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The Spanish Prisoner

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47 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

The Spanish Prisoner	type	TVTItem
The Spanish Prisoner	label	The Spanish Prisoner
The Spanish Prisoner	page	TheSpanishPrisoner
The Spanish Prisoner	comment	The Spanish Prisoner is a suspense/crime/mystery film written and directed by David Mamet. It revolves around Joe Ross, a researcher for an unnamed major company who's recently perfected an unspecified process which is worth a great deal of money. While on a business trip in the Caribbean, he meets and befriends a wealthy traveler who offers to advise him and help him get a fair share of the profits. Shortly, however, he begins to question his new friend's motives and intentions. As in most Mamet stories, deceptions and cons pile up as both the protagonist and the audience try to figure out who's telling the truth, and who's part of a plot.
The Spanish Prisoner	fetched	2023-11-01T03:32:10Z
The Spanish Prisoner	parsed	2023-11-01T03:32:10Z
The Spanish Prisoner	processingComment	Dropped link to Greed: Not a Feature - ITEM
The Spanish Prisoner	processingComment	Dropped link to HidingInPlainSight: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Spanish Prisoner	processingComment	Dropped link to TheCon: Not a Feature - ITEM
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_11459bd4	type	OffScreenTeleportation
The Spanish Prisoner / int_11459bd4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: The only explanation for what happens to the book containing the process during the Title Drop scene.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
The Spanish Prisoner / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print: Joe is tricked into signing a club membership form which turns out to be a request for political asylum from the Republic of Venezuela.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Spanish Prisoner / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: During the Spanish Prisoner con exposition scene, delivered by Ed O'Neill's character.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Spanish Prisoner / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The fed who explains the Spanish Prisoner con is played by Ed O'Neill, a personal friend of Mamet's.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Spanish Prisoner / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Jimmy's sister. The promise of meeting her strings Joe along with Jimmy for a while. We never see what she looks like. The one photograph that Jimmy shows has her face covered by glare. It turns out she doesn't exist.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_1f52ab08	type	Unreveal Angle
The Spanish Prisoner / int_1f52ab08	comment	Unreveal Angle: Dell's sister is The Ghost. When he shows Joe a photo of her, glare on the glass over the photo prevents the audience from seeing anything.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Spanish Prisoner / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Dell duped Joe on several occasions without the latter noticing anything wrong.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
The Spanish Prisoner / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: They appear in a number of scenes, and Jimmy notes that no one ever pays attention to them. It turns out that they're U.S. Marshals hiding in plain sight.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_27ae751	type	Swiss Bank Account
The Spanish Prisoner / int_27ae751	comment	Swiss Bank Account: Jimmy creates a Swiss Bank Account for Joe as a lark. He points out that, even though the account is basically empty, Swiss law prevents the balance from being disclosed, so he can impress people with the possibility that's he's rich. This turns out to be part of the con, because that account makes it look like he's hiding a payoff, and the same law means he can't prove that there's no money in the account.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Spanish Prisoner / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: The plotters had a brilliantly detailed and multi-layered plan to get a hold of the process and leave Joe to take the fall. In the end the Feds were watching them the entire time and were just letting them proceed to gather evidence.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Spanish Prisoner / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: One of the Asian U.S. Marshals has a cartoonishly thick Southern accent (that was obviously dubbed).
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Spanish Prisoner / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: US Marshalls were clued in to the whole scheme from the start, when Jimmy has Joe cornered on the boat two "tourists" come to the rescue.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Spanish Prisoner / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Just when Joe thinks he knows he is being conned and what to do about it, the rug is yanked out from under his feet and he is blindsided by a completely different con.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Spanish Prisoner / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When the camera bag goes through the X-ray machine. It's when the audience first learns that Susan is in on the con.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
The Spanish Prisoner / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: Stuck on a boat with a man about to shoot him, Joe appeals to the other people around - the ubiquitous Japanese tourists. They immediately subdue the villains and reveal they were actually U.S. Marshals.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
The Spanish Prisoner / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: Mamet must have known that the audience would be expecting a con game to turn up in this film. We hit that twist and the con is uncovered and explained before the movie is half over. Then we realize that we haven't uncovered anything yet.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Spanish Prisoner / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: In fairness to the police, things were deliberately set up so that Joe would look guilty and half of his story fell apart on inspection. Naturally they don't believe his pleas of innocence. Then subverted when we find out that Federal Marshals were following the case from the beginning.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Spanish Prisoner / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Joe isn't part of the Spanish Prisoner con, but everything is set up to make him believe it's the case. Susan is part of the scheme. So is Mr. Klein. The Japanese tourists aren't just background extras, nor are they sent out by the Japanese corporation to steal the process; they're U.S. Marshals.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Spanish Prisoner / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Joe is this in Dell's scheme.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Spanish Prisoner / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: Several objects turn into plot-driving devices later on. The business card of the FBI agent. Invoked to trap Joe deeper in the scheme. The video tape from the island. Joe remembers it when seeing the surveillance monitor at Susan's place. The tennis book (with Jimmy's finger prints on it) eventually brings the charade down. Joe's ridiculously huge folding knife.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Spanish Prisoner / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The scheme runs pretty much perfectly, except that Joe accidentally tore the book when opening it, replaced it, and kept the original, which had Jimmy's fingerprints.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
The Spanish Prisoner / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: By the end of the film, it's clear that Joe had been set up by almost literally everyone close to him in order to get him to deliver the process and set him up to take the fall. The whole thing has been a con within a con within a con, which makes a second viewing more interesting.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Spanish Prisoner / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Even Susan has to crack a wry smile when Joe declines to do a "good deed."
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_822b648f	type	Mamet Speak
The Spanish Prisoner / int_822b648f	comment	Mamet Speak: But of course. One of the opening scenes, where Joe, Mr. Klein, and the other businessmen discuss the process, its applications, and value is the best example of it.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_86e1653c	type	Working Through the Cold
The Spanish Prisoner / int_86e1653c	comment	Working Through the Cold: George gets a cold during the company trip, which is why he doesn't go out and ultimately ends up murdered.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Spanish Prisoner / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Downplayed as early on Susan expresses an attraction to Joe, who is Married to the Job but polite in dismissing her interest, while she seeks to be a Hypercompetent Sidekick otherwise. This was part of the scheme, slowly wear down Joes' support network until he feels she is the only one to turn to, where she delivers the final con and has him take the fall.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_8e3980c7	type	Mistaken Nationality
The Spanish Prisoner / int_8e3980c7	comment	Mistaken Nationality: The "Japanese" tourists.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_8ee710e7	type	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
The Spanish Prisoner / int_8ee710e7	comment	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: When Joe finds his friend dead, with a knife in his chest, his first move is to try to grab the knife.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Spanish Prisoner / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: It becomes evident that almost everyone introduced in the film had been manipulating Joe into this scheme. Small deviations are treated with more exaggerated responses because they are all trying to direct him down a particular path. Exactly where things went wrong are implied through multiple layers to the scheme (the initial crux of the scheme was to convince Joe that management was going to short change him and convincing him to bring the process to Jimmy and his lawyers, once that didn't go right they created the fake FBI sting to get their hands on the process). It takes until the last few minutes before the audience and Joe are clued into the final piece of the puzzle, where the entire plot is revealed.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Spanish Prisoner / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, Joe sees a boat moving from a seaplane towards the shore. Susan points out that he never actually saw the boat leave the plane, it could have been coming from anywhere, "and we have no idea who anyone is." We never get a good look at pictures of Jimmy's sister, most noticeably when a lamp is reflected over her face. It turns out she doesn't exist.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Spanish Prisoner / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Joe being too nice eventually leads the entire plot to crumble, even if initially it helped the conmen. Should he let Susan return in business class, she wouldn't get an extra chance to point out Jimmy might be bad. Joe would never open the package and he wouldn't notice the book is damaged - something that wasn't even important for the scheme. Later on, helping a troubled mother leads to the realisation he still has Jimmy's fingerprints.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Spanish Prisoner / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The "process", we are merely told that this will circumvent something about a Japanese investment, it touches upon insider trading and the payoff would be a lot of money. Even the amount of money is not disclosed, only that it takes Joe a few seconds to write it out.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
The Spanish Prisoner / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: Felicity Huffman's character leaves behind a business card that turns out to be an important part of the larger plan.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Spanish Prisoner / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Jimmy notes that no one ever pays attention to Japanese tourists. His con is undone by the very fact that he's been ignoring the tourists.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Spanish Prisoner / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: A combination of this and Pride makes Joe a superb target for the scheme, which is entirely tailored around those traits.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Spanish Prisoner / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Susan gets Joe through a roadblock by playing a bickering couple and staging a massive fight, until the police wave them through just to get rid of them.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
The Spanish Prisoner / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: Dell grants one to Joe on the ferry. Joe requests to learn more about the process.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_d6e495b2	type	Undisclosed Funds
The Spanish Prisoner / int_d6e495b2	comment	Undisclosed Funds: The stake at the beginning is not shown to the audience, but is presumably an impressive sum. Judging by Joe's writing and sounds he makes with chalk, it's eight figures. And that's a conservative projection.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Spanish Prisoner / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: In multiple scenes throughout the movie, there are Japanese tourists in the background taking pictures. Everyone ignores them, except to comment on the ubiquity of Japanese tourist photographing things; in the end they turn out to be Federal Marshals who were following the whole plot.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Spanish Prisoner / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: There is a con within a con and the fail-safe situation is based on combination of another two cons. All of it to get the formula without paying Joe a single cent for it.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Spanish Prisoner / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on. When they tried to set him up at airport, he left just as the "camera" (really a gun to alert security) went through the x-ray.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
The Spanish Prisoner / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: Once Joe is caught, he leads them to all the places that Jimmy took him, to find them totally different. Jimmy's house is abandoned, and the private club they went to was a family restaurant.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_ed914e98	type	Tricked into Signing
The Spanish Prisoner / int_ed914e98	comment	Tricked into Signing: Used as part of a Frame-Up. The hero is rushed to sign a club membership form that turns out to be a request for political asylum from the Republic of Venezuela. It gives the impression that he is about to skip the country with a fortune. And the police fall for it.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_edebe3c8	type	Plot-Based Voice Cancellation
The Spanish Prisoner / int_edebe3c8	comment	Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: This is used to prevent the audience from ever learning where the process was hidden. Oddly enough, though, the line shows up clearly in the subtitles. Judging by the DVD release, where the lines are much more audiable, the idea was different. Jimmy uses the sudden noise to never give anything on the Hidden Wire, since he expects the ruse.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Spanish Prisoner / int_fac4ff79	comment	Meta Casting: Ricky Jay, a professional magician, and expert in charlatans, plays George, Joe's friend and a lawyer. This indicated from the very start he will play important role in the plot. He's killed instead and Joe is framed for it.
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The Spanish Prisoner / int_fb1327b2	type	Tranquillizer Dart
The Spanish Prisoner / int_fb1327b2	comment	Tranquillizer Dart: Jimmy is caught using tranq gun. This was the main cause of fan theory about the real identity of the Marshalls, who make sure Jimmy is alive and well when the plot crumbles.
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