^ Havana's New York Accent. Archived August 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. New York Times.
Jump up ^ "U.S. and Cuba Reopen Long-Closed Embassies". New York Times. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015.
Jump up ^ Weissenstein, Michael; Klapper, Bradley (August 14, 2015). "John Kerry in Cuba as flag raised over U.S. Embassy". Global News. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015.
Jump up ^ Labott, Elise (August 14, 2015). "Kerry to reopen embassy in Cuba but tensions remain". CNN. CNN. Archived from the original on August 17, 2015.
Jump up ^ Karoun Demirjian (August 14, 2015). "Cuba congressional delegation: Who traveled with John Kerry to Havana". Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015.
Jump up ^ Gordon, Michael (August 14, 2015). "Kerry Strikes Delicate Balance in Havana Trip for Embassy Flag-Raising". New York TImes. Archived from the original on August 14, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Neuman, Scott (2017-08-09). "Cuban Diplomats Expelled After U.S. Embassy Staff 'Incidents' In Havana". NPR. Retrieved 2017-10-01.
^ Jump up to: a b Connor, Tracy; Murray, Mary; Williams, Abigail (2017-09-17). "Victim of Cuba embassy 'attacks' frustrated by response". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-10-01.
^ Jump up to: a b Doubek, James. "At Least 16 U.S. Embassy Staff In Cuba Treated After 'Health Attacks'". NPR.
Jump up ^ U.S. does not believe Cuba is behind sonic attacks on American diplomats. McClatchy News Service, 26 September 2017
Jump up ^ Chavez, Nicole. "Using sound to attack: The diverse world of acoustic devices". CNN.
Jump up ^ "Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba%7cCubaMINREX".
Jump up ^ Rich Edson (2017-09-29). "US stops issuing visas in Cuba, cuts embassy staff, urges no travel to island". Fox News. Retrieved 2017-10-01.
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Major League Baseball on Comcast SportsNet
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Major League Baseball on Comcast SportsNet refers to Major League Baseball television coverage on the chain of Comcast SportsNet regional networks.
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1 Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (San Francisco Giants)
1.1 See also
2 Comcast SportsNet Chicago (Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox)
2.1 Cubs
2.1.1 See also
2.2 White Sox
2.2.1 See also
3 American League West
3.1 Comcast SportsNet California (Oakland Athletics)
3.1.1 See also
3.2 Comcast SportsNet Houston (Houston Astros)
3.2.1 See also
4 National League East
4.1 Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (Philadelphia Phillies)
4.1.1 See also
4.2 SportsNet New York (New York Mets)
4.2.1 See also
5 References
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (San Francisco Giants)[edit]
Giants' telecasts are split between KNTV (over-the-air) and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (cable). Jon Miller regularly calls the action on KNTV (on September 4, 2010, Miller made his first appearance with CSN Bay Area), while the announcing team for CSN telecasts is Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, affectionately known as "Kruk and Kuip" (pronounced "Kruke" and "Kype"). KNTV's broadcast contract with the Giants began in 2008, one year after the team and KTVU mostly ended a relationship that dated to 1958, the team's first year in the Bay Area. (As a FOX affiliate, KTVU continues to air Giants games that are part of the Major League Baseball on Fox package; Several Giants games a year are also part of the ESPN and TBS packages.).[1]
See also[edit]
List of San Francisco Giants broadcasters
Comcast SportsNet Chicago (Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox)[edit]
CSN Chicago was created in 2004. It is jointly owned by Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal (20%), the family of J. Joseph Ricketts (owner of the Cubs, 20%), Jerry Reinsdorf (owner of both the Bulls and the White Sox, giving him a 40% stake), and Rocky Wirtz (owner of the Chicago Blackhawks, 20%). The channel airs a majority of games for those four teams. It also carries games for the AFL Chicago Rush, Chicago Fire S.C., and NIU Huskies football. Although WCIU-TV and WGN-TV carry many Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls games, CSN Chicago was created so the teams mentioned could have editorial control over their broadcasts. Previously, these teams' cable games were produced by FSN Chicago. However, with the creation of CSN Chicago, all of Chicago's major professional teams dropped their agreements with FSN Chicago, though that channel limped along for another two years until going defunct in 2006. All games of the major Chicago sports teams on CSN Chicago are broadcast in high definition.
Cubs[edit]
Cubs telecasts are locally aired on three different outlets: Over broadcast television via the WGN television outlets (both the local station on Channel 9 and the superstation nationally, produced through the station's WGN Sports department), Weigel Broadcasting's WCIU-TV (Channel 26.1) and on cable television over CSN Chicago (of which the Ricketts family owns a 20% interest), with some games, mainly on Wednesday evenings, airing over the supplemental CSN+ channel. WCIU came into the fold in the early 2000s due to demands by The WB Television Network for WGN to devote more time to the network's programming, and later on the same has been expected by The CW, though WGN still does push back CW primetime programming to accommodate game broadcasts.
Len Kasper is the play-by-play announcer, and Bob Brenly, a former major league catcher and Arizona Diamondbacks manager, is the color commentator for the games. WGN also produces the games shown on WCIU; for those games, the score bug changes the "WGN" logo to "WGN Sports on The U" (previously "CubsNet"). WCIU games additionally air over MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYS-LD (Channel 69) in the South Bend, Indiana market. WGN and CSN Chicago generally show an even number of Cubs games, while WCIU averages about 8 games per season.
In 2009, the Chicago Cubs expressed interest in creating their own regional cable network. Crane Kenney, the Cubs' president, said that a regional network owned by the Cubs would create additional revenue streams. The hope was that this would be similar to other successful regional sports networks such as the YES Network and NESN. The only difference would be that the Cubs could not immediately broadcast Cubs games due to the existing contracts and/or ownership stakes in CSN Chicago, WGN-TV and WCIU-TV. According to Kenney, the new Cubs network would be like the MLB Network, but showing Cubs-only programming. Classic Cubs games from the past could be scheduled as well as in-depth specials. Live telecasts of the minor league affiliate Iowa Cubs games were also being considered (when there are no Cubs games scheduled or available due to contract agreements).[2]
See also[edit]
List of Chicago Cubs broadcasters
White Sox[edit]
Television broadcasts are split three ways: WGN (both the local feed and WGN America), WCIU-TV (a local independent station) and Comcast SportsNet Chicago. The announcers are the same wherever the game is televised: Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson on play-by-play and Steve Stone on color. Occasionally, well-known former White Sox players such as "Black Jack" McDowell fill in as substitutes in the broadcast booth. Since 1990, Ken "Hawk" Harrelson has done play-by-play commentary for the White Sox TV broadcasts.
See also[edit]
List of Chicago White Sox broadcasters
American League West[edit]
Comcast SportsNet California (Oakland Athletics)[edit]
As of 2012, television coverage is exclusively on Comcast SportsNet California. Some A's games air on an alternate feed of CSN, called CSN Plus, if the main channel shows a Sacramento Kings game at the same time. Although the network was originally aimed at the Northern California region, the network began to expand as a complement to their Bay Area station, beginning with a re-branding to Comcast SportsNet California in September 2008, and becoming the official broadcaster of the Oakland Athletics (who were originally served by CSN Bay Area in addition to the San Francisco Giants) for the 2009 MLB season, broadcasting an increased regular season of 145 regular season games (an increase of 37 from in 2008)[3]
On TV, Glen Kuiper covers play-by-play, and Ray Fosse provides color commentary. Fosse also does color commentary on the radio when the A's are not on TV, or the game is on Fox or ESPN. Fosse also does play by play on the radio during Spring training games.
See also[edit]
List of Oakland Athletics broadcasters
Comcast SportsNet Houston (Houston Astros)[edit]
It is the exclusive home of the NBA's Houston Rockets beginning with the 2012–13 NBA season and the MLB's Houston Astros beginning in the 2013 MLB season [4] and will be majority owned by the teams (Astros at 46.384% and Rockets at 30.923%, with NBCUniversal owning the other 22.693%).[5]
The initial idea of a team-owned regional sports network was first proposed in 1999. It was former Rockets president George Postolos, who floated the idea with Fox, who passed on the offer. The Rockets then teamed up with the Astros in 2003 to jointly launch an RSN. The first order of business was to sever ties with Fox Sports Houston, which led to a 20-month court battle. The settlement with Fox led to a new deal with the network valued at $600 million over 10–15 years. However, this contract contained a clause allowing the teams to bail on the contract and negotiate with other networks starting in late 2009. The Astros/Rockets group held talks with Comcast, DirecTV, and AT&T; but no carriage contracts for any of those providers have been officially announced. Continuation of the Astros and Rockets broadcasts on Fox Sports Houston was on the table as the network offered $1.2 billion over 10 years. However, it was ownership in a regional sports network that the two teams wanted. This led to the teams agreeing to a $1 billion contract with Comcast, which included a 77.307% ownership in the network.[5]
See also[edit]
List of Houston Astros broadcasters
National League East[edit]
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (Philadelphia Phillies)[edit]
As of 2014, the Phillies' television stations are Comcast SportsNet (CSN)[6] and WCAU-TV (channel 10) with some early season games shown on Comcast Network (formerly known as CN8) when there are conflicts on CSN with 76ers and Flyers games. CSN produces the games shown on the above-mentioned stations. Scott Franzke and Jim Jackson provide play-by-play on the radio, with Larry Andersen as the color commentator. Tom McCarthy calls play-by-play for the television broadcasts, with Chris Wheeler and Gary Matthews providing color commentary.
Phillies games used to be unavailable on the satellite version of MLB Extra Innings. Beginning in 2007, both the cable and satellite version of MLB Extra Innings began to use the CSN Philadelphia feed for some games and in 2008, when MLB Extra Innings began showing both feeds of most games, all Phillies games shown on CSN Philadelphia became available to all subscribers. In 2010, Phillies games on WPHL (which are produced by CSN Philadelphia) were also shown on Extra Innings. Residents in the Philadelphia area cannot view these games due to blackout restrictions.
See also[edit]
List of Philadelphia Phillies broadcasters
Phillies Pre Game Live
Phillies Post Game Live
Phillies Clubhouse
SportsNet New York (New York Mets)[edit]
SNY was created in an effort for the New York Mets to better leverage their broadcasting rights, which were previously held by Cablevision on their MSG Network and FSN New York networks. From 1998 to 2002, Cablevision had a monopoly on all local professional sports franchises in the New York City market, participating in many unfair business practices like moving games to their MSG Metro Channels with limited distribution. In 2002, the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets broke the monopoly by starting the YES Network for their games, leaving the Mets in the Cablevision fold until their contract expired in 2005.
As of the 2011 season the Mets received $68 million in rights from the SportsNet New York channel, which they own two-thirds of.[7]
SNY carries at least 120 Mets games per season (with the remainder airing on WPIX, FOX, TBS, or ESPN). Gregg Picker produces the games and Bill Webb, who directs the World Series and the All-Star Game for FOX, is the director for Mets broadcasts on both SNY and WPIX.
Notes:
Mets games on SNY and post-games delay other programming, such as the 10:00 SportsNite, and preempt all or parts of shows at midnight when a 7:00 game runs long.
There is no 10:00 SportsNite when the Mets play a game on SNY starting at 8:00 or later.
Mets games on WPIX (and simulcast on other stations) are produced by SNY.
All times given in Eastern Time Zone, as SportsNet New York is based in New York City.
As of the start of the 2007 Mets season, SNY debuted a new set of graphics for both their Mets telecasts and SportsNite telecasts. These graphics include a new scoreboard which goes along the entire top portion of the screen as well as a new sports ticker on the bottom portion of the screen. The ticker now provides more stats including wins, losses, and saves, much like the ESPN BottomLine ticker. SNY features a "SNY HD" logo in the scoreboard for games that are available in high-definition on both the HD and SD feeds. Games shown on WPIX replace the SNY logo with the PIX11 logo. The scoreboard was updated in the 2009 Mets season.
None of the programming on SNY was closed-captioned for the hearing impaired until May 1, 2009. On that date the game between the Mets and Phillies was closed-captioned. The FCC gives new stations four years before they are required to begin captioning. As of February, 2010, SNY became fully closed-captioned.
See also[edit]
List of New York Mets broadcasters
Mets Pre-Game Live: half-hour-long program which previews the upcoming Mets games/series.
Mets Post-Game Live: half-hour-long program which recaps and reviews recent Mets Games and take a look at ahead of upcoming series.
Mets Fast Forward: hour-long condensed version of the previous Mets game at 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. following a Mets game on SNY or PIX11.
Mets Weekly: weekly half-hour Mets coverage, interviews, and stories; premieres Sundays at 6:00 p.m.
Kids Clubhouse: weekly half-hour kids' baseball education and coverage; premieres Saturdays at 12:00 p.m. Hosted by Neha Joy.
Mets Classics: classic Mets games from past seasons and the current season (UltiMet Classics).
Mets Hot Stove: offseason hot stove discussion about the Mets hosted by Kevin Burkhardt with various local writers.
Mets Yearbook: half-hour program of past Mets year in reviews from 1962 to 1988.
Mets Year in Review: a program recapping the mets season since 2009 hosted by Kevin Burkhardt.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Kroner, Steve (November 2, 2007). "Giants are moving to KNTV". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
Jump up ^ Cubs Could Have Own Television Network Soon
Jump up ^ COMCAST SPORTS NET CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL OAKLAND ATHLETICS TELECAST SCHEDULE Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Astros, Rockets reach deal on new network MLB.com News August 3, 2010
^ Jump up to: a b Comcast SportsNet Houston plans October launch Houston Chronicle March 7, 2012 (retrieved April 6, 2012)
Jump up ^ "Welcome to Comcast SportsNet". Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2008.
Jump up ^ Mike Ozanian (29 May 2011). "Einhorn Offer Suggests Mets Deal With SportsNet New York Is Undervalued". Sportsmoney. Forbes. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
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The Usual Suspects
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Bryan Singer
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Michael McDonnell
Bryan Singer
Written by
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Stephen Baldwin
Gabriel Byrne
Chazz Palminteri
Kevin Pollak
Pete Postlethwaite
Kevin Spacey
Suzy Amis
Benicio del Toro
Giancarlo Esposito
Music by
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Cinematography
Newton Thomas Sigel
Edited by
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Bad Hat Harry Productions
Blue Parrot
Spelling Films International
Distributed by
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date
January 25, 1995 (1995-01-25) (Sundance)
August 16, 1995 (1995-08-16) (United States)
Running time
106 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$6 million[2]
Box office
$34.4 million[2]
The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir[3] mystery film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey.
The plot follows the interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, a small-time con man who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. He tells an interrogator a convoluted story about events that led him and his partners in crime to the boat, and about a mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Söze who commissioned their work. Using flashback and narration, Kint's story becomes increasingly complex. It was shot on a $6 million budget and began as a title taken from a column in Spy magazine called The Usual Suspects, after one of Claude Rains' most memorable lines in the classic film Casablanca, and Singer thought that it would make a good title for a film.
The film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival,[4] and then initially released in a few theaters. It received favorable reviews and was eventually given a wider release. McQuarrie won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and Spacey won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. The Writers Guild of America ranked the film as having the 35th greatest screenplay of all time.[5]
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2 Cast
3 Production
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3.2 Pre-production
3.3 Filming
3.4 Post-production
4 Release
5 Reception
5.1 Accolades
5.2 Legacy
6 Remake
7 References
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Plot[edit]
The film opens with criminal Dean Keaton lying badly wounded on a ship docked in the San Pedro Bay. He is confronted by a mysterious figure whom he calls "Keyser", who shoots him dead and sets fire to the ship.
The bloodbath on the ship leaves only two survivors: Arkosh Kovash, a Hungarian mobster hospitalized with severe burns; and Roger "Verbal" Kint, a con artist with cerebral palsy. Customs agent Dave Kujan flies from New York City to interrogate Verbal. In flashback the events that led Keaton, Michael McManus, Fred Fenster, Todd Hockney and Verbal onto the ship are described.
Verbal explains that, six weeks earlier in New York, he and the other criminals were arrested on supposedly a trumped-up hijacking charge, and decided to pull another heist to get back at the police. Led by Keaton, a former corrupt policeman, they robbed a group of corrupt cops who transported smugglers in a police convoy. They then went to California to fence the stolen jewels with a criminal named Redfoot, who turned them on to another jewel heist. The quarry turned out to be heroin, and the five had to shoot their way out. Soon after, a lawyer named Kobayashi tells them that Keyser Söze, a Turkish crime lord with a mythical reputation from whom all of the thieves had unwittingly stolen (including Hockney who hijacked the original truck six weeks earlier in New York), had offered them a job: invade a ship manned by a gang of Argentinian drug dealers whom Söze was competing with and destroy the $91 million worth of cocaine that they were transporting.
When Kujan learns of Söze from FBI agent Jack Baer, he questions Verbal about him. Verbal tells Kujan an underworld legend about Söze: that he had murdered his own family after they had been attacked by a gang of Hungarian criminals, and then massacred the Hungarians and everyone they held dear. He then went underground, never to be seen again, and did business only through underlings who did not know for whom they were working. He became a fearsome urban legend, "a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night".
Verbal goes on to explain that, after Fenster had bailed on the group, Kobayashi gave them a location at which to find their compatriot's dead body. They tried to kill Kobayashi, but he strong-armed them into performing the heist by threatening their loved ones. They staked out the ship and killed several Argentinian and Hungarian gangsters, but found no drugs on board. McManus, Hockney and a man locked aboard the ship were killed by an unseen person, who also killed Keaton and set the ship on fire as Verbal looked on.
Verbal concludes his story, but Kujan does not believe it. He insists that Keaton must be Söze, as one of the murder victims on the boat was Arturo Marquez, a drug dealer who escaped prosecution by claiming he could identify Söze — and who was represented by Edie Finneran, Keaton's lawyer and girlfriend. Kujan claims that the Argentinians were selling Marquez to Söze's Hungarian rivals and Keaton used the heist as a distraction to let him kill Marquez. Kujan also informs Verbal that Finneran has been murdered. Verbal says that the entire plan was Keaton's idea, but refuses to testify in court. Verbal's bond is posted and he is released.
Moments later, Kujan realizes that Verbal's entire story was a lie, pieced together from details on a crowded bulletin board in the office. Meanwhile, Verbal walks outside, gradually dropping his limp and flexing his supposedly withered hand. As Kujan runs after Verbal, a fax comes in from the hospital where the gangster Kovash is being treated for his burns: a police sketch artist's rendering of Söze, dictated by Kovash, that looks exactly like Verbal. Kujan misses Verbal by moments, as the latter disappears into a car driven by "Kobayashi".
Cast[edit]
Gabriel Byrne as Dean Keaton. Kevin Spacey met Byrne at a party and asked him to do the film. He read the screenplay and turned it down, thinking that the filmmakers could not pull it off. Byrne met screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie and Singer and was impressed by the latter's vision for the film. However, Byrne was also dealing with some personal problems at the time and backed out for 24 hours until the filmmakers agreed to shoot the film in Los Angeles, where the actor lived, and make it in five weeks.[6]
Kevin Spacey as Roger "Verbal" Kint. Singer and McQuarrie sent the screenplay for the film to the actor without telling him which role was written for him. Spacey called Singer and told them that he was interested in the roles of Keaton and Kujan but was also intrigued by Kint who, as it turned out, was the role McQuarrie wrote with the actor in mind.[6]
Stephen Baldwin as Michael McManus. The actor was tired of doing independent films where his expectations were not met; when he met with director Bryan Singer, he went into a 15-minute tirade telling him what it was like to work with him. After Baldwin was finished, Singer told him exactly what he expected and wanted, which impressed the actor.[6]
Benicio del Toro as Fred Fenster. Spacey suggested del Toro for the role. The character was originally written with a Harry Dean Stanton-type actor in mind. Del Toro met with Singer and the film's casting director and told them that he did not want to audition because he did not feel comfortable doing them.[6] After reading the script, del Toro realized that his character's only purpose was to be killed to demonstrate Söze's power, and did not have any meaningful impact on the story. As a result, del Toro developed Fenster's unique, garbled speech pattern to make him more memorable as a character.[7]
Kevin Pollak as Todd Hockney. He met with Singer about doing the film, but when he heard that two other actors were auditioning for the role, he came back, auditioned, and got the part.[6]
Chazz Palminteri as U.S. Customs Special Agent Dave Kujan. Singer had always wanted the actor for the film, but he was always unavailable. The role was offered to Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro, both of whom turned it down. The filmmakers even had Al Pacino come in and read for the part, but he decided not to do it because he had just played a cop in Heat. Palminteri became available, but only for a week. When he signed on, this persuaded the film's financial backers to support the film fully because he was a sufficiently high-profile star, thanks to the recent release of A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway.[6]
Pete Postlethwaite as Mr. Kobayashi, Söze's right-hand man.
Suzy Amis as Edie Finneran, an influential criminal lawyer and Keaton's girlfriend.
Giancarlo Esposito as FBI Special Agent Jack Baer; investigates the boat explosion on the pier.
Dan Hedaya as Sergeant Jeffrey "Jeff" Rabin; assists in Kujan's interrogation of Verbal
Production[edit]
Origins[edit]
Bryan Singer met Kevin Spacey at a party after a screening of the young filmmaker's first film, Public Access, at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.[8] Spacey had been encouraged by a number of people he knew who had seen it,[6] and was so impressed that he told Singer and McQuarrie that he wanted to be in whatever film they did next. Singer read a column in Spy magazine called "The Usual Suspects" after Claude Rains' line in Casablanca. Singer thought that it would be a good title for a film.[9] When asked by a reporter at Sundance what their next film was about, McQuarrie replied, "I guess it's about a bunch of criminals who meet in a police line-up,"[9] which incidentally was the first visual idea that he and Singer had for the poster: "five guys who meet in a line-up," Singer remembers.[10] The director also envisioned a tagline for the poster, "All of you can go to Hell."[6] Singer then asked the question, "What would possibly bring these five felons together in one line-up?"[11] McQuarrie revamped an idea from one of his own unpublished screenplays — the story of a man who murders his own family and disappears. The writer mixed this with the idea of a team of criminals.[9]
Söze's character is based on John List, a New Jersey accountant who murdered his family in 1971 and then disappeared for almost two decades, assuming a new identity before he was ultimately apprehended.[12] McQuarrie based the name of Keyser Söze on one of his previous supervisors, Kayser Sume, at a Los Angeles law firm that he worked for,[13] but decided to change the last name because he thought that his former boss would object to how it was used. He found the word söze in his roommate's English-to-Turkish dictionary, which translates as "talk too much".[6] All the characters' names are taken from staff members of the law firm at the time of his employment.[6] McQuarrie had also worked for a detective agency, and this influenced the depiction of criminals and law enforcement officials in the script.[14]
Singer described the film as Double Indemnity meets Rashomon, and said that it was made "so you can go back and see all sorts of things you didn't realize were there the first time. You can get it a second time in a way you never could have the first time around."[15] He also compared the film's structure to Citizen Kane (which also contained an interrogator and a subject who is telling a story) and the criminal caper The Anderson Tapes.[11]
Pre-production[edit]
McQuarrie wrote nine drafts of his screenplay over five months, until Singer felt that it was ready to shop around to the studios. None were interested except for a European financing company.[16] McQuarrie and Singer had a difficult time getting the film made because of the non-linear story, the large amount of dialogue and the lack of cast attached to the project. Financiers wanted established stars, and offers for the small role of Redfoot (the L.A. fence who hooks up the five protagonists with Kobayashi) went out to Christopher Walken, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeff Bridges, Charlie Sheen, James Spader, Al Pacino and Johnny Cash.[13] However, the European money allowed the film's producers to make offers to actors and assemble a cast. They were only able to offer the actors salaries that were well below their usual pay, but they agreed because of the quality of McQuarrie's script and the chance to work with each other.[10] That money fell through, however, and Singer used the script and the cast to attract PolyGram to pick up the film negative.[16]
About casting, Singer said, "You pick people not for what they are, but what you imagine they can turn into."[11] To research his role, Spacey met doctors and experts on cerebral palsy and talked with Singer about how it would fit dramatically in the film. They decided that it would affect only one side of his body.[6] According to Byrne, the cast bonded quickly during rehearsals.[8] Del Toro worked with Alan Shaterian to develop Fenster's distinctive, almost unintelligible speech patterns.[17] According to the actor, the source of his character's unusual speech patterns came from the realization that "the purpose of my character was to die."[6] Del Toro told Singer, "It really doesn't matter what I say so I can go really far out with this and really make it uncomprehensible."[6]
Filming[edit]
The budget was set at $5.5 million, and the film was shot in 35 days[16] in Los Angeles, San Pedro and New York City.[15] Spacey said that they shot the interrogation scenes with Palminteri over a span of five to six days.[18] These scenes were also shot before the rest of the film.[6] The police lineup scene ran into scheduling conflicts because the actors kept blowing their lines. Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie would feed the actors questions off-camera and they improvised their lines. When Stephen Baldwin gave his answer, he made the other actors break character.[6] Byrne remembers that they were often laughing between takes and "when they said, 'Action!', we'd barely be able to keep it together."[8] Spacey also said that the hardest part was not laughing through takes, with Baldwin and Pollak being the worst culprits.[18] Their goal was to get the usually serious Byrne to crack up.[18] They spent all morning trying unsuccessfully to film the scene. At lunch a frustrated Singer angrily scolded the five actors, but when they resumed the cast continued to laugh through each take.[6] Byrne remembers, "Finally, Bryan just used one of the takes where we couldn't stay serious."[8] Singer and editor John Ottman used a combination of takes and kept the humor in to show the characters bonding with one another.[6]
While Del Toro told Singer how he was going to portray Fenster, he did not tell his cast members, and in their first scene together none of them understood what Del Toro was saying. Byrne confronted Singer and the director told him that for the lockup scene, "If you don't understand what he's saying maybe it's time we let the audience know that they don't need to know what he's saying."[6] This led to the inclusion of Kevin Pollak's improvised line, "What did you say?"
The stolen emeralds were real gemstones on loan for the film.[12]
Singer spent an 18-hour day shooting the underground parking garage robbery.[6] According to Byrne, by the next day Singer still did not have all of the footage that he wanted, and refused to stop filming in spite of the bonding company's threat to shut down the production.[6]
In the scene in which the crew meets Redfoot after the botched drug deal, Redfoot flicks his cigarette at McManus' face. The scene was originally to have Redfoot flick the cigarette at McManus's chest, but the actor missed and hit Baldwin's face by accident. Baldwin's reaction is genuine.[12]
Despite enclosed practical locations and a short shooting schedule, cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel "developed a way of shooting dialogue scenes with a combination of slow, creeping zooms and dolly moves that ended in tight close-ups," to add subtle energy to scenes.[19] "This style combined dolly movement with "imperceptible zooms" so that you’d always have a sense of motion in a limited space."[20]
Post-production[edit]
During the editing phase, Singer thought that they had completed the film two weeks early, but woke up one morning and realized that they needed that time to put together a sequence that convinced the audience that Dean Keaton was Söze — and then do the same for Verbal Kint because the film did not have "the punch that Chris had written so beautifully."[6] According to Ottman, he assembled the footage as a montage but it still did not work until he added an overlapping voice-over montage featuring key dialogue from several characters and had it relate to the images.[6] Early on, executives at Gramercy had problems pronouncing the name Keyser Söze and were worried that audiences would have the same problem. The studio decided to promote the character's name. Two weeks before the film debuted in theaters, "Who is Keyser Söze?" posters appeared at bus stops, and TV spots told people how to say the character's name.[21] Despite these efforts, all the actors in the film consistently mispronounce his name as "Soze" instead of "Söze".
Singer wanted the music for the boat heist to resemble Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. The ending's music was based on a k.d. lang song.[22]
Release[edit]
Gramercy ran a pre-release promotion and advertising campaign before The Usual Suspects opened in the summer of 1995. Word of mouth marketing was used to advertise the film, and buses and billboards were plastered with the simple question, "Who is Keyser Söze?"[23]
The film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was well received by audiences and critics.[24] The film was then given an exclusive run in Los Angeles, where it took a combined $83,513, and New York City, where it made $132,294 on three screens in its opening weekend.[25] The film was then released in 42 theaters where it earned $645,363 on its opening weekend. It averaged a strong $4,181 per screen at 517 theaters and the following week added 300 locations.[16] It eventually made $23.3 million in North America.[2]
Reception[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has received a rating of 88%, based on 69 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's consensus reads, "Expertly shot and edited, The Usual Suspects gives the audience a simple plot and then piles on layers of deceit, twists, and violence before pulling out the rug from underneath."[26] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[27]
Roger Ebert, in a review for the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film one and a half stars out of four, considering it confusing and uninteresting.[28] He also included the film in his "most hated films" list.[29] USA Today rated the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it "one of the most densely plotted mysteries in memory—though paradoxically, four-fifths of it is way too easy to predict."[30] However, Rolling Stone praised Spacey, saying his "balls-out brilliant performance is Oscar bait all the way."[31] In his review for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, "Ultimately, The Usual Suspects may be too clever for its own good. The twist at the end is a corker, but crucial questions remain unanswered. What's interesting, though, is how little this intrudes on our enjoyment. After the movie you're still trying to connect the dots and make it all fit—and these days, how often can we say that?"[32]
In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the performances of the cast: "Mr. Singer has assembled a fine ensemble cast of actors who can parry such lines, and whose performances mesh effortlessly despite their exaggerated differences in demeanor ... Without the violence or obvious bravado of Reservoir Dogs, these performers still create strong and fascinatingly ambiguous characters."[33] The Independent praised the film's ending: "The film's coup de grace is as elegant as it is unexpected. The whole movie plays back in your mind in perfect clarity—and turns out to be a completely different movie to the one you've been watching (rather better, in fact)."[34]
Accolades[edit]
McQuarrie was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay and Kevin Spacey was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.[35] They both won, and in his acceptance speech Spacey said, "Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he's gonna get gloriously drunk tonight."[36]
The film was nominated as the best film at the 1996 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA awards). McQuarrie won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, and John Ottman won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.[37] The film was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards — Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Screenplay for Christopher McQuarrie and Best Cinematography for Newton Thomas Sigel.[38] Both Del Toro and McQuarrie won in their categories.[39]
Bryan Singer won the Best Debut award at the 1st Empire Awards.[40]
The Usual Suspects was screened at the 1995 Seattle International Film Festival, where Bryan Singer was awarded Best Director and Kevin Spacey won for Best Actor.[41] The Boston Society of Film Critics gave Spacey the Best Supporting Actor award for his work on the film.[42] Spacey went on to win this award with the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, which also gave the cast an ensemble acting award.[43]
Legacy[edit]
On June 17, 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "AFI's 10 Top 10"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The Usual Suspects was acknowledged as the tenth-best mystery film.[44] Verbal Kint was voted the #48 villain in "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains" in June 2003.
Entertainment Weekly cited the film as one of the "13 must-see heist movies".[45] Empire ranked Keyser Söze #69 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.[46] In August 2016, James Charisma of Paste ranked The Usual Suspects among Kevin Spacey's greatest film performances.[47]
In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay #35 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written.[5]
Remake[edit]
In India, a Hindi-language adaptation of The Usual Suspects, titled Chocolate, was released in 2005.[48]
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