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Swordfish

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Swordfish	label	Swordfish
Swordfish	page	Swordfish
Swordfish	comment	Swordfish is a 2001 hacker film directed by Dominic Sena, starring John Travolta, X-Men Film Series actors Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry (and future X-actor, Vinnie Jones), along with the future War Machine, Don Cheadle. Drea de Matteo briefly stars as Stanley's ex-wife.The plot revolves around Stanley Jobson (Jackman), a paroled hacker who is drawn into a complicated Travoltian Gambit Roulette by Gabriel Shear (Travolta) and his beautiful assistant Ginger (Berry). Stanley, in desperate need of money to gain custody of his daughter, agrees to help Gabriel steal money from the government to run his vigilante counter-terrorism unit.The idea for the title of this movie — although it's not mentioned in the film — comes from the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers where one of the brothers is guarding a door, and is told not to let anyone in unless they know the password, which is "swordfish".
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Swordfish / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Swordfish / int_13c1fec8	comment	The body of the real Gabriel Shear (a Mossad agent) was in the wreck to make everyone think the Dragon-in-Chief was dead. See also Chekhov's Gun.
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Swordfish / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Swordfish / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: The movie opens with Gabriel monologuing about the changes he would do to Dog Day Afternoon to make it a film where Sonny wins. It involves an escalation in brutality on Sonny's part to scare the cops into complying.
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Swordfish / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Swordfish / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Gabriel opens the film pondering the potential success of a movie where the hostage taker gets away with everything. He even discusses the story and the mistakes the robbers made in the bank robbery film Dog Day Afternoon. During the hostage negotiation, he even orders a plane on a runway. By the end of the film, he and Ginger come out on top over Stan, their plan a complete success.
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Swordfish / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Swordfish / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Swordfish" is the name of the DEA black project that produced the slush fund the villain wishes to steal.
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Swordfish / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Swordfish / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Gabriel's lecture to Stan about famous magician Harry Houdini and the importance of "misdirection" helps Stan later realise that "Gabriel" didn't die in the helicopter that Stan shot down.
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Swordfish / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Swordfish / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Gabriel counting down from 60 seconds while Stanley frantically hacks into a supposedly "impenetrable" security system, with the implication that someone will die if he fails to do so in time, happens both at the beginning and the end of the movie.
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Swordfish / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Swordfish / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The film starts with a scene close to the end of the film, just to kick the plot off with a big explosion.
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Swordfish / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Swordfish / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Sort of. Any Finnish speaker will tell you that the "language" spoken by the Finnish hacker and his legal counsel is most definitely not Finnish (it's actually German, and changed to actual Finnish in the German dub, where he said "Haista paska senkin mulkku", which means, "Fuck you, you dick").
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Swordfish / int_2b34de10	type	Conversational Troping
Swordfish / int_2b34de10	comment	Conversational Troping: In the opening scene, Gabriel is discussing Ending Tropes with Stanley and Agent Roberts. He compares the hostage situation he is leading with the one in Dog Day Afternoon, and argues that it would be more realistic if the hostage takers in that movie would have been much more cruel, killing multiple hostages from the start, and getting away with the money. Stanley and Roberts argue that audiences will expect a Happy Ending, and that the bad guy can't win to force home An Aesop that crime doesn't pay. Of course, they're trying to invoke it because they don't want Gabriel to do just that to his hostages. It's all foreshadowing to this film's ending, in which Gabriel does get the money and wins.
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Swordfish / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Swordfish / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: The dialogue describing the actual hacking is pure technobabble. The "hacking" shown in the beginning is nothing more than a Linux file directory being shown scrolling over and over again.
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Swordfish / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Swordfish / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Gabriel Shear is part of a secret U.S. government agency that plans to attack terrorist states in more horrific ways than attacks they have supported, ostensibly as right-wing terrorists themselves. The idea is that the terrorist states will become too afraid of a group that can carry out such attacks that none would dare support a group for attacking the U.S. Of course, it first requires they make a terrorist attack on US soil themselves, partly to seize a DEA slush fund for their bankroll (since the secret government money gets cut off), which helps establish their terrorist bonafides at the same time.
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Swordfish / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Swordfish / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Gabriel Shear and Ginger Knowles fake their own deaths and get away rich, evading justice. They use the money to fund a worldwide anti-terrorism campaign. Although in the alternate ending on the DVD, it becomes a Meaningless Villain Victory, as after the bad guys fake their deaths, Stanley Jobson is shown in a cafe with his daughter and using a laptop to steal all their money and donate it to charity, so the bad guys end up having to leave the country completely broke.
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Swordfish / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Swordfish / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Vinnie Jones' character does not say much, but the scene in which he talks the most is a rather verbose "don't be a hero" spiel he tells some hostages.
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Swordfish / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Swordfish / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Gabriel Shear is working under Senator James Reisman. Up until Reisman tries to have him killed, at which point all bets are off.
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Swordfish / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Swordfish / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Gabriel/Black Cell's plan to end terrorism is to inflict even worse acts upon the terrorists and their sponsors.
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Swordfish / int_52a9bc4e	type	Rape by Proxy
Swordfish / int_52a9bc4e	comment	Rape by Proxy: Gabriel forces Stanley at gunpoint to hack into the mainframe of the United States Department of Defense, while he gets a blowjob from a woman who works for Gabriel. Afterwards Stanley is more pissed off about the gun to his head than the fact that he was forced into sex, partly because the film implies the "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization.
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Swordfish / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Swordfish / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Gabriel Shear. Turns out to be Dragon-in-Chief. Until he kills the senator for wanting to stop the operation, and continues the operation.
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Swordfish / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Swordfish / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The studio's logos at the start of the film appear flickering like on a cheap video camera.
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Swordfish / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Swordfish / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Gabriel dual wields a pair of handguns in the car chase scene when he shoots at the attackers at both his sides.
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Swordfish / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Swordfish / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: "Black Cell" (the secret government anti-terror (not anti-terrorist, anti-terror) organization run by Gabriel Shear) and "Swordfish" (the DEA slush-fund operation that is central to the climactic heist).
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Swordfish / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Swordfish / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Subverted. Marco (Vinnie Jones) falls out of the bus when it is hanging vertically under the transport helicopter carrying it, along with a hostage. They fall to their deaths, but halfway down the bomb that was strapped to the hostage suddenly explodes, killing them both before they can hit the ground.
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Swordfish / int_5ecdd585	type	Renegade Splinter Faction
Swordfish / int_5ecdd585	comment	Renegade Splinter Faction: Black Cell, a covert government agency created to protect America at any cost. Already going extreme lengths, Gabriel (who leads the unit) goes full renegade when he kills the senator overseeing the unit. Even after this they operate by their original mandate, with the film's epilogue having a reporter talking about the "mysterious" explosion of a yacht owned by a man suspected of financially supporting terrorists.
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Swordfish / int_62df92d4	type	Involuntary Charity Donation
Swordfish / int_62df92d4	comment	Involuntary Charity Donation: Only as an alternate ending on the VHS version (also featured as a DVD extra), where the hacker transferred money while his daughter watched. The canonical ending has the bad guys get away with the money.
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Swordfish / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Swordfish / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the blowjob scene, if you watch closely, one line of code Stanley input is a comment. When executing a program, all lines of comments are ignored and don't do anything. When programming, putting comments is important so you remember what was the purpose of your code and allow other programmers to understand it. However, why on Earth would you take the time to put a comment when someone is about to shoot you in the brain if you don't hack fast enough? A copy of William Gibson's Neuromancer is on the floor of Holly's room.
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Swordfish / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Swordfish / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: Stanley is visibly embarrassed when he catches Ginger topless by the pool. He bumps into a table when he leaves. Ginger does not care. She even enjoys embarrassing Stanley.
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Swordfish / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
Swordfish / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: Gabriel has himself, his henchmen, and hostages moved into a bus to escape.
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Swordfish / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Swordfish / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: FBI Agent J.T. Roberts brags to Torvalds that he used to be Secret Service until he shot an uncooperative hacker in the hand. He's also fairly dismissive of the utter cesspit he made of Jobson's life as punishment for sabotaging Carnivore. Oh, and he has a big smile on his face when one of his subordinates hits a fleeing Jobson with his car.
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Swordfish / int_74a08ab1	type	Sky Heist
Swordfish / int_74a08ab1	comment	Sky Heist: During the climactic bank robbery, Gabriel Shear arranges for his crew and hostages to be transported to an airport in a bus he prepared, but the destination is just a misdirection. His real escape strategy is to have a helicopter fly over the bus while it is driving, hook its cables to the bus's modified frame, and lift the whole thing away from the police convoy (unfortunately the flight gets complicated when the cables start breaking...).
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Swordfish / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Swordfish / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The opening of the film has the SWAT team "rescue" a hostage being shown off to demonstrate the fancy explosives Gabriel has equipped them with. They get all of twenty feet before the Explosive Leash kicks in and blows up a sizable chuck of the police force on-scene.
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Swordfish / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Swordfish / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The TVR Tuscan that Gabriel drives. Powerful four-litre engine, lightweight fibreglass body, unique chameleon-style paint, machine gun in the trunk.
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Swordfish / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Swordfish / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: When the hostage explodes in the opening, the film moves into Bullet Time and does an Orbital Shot to showcase the damage done to everyone in the vicinity.
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Swordfish / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Swordfish / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Stanley is a whole lot more concerned that Gabriel kidnapped his daughter to force him to do what Gabriel wants than the fact that in order to do so Gabriel killed his harpy ex-wife and her new husband, a porno film magnate (who is not seen much, but Roberts' asshole subordinates gleefully imply is the kind of man who would turn his own step-daughter into one more of his porn actresses the moment he could legally get away with it).
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Swordfish / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Swordfish / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Stan being able to Hollywood-Hack a 1,024-bit encryption in 1 minute, the FBI having no actual rescue plan for a hostage situation, not-dead Ginger escaping before the FBI could rush the bank and find her, the airlifted bus not falling completely, Stan successfully blowing up Gabriel's chopper. Any number of these things could have derailed the plan.
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Swordfish / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Swordfish / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: While his opening spiel about Dog Day Afternoon foreshadows a lot about Gabriel, especially the fact that he wins, he doesn't seems to recall that the film was Based on a True Story and a product of its time, and thus the reason Sonny didn't "win" was because the real "Sonny" didn't win, and Sonny didn't "start killing hostages right off the bat" like Gabriel proposes both because the real "Sonny" didn't do it and because doing so would completely annihilate any sympathy the audience was supposed to have for Sonny.
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Swordfish / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Swordfish / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Surprisingly averted. Except at the end, where the password is actually "swordfish". Otherwise, there are no passwords to speak of. "Password: Swordfish" is the tagline/unofficial title of the film and the official title in Germany, Brazil and Russia. In Latin America the title is "Swordfish: Access Authorized", which also brings up this trope.
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Swordfish / int_af19b864	type	Custody Battle
Swordfish / int_af19b864	comment	Custody Battle: Stanley's motivation for joining Gabriel's heist; his drug-addicted ex wife was given full custody of their daughter because of Stan's cyber crimes record. Her new husband is a sleazy porn producer who uses his money and connections to keep them separated, and Gabriel promises Stan enough cash to hire good lawyers and get his daughter back.
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Swordfish / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Swordfish / int_b9c673a6	comment	"Password: Swordfish" is the tagline/unofficial title of the film and the official title in Germany, Brazil and Russia. In Latin America the title is "Swordfish: Access Authorized", which also brings up this trope.
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Swordfish / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Swordfish / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Stanley Jobson is the unscrupulous type. He helps Gabriel steal money from the government in his intention to run his vigilante counter-terrorism unit.
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Swordfish / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Swordfish / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The character Axl Torvalds is named after Linus Torvalds, who wrote the Linux Kernel. Assistant Director Bill Joy is named after Bill Joy, co-founder and former chief scientist of Sun Microsystems.
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Swordfish / int_d2437b08	type	Short-Lived Aerial Escape
Swordfish / int_d2437b08	comment	Short-Lived Aerial Escape: Gabriel just so happens to have a helicopter on hand and tries to use it to escape in, only for Stan to blow it up with a rocket-propelled grenade. Turns out it's all part of his game of Gambit Roulette.
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Swordfish / int_d35d77e0	type	Hacker Cave
Swordfish / int_d35d77e0	comment	Hacker Cave: The room with the custom supercomputer Gabriel obtained for Stan's part of the plan definitely fits.
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Swordfish / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
Swordfish / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The DVD version contains an alternative ending wherein Ginger is told in the bank that the account is already almost empty, alluding to the possibility that Stanley has played one final trick on them and taken the money himself. When Ginger tells Gabriel about this, he takes it in stride and asks her to join him on a trip to Istanbul. In a companion scene to the alternate ending, Stanley is shown on a trip with his daughter in a brand new RV. While eating at a diner, Stanley is shown transferring billions of dollars to various charities before continuing his trip.
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Swordfish / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Swordfish / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Stanley's ex-wife Melissa refuses to let him speak and see with their daughter, claiming he's a horrible parent to raise her, despite the fact she's a drunk and a porn star and her new husband is a porn director, which is way worse than a hacker.
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Swordfish / int_dded28f2	type	Playful Hacker
Swordfish / int_dded28f2	comment	Playful Hacker: Stanley Jobson. Arguably Deconstructed — he's got the requisite madskillz and moral compass, but this just means The Government is that much more smug when they catch up with him and punish him for his actions: destroying the FBI Carnivore program was actually praised by enough of the public to force them to reduce his prison sentence in favor of paroling him away from computers. But as said parole makes it impossible for him to use his computer skills, he's reduced to welfare, his wife divorces him, and a judge awards the alcoholic with their daughter - and she marries the porn king she works for.
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Swordfish / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Swordfish / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The entire plot. It's hard to make heads or tails out of everything — who's working for who, what the endgame is for everyone, etc. — until the very end. Maybe.
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Swordfish / int_e08ada88	type	Famous-Named Foreigner
Swordfish / int_e08ada88	comment	Famous-Named Foreigner: Axl Torvalds.
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Swordfish / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Swordfish / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Stanley's ex-wife Melissa manages to be the most unpleasant character in the film. Dominic Sena told Drea de Matteo, "Make the audience hate you right away."
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Swordfish / int_eb06cc52	type	Elite Agents Above the Law
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Swordfish / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: Completed with over two kilograms of stainless steel balls, turning each hostage into "the world's largest claymore mines."
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Swordfish / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Gabriel's criminal organization turns to be a secret, unofficial paramilitary unit whose mandate is to defeat terrorism by striking against suspected terrorists and the countries that harbor them. They also fund their activities with high-end crimes, not much caring how many lives it will cost.
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