The Soze slaughters continue with the death of Michael McManus Stephen Baldwin , who is impaled with a hunting knife in the back of the neck.
Yeah Verbal, what cerebral palsy? While we don't know it at the time, in hindsight it becomes clear that Soze whacked McManus for his own personal gain.
The death comes right after an argument between McManus and Keaton over the absence of cocaine onboard. McManus' sudden death shakes Keaton to the core, informing him that something far more sinister than Argentine dope-runners awaits him. One of the biggest hair-raising and bone-chilling moments in the film comes when Soze opens the porthole of the ship to find Arturo Marquez, the one man who can identify the criminal mastermind. Quaking in fear and sweating with terror, Marquez pleads for his life with a frog in his throat as Soze approaches.
All we see is Soze's sinister silhouette in front of Marquez before hearing an offscreen gunshot. It's arguably the worst thing Soze does because he orchestrated the entire fake drug deal so he can assassinate this one man without notice.
However, the first scene of the film ought to tell you otherwise! Despite the opening sequence that foreshadows his death, Keaton is positioned as the movie's protagonist. So in the end, when we learn he is neither the good guy or bad guy, but merely a pawn in Soze's duplicitous ploy. His death registers as one of Soze's biggest transgressions. Disguised as a dope deal gone south, Soze is ultimately responsible for the 27 dead bodies fished out of the San Pedro harbor at the end of the film.
Now, to be clear, Soze didn't personally kill all 27 victims. However, the entire deal was done as a clandestine hit-job on Arturo Marquez, the lone soul who could identify Soze by face save the hospitalized Hungarian, whom Soze is unaware of.
Therefore, his grand scheme ended up claiming the lives of all the victims involved, including the criminal partners he personally murdered in the process. It all sounds quite ordinary but the contributions are all very interesting - Spacey is particularly good and is supported by comments from his fellow actors regarding his performance and the importance of perspective in the film.
Overall this is only one of many little shorts on a great special edition DVD and this short doesn't cover a great deal of ideas but it is full of interesting little stories and it really benefits from the whole cast contributing concise and interesting ideas. Not worth buying the DVD for but well worth watching more than once. Details Edit. Release date April 2, United States.
United States. MGM Home Entertainment. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 19 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. See the gallery. The Rise of Will Smith. Verbal's tale starts six weeks earlier in New York City. Five criminals are brought together in a police lineup: Dean Keaton, a corrupt former police officer who has apparently given up his life of crime; Michael McManus, a short-tempered professional thief; Fred Fenster, McManus' partner who speaks in mangled English; Todd Hockney, a hijacker who forms an instant rivalry with McManus; and Verbal.
While in holding, McManus convinces the others to join forces to commit a robbery targeting New York's Finest Taxi Service, corrupt NYPD police officers who escort smugglers to their destinations around the city. After the successful robbery, the quintet travel to Los Angeles to sell their loot to McManus' fence, "Redfoot". Redfoot talks them into another job: robbing a purported jewel dealer. Instead of jewels or money, as they were told he was holding, the dealer was carrying heroin.
An angry confrontation between the thieves and Redfoot reveals that the job came from a lawyer named Kobayashi. The thieves are to destroy the drugs and, if they choose to wait until the buyers arrive, can split the cash as they choose.
Over the years, he becomes an urban legend, "a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night"; while no one truly believes he is real, his reputation for killing anyone who crosses him, as well as everyone they hold dear, is enough to make him the bogeyman of the criminal underworld. Verbal also describes Fenster's attempt to run away, ending with his being killed by Kobayashi.
The remaining thieves kidnap Kobayashi, intending to kill him if he does not leave them alone. Unbowed, Kobayashi reveals that Edie Finneran, Keaton's lawyer and girlfriend, is in his office believing she was hired for legal services , and threatens to kill her as well as the other thieves' loved ones should they refuse the job.
On the night of the cocaine deal, the sellers a group of Argentine mobsters and the buyers a group of Hungarian mobsters are on the dock. Keaton tells Verbal to stay back, and to take the money to Edie if the plan goes awry so she can pursue Kobayashi "her way". Verbal reluctantly agrees, and watches the boat from a distance in hiding. Keaton, McManus, and Hockney attack the men at the pier, killing most of them. Keaton and McManus board the ship to find the drugs while Hockney goes after a van carrying the cash, and is shot dead after he finds it.
Keaton and McManus discover there is no cocaine on the boat, while a closely guarded Argentine passenger is shot twice in the head by an unseen assailant.
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