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The Manchurian Candidate

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The Manchurian Candidate	comment	The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 Conspiracy Thriller novel by Richard Condon, about the son of a prominent political family who has been brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for the Communist Party. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1962 and again in 2004.During The Korean War, Captain Bennett Marco and Sergeant Raymond Shaw are part of a U.S. infantry platoon that gets captured and taken to Manchuria, where they are brainwashed into believing that Shaw saved their lives in combat. Upon their return to the United States, Shaw is given the Medal of Honor on Marco's recommendation.Years later Marco, now an intelligence officer, starts suffering from a recurring nightmare in which Shaw murders two of their comrades while Chinese and Russian officers look on. When Marco learns that another soldier from the platoon has been suffering from the same nightmare, he sets to uncovering the mystery... and makes a terrifying discovery. Shaw is being used as a sleeper agent for the Communists, who've programmed him as a guiltless assassin, subconsciously activated with a particular trigger: the Queen of Diamonds in a deck of cards. Thus activated, he kills the target, then immediately forgets about having done so. Shaw's controller is his own mother, who is working with the Communists to quietly overthrow the United States government via a "Manchurian candidate": her husband John Iselin, a Red-baiting senator who has been chosen as running mate for the leading presidential candidate (the plan being that Shaw will assassinate said candidate at the party's convention, thereby allowing Iselin to capture the nomination, and ultimately the White House, in the ensuing crisis). Marco is eventually able to break Shaw's programming using a deck of cards entirely composed of the Queen of Diamonds.The 1962 film, directed by John Frankenheimer, stars Frank Sinatra as Marco and Laurence Harvey as Shaw. Angela Lansbury plays Shaw's mother Eleanor Iselin, while Janet Leigh plays Marco's love interest Rosie Cheyney. It is a very faithful adaptation of the novel, with much of the dialogue taken straight from the book.The 2004 remake, directed by Jonathan Demme, updates the setting to Operation Desert Storm, makes the bad guys an evil corporation instead of communists, and stars Denzel Washington as Ben Marco and Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw. Meryl Streep plays Shaw's mother, Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw. It also adds a twist.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Iselin is an obvious parody of Joseph McCarthy. Shaw's mother was based on Roy Cohn, McCarthy's lawyer at the time (and later a mentor of sorts to one Donald Trump).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
The Manchurian Candidate / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: In the remake, all efforts to reach out to Marco fail until he decides at the last possible second to have himself and his mother get shot instead of the president-elect, thwarting the conspiracy's plans.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Manchurian Candidate / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: A group of soldiers captured by the Chinese in the Korean War are brainwashed. (The term brainwashing is, in fact, believed to have originated during the Korean War, in reference to the coercion that the Chinese would use on prisoners.) Raymond Shaw becomes a Manchurian Agent for the Chinese, against his will and without his knowledge.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_195bec23	type	Gender-Concealing Writing
The Manchurian Candidate / int_195bec23	comment	Gender-Concealing Writing: Descriptions of Raymond's operator, his own mother are very careful to avoid any gendered pronouns to disguise their identity.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_1da46897	type	Lady Macbeth
The Manchurian Candidate / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Eleanor Iselin is the scheming wife of a senator (who's basically her puppet) in the original novel and first film adaptation. John Iselin frequently complains about the rhetoric he's been given to read to the senate with its ever-changing total "Communists" in government. (This is especially hilarious given McCarthy's same inconsistencies.) Actually, it's at the insistence of his wife, Eleanor, who is thinking ten steps ahead and knows the press will keep asking "how many Communists" rather than "are there Communists." Eleanor plans to rule through her henpecked husband once he hijacks the Presidency. For an added, Oedipal twist, Eleanor is also the Lady Macbeth for her sleeper-agent son and his Communist controller, taking command of him and forcing him to further the communist (and later her) cause. In the 2004 adaptation, Eleanor is a Senator herself. However, she is still stymied by the boy's club in Washington, and decides to groom her son for the Presidency.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Manchurian Candidate / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The speech that Senator Iselin was supposed to read after the assassination. We never hear it. It's described as:
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Manchurian Candidate / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The very end of the novel has two possible situations for what happens when Marco goes into the booth where Raymond has just shot his mother and stepfather: Raymond either shot himself of his own free will after Marco freed him from the brainwashing completely after Marco told him he killed Jocie himself, or Marco ordered him to shoot himself using the card deck and decided to Let Them Die Happy by never letting him realize the truth of what he did to Jocie. It's never clarified exactly which occurred.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_20c99f6e	type	Hidden Heart of Gold
The Manchurian Candidate / int_20c99f6e	comment	Hidden Heart of Gold: Raymond is a top tier douchebag. He's rude, haughty, and he doesn't care about you. He developed this personality to cope with his vicious mother and loutish stepdad. The only people who have seen his vulnerable side are Major Marco and Jocie.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Manchurian Candidate / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: A complex example in the 2004 movie.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
The Manchurian Candidate / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Bennett Marco is of partially Spanish extraction and is described as looking like an Aztec crossed with an Eskimo with "copper colored" skin and straight black hair with an "aboriginal look." He's played by Frank Sinatra in the 1962 film and Denzel Washington in the 2004 film.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Manchurian Candidate / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The 1962 film plays up the novel's absurd elements, adding a lot of dialogue and imagery that skews it towards comedy.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Manchurian Candidate / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Neither Marco nor Shaw liked one another at first. It's one of the few things that tips Marco off that something isn't right when he mentions the phrase "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life." Eventually they do become good friends as, aside from Jocie, Marco is the only person that's ever seen a side of him besides his usual Jerkass persona. However, judging by the brainwashing scene, it was implied that from the start, Raymond did respect Marco and said he hated him the least.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Manchurian Candidate / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Played darkly, since Eleanor's father had an incestuous sexual relationship with her when she was a child, and Eleanor herself eventually has sex with Raymond.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Manchurian Candidate / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The 2004 movie doesn't have anything to do with Manchuria, although the writers justify the title by involving a corporation called "Manchurian Global" in the plot.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Manchurian Candidate / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Ben Marco and Al Melvin in the 1962 film, both after seeing Raymond Shaw commit murder in their nightmares.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Manchurian Candidate / int_2f329e3c	comment	Repeated in the 2004 film, in the same context but to a different character: "Major Marco? Major Bennett Marco? Bennett Ezekiel Marco?"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
The Manchurian Candidate / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: In the 2004 remake, Shaw calls out out to Tom Jordan from the shore who is returning from a short kayaking trip. In a brief moment of lucidity, he apologizes to him over and over before eventually drowning Tom in the lake.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
The Manchurian Candidate / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Both film versions show Eleanor coming onto her son Raymond, whose consent is dubious given his brainwashing, and the novel on which it was all based includes frank mentions of consummated incest, both between Eleanor and her father Tyler and between Eleanor and Raymond. Eleanor figures as a villain in both the novel and the original film version. In the remake, she's a likable character who does horrible things with good intentions, and in all three works the incestuous element is definitely used to enhance her creepiness.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
The Manchurian Candidate / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Sgt. Raymond Prentiss Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing his platoon.The action never happened, they were kidnapped and brainwashed, and Captain Marco was brainwashed into nominating him for the Medal.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_38975db4	type	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
The Manchurian Candidate / int_38975db4	comment	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: There's a subtle one, in that there are "Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Manchurian Candidate / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In the 2004 remake, Delp says he still owes Marco one for "what happened in Albania".
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Manchurian Candidate / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The Soviet spymaster for the eastern United States, Zilkov, wants to run a test to make sure Raymond is still capable of carrying out assassinations. Dr. Yen Lo suggests they have him murder one of Zilkov's own staff to minimize risk, which Zilkov says he would happily accept, but his organization is presently under acceptable strength as it is and he can't spare anyone.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_3dbbfd6a	type	Camera Tricks
The Manchurian Candidate / int_3dbbfd6a	comment	Camera Tricks: The rule of thirds is dramatically averted in the first shot of Janet Leigh. She is presented right in the middle of the frame. It's a bit startling.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Manchurian Candidate / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In the film versions. In the original, Marco manages to undo some of Shaw's brainwashing, which allows him to shoot his mother and Senator Iselin instead of the nominee, thereby foiling the communist plot. But the victory comes at the cost of Shaw's will to live, now being unable to live with the knowledge of the things he did when he was "activated." In the remake, the plot is also foiled, with Raymond having Marco assassinate him along with his mother. But the film leaves it ambiguous whether Marco will ever fully recover from the entire ordeal.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
The Manchurian Candidate / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: The original is the film most associated with this trope in the public mind. Shaw is brainwashed to become an assassin on command. However it's not really an example as his beliefs and values don't really change. It happens in the remake too, with little change but adds a twist.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Manchurian Candidate / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Laurence Harvey certainly sounds like he's not trying to sound like an American, but on the DVD Commentary, John Frankenheimer said that Harvey was coached to put on an American accent and he thought it was very convincing. He also claimed that he felt Kennedy's Bahston accent would justify any English-ness in Harvey's voice, so he probably just had a tin ear for accents. Harvey's accent is all the more jarring in that his character is supposed to be an all-American war hero, though it does help emphasize his unlikeable qualities. Angela Lansbury sounds exactly the same as in any other role. It's especially apparent when Lansbury and Harvey are in the same scene.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Manchurian Candidate / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Al Melvin in the 2004 film.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Manchurian Candidate / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Raymond Shaw is a war hero and a rising star in politics but his issues with his mother allow him to become a brainwashed assassin.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Manchurian Candidate / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Angela Lansbury gets off a real corker of a speech.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Manchurian Candidate / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Hell... hell...". This is how the 1962 film ends, as Marco looks out the window at the rain and thinks about how he was unable to save Raymond, who killed his controllers and then himself to stop the conspiracy.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Manchurian Candidate / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?" The 1962 film's revealing of Raymond's American handler: Repeated in the 2004 film, in the same context but to a different character: "Major Marco? Major Bennett Marco? Bennett Ezekiel Marco?"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_4fc4deec	type	Conspiracy Thriller
The Manchurian Candidate / int_4fc4deec	comment	Conspiracy Thriller
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_51ed5fb9	type	Straw Hypocrite
The Manchurian Candidate / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: Senator Iselin and his wife are really communist agents pushing witch hunt tactics to discredit anti-communism and pave the way for the US to fall under communist rule.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
The Manchurian Candidate / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: Dr. Yen Lo, the sinister brainwasher in the 1962 film. Dr. Lo was played by Khigh Dhiegh (born Kenneth Dickerson, pronounced to rhyme with "Friday"), a American actor of North African ancestry, who specialized in playing sinister Asian villains, most notably Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Manchurian Candidate / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Yen Lo, a Chinese scientist. A consummate gentleman and scholar, in any other film he'd play the role of a wise old mentor. In this story, he creates sleeper assassins.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_53f0f67e	type	Dreaming the Truth
The Manchurian Candidate / int_53f0f67e	comment	Dreaming the Truth: Marco has very realistic dreams about the brainwashing sessions, and they happen so often that they take a toll on his health. But he's smart enough to take notes on them.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_54844c6e	type	From Dress to Dressing
The Manchurian Candidate / int_54844c6e	comment	From Dress to Dressing: Raymond Shaw is bitten by a snake and childhood sweetheart Jocelyn Jordan rips off her blouse to make a tourniquet before dashing off bra-clad on her bicycle to get help. Totally innocent, but love blossoms. Then it gets complicated.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Manchurian Candidate / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Teased at in the remake. Marco is talking with his... let's say practical psychologist about his dreams, when the doctor abruptly asks "What if this is all a dream and you are really still back in Kuwait?". Given the setting and tone of the movie, and some of the later events (including how the aforementioned psychologist simply vanishes not long afternote alternately because he was killed or "removed" by Manchurian Global), there's really no reason to totally discount this theory. In the DVD commentary Jonathan Demme remarks that at any point in the course of the film it would be totally plausible to cut to Ben waking up.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Manchurian Candidate / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Marco is said to have at least two women every night, and Raymond's pretty good with women as well. Raymond was originally shy around women, but Dr. Yen Lo "removed" Raymond's sexual timidity during his brainwashing.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Manchurian Candidate / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: In the 1962 movie, unlike the book, Ben's attempts to break Raymond out of the Communists' hypnosis not only succeed; they also enable Raymond to resist his suggestions, and to realize that neither he, Ben, nor the army could put an end to the Communists' plot. So instead of calling Ben as Ben instructed, Raymond goes undercover and stops them on his own.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Manchurian Candidate / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Part of Ellie Iselin's Freudian Excuse is that she was repeatedly raped by her father as a child. Late in the story, she has sex with Raymond while he's brainwashed (though this is only implied in the film versions).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Manchurian Candidate / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Eleanor does show a twisted love for her son when she expresses anger over how he's been selected as the killer, and swears vengeance on those who did this to him once she comes into power.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Manchurian Candidate / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Raymond's mother only instigates having sex with him after she sees him smile and is reminded of her own long-dead father, with whom she had a sexual relationship when she was a child.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In the remake, Shaw and Marco are both able to partially overcome their programing and Shaw gets Marco to shoot him and his mother to stop the plot. In Shaw's case this is also an example of Taking You with Me.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_64435b8	type	Informed Kindness
The Manchurian Candidate / int_64435b8	comment	Informed Kindness: Subverted with Raymond Shaw. The novel repeatedly states "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." Keep in mind that this is because his squad has been brainwashed into saying this anytime they're asked about him. In point of fact, he's something of a cold jerk and No Hero to His Valet. As Ben says in the 1962 film, "It's not that he's hard to like; he's impossible to like."
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Manchurian Candidate / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In the 1962 movie, Senator Iselin asks his wife if they can finally decide on exactly how many communists are in the Department of Defense, since he keeps changing the number every time he repeats the claim. As he says this, he pours some Heinz 57 sauce on his steak. Cut to the floor of the Senate the next day, where Iselin claims that there are exactly 57 card-carrying communists in the Department of Defense ...
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6b27162d	type	The Remake
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: The 2004 film shares the basic plot of its predecessors, but many things are changed.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: In the 2004 remake, the Communist conspiracy of the original book and 1962 movie was updated for the post-Cold War times by making the villains a MegaCorp named Manchurian Global instead, which also happens to be a PMC, or at least have a PMC division. Part of the reason the wanted the eponymous Manchurian Candidate to be their sleeper agent in the White House was so they could get him to send their troops into the Middle East, among other reasons.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In the 1962 movie, Raymond makes the conscious decision to shoot himself, possibly because Ben's hypnotic suggestion to forget what he had done to his father-in-law and his wife had worn off. "Oh God, Ben!"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: The assassination of the presidential nominee was planned not only to occur on live television during the convention but at a specific point in the nominee's acceptance speech so his chosen Vice Presidential candidate, whose wife was behind the entire thing, could specifically be seen holding the dying nominee in his arms and have the photograph spread all over the world.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
The Manchurian Candidate / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Shaw is much more charismatic and personable in the 2004 film, while Marco is depicted as an unstable Shell-Shocked Veteran Broken Ace.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Manchurian Candidate / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband / Parenting the Husband: The Manchurian Candidate in the novel is Mrs. Iselin's husband, John. She fusses over him day and night ... after all, world domination is at stake!
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
The Manchurian Candidate / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Cleverly used, as all Raymond Shaw's fellow soldiers describe him as the "kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life", despite him being shown as a withdrawn and generally unpleasant person to be around. Turns out him and his entire unit have been brainwashed to portray him as a war hero in order to get him elected to high office.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
The Manchurian Candidate / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Whenever anyone who served with Raymond Shaw hears his name, their response is "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." They've been mentally conditioned to say it, and Shaw is in fact a self-absorbed coward with severe mommy issues.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
The Manchurian Candidate / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Besides the fact that she was already using her sexuality to manipulate men as a preteen as a result of her father's abuse, Ellie mentions an incident when she nailed her cocker spaniel's feet to the floor after the dog wouldn't obey a "stay" command.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: Played With in the remake when Marco goes to the library to do his research. Marco notices a surveillance camera in the library and this feeds his paranoia even though nobody in particular was spying on him.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: During the prologue set in 1952, one of the bar girls reads an old movie magazine with a cover shot of Tony Curtis and his then-wife, Janet Leigh (Eugenie Rose Chaney).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Yen Lo is disarmingly quippy.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: 1962 film. On a revolver, no less.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: The strange rhythms of Marco's conversations with Rosie (see above) led some fans to theorize that they are elaborate codes. (And then you start wondering whether Marco is aware of this...)
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Featured prominently. The soldiers of Shaw's and Marco's platoon that were killed but didn't die in the initial ambush were slaughtered by their own brainwashed brothers to test that such a thing was possible once they were activated. And then there's also Shaw killing his mother (Marco killing Shaw and Mrs. Iselin in the remake).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Manchurian Candidate / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Eleanor Iselin. Having waaay too much political ambition, she manipulates and discards men, including her neurotic, brainwashed son, without hesitation.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
The Manchurian Candidate / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: In the novel and 1962 film Rosie pops up out of nowhere, helps calm Marco down at a point where the nightmares are really getting to Marco, and then does absolutely nothing else except fill out some dresses nicely in the movie.note All of which lends itself to Alternative Character Interpretation; see the YMMV page for details
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Manchurian Candidate / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: In an introduction to a later edition of the novel, Richard Condon said he remembered reading an editorial which read something to the effect of, "If Joe McCarthy were a paid Soviet agent, he could not do more to harm this country than he's doing now," and started to wonder, "What if he really was?"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Manchurian Candidate / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It makes sense, since his role in the conspiracy is over with, but it still feels odd when the mastermind behind the programming, Dr. Yen Lo, completely disappears from the movie midway through.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_8a072b51	type	Present Company Excluded
The Manchurian Candidate / int_8a072b51	comment	Present Company Excluded: In the 2004 film, Raymond says this to Marco.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Manchurian Candidate / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Raymond Shaw brainwashed by the Chinese during the Korean War as part of a decades-long plot to elect a Communist puppet to the Presidency of the United States.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_8eb0370f	type	Corporate Conspiracy
The Manchurian Candidate / int_8eb0370f	comment	Corporate Conspiracy: The 2004 version replaces the Dirty Commies from the book with Manchurian Global, a multinational corporation that creates a Brainwashed Manchurian Agent to serve as their mole in the White House and another to serve as an assassin to get said mole elected as President.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_90141f06	type	IKEA Weaponry
The Manchurian Candidate / int_90141f06	comment	IKEA Weaponry: The 1962 film is possibly the Trope Codifier, coming out just a year before From Russia with Love.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
The Manchurian Candidate / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: The title makes perfect sense, as a key part of the film (and the novel it's based on) takes place in Manchuria. The remake, however, trades the Korean War for Desert Storm and contrives a corporation called Manchurian Global so they could keep the title.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_91e7082a	type	Remarried to the Mistress
The Manchurian Candidate / int_91e7082a	comment	Remarried to the Mistress: In the novel, where Raymond Shaw's mother was having an affair with John Iselin while still married to Raymond's father, and eventually divorced him to marry Iselin when she became pregnant with Raymond's half-brother.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Manchurian Candidate / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: In the book and the original film, it's both Mrs. and Senator Iselin while in the 2004 film it's just Mrs. Iselin, who is a Senator in this version to combine both characters into one.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Manchurian Candidate / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Raymond Shaw is controlled utterly by his mother, to perhaps the most frightening possible degree.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_984763bb	type	555
The Manchurian Candidate / int_984763bb	comment	555: The prefix for Rosie's phone number, "ELdorado 5", was at the time a phone company test number that gave a busy signal.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
The Manchurian Candidate / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: In the 1962 adaptation, the Red Chinese psychologist Yen Lo comes to America to examine his brainwashed subject. After a preliminary conversation he announces he's going to Macy's with long list of things to buy from his wife.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Manchurian Candidate / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Eleanor Iselin is running the evil plan to turn the United States into a dictatorship, but she's being bankrolled by Communist China, who she intends to nuke back to the Stone Age once in power for selecting her son to be their brainwashed agent.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Manchurian Candidate / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The ones who do the brainwashing in the novel and first film.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_a1c5e0cc	type	Trigger Phrase
The Manchurian Candidate / int_a1c5e0cc	comment	Trigger Phrase: The original movie has both a Trigger Phrase ("Why don't you pass the time by playing solitaire?") and a Trigger Card: The Queen of Diamonds. The remake has a more personalized Trigger Phrase, in the form of their names and old ranks, recited in a certain specific way.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
The Manchurian Candidate / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: Both versions end with Raymond Shaw being ordered to assassinate the presidential nominee, so the hand-picked vice-presidential can become the nominee and hopefully become elected based on national sympathy.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Manchurian Candidate / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Part of the charm of this book. It jumps from campy political farce to bleak character study to suspenseful thriller and back. A lot. (This is less of a problem in the 2004 version.)
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Manchurian Candidate / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Iselins are the only bad guys in the original who receive any kind of Laser-Guided Karma at all. The Dirty Communists in charge of Raymond's brainwashing, notably Yen-Lo, all get off scot-free.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Manchurian Candidate / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Eleanor was only 17 when she gave birth to Raymond.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ab3f1c2b	type	Red China
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ab3f1c2b	comment	Red China: The 1962 film.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: "I think, if John Iselin were a paid Soviet agent, he could not do more to harm this country than he's doing now." The woman he's saying this to is that Soviet agent. Reality Subtext: In an introduction to a later edition of the novel, Richard Condon said he remembered reading an editorial which read something to the effect of, "If Joe McCarthy were a paid Soviet agent, he could not do more to harm this country than he's doing now," and started to wonder, "What if he really was?"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Manchurian Candidate / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Implied in both film versions; Jocelyn's murder and the devastation it inflicted on Raymond, even with no memory of having done it, was Eleanor's biggest blunder, as it became the first crack that started breaking the "linkages" permanently.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Epic ones by Eleanor in both films; a split-second glimpse of her reaction in the 1962 version, and a very slow and drawn-out moment for her in the 2004 film; in both versions she realizes Raymond has broken through his brainwashing.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: The conspirators' plan is to assassinate the leading presidential candidate, to provoke a reaction that, as Eleanor Iselin boasts, "They'll sweep us into the White House with powers that'll make martial law look like anarchy".
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Manchurian Candidate / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The remake is set in the time period during and after the first Gulf War, as opposed to the original's Korean War setting.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Raymond Shaw, although he is too arrogant to be a perfect fit, has many of the features of this. He has little drive or emotional depth, and he always caves in to his shrewish mother, even giving up the only girl he ever had any interest in just to shut her up.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Eleanor is demeaning and controlling to her son, using him as a prop to build up her husband's political career and forcing him to break up with the woman he loves. When it's revealed she's also his hypnotic controller, she even orders him to kill the woman he loves, and in the book has sex with him while he's under a trance.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Raymond's reason for keeping Ben in the dark at the end of the 1962 film version.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b3a49cdb	type	Satire
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b3a49cdb	comment	Satire: The novel satirized Red Scare politics of the 1950s and McCarthyism in particular. Extremely Juvenalian.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b48396cc	type	Colorblind Casting
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b48396cc	comment	Colorblind Casting: Joe Adams (Psychiatrist) was the first black actor cast in a part that wasn't specified as a black character. Played with for Corporal Melvin. This was one of the first movies that acknowledged that the army was integrated in Korea and used a black man in a role that wouldâ€™ve certainly gone to a white man in any other movie at that time. However in his nightmare where he thinks he is at a ladies flower club he sees all the women as being black indicating that heâ€™s accustomed to a segregated world otherwise.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Senator Jordan, upon seeing his son-in-law pointing a gun at him, decides to ask him "What is that you're holding? Is that a silencer?" instead of, you know, running. It probably wouldn't have worked, but still.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Mrs. Iselin Serial Escalation.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
The Manchurian Candidate / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: The novel alludes pretty frankly to incest between Eleanor and her father Tyler, and relates with equal candor at least one instance of same between Eleanor and her son Raymond. While he's under mind control, no less. All three are driven, passionate patriots working at high levels of office â€” Tyler was a diplomat, Eleanor is a Senator and Raymond is a Representative running for Vice President. Over the course of his campaign it is revealed that his mother has been involved for many years in a conspiracy which began with the Congressional Medal of Honor and ends with an assassination attempt on the president-elect and, ultimately, the deaths of both Raymond and Eleanor.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: You probably couldn't get away with a heated fight scene in a modern thriller wherein the hero continually screams "HOW DID THE OLD LADIES TURN INTO RUSSIANS?"
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Manchurian Candidate / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Downplayed; Johnny doesn't fly off the handle when someone calls Sen. Iselin his father. He will let you know his extreme displeasure though.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Manchurian Candidate / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: The Prentiss family. (In the original novel the incest is quite explicitly mentioned.) The original film version showed a very possessive and not at all chaste kiss between Eleanor and her son Raymond, and the 2004 remake featured heavy subtext in every scene that showed them together, including some very ambiguous touching and kissing moments. In the novel, Raymond's mother had an incestuous relationship with her father. When her brainwashed son is under her control she remarks how much he looks like her father and makes him do what she wants.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Manchurian Candidate / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Most of the story takes place in New York.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_c0c903fd	type	Name-Meaning Change
The Manchurian Candidate / int_c0c903fd	comment	Name-Meaning Change: In the 2004 film, "Manchurian" is used in reference to an in-universe corporation, rather than the region in China as in the original novel and film.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Manchurian Candidate / int_c32ff95d	comment	Playing Card Motifs: Both the book version and the original film have the Queen of Diamonds be the trigger for Raymond Shaw's brainwashing. Discussed by the Army psychologist as a reference to Shaw's mother.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Manchurian Candidate / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Raymond is finally reunited with Jocie, his First Love from when he was a teenager, and elopes with her on a terrific honeymoon. He then shoots her while brainwashed after she walks in on him killing her father.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
The Manchurian Candidate / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: The death of Raymond in the novel has undertones of this. After breaking out of his mind control at the last minute and shooting the Soviet conspirators, he explains himself to Marco before shooting himself in the head. Marco, actually orders him to commmit suicide rather than go on trial for the murders he did not willingly commit.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ca803242	type	Power Hair
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ca803242	comment	Power Hair: Shaw's mother in both movies.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Manchurian Candidate / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The corporate board of Manchurian Global in the remake. What else can you label a bunch of people who create a Manchurian Agent for the sake of taking over the White House, with murders galore?
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Manchurian Candidate / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Somewhat averted in the remake. Word of God says they intended to portray the brainwashed state as a state of heightened awareness rather than a zombielike trance. How easily this comes across is debatable, though.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Manchurian Candidate / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Downplayed. The titular Manchurian Candidate is Senator Iselin, who is working for the Russians, but he isn't nearly as much of an antagonist as his wife.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
The Manchurian Candidate / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: In the novel, Mrs. Iselin makes a passing remark in her narration about how she once nailed the paws of her cocker spaniel to the floor because he wouldn't obey a "heel" command. This was just one of multiple pieces of Troubling Unchildlike Behavior she displayed and an early sign of her Control Freak nature, and her older brother is specifically noted as having seen this and been disturbed by it.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
The Manchurian Candidate / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Hypno Fool: In the novel and the 1962 film, Shaw obeys a suggestion not even meant for him: "Why don't you go and take yourself a cab and go up to Central Park and go jump in the lake?" This helps him realize that something may be wrong with him. Somewhat averted in the remake. Word of God says they intended to portray the brainwashed state as a state of heightened awareness rather than a zombielike trance. How easily this comes across is debatable, though.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Manchurian Candidate / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Raymond's mom's name is Eleanor Iselin, but the narration only calls her "Raymond's mother". The Communist agent who keeps tabs on Raymond in America is only called "Raymond's operator". They're the same person.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Manchurian Candidate / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Rosie is played by then A-Lister Janet Leigh and is prominently billed. Her introductory scene is very bizarre and seems to suggest that sheâ€™s the American handler Dr. Lo mentions. But in the end she has absolutely zero plot relevance.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Manchurian Candidate / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Raymond's mind control trigger is a queen of diamonds playing card. Guess what his Love Interest Jocelyn Jordan dresses as for the costume party? Raymond is drinking in a bar when a bartender just happens to utter the trigger phrase "Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?" as part of a completely unrelated discussion. Then the bartender says something that Raymond interprets as a command, "go jump in a lake", which Raymond does. If that's not enough all this happens just as Marco has come to meet Raymond at the bar. The fact that this happens and that Marco is there to see it is how the good guys figure out the nature of the conspiracy.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
The Manchurian Candidate / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: A subtle example, on the newspaper that shows the headline of Thomas Jordan and his daughter's murder in the 1962 film version, there is a subheader of twenty people being killed in a hurricane. Twenty normal people dead is less important than one politician and his daughter.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_dd509c96	type	What We Now Know to Be True
The Manchurian Candidate / int_dd509c96	comment	What We Now Know to Be True: Apparently, it's an "old wives' tale" that hypnotized people can't be forced to do things that are against their natures. While it doesn't initially stop him, the act of killing Jocelyn visibly does a number on Raymond and contributes to his overcoming his conditioning later on.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: The Trope Namer.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e0ded88f	type	Sentimental Drunk
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e0ded88f	comment	Sentimental Drunk: Raymond Shaw becomes both more pleasant and more melancholic when he drinks.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: The brainwashed Raymond Shaw disguises himself as a priest to assassinate the Presidential candidate of one of the leading parties of the United States.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3585b3d	type	No Party Given
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3585b3d	comment	No Party Given: In the 2004 remake the political party responsible for all this is never named, even during a strategy session involving the electoral map. It's implied that they are Democrats, what with the mention of being denied the White House another four years and their strength being with the northeast, west, blacks, and college students. It nevertheless comes off as a little forced when even after Sen. Jordan's assassination newsreaders only ever refer to "his party." Only in the 1962 film is the Republican Party specifically named. (Raymond's mother's party is also not named in the book.) Reinforced by all of the Lincoln imagery the Iselins surround themselves with. At one point, Mrs. Iselin also mocks Adlai Stevenson, the Democrat's 1956 Presidential candidate.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Marco tries to light a cigarette on a train, but is so nervous and wound-up that he keeps fumbling the matches.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3bdea5c	type	Artistic License â€“ Politics
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e3bdea5c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Politics: Johnny Iselin would not automatically become the partyâ€™s nominee for president because he was the choice for running mate of the presidential candidate. (Although given the circumstances of Eleanor's plot, it would be highly likely.) Sen. Jordan says he will make a move on the Senate for the "impeachment" of Iselin, then Iselin does the same to him soon after. Senators are not impeached, they are expelled. (Presidents are impeached.)
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." In the remake, "Sargent Shaw? Sargent Raymond Shaw? Raymond Prentiss Shaw?" "Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?" Raymond is quick to remind just about everyone he meets that Johnny Iselin is his stepfather.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Shaw and Marco, pretty unwillingly. Mrs. Iselin, very willingly.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e7cb46d3	type	Satellite Character
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Rosie in the remake (see Satellite Character below).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Raymond wakes up in the hospital after a hit-and-run accident (not really) he finds his mother at his bedside, clearly having been crying. He's startled by how disheveled she looks, and while he accuses her of putting on an act it's implied that this is her mask genuinely slipping as a result of realizing that's she's to be the operator for her own son as an assassin.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_e9cd3515	type	Mind-Control Conspiracy
The Manchurian Candidate / int_e9cd3515	comment	Mind-Control Conspiracy: Communist brainwashers turn a soldier into an assassin through some sort of mind-controlling hypnosis.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
The Manchurian Candidate / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: Raymond's mother is a Communist spy pulling strings to get her husband (and thus, herself) into the White House. Rosie in the remake (see Satellite Character below).
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Manchurian Candidate / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: In the book, Marco orders a brainwashed Raymond to shoot his mother and stepfather, then shoot himself. He remarks, "No electric chair for a Medal of Honor man."
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_f682ee6e	type	Villainous Mother-Son Duo
The Manchurian Candidate / int_f682ee6e	comment	Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Perhaps the most iconic and horrifying example of this. Manipulative Bitch extraordinaire, Senator Eleanor Iselin has her son brainwashed into becoming an assassin by Chinese Communists so that she can use him to kill all of her husband's rivals for the presidency. Her husband's of the henpecked variety so if he were President, she'd still presumably be the one wearing the trousers and therefore President in all but name, making Eleanor an example of Lady Macbeth as well. Fortunately her son, Raymond Shaw is ultimately able to break free of her mind-control. There's a definite Incest Subtext between them which is made very obvious in the films and outright confirmed in the book. Eleanor was sexually abused by her own father, making her an arguable Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
The Manchurian Candidate / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: The Evil Plan involves capturing one particular American soldier alive (along with his unit) from all the soldiers fighting in Korea, brainwashing them into believing his heroism so Shaw will get the Medal of Honor, arranging for additional agents in the United States to keep an eye on them all... for a plot that doesn't require any of this. If Shaw is captured he just looks like a war veteran who went insane, which defeats the entire purpose to bring about an anti-communist fervor that will sweep Iselin to power. They just need an accurate shooter and a patsy with known communist sympathies to be the fall guy...umm...
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Manchurian Candidate / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Implied to be Eleanor's next goal once she has taken power through her husband, in revenge for her communist associates having brainwashed her son into an assassin and forced her to be his controller.
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The Manchurian Candidate / int_ff934825	type	Evil, Inc.
The Manchurian Candidate / int_ff934825	comment	Evil, Inc.: Manchurian Global in the 2004 film. They are not working for any government — the whole plot is being made for their own monetary interests (whichever they are).
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