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Enemy of the State
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Enemy of the State is a 1998 spy-thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film stars Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Tom Sizemore, and Regina King.A group of rogue operatives from the National Security Agency kill a U.S. Senator who's set to block a bill to expand the government's authority for covert surveillance, but are caught in the act by a wildlife researcher's hidden camera. The NSA finds out about the researcher's tape, and the expanding cloud of coverups, murder and surveillance sucks in Robert Clayton Dean (Smith), a labor lawyer who unwittingly has the tape passed on to him. The NSA agents proceed to bug Dean's house and belongings, ruin his marriage, and destroy his life to get him to surrender the tape. Soon, the only friend he has is the retired NSA agent "Brill" (Hackman), who's learned how paranoid you have to be in this kind of world... | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: During a car chase, Brill (driving) hands a pump-action shotgun to Dean (in the passenger's seat). Dean then leans over and points the shotgun out Brill's window to fire at the car next to them, putting the barrel of the gun just inches from Brill's face. To be fair, Dean hasn't had a lot of experience with firearms, but still ... | |
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Plot-Triggering Death | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: Hammersley's kickstarts, and later, Zavitz's death starts the rest of the plot. | |
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Translation Matchmaking | |
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Translation Matchmaking: The movie is called Public Enemy of The Country (国家公敌) in China, and Public Enemy of All People (全民公敵) in Taiwan. I, Robot is called Robotic Public Enemies (機械公敵) in Taiwan, because of Will Smith starring in both films. | |
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Take Off Your Clothes | |
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Take Off Your Clothes: Brill asks this to Dean because they are bugs hidden inside them, even his shoes. Eventually he does... to the enjoyment of an Asian lady. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Jason Robards as Phil Hammersley. Used to good effect (provided you haven't seen the trailer) when Gabriel Byrne briefly appears, pretending to be Brill. | |
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Obligatory Earpiece Touch | |
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Obligatory Earpiece Touch: The NSA agents pursuing videographer Zavitz all have earpieces, mainly to receive updates from spy satellite pics taken by Mission Control. One agent in particular expects the target to emerge on his street, and fingers his earpiece because he's on a busy, noisy midtown Baltimore thoroughfare. He gets the brotherly counsel from Mission Control: "Turn around, you idiot." | |
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The Spook | |
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The Spook: Brill was out of the grid for 18 years. | |
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Astronomic Zoom | |
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Astronomic Zoom; The movie shows zoom-outs to the surveillance satellites in orbit. | |
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Hopeless with Tech | |
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Hopeless with Tech: Dean, at least as far as Brill is concerned: | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The technicians who work for Reynolds (one of them even seems to take a vacation for the rest of the movie - see 'What Happened to the Mouse?') | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang: The spying devices initially used on Dean are turned around against a congressman and the NSA director, then are once more used against Dean in the finale, but this time as a more comedic event. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The lingerie Dean bought for his wife. When it comes up later in the film it is initially played as a Brick Joke, but it hints Dean to the fact that it was at the lingerie store where Zavitz dropped the incriminating footage in Dean's shopping bag, realizing he indeed had it all along and his son later took it. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "You're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid." Brill says this to Dean twice. The first time is when he leaves Dean on the hotel rooftop, when he thinks Dean is the latter. The second time is when Brill realizes Dean has arranged the Mexican Standoff, and thinks Dean might be the former this time. | |
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Impersonating an Officer | |
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Impersonating an Officer: Brill uses a Baltimore PD uniform as a disguise to meet with the bad guys. Becomes a Chekhov's Gun when an FBI surveillance team sees him being ushered out of a van in front of a Mafia front they are doing surveillance on. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Dean mentions how hard it was to grow up without a father and doesn't want to put his family through that. After his last mission went wrong, Brill presumably became to his family, though it's left unclear if he has any children. On the above mentioned mission, Rachel's father, Brill's partner, died when she was a child. Both Reynolds and Pintero become this to their children after their fight ends in both of their deaths. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Krug and Jones, the two ex-military cutouts Reynolds asks for, a pair of dishonorably discharged marines who were jailed for beating up their Gunnery Sergeant. Particularly Jones, who is not sorry about it. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: Justified. Carla suspects Dean of having an affair with Rachel not only due to the NSA sending her incriminating evidence of the two, but also because, four years prior, Dean did have an affair with her. | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The film opens with Dean negotiating with mobster Pintero over a compromising videotape that Dean had obtained, and which he gives Pintero in exchange for leaving Dean's clients alone. Later, Dean unknowingly obtains a recording that shows the assassination of a Congressman, which places him in the NSA's crosshairs. When he and Brill are captured by NSA bigwig Reynolds, he tells Reynolds that he will take them to the tape, leading them to Pintero instead. Dean remains vague enough about what he means by "the tape" when introducing them that Pintero assumes Reynolds is the man who made the mob tape coming to blackmail him, while Reynolds thinks that Dean gave the assassination tape to The Mafia, leading to a violent shootout where both Mafia and NSA forces wipe each other out. | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover: Brill might be a Grumpy Old Man, but he has great affection for his cat. | |
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Lingerie Scene | |
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Lingerie Scene: Both models in a lingerie shop and Dean's wife. And it's plot-relevant both times. | |
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin | |
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: Much of the suspense hinges around a wildlife researcher's video recorder that captured NSA Chief Reynolds killing a congressman who opposed Reynolds' Stalinist domestic surveillance program. The wildlife researcher sees what's been recorded, and runs for his life from pursuing agents. He's able to dump the video into the shopping bag of labor lawyer Robert Dean before being killed. Later, the magic Enhance Button is able to determine that Dean now holds the incriminating video. | |
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Chekhov's Army | |
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Chekhov's Army: The Pintero Crime Family, and the FBI guys watching them. | |
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Magical Security Cam | |
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Magical Security Cam: Used by Reynolds' outfit. | |
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Engineered Public Confession | |
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Engineered Public Confession: Brill and Dean try to catch Reynolds admitting to the murders. It doesn't work—Reynolds spends too much time giving a spiel about how the world is going to the dogs and espionage has become more important than ever and manages to buy time for his goons to track the radio frequency of the heroes' Hidden Wire and catch them both. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Dean comes up with one, which results in a Blast Out. | |
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Defector from Decadence | |
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Defector from Decadence: Brill. He used to be an NSA surveillance man, and then decided to quit when his friend was killed in action. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: A photo of Gene Hackman's character in The Conversation is used for Brill's file. Critics such as Kim Newman advanced the theory that the two characters are one and the same. This isn't the first time that Tom Sizemore's been caught in a Mexican Standoff. Nor the last. | |
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Secret Message Wink | |
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Secret Message Wink: Dean winks at Brill when he tells him near the end, "Watch out for the FBI." Brill shows he understands by winking back. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid : Brill. Then again, he used to be a spook as well. Also see the Tag Line. | |
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On Second Thought | |
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On Second Thought: Carla is watching Congressman Albert talk about the need for increased surveillance on their enemies. Also, when Brill is with Dean getting organized to take on Reynolds, and he gives him a shirt: | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Admiral Shaffer, after Congressman Albert's hotel room is bugged: | |
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Who Watches the Watchmen? | |
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Who Watches the Watchmen?: One of the aesops of the film. During the end, Robert and Carla are watching a TV news interview with Congressman Albert and this trope is discussed both on the TV and then by them. | |
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Surveillance as the Plot Demands | |
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Surveillance as the Plot Demands: To the point where they can look at things explicitly out of the camera's view. At the same time, Spy Satellites seem very limited (they can't catch somebody's face unless he's looking straight up), yet on a later scene they allegedly were in perfect position to flawlessly film the travel of a single car from a random spot on suburban Pennsylvania all the way to its parking spot multiple miles away and that all it takes to review this intel is the coordinates of where it started to roll and its make, model and color. | |
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Photo Identification Denial | |
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Photo Identification Denial: A variation when mobster Paulie Pintero is shown a video of himself at a barbecue with some people that, as a condition of his parole, he's not allowed to associate with. | |
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Conspiracy Thriller | |
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Conspiracy Thriller: With all the digital technology that fuels conspiracies since 1990. | |
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Dead Man's Trigger Finger | |
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Dead Man's Trigger Finger: The Blast Out at the climax begins when, after Pintero, Reynolds and their respective goons pull guns on each other, Krug comes out of cover to order Pintero's men to stand down with his SMG, gets blown away from behind by a cook with a double-barreled shotgun, and starts blasting in his death throes. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: Dean has to be this if he wants to beat his enemies. For most of the first two acts of the film he doesn't even knows how bad things are, and on the third he's the "bumbling newbie" member of the Action Duo he's formed with Brill. | |
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Plot Coupon | |
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Plot Coupon: The tape, which has recorded the murder of a congressman by a group of corrupt NSA agents. Logically, the tape is being coveted by them to destroy the evidence that would expose their guilt. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Robert Clayton pulls an on-the-fly Batman Gambit which ties up two troublesome loose ends by getting them to deal with each other. Through some fast talking and well chosen ambiguous language, he sets up a Mexican Stand Off between a rogue NSA team that has taken him hostage and a gang of trigger happy goodfellas who are looking for a fight. It does not end well for any of them. | |
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Government Conspiracy | |
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Government Conspiracy: More specifically, of the NSA. | |
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Improperly Paranoid | |
| Enemy of the State / int_5a5b7e42 | comment |
Improperly Paranoid: All of the hell that Dean suffers is because Reynolds takes one look at his history (lawyer, connections to various civil groups, friend of the guy that filmed the video), and the situation (random meeting after many years of not seeing in the middle of a chase, Daniel puts the videogame where he hid the video inside Dean's bag in a moment of desperation, Dean puts his foot down when his goons get too rash with their questions when they arrive to his house faking being cops) and immediately assumes "informant that will try to destroy my plans". | |
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Enemy of the State / int_5a5b7e42 | |
| Enemy of the State / int_5da3f522 | type |
Big Brother Is Watching | |
| Enemy of the State / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Basically the whole premise of the movie. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Enemy of the State / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Reynolds is usually shown in the accompany of his wife, who he cares for. Pintero is a Mob boss, but near the climax, it's shown he has a wife and two sons he adores. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_659235a4 | type |
Train Escape | |
| Enemy of the State / int_659235a4 | comment |
Train Escape: Brill's car breaks near the tracks, forcing him and Reynolds to escape hiding between the passing trains. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_65acf9db | type |
He Knows Too Much | |
| Enemy of the State / int_65acf9db | comment |
He Knows Too Much: Subverted. See Revealing Cover-Up. | |
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Drill the Lock | |
| Enemy of the State / int_67bb6ec6 | comment |
Drill the Lock: The NSA attempts this when breaking into Daniel Zavitz's flat before simply kicking the door down. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_6eaff95 | type |
Leno Device | |
| Enemy of the State / int_6eaff95 | comment |
Leno Device: A Republican congressman (Congressman Albert) appears on Larry King. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
| Enemy of the State / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Dean engineers a meeting between the NSA and the mafiosi from the beginning of the movie. Neither party realizes that they're talking about two different tapes. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_7b50237d | type |
Distinction Without a Difference | |
| Enemy of the State / int_7b50237d | comment |
Distinction Without a Difference: Inverted when Dean is called before his bosses at the law firm over allegations against him: | |
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Faking and Entering | |
| Enemy of the State / int_7e4b4b8a | comment |
Faking and Entering: Dean pretends to be a deliveryman to enter a hotel room and delay his pursuit. Reynolds' goons thrash Dean's house, both because they're looking for the hidden file (they don't find it because Dean's kid took the videogame that it was hidden inside) and so they can place bugs in both the house and Dean's clothes without anyone questioning any inconsistencies. They also steal his blender, just because. | |
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Enemy of the State / int_7e4b4b8a | |
| Enemy of the State / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Enemy of the State / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because Dean calls Carla's friend and her phone is bugged (even though he's calling from a pay phone), the NSA is able to track Brill's car and follow it to where he lives, causing him to take drastic measures - blowing up the building where he lives - and causing a Car Chase between Brill and the NSA, which also ends up destroying the MacGuffin. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_805deb6e | type |
Small Role, Big Impact | |
| Enemy of the State / int_805deb6e | comment |
Small Role, Big Impact: Zavitz only had a minor one, but (accidentally) got the evidence that showed Reynolds and his men killing Hammersly. And he put the copy inside Dean's bag... | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_8103b995 | type |
Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie | |
| Enemy of the State / int_8103b995 | comment |
Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie: And one that came out three years before 9/11. A modern viewer watching the film without knowing its year of release would probably assume it was a political thriller made as a heavy-handed reaction to the events in question, and would likely be surprised to learn it was released in the late '90s. What's even stranger is that Reynolds' birthday is—get this—9/11. How's that for a significant date. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_81c0e175 | type |
An Ass-Kicking Christmas | |
| Enemy of the State / int_81c0e175 | comment |
An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Robert Dean's struggle against the NSA begins when he encounters a friend while purchasing a Christmas gift for his wife. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_82b137d | type |
Sinister Spy Agency | |
| Enemy of the State / int_82b137d | comment |
Sinister Spy Agency: The National Security Agency, in its regular pop-culture personification as Sinister Surveillance incarnate, is the vilain of this story. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_83f0971b | type |
Mexican Standoff | |
| Enemy of the State / int_83f0971b | comment |
Mexican Standoff: On a grand scale. Apparently played for laughs too when you know both parties are being suckered big time. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_85bcc5a8 | type |
Lampshaded Double Entendre | |
| Enemy of the State / int_85bcc5a8 | comment |
Lampshaded Double Entendre: When Dean and Carla have reunited at the end: | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Enemy of the State / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Seth Green (the techie who leads the mobile surveillance team) just completely disappears halfway through the film, with no word of explanation. With what he must have known, surely he wasn't someone they'd let zip off somewhere. Did Green suddenly become unavailable halfway through filming? The imposter Brill played by Gabriel Byrne doesn't appear anywhere again through the rest of the film after Dean escapes from him. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_895ec17 | type |
Only in It for the Money | |
| Enemy of the State / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: Brill pretends to be this to try and get Reynolds to make an Engineered Public Confession. It doesn't work. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Enemy of the State / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Like what Reynolds and his men did to him, Dean puts monitoring devices in Reynolds' home as well framing him for cheating and canceling his credit cars. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_967c590f | type |
Kitchen Chase | |
| Enemy of the State / int_967c590f | comment |
Kitchen Chase: Daniel runs through a the kitchen of a club to escape the pursuing federal agents. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Enemy of the State / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: NSA official Thomas Brian Reynolds orders the murder of Congressman Phil Hammersley to stop him from blocking a bill that will allow the NSA to legally spy on citizens, and tails Robert Clayton Dean to get back a tape from him with evidence of his crime. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_9d02df1b | type |
Blast Out | |
| Enemy of the State / int_9d02df1b | comment |
Blast Out: Dean manages to basically have the NSA agents who've already captured him and the Mafia goons from the start of the film kill each other. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_a0e3acee | type |
Training "Accident" | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a0e3acee | comment |
Training "Accident": Or at least that was how they planned it to look like. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a1154544 | comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Brill, though it's entirely justified. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_a1b0c1c2 | type |
Revealing Cover-Up | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a1b0c1c2 | comment |
Revealing Cover-Up: Dean actually knows nothing about the disk he has, and only starts investigating when the NSA goons start leaning on him. | |
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Enemy of the State / int_a1b0c1c2 | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a655d21c | type |
Calling the Cops on the FBI | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a655d21c | comment |
Calling the Cops on the FBI: When Dean needs to enter Rachel's house unseen, he spots the Spies In a Van parked outside. He then calls the city cops and spins a tale about conspicuous men in a van who might be doing drugs. Queue the spies when they hear the call on the police radio: Later in the film, Dean more or less calls the FBI on the NSA, via leading the latter into a Mafia-owned restaurant the Feds happen to be surveilling. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_a67b8999 | type |
Extreme Graphical Representation | |
| Enemy of the State / int_a67b8999 | comment |
Extreme Graphical Representation: Every computer screen seen in the movie has blatantly unnecessary bits of video, animated images, and scrolling text visible. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_aa0ed8a9 | type |
Look Both Ways | |
| Enemy of the State / int_aa0ed8a9 | comment |
Look Both Ways: Zavitz, the wildlife researcher. | |
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Enemy of the State / int_aa0ed8a9 | |
| Enemy of the State / int_ab1659d5 | type |
Hero Stole My Bike | |
| Enemy of the State / int_ab1659d5 | comment |
Hero Stole My Bike: Daniel's attempt at escape. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_ae372576 | type |
I Warned You | |
| Enemy of the State / int_ae372576 | comment |
I Warned You: When Dean tells his wife their house, car, phones, etc. have all been bugged, she angrily reminds him she knew something like this might happen (which she had), to which he replies "This is not the time for the 'I told you so' speech." | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Enemy of the State / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Reynolds has his moments. One of his underlings mentions in passing that Dean's wife is attached to the ACLU, and he quips: | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_b0cbdcb1 | type |
Black Helicopter | |
| Enemy of the State / int_b0cbdcb1 | comment |
Black Helicopter: Reynolds' outfit uses these. | |
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Enemy of the State / int_b0cbdcb1 | |
| Enemy of the State / int_b1f4c5bb | type |
Enhance Button | |
| Enemy of the State / int_b1f4c5bb | comment |
Enhance Button: It can even let them look at things blocked by the camera's view, though it gets a Hand Wave by saying that they are merely looking at extrapolations based on surrounding elements such as shadows, and assumptions, such as them presuming that a shadow might be cast by an object they suspect is blocked from view. Oddly, this technology is not compatible with Spy Satellites. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_b402fa9f | type |
Tropical Epilogue | |
| Enemy of the State / int_b402fa9f | comment |
Tropical Epilogue: Brill does this at the end of the movie, broadcasting a hilarious video message to Dean's television. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_b84491a3 | type |
Wrong Insult Offence | |
| Enemy of the State / int_b84491a3 | comment |
Wrong Insult Offence: Dean, to the mob: | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_bbfaa837 | type |
Knight Templar | |
| Enemy of the State / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: Reynolds sees himself as this. Though it also turns out he is hoping for career advancement if the privacy bill passes. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Enemy of the State / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Rachel's death for Brill. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_c0e5fc39 | type |
Celeb Crush | |
| Enemy of the State / int_c0e5fc39 | comment |
Celeb Crush: Robert Dean assures his wife she's the only woman for him - unless Janet Jackson came calling, in which case he'd drop her in a second. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_c1c2c57c | type |
'90s Hair | |
| Enemy of the State / int_c1c2c57c | comment |
'90s Hair: The former Marines brought in to act as muscle for Reynolds' team all have 90s boyband cuts. Lampshaded by Fiedler. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_c3648b87 | type |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
| Enemy of the State / int_c3648b87 | comment |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Brill and Dean really don't get along, but they're forced to work together when the NSA goes after both of them. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_c4f2a21 | type |
Misaimed Stereotyping | |
| Enemy of the State / int_c4f2a21 | comment |
Misaimed Stereotyping: Robert Clayton is called a "shyster" by another character. He claims "shyster" is mainly a term of derision for Jewish lawyers, and in his case, the correct slur is "eggplant". In truth, this claim is both wrong and irrelevant. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_c5eb0340 | type |
Plan B Resolution | |
| Enemy of the State / int_c5eb0340 | comment |
Plan B Resolution: Or rather Plan "C", if you get technical. Very shortly after Brill and Dean discover that they have the recording of Hammersley's assassination, the disk is destroyed when their car catches fire in a Car Chase. Plan "B" becomes try to draw Reynolds into giving an Engineered Public Confession. It does not works because Reynolds and his crew detect the bug on Brill and catch Brill and Dean. Plan "C" is Dean pulling an Indy Ploy and convincing Reynolds to come with him to Pintero's club, hoping that the NSA leader Reynolds and the Mafia leader Pintero will piss off each other enough to kill each other. It works. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_d01cffbc | type |
Badass Longcoat | |
| Enemy of the State / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: Some Marine mooks wear longcoats. Not the best outfit to run faster, but they look cool. One mook wears a plastic raincoat identical to one worn in The Conversation as an added allusion to that film. | |
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| Enemy of the State / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Enemy of the State / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Dean and Brill use stolen NSA spying equipment to make Reynolds look like he's spying on a senator. They also turn the same tactics used to discredit Dean on Reynolds, making his life miserable so he'll try to cut a deal. Brill compares it to guerilla warfare. | |
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The Unfettered | |
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The Unfettered: Reynolds, who will do anything he considers necessary to protect his country, and his career. Which includes having people killed (at one point he almost does it himself). His goal here is to create even more of a surveillance society by getting the privacy bill passed by Congress, because America is constantly under threat. | |
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I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin | |
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I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: The wildlife researcher who dumps the video onto Dean. The subsequent drama that ensues is because Dean doesn't even knows he has the video for a chunk of the film. | |
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From the Mouths of Babes | |
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From the Mouths of Babes: After the events of the movie, and when Robert and Carla are watching the news with their young son Eric: | |
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Television Geography | |
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Television Geography: The Baltimore and DC locations change pretty quickly... | |
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Off the Grid | |
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Off the Grid: The Hero is on the run from the NSA. He gets aid from "Brill," a former intelligence agent who retired after discovering just how Gestapo-like the NSA had become. He lives like a hikikomori, monitoring the world inside a caged room to prevent electronic "bleed" from revealing his hideout. Brill even wears a brimmed ball cap and never looks up to preclude spy satellites from recognizing his face. | |
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No Party Given | |
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No Party Given: The Congressman whose murder kicks off the plot is at one point explicitly said to be a Republican, although so is the Congressman who sponsored the surveillance expansion legislation that he was killed for opposing. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Paulie Pintero refers to Dean as a "shyster" lawyer. Dean politely corrects him, saying that "shyster" is for Jewish people, and as a person of African-American descent, he would be an "eggplant". This is, in fact, a term used by people of Italian descent to refer to people of color. This also functions as a Shout-Out to an earlier film also directed by Tony Scott that features a famous discussion of the slur, seen here. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: The Batman Gambit that enables the climactic Blast Out happens because Pintero has a tape (Brill's surveillance that gave Dean the leverage to negotiate on behalf of the people Pintero was strong-arming at the beginning) and Reynolds wants a tape (the recording that shows the assassination of the Congressman, which has been destroyed) and Dean remains vague enough when introducing them that Pintero assumes Reynolds is the man who made the tape coming to blackmail him and Reynolds thinks that Dean gave the tape to The Mafia, pissing them both off. | |
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Billionaire Wristband | |
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Billionaire Wristband: Wealthy labour lawyer Robert Clayton Dean is shown wearing an Omega wristwatch, a gift from his wife. This becomes a plot point when the villains replace it with a replica that contains a tracking device, so they can follow Dean's movements. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Dean becomes suspicious of Brill due to a verbal slip up. The real Brill rescues him shortly after. | |
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Finding the Bug | |
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Finding the Bug: There are several instances of this, not only are the bugs shown to be planted, then shown how they are being exploited and ultimately shown to be searched for and neutralized and counter-exploited. | |
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Mister Muffykins | |
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Mister Muffykins: Dean's wife's stupid little dog, Porsche (which looks just like the one in the photo on that page!) Dean clearly can't stand it (who could?) | |
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TagLine | |
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Tag Line: "It's not paranoia if they're really after you." | |
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Malicious Slander | |
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Malicious Slander: Dean is victim of this. | |
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Spy Satellites | |
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Spy Satellites: One major limitation is pointed out: the satellites are only terribly useful if the person you are trying to track ever looks up. Brill makes a point of keeping his head level and wearing a baseball cap. | |
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Spies In a Van | |
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Spies In a Van: At a certain point, Dean decides to shoot 'em back by calling the cops about "a van in front of my house, possibly trafficking drugs!" Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Dean's blender, which is stolen by the NSA goons. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Reynolds certainly gives the impression of believing that he has the best interests of national security at heart, but he's still a corrupt murderer. Subverted when we overhear his wife say that if the privacy bill passes a consequence is that he will likely be promoted, pushing him into a Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: The NSA goons steal Dean's blender while they're messing up his house, just because it's a nice blender. | |
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Fully-Clothed Nudity | |
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Fully-Clothed Nudity: A man strips down to his socks, boxer shorts, and tanktop-style undershirt, and considers this nude enough after finding numerous other tracking devices in his other clothing. | |
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