Why does Dean Keaton give up so quickly?
During the boat scene near the end of The Usual Suspects, Keaton and McManus encounter each other in the engine room. It's clearly unplanned, since they both almost shoot the other.
During their conversation, Keaton says:
There's no coke...I've been in every fucking room. There's nothing!
The next scene shows Arturo Marquez, watching as the door to his room opens, and a crewman falls dead in front of him. Presumably, Keyser Soze has found his target, and executes him.
Obviously there could have been coke hidden in the room where Marquez was hiding. So Keaton must have missed at least that one room. It's likely he missed other spaces too, since the crewman appeared to have been killed just prior to the door opening.
Why does Keaton claim to have searched the whole ship?
Is this a continuity error in the movie, where the scenes are just ordered incorrectly?
Is this an intentional error in Verbal's story that's supposed to give us an early hint as to the story's veracity?
If it is a hint, did Verbal include it on purpose? Possibly to make it look like Keaton was lying to McManus, which could further reinforce Agent Kujan's belief that Keaton is Keyser Soze?
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I agree with you on that point LevenTrek. Just because Kent tells a story with false names doesn't make the story itself false.
The bodies would probably back that up. But the entire story is designed to further cast suspicion away from himself and towards Keaton of whom Kujan already believes is the real Kaiser Soze.
So small details like that in his story, can sound like something that was overlooked, but in reality, it's supposed to further convince Kujan, like a subliminal message.
It makes it seem like he couldn't be trusted in his own crew, and that he had a different end game after all.
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Roger \u201cVerbal\u201d Kent (Kevin Spacey) leaves the police precinct after telling his version of what happened the night that Michael McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Todd Hockney (Kevin Pollak), and Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) died along with 24 other men.Did anything in The Usual Suspects actually happen?
It's kind of the point and charm of the film that your narrator is unreliable. All we can know for sure is that a boat was blown up, all of it's passengers were killed and that they were trading people when Keyser Soze was killing many men. Other than that, no other points of the story were qualified as true.Who is the real Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspect?
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Verbal has beengranted 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 career criminals who are assumed to be responsible for the destruction of a freighter ship and the murder of nearly ...Kobayashi explains it all
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Here's a story about a real coke bust on a ship:
After months of drug busts, Coast Guard unloads 26 tons of cocaine
OK, this is $715 Million worth of cocaine. In the film's case we "only" have about 1/7 of that ($91 Million). This would still equate to about 3 tons of cocaine.
So even if Keaton hadn't visited Marquez's room, it's likely he would know if there was any "f-ing" coke on the boat.
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