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''Enemy of the State'' is a 1998 [[ConspiracyThriller spy-thriller]] film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, produced by JerryBruckheimer, and released by Creator/TouchstonePictures. The film stars WillSmith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King.
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''Enemy of the State'' is a 1998 [[ConspiracyThriller spy-thriller]] film directed by Tony Scott, Creator/TonyScott, written by David Marconi, produced by JerryBruckheimer, and released by Creator/TouchstonePictures. The film stars WillSmith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King.
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Green appears near the end of the film along with Jack Black\'s character, being interrogated by another NSA agent about his involvement in the events.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Seth Green (the techie who leads the mobile surveillance team) just completely disappears halfway through the film, with no word of explanation. With what he must have known, surely he wasn't someone they'd let zip off somewhere. Did Green suddenly become unavailable halfway through filming?
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* ActorAllusion: a photo of Hackman in ''TheConversation'' is used for Brill's file.
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* ActorAllusion: a A photo of Hackman Hackman's character in ''TheConversation'' ''Film/TheConversation'' is used for Brill's file.file. Critics such as KimNewman advanced the theory that the two characters are one and the same.
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* TheUnfettered: Reynolds, who will do anything he considers necessary to protect his country, and his career. Which includes having people killed (at one point he almost does it himself) His goal here is to create even more of a surveillance society by getting the Privacy Bill passed by Congress, because America is constantly under threat.
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* PsychoForHire: Krug and Jones, the two ex-military cutouts Reynolds asks for, a pair of dishonorably discharged marines who were jailed for beating up their Gunnery Sergeant. Particularly Jones, who is not sorry about it.
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* MisterMuffykins: Dean's wife's stupid little dog (which looks just like the one in the photo on that page!) Dean obviously can't stand it (who could?)
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* MisterMuffykins: Dean's wife's stupid little dog dog, Porsche (which looks just like the one in the photo on that page!) Dean obviously clearly can't stand it (who could?)
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* RunningGag: Dean's Blender which is stolen by the NSA goons.
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* PunchClockVillain: The technicians who work for Reynolds.
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* TropicalEpilogue: Brill's character in a video message.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Lingerie Dean bought for his wife. When it comes up later in the film it is PlayedForLaughs, but it hints Dean to the fact that it was at the Lingerie Store where [[spoiler:Zavitz dropped the incriminating footage in Dean's shopping bag]]
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''Enemy of the State'' is a 1998 [[ConspiracyThriller spy-thriller]] film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, and produced by JerryBruckheimer.JerryBruckheimer, and released by Creator/TouchstonePictures. The film stars WillSmith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King.
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* {{Cameo}}: [[spoiler:Used to good effect (provided you haven't seen the trailer) when Gabriel Byrne briefly appears, pretending to be Brill.]]
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Brill uses a NYPD uniform as a disguise to meet with the bad guys. [[spoiler: Becomes a ChekhovsGun when an FBI surveilance team sees him being ushered out of a van in front of a Mafia front they are doing surveilance on.]]
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Brill uses a NYPD Baltimore PD uniform as a disguise to meet with the bad guys. [[spoiler: Becomes a ChekhovsGun when an FBI surveilance team sees him being ushered out of a van in front of a Mafia front they are doing surveilance on.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: The Lingerie models, [[spoiler:Dean's wife in the lingerie, and Dean himself.]] All of those examples are justified by the plot.
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* LingerieScene: [[FanserviceExtra Both models in a lingerie shop]] and Dean's wife.
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* LingerieScene: [[FanserviceExtra Both models in a lingerie shop]] and Dean's wife. And it's plot-relevant ''both'' times.
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* HeKnowsTooMuchHeKnowsTooMuch: Subverted. See RevealingCoverup.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Brill uses a NYPD uniform as a disguise to meet with the bad guys. [[spoiler: Becomes a ChekhovsGun when an FBI surveilance team sees him being ushered out of a van in front of a Mafia front they are doing surveilance on.]]
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* TagLine: "[[ProperlyParanoid It's not paranoia if they're really after you.]]"
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* EnhanceButton: It can even let them look at things ''blocked'' by the camera's view, though it gets a HandWave by saying that they are merely looking at extrapolations based on surrounding elements such as shadows, and assumptions, such as them presuming that a shadow might be cast by an object they suspect is blocked from view. Oddly, this technology is not compatible with SpySatellites.
* EnhanceButton: It can even let them look at things ''blocked'' by the camera's view, though it gets a HandWave by saying that they are merely looking at extrapolations based on surrounding elements such as shadows, and assumptions, such as them presuming that a shadow might be cast by an object they suspect is blocked from view. Oddly, this technology is not compatible with SpySatellites.
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* ProperlyParanoid : Brill. Then again, used to be a spook as well. Also see the TagLine.
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* EnhanceButton: It can even let them look at things ''blocked'' by the camera's view, though it gets a HandWave by saying that they are merely looking at extrapolations based on surrounding elements such as shadows, and assumptions, such as them presuming that a shadow might be cast by an object they suspect is blocked from view. Oddly, this technology is not compatible with SpySatellites.
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* SpySatellitesSpySatellites: One major limitation is pointed out: The satellites are only terribly useful if the person you are trying to track ever looks up. [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Brill]] makes a point of keeping his head level and wearing a baseball cap.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: To the point where they can look at things explicitely out of the camera's view. At the same time, SpySatellites seem very limited.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: To the point where they can look at things explicitely out of the camera's view. At the same time, SpySatellites seem very limited.
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* BadassLongcoat: Some Marine mooks wear [[HellBentForLeather leather]] longcoats. Not the best outfit to run faster, but they look cool.
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* BadassLongcoat: The Marine mooks wear [[HellBentForLeather leather]] longcoats. Not the best outfit to run faster.
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-->Actually, I believe the slur "shyster" is generally reserved for Jewish attorneys. I believe the proper slur for someone like myself would be "eggplant".
-->Actually, I believe the slur "shyster" is generally reserved for Jewish attorneys. I believe the proper slur for someone like myself would be "eggplant".
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* FootChaseWithASideOrderOfChef
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: The Spy Devices initially used on Dean are turned around against a Congressman and the NSA director, then are once more used against Dean in the finale, but this time as a more comedic event.
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''Enemy of the State'' is a 1998 [[ConspiracyThriller spy-thriller]] film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, and produced by JerryBruckheimer. The film stars WillSmith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King.
A group of rogue operatives from the [[{{NSA}} National Security Agency]] kill a congressman who would interfere with a bill to expand the government's authority for covert surveillance, but are caught in the act by a wildlife researcher's hidden camera. The NSA finds out about the researcher's tape, and the expanding cloud of coverups, murder and surveillance sucks in Dean (Will Smith), a labor lawyer who unwittingly has the tape passed on to him. The NSA agents proceed to bug Dean's house and belongings, ruin his marriage, and destroy his life to get him to surrender the tape. Soon, the only friend he has is the retired NSA agent "Brill" (Gene Hackman), who's learned how paranoid you have to be in this kind of world...
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!!''Enemy of the State'' contains examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Dean has to be this if he wants to beat his enemies.
* ActorAllusion: a photo of Hackman in ''TheConversation'' is used for Brill's file.
* AnAssKickingChristmas
* BadassGrandpa: Brill
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Dean comes up with one, which results in a BlastOut.]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Rachel's death for Brill]]
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Basically the whole premise of the movie.
* BlackHelicopter
* BlastOut: [[spoiler:Dean manages to basically have the NSA agents who've already captured him and the Mafia goons from the start of the film kill each other]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Mafia boys from the beginning of the movie.]]
* ConspiracyThriller
* DefectorFromDecadence: Brill
* EnemyMine
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation along with EnhanceButton
* FakingAndEntering: Dean pretends to be a deliveryman to enter an hotel room and delay his pursuit.
* FootChaseWithASideOrderOfChef
* GovernmentConspiracy
* HeKnowsTooMuch
* HeroStoleMyBike: Daniel's attempt at escape.
* InsistentTerminology: Sizemore's mafia character refers to Dean as a "shyster" lawyer. Dean politely corrects him, saying that "shyster" is for Jewish people, and as a person of African-American descent, he would be an "eggplant". This is, in fact, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=melanzane a term used by people of Italian descent]] [[ShownTheirWork to refer to people of color]].
* IronicEcho: "You're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid."
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The wildlife researcher who dumps the video onto Dean.
* LingerieScene: [[FanserviceExtra Both models in a lingerie shop]] and Dean's wife.
* LookBothWays : Zavitz, the wildlife researcher.
* TheMafia
* MagicalSecurityCam
* MaliciousSlander
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:On a grand scale. Apparently played for laughs too when you know both parties are being suckered big time.]]
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: [[spoiler:Dean engineers a meeting between the NSA and the mafiosos from the beginning of the movie. Neither party realizes that they're talking about two different tapes]].
* PlotCoupon: The disk with the murder.
* ProperlyParanoid : Brill. Then again, used to be a spook as well.
* RevealingCoverup
* SinisterSurveillance
* SpiesInAVan: At a certain point, Dean decides to shoot 'em back by calling the cops about "a van in front of my house, possibly trafficking drugs!" HilarityEnsues.
* TheSpook
* SpottingTheThread : Dean becomes suspicious of [[spoiler:Brill]] due to a verbal slip up. [[spoiler: The real Brill rescues him shortly after.]]
* SpySatellites
* TakeOffYourClothes: Brill asks this to Dean in order to search for bugs. Eventually he does... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to the enjoyment of an Asian lady.]]
* TelevisionGeography: The Baltimore and DC locations change pretty quickly...
* TrainEscape
* TrainingAccident: Or at least that was how they planned it to look like.
* WrongfullyAccused
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''Enemy of the State'' is a 1998 [[ConspiracyThriller spy-thriller]] film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, and produced by JerryBruckheimer. The film stars WillSmith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King.
A group of rogue operatives from the [[{{NSA}} National Security Agency]] kill a congressman who would interfere with a bill to expand the government's authority for covert surveillance, but are caught in the act by a wildlife researcher's hidden camera. The NSA finds out about the researcher's tape, and the expanding cloud of coverups, murder and surveillance sucks in Dean (Will Smith), a labor lawyer who unwittingly has the tape passed on to him. The NSA agents proceed to bug Dean's house and belongings, ruin his marriage, and destroy his life to get him to surrender the tape. Soon, the only friend he has is the retired NSA agent "Brill" (Gene Hackman), who's learned how paranoid you have to be in this kind of world...
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!!''Enemy of the State'' contains examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Dean has to be this if he wants to beat his enemies.
* ActorAllusion: a photo of Hackman in ''TheConversation'' is used for Brill's file.
* AnAssKickingChristmas
* BadassGrandpa: Brill
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Dean comes up with one, which results in a BlastOut.]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Rachel's death for Brill]]
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Basically the whole premise of the movie.
* BlackHelicopter
* BlastOut: [[spoiler:Dean manages to basically have the NSA agents who've already captured him and the Mafia goons from the start of the film kill each other]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Mafia boys from the beginning of the movie.]]
* ConspiracyThriller
* DefectorFromDecadence: Brill
* EnemyMine
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation along with EnhanceButton
* FakingAndEntering: Dean pretends to be a deliveryman to enter an hotel room and delay his pursuit.
* FootChaseWithASideOrderOfChef
* GovernmentConspiracy
* HeKnowsTooMuch
* HeroStoleMyBike: Daniel's attempt at escape.
* InsistentTerminology: Sizemore's mafia character refers to Dean as a "shyster" lawyer. Dean politely corrects him, saying that "shyster" is for Jewish people, and as a person of African-American descent, he would be an "eggplant". This is, in fact, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=melanzane a term used by people of Italian descent]] [[ShownTheirWork to refer to people of color]].
* IronicEcho: "You're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid."
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The wildlife researcher who dumps the video onto Dean.
* LingerieScene: [[FanserviceExtra Both models in a lingerie shop]] and Dean's wife.
* LookBothWays : Zavitz, the wildlife researcher.
* TheMafia
* MagicalSecurityCam
* MaliciousSlander
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:On a grand scale. Apparently played for laughs too when you know both parties are being suckered big time.]]
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: [[spoiler:Dean engineers a meeting between the NSA and the mafiosos from the beginning of the movie. Neither party realizes that they're talking about two different tapes]].
* PlotCoupon: The disk with the murder.
* ProperlyParanoid : Brill. Then again, used to be a spook as well.
* RevealingCoverup
* SinisterSurveillance
* SpiesInAVan: At a certain point, Dean decides to shoot 'em back by calling the cops about "a van in front of my house, possibly trafficking drugs!" HilarityEnsues.
* TheSpook
* SpottingTheThread : Dean becomes suspicious of [[spoiler:Brill]] due to a verbal slip up. [[spoiler: The real Brill rescues him shortly after.]]
* SpySatellites
* TakeOffYourClothes: Brill asks this to Dean in order to search for bugs. Eventually he does... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to the enjoyment of an Asian lady.]]
* TelevisionGeography: The Baltimore and DC locations change pretty quickly...
* TrainEscape
* TrainingAccident: Or at least that was how they planned it to look like.
* WrongfullyAccused
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