Rewatchables Reference

• The reveal / ending sequence – Spacey's last scene with Palminteri, the bulletin board, the limp straightening (Bill and Chris's pick).
• The lineup / interrogation combo (first 17 minutes) – a 'master class' introduction of the characters.
• Stephen Baldwin's 'give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucker' in the lineup.
• Kobayashi's first scene laying out the conspiracy.
• The Keyser Soze origin story – 'showed these men of will what will really was'.
• The boat shootout – 'there's no fucking coke'.

• Every actor's performance – a 'who stole the movie' situation with Pollak, Baldwin, Del Toro all competing.
• The poster – '25 years later, still great'.
• The Chazz Palminteri / Spacey interrogation scenes – 35 minutes together, shot in about a week, like a play.
• The fax machine slowly revealing the suspect's face – a 90s trope that no longer exists.

• Kevin Spacey and Bryan Singer's off-screen baggage – the movie essentially got 'canceled' for things unrelated to the film.
• Stephen Baldwin wearing a Confederate flag soldier hat with a motorcycle jacket – 'the worst outfit of the 90s'.
• The twist is now impossible to preserve in the internet age.
• Chazz Palminteri's hair/wig – 'starting to look like Burt Reynolds in Stroker Ace'.

• Michael Biehn was the first choice for McManus; Singer called Baldwin a 'huge mistake' after the fact.
• Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro both turned down the Kujan role; Al Pacino also came in to read.
• Redfoot was offered to Walken, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeff Bridges, Charlie Sheen, James Spader, Al Pacino, and Johnny Cash.
• Singer & McQuarrie sent the screenplay to Spacey without telling him which role – Spacey assumed Kujan or Keaton.

• Stephen Baldwin – 'give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucker' (winner).
• Kevin Pollak – 'fuck your father in the shower and then have a snack'.

• Peter Greene as Redfoot (Bill's pick / winner).
• Giancarlo Esposito.
• Pete Postlethwaite as Kobayashi.

Suzy Amis replaced with Laura Linney – Bill is 'not a Suzy Amis fan'.

• The folders are handed out in the order the characters die.
• Gabriel Byrne nearly backed out for 24 hours due to going through a divorce.
• Del Toro developed his mumbling to stand out; his farting on set caused the lineup laughter.
• The cigarette flick into Baldwin's face was an accident – genuine reaction.
• Baldwin and Pollak have a long-standing feud from filming – 'the 2Pac and Biggie of independent 90s film actors'.
• Peter Greene's career derailed due to drug problems.

• The Baldwin Brothers as a troika: Yes – Alec was A-minus list, Billy was being pushed (Sliver, Flatliners, Backdraft), Stephen had this.
• Stephen Baldwin: Definitely yes – this was his peak.
• Kevin Pollak: Yes – Few Good Men was in the rearview, regular on Letterman and Conan.
• Chazz Palminteri: Yes – had so much juice he helped get the movie funded.
• Peter Greene: Yes – 'Pulp Fiction' '94, Usual Suspects '95, then it went the other way.
• Kevin Spacey: No – American Beauty is probably his Apex.
• Gabriel Byrne: No – Miller's Crossing.
• Limping: Yes – the greatest limp ever filmed.
• Turkish crime lords: Yes.

• Palminteri never finds it suspicious that the one crippled guy survived the boat explosion without a mark.
• The way Keyser Soze is described as this fearsome figure doesn't match Kevin Spacey at all.
• Some of the crimes Kobayashi assigns seem like small stakes for a $91 million cocaine guy.

• Why wasn't Kevin Pollak a bigger star? 'Bad job by his agent'.
• What is Palminteri's next day at the office like after completely blowing it?
• Keyser Soze vs. Neil McCauley (from Heat) – who wins?
• Couldn't Soze have come up with a simpler way to get the witness than a massive gun battle?

'The perfect 6-episode BBC-style limited series' – if the twist happened in the finale like Big Little Lies, 'you would be shitting yourself'.

• Christopher McQuarrie – the script is one of the all-time greats and McQuarrie went on to 'Mission: Impossible' films.
• In 2015 the answer would have been Spacey, but 'now that this movie has shifted, it's McQuarrie'.