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''''Keyser Söze''' ({{pron-en|ˈkaɪzər ˈsoʊzeɪ}} {{respell|KYE|zər}} {{respell|SOH|zay}}) is a [[fictional character]] in the 1995 film ''[[The Usual Suspects]],'' written by [[Christopher McQuarrie]] and directed by [[Bryan Singer]]. Söze is an underworld kingpin whose ruthlessness and influence have acquired a legendary, and even mythical, status among law enforcement agents and criminals alike. By the end of the film, the viewer is led to believe that '''Roger "Verbal" Kint''', is Söze. The character was named the #48 villain in the [[American Film Institute]]'s "[[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains]]" in June 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv100.pdf?docID=246 |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villians |format=PDF |accessdate=2010-03-19 |publisher=[[American Film Institute]]}}</ref> ==Background== Söze's past is unknown, but the story told by Roger "Verbal" Kint ([[Kevin Spacey]]) has Söze as a low-level drug dealer beginning his criminal career in his native [[Turkey]]. The entity that is Keyser Söze is truly born, however, when rival Hungarian smugglers invade his house while he is away, [[rape]] his wife and hold his children hostage; when Söze arrives, they kill one of the children to show him their resolve, then threaten to kill his wife and remaining children if he does not surrender his business to them. Rather than give in to their demands, and to prevent his family from having to live with the memory of what has happened, he murders his loved ones and all but one of the Hungarians, whom he spares, knowing that the survivor would tell the mafia what has happened. Söze then goes after the mob, killing dozens of people, including the mobsters's families, friends and even people who owe them money, as well as destroying their homes and businesses. He then goes "underground," never again doing business in person and remaining invisible even to his henchmen, who almost never know for whom they are working. One of the most famous lines from the movie, spoken by Kint, is: "The greatest trick the [[Devil]] ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist." This is a paraphrase of a phrase in a story by [[Charles Baudelaire]],<ref>Baudelaire, [http://baudelaire.litteratura.com/?rub=oeuvre&srub=pop&id=167# ''Le Joueur Généreux''], where the Devil recounts to a gambler that he has even heard a preacher (''plus subtil que ses confrères'') cry: ''Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!''</ref><ref>[http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Joueur_ généreux French text]</ref> but neither McQuarrie nor Singer realized this at the time, and they "borrowed it from people who were quoting Baudelaire themselves."<ref>[http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/u/usualsuspects_se.shtml ''The Usual Suspects: Special Edition''] review by Alexandra DuPont, ''DVD journal,'' accessed 15 February, 2008</ref> Söze's ruthlessness is legendary; he is described as having had enemies and disloyal henchmen brutally murdered, along with everyone they hold dear, for the slightest infractions--and as personally murdering people who have seen, and can identify, him. Over the years his criminal empire, centered around the [[Illegal drug trade|drug trade]], flourishes, as does his legend; he becomes, as Kint says during his interrogation, "a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night." He does seem to possess a very twisted sense of honor, however. If an individual unknowingly offends him he will ususally offer them the chance to redeem themselves by carrying out a very high-risk assignment; if they survive their transgression is forgiven. However, if a person is to knowingly cross him, they will be executed. ==Film revelations== The film ''The Usual Suspects'' consists mostly of flashbacks narrated by Roger "Verbal" Kint ([[Kevin Spacey]]), ostensibly a [[con artist]] with [[cerebral palsy]] affecting one leg and one arm. Verbal has been granted near-total [[immunity from prosecution]] provided he assists investigators, including Customs Agent David Kujan ([[Chazz Palminteri]]), and reveals all details of his involvement with a group of notorious criminals that are assumed responsible for the destruction of a ship and the murder of nearly everyone aboard. While Verbal is telling his story, Kujan learns the name Keyser Söze from [[FBI]] agent Jack Baer ([[Giancarlo Esposito]]), and demands Verbal tell him what he knows. Verbal describes how he and a small group of career criminals are [[blackmail]]ed by Söze, through Söze's lawyer Kobayashi ([[Pete Postlethwaite]]), into destroying a large drug shipment belonging to Söze's Argentinian rivals. All but Kint and one Hungarian are killed during the attack. Baer believes there were no drugs and the true purpose of the attack was to eliminate a passenger on the ship who had seen and could identify Söze. Kujan confronts Kint with the theory that Söze is, in fact, one of the criminals that Verbal had worked with: a corrupt former police officer and professional thief named Dean Keaton ([[Gabriel Byrne]]). Kujan's ongoing investigation of Keaton is what involved him in the case initially. In the final sequence of the movie, it is revealed that Verbal's story is an elaborate and improvised concoction, made up of strung-together details culled from a crowded [[bulletin board]] in the office where the interrogation took place. The methods used to persuade the audience of this included a buzzing montage of voices from the movie, effectively cut and pasted with pictures and text from the board, as well as the "KOBAYASHI" manufacturer's logo printed on the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup. The surviving Hungarian, severely burned and hospitalized, describes to a sketch artist a man he saw during the attack that he believes is Keyser Söze: none other than Verbal Kint. But Kujan realizes the truth too late, as Verbal has already walked out, on [[bail]], his limp suddenly gone. He uses a gold cigarette lighter similar to one Söze was seen with at the beginning of the film to light a cigarette with a steady hand, and climbs into a car driven by the character he had referred to as Kobayashi. As they drive away, Kujan desperately looks around the crowded streets for Verbal, having realized, too late, Verbal's true identity.<ref>The entire section is referenced to the film in which the character exists, ''[[The Usual Suspects]].''</ref> ==In popular culture== Since the release of the film, the name Keyser Söze has gained two popular uses in Western culture: the first is as a description of a legend, usually of underworld crime, which is a result of the character's [[Satan]]ic presence in ''The Usual Suspects.'' One such reference can be found in the [[video game]] ''[[Max Payne]],'' where the titular character refers to Rico Muerte as "a regular Keyser Söze."<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=Movie connections for Max Payne|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291337/movieconnections|accessdate=2009-04-08}}</ref> The second use of the name in popular culture is a shorthand reference to being fooled, by the actual villain, into believing in a villain who does not exist. This use of the name is owed to the film's twist ending. One such reference can be found in "[[The Puppet Show]]," an episode of the hit television series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' upon discovering the disappearance of a possessed dummy that had convinced the heroes it was on their side, [[Xander Harris]] ([[Nicholas Brendon]]) asks, "Does anyone else feel like they've been Keyser Sözed?"<ref name=connections>{{cite web |author= |title=Movie connections for The Usual Suspects |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/movieconnections |publisher=[[IMDB]] |accessdate=2009-04-08}}</ref> In his 1999 review of ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]],'' film critic [[Roger Ebert]] commented, "A lot of recent films seem unsatisfied unless they can add final scenes that redefine the reality of everything that has gone before; call it the Keyser Söze syndrome."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991015/REVIEWS/910150302 Fight Club], review by [[Roger Ebert]], [[Chicago Sun-Times]], October 15, 1999, accessed February 15, 2008</ref> ==References== ;Notes {{reflist}} ;Bibliography *{{cite |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LBIjsk-2ok4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s |title=The Psychopath in Film |last=Wilson |first=Wayne |date=1999 |publisher=University Press of America |pages=251-279 |ISBN=0761813179}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} * {{imdb character|0028665}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Söze, Keyser}} [[Category:Fictional mass murderers]] [[Category:Fictional mobsters]] [[Category:Fictional drug dealers]] [[Category:Fictional Turkish people]] [[fr:Keyser Söze]] [[it:Keyser Söze]] [[ro:Keyser Söze]] [[sv:Keyser Söze]]'
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'[[File:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RCKkApwiWxE/SYpaF_Nx0FI/AAAAAAAAANo/SX_YpMxiE68/s400/Keyser+Soze.jpg]]'''Keyser Söze''' ({{pron-en|ˈkaɪzər ˈsoʊzeɪ}} {{respell|KYE|zər}} {{respell|SOH|zay}}) is a [[fictional character]] in the 1995 film ''[[The Usual Suspects]],'' written by [[Christopher McQuarrie]] and directed by [[Bryan Singer]]. Söze is an underworld kingpin whose ruthlessness and influence have acquired a legendary, and even mythical, status among law enforcement agents and criminals alike. By the end of the film, the viewer is led to believe that '''Roger "Verbal" Kint''', is Söze. The character was named the #48 villain in the [[American Film Institute]]'s "[[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains]]" in June 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv100.pdf?docID=246 |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villians |format=PDF |accessdate=2010-03-19 |publisher=[[American Film Institute]]}}</ref> ==Background== Söze's past is unknown, but the story told by Roger "Verbal" Kint ([[Kevin Spacey]]) has Söze as a low-level drug dealer beginning his criminal career in his native [[Turkey]]. The entity that is Keyser Söze is truly born, however, when rival Hungarian smugglers invade his house while he is away, [[rape]] his wife and hold his children hostage; when Söze arrives, they kill one of the children to show him their resolve, then threaten to kill his wife and remaining children if he does not surrender his business to them. Rather than give in to their demands, and to prevent his family from having to live with the memory of what has happened, he murders his loved ones and all but one of the Hungarians, whom he spares, knowing that the survivor would tell the mafia what has happened. Söze then goes after the mob, killing dozens of people, including the mobsters's families, friends and even people who owe them money, as well as destroying their homes and businesses. He then goes "underground," never again doing business in person and remaining invisible even to his henchmen, who almost never know for whom they are working. One of the most famous lines from the movie, spoken by Kint, is: "The greatest trick the [[Devil]] ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist." This is a paraphrase of a phrase in a story by [[Charles Baudelaire]],<ref>Baudelaire, [http://baudelaire.litteratura.com/?rub=oeuvre&srub=pop&id=167# ''Le Joueur Généreux''], where the Devil recounts to a gambler that he has even heard a preacher (''plus subtil que ses confrères'') cry: ''Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!''</ref><ref>[http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Joueur_ généreux French text]</ref> but neither McQuarrie nor Singer realized this at the time, and they "borrowed it from people who were quoting Baudelaire themselves."<ref>[http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/u/usualsuspects_se.shtml ''The Usual Suspects: Special Edition''] review by Alexandra DuPont, ''DVD journal,'' accessed 15 February, 2008</ref> Söze's ruthlessness is legendary; he is described as having had enemies and disloyal henchmen brutally murdered, along with everyone they hold dear, for the slightest infractions--and as personally murdering people who have seen, and can identify, him. Over the years his criminal empire, centered around the [[Illegal drug trade|drug trade]], flourishes, as does his legend; he becomes, as Kint says during his interrogation, "a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night." He does seem to possess a very twisted sense of honor, however. If an individual unknowingly offends him he will ususally offer them the chance to redeem themselves by carrying out a very high-risk assignment; if they survive their transgression is forgiven. However, if a person is to knowingly cross him, they will be executed. ==Film revelations== The film ''The Usual Suspects'' consists mostly of flashbacks narrated by Roger "Verbal" Kint ([[Kevin Spacey]]), ostensibly a [[con artist]] with [[cerebral palsy]] affecting one leg and one arm. Verbal has been granted near-total [[immunity from prosecution]] provided he assists investigators, including Customs Agent David Kujan ([[Chazz Palminteri]]), and reveals all details of his involvement with a group of notorious criminals that are assumed responsible for the destruction of a ship and the murder of nearly everyone aboard. While Verbal is telling his story, Kujan learns the name Keyser Söze from [[FBI]] agent Jack Baer ([[Giancarlo Esposito]]), and demands Verbal tell him what he knows. Verbal describes how he and a small group of career criminals are [[blackmail]]ed by Söze, through Söze's lawyer Kobayashi ([[Pete Postlethwaite]]), into destroying a large drug shipment belonging to Söze's Argentinian rivals. All but Kint and one Hungarian are killed during the attack. Baer believes there were no drugs and the true purpose of the attack was to eliminate a passenger on the ship who had seen and could identify Söze. Kujan confronts Kint with the theory that Söze is, in fact, one of the criminals that Verbal had worked with: a corrupt former police officer and professional thief named Dean Keaton ([[Gabriel Byrne]]). Kujan's ongoing investigation of Keaton is what involved him in the case initially. In the final sequence of the movie, it is revealed that Verbal's story is an elaborate and improvised concoction, made up of strung-together details culled from a crowded [[bulletin board]] in the office where the interrogation took place. The methods used to persuade the audience of this included a buzzing montage of voices from the movie, effectively cut and pasted with pictures and text from the board, as well as the "KOBAYASHI" manufacturer's logo printed on the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup. The surviving Hungarian, severely burned and hospitalized, describes to a sketch artist a man he saw during the attack that he believes is Keyser Söze: none other than Verbal Kint. But Kujan realizes the truth too late, as Verbal has already walked out, on [[bail]], his limp suddenly gone. He uses a gold cigarette lighter similar to one Söze was seen with at the beginning of the film to light a cigarette with a steady hand, and climbs into a car driven by the character he had referred to as Kobayashi. As they drive away, Kujan desperately looks around the crowded streets for Verbal, having realized, too late, Verbal's true identity.<ref>The entire section is referenced to the film in which the character exists, ''[[The Usual Suspects]].''</ref> ==In popular culture== Since the release of the film, the name Keyser Söze has gained two popular uses in Western culture: the first is as a description of a legend, usually of underworld crime, which is a result of the character's [[Satan]]ic presence in ''The Usual Suspects.'' One such reference can be found in the [[video game]] ''[[Max Payne]],'' where the titular character refers to Rico Muerte as "a regular Keyser Söze."<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=Movie connections for Max Payne|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291337/movieconnections|accessdate=2009-04-08}}</ref> The second use of the name in popular culture is a shorthand reference to being fooled, by the actual villain, into believing in a villain who does not exist. This use of the name is owed to the film's twist ending. One such reference can be found in "[[The Puppet Show]]," an episode of the hit television series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' upon discovering the disappearance of a possessed dummy that had convinced the heroes it was on their side, [[Xander Harris]] ([[Nicholas Brendon]]) asks, "Does anyone else feel like they've been Keyser Sözed?"<ref name=connections>{{cite web |author= |title=Movie connections for The Usual Suspects |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/movieconnections |publisher=[[IMDB]] |accessdate=2009-04-08}}</ref> In his 1999 review of ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]],'' film critic [[Roger Ebert]] commented, "A lot of recent films seem unsatisfied unless they can add final scenes that redefine the reality of everything that has gone before; call it the Keyser Söze syndrome."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991015/REVIEWS/910150302 Fight Club], review by [[Roger Ebert]], [[Chicago Sun-Times]], October 15, 1999, accessed February 15, 2008</ref> ==References== ;Notes {{reflist}} ;Bibliography *{{cite |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LBIjsk-2ok4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s |title=The Psychopath in Film |last=Wilson |first=Wayne |date=1999 |publisher=University Press of America |pages=251-279 |ISBN=0761813179}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} * {{imdb character|0028665}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Söze, Keyser}} [[Category:Fictional mass murderers]] [[Category:Fictional mobsters]] [[Category:Fictional drug dealers]] [[Category:Fictional Turkish people]] [[fr:Keyser Söze]] [[it:Keyser Söze]] [[ro:Keyser Söze]] [[sv:Keyser Söze]]'
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