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Years later Marco, now an intelligence officer, starts suffering from a recurring nightmare about Shaw murdering two of his comrades, all observed by Chinese and Russian officers. When Marco learns that another soldier from the platoon also has been suffering 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, programmed as a guiltless assassin, subconsciously activated with a particular trigger -- the Queen of Diamonds in a deck of cards. Thus, he is activated, kills the target, and immediately forgets. Shaw's controller is his own mother, who is working with the Communists in order to quietly overthrow the United States government with her Manchurian Candidate. His programming is eventually broken by Marco using a deck of cards entirely composed of the Queen of Diamonds.
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Years later Marco, now an intelligence officer, starts suffering from a recurring nightmare about in which Shaw murdering murders two of his comrades, all observed by comrades while Chinese and Russian officers. officers look on. When Marco learns that another soldier from the platoon also has been suffering the same nightmare, he sets to uncovering the mystery - mystery... and makes a terrifying discovery. Shaw is being used as a sleeper agent for the Communists, programmed as a guiltless assassin, subconsciously activated with a particular trigger -- trigger: the Queen of Diamonds in a deck of cards. Thus, he is activated, kills the target, and immediately forgets. Shaw's controller is his own mother, who is working with the Communists in order to quietly overthrow the United States government with her Manchurian Candidate. His programming is eventually broken by Marco using a deck of cards entirely composed of the Queen of Diamonds.
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* ApologeticAttacker: In the 2004 remake, [[spoiler: 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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** Repeated in the 2004 film, in the same context but to a different character: [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror "Major Marco? Major Bennett Marco? Bennett Ezekiel Marco?"]]]]
** Repeated in the 2004 film, in the same context but to a different character: [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror "Major Marco? Major Bennett Marco? Bennett Ezekiel Marco?"]]]]
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* ActorAllusion: In the hotel scene, the soldiers have been brainwashed by Dr. Yen Lo to believe they are waiting out a storm in New Jersey (which the placard for the "flower club" reads as Spring Lake Hotel), while they are actually being displayed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the brainwashing to an audience of Communist officials. American actor Khigh Dhiegh who plays Dr. Lo was born in Spring Lake, New Jersey.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Al Melvin]] in the 2004 film.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Shaw is much more charismatic and personable in the 2004 film.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Shaw is much more charismatic and personable in the 2004 film.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Raymond's mother Mrs. Iselin always calls anyone who disagrees with her political views, or even her overall views in general, a Communist. [[spoiler:Which makes her role as Raymond's controller more ironic.]]
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* EmergencyAuthority: 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". That sentence is also the page quote.
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* EmergencyAuthority: 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". That sentence is also the page quote.
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* VillainsOutShopping: 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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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassin: 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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* AssasssinationAttempt: 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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* BadHabits: The sleeper agent dresses as a priest to assassinate the presumptive President of the United States.
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* BadHabits: Thesleeper agent dresses brainwashed Raymond Shaw disguises himself as a priest to assassinate the presumptive President Presidential candidate of one of the leading parties of the United States.States.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: 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 TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior she displayed and an early sign of her ControlFreak nature, and her older brother is specifically noted as having seen this and been disturbed by it.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: 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 TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior she displayed and an early sign of her ControlFreak nature, and her older brother is specifically noted as having seen this and been disturbed by it.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy:BrainwashedAndCrazy: 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.
* {{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.
* BrokenAce: 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.
* BrokenAce: 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.
* CharacterShilling: 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.
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassin: 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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* EvilMatriarch: Keep reading, Eleanor Iselin. Having waaay too much political ambition, she manipulates and you'll learn all you need discards men, including her neurotic, brainwashed son, without hesitation.
* ExtremeDoormat: Raymond Shaw, although he is too arrogant toknow about Raymond's mom.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.
* ExtremeDoormat: Raymond Shaw, although he is too arrogant to
* FromDressToDressing: 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: 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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* UsefulNotes/GulfWar: In the remake, Marco and Raymond were buddies during this period, and it was in this time that the brainwashing took place. The meat of the story, meanwhile, is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
* IncestSubtext: 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.
* JustifiedTitle: 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.
* LadyMacbeth: 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 LadyMacbeth 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.
** 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.
* MindControlConspiracy: Communist brainwashers turn a soldier into an assassin through some sort of mind-controlling hypnosis.
* MindRape: 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.
* MommasBoy: Raymond Shaw is controlled utterly by his mother, to perhaps the most frightening possible degree.
* MindRape: 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.
* MommasBoy: Raymond Shaw is controlled utterly by his mother, to perhaps the most frightening possible degree.
* NameMeaningChange: 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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* NoodleIncident: In the 2004 remake, Delp says he still owes Marco one for "what happened in Albania".
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent:Brit Laurence Harvey in certainly sounds like he's not trying to sound like an American, but on the 1962 film. It helps DVDCommentary, Creator/JohnFrankenheimer 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 accent kind of works character is supposed to be an all-American war hero, though it does help emphasize his unlikeable qualities. Creator/AngelaLansbury, sounds exactly the same as an [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt FDR]]-style New York blueblood accent.in any other role. It's especially apparent when Lansbury and Harvey are in the same scene.
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* PhraseCatcher: 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.
* PlayingCardMotifs: 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.
* PlayingCardMotifs: 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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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: 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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* RemarriedToTheMistress: 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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* RoyallyScrewedUp: 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 — 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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* {{Satire}}: The novel satirized RedScare politics of the 1950s and [=McCarthyism=] in particular. Extremely Juvenalian.
* SentimentalDrunk: Raymond Shaw becomes both more pleasant and more melancholic when he drinks.
* {{Seppuku}}: The death of [[spoiler:Raymond]] in the novel has undertones of this. [[spoiler: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]].
* SettingUpdate: The remake is set in the time period during and after the first Gulf War, as opposed to the original's Korean War setting.
* SinisterSurveillance: PlayedWith 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.
* SentimentalDrunk: Raymond Shaw becomes both more pleasant and more melancholic when he drinks.
* {{Seppuku}}: The death of [[spoiler:Raymond]] in the novel has undertones of this. [[spoiler: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]].
* SettingUpdate: The remake is set in the time period during and after the first Gulf War, as opposed to the original's Korean War setting.
* SinisterSurveillance: PlayedWith 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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* StrawHypocrite: 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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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: 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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* VillainousIncest: 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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* CelebrityParadox: During the prologue set in 1952, one of the bar girls reads an old movie magazine with a cover shot of Creator/TonyCurtis and his then-wife, Creator/JanetLeigh (Eugenie Rose Chaney).
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* ColorblindCasting: Joe Adams (Psychiatrist) was the first black actor cast in a part that wasn't specified as a black character.
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* BerserkButton: 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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* TheDogBitesBack: 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 [[spoiler:forced her to be his controller]].
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* TooDumbToLive: 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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* CorporateConspiracy: The 2004 version replaces the DirtyCommies from the book with Manchurian Global, a multinational corporation that creates a {{Brainwashed}} ManchurianAgent to serve as their [[TheMole mole]] in the White House [[spoiler:and another to serve as an assassin to get said mole elected as President]].
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* AntagonistTitle: 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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* TheGrinch: While listening to a record of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" in the 1962 movie, Raymond remarks "'''One''' day of Christmas is loathsome enough!"
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* DrivenToSuicide: 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. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "Oh God, Ben!"]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: 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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* DeniedParody: Creator/MerylStreep denied that her portrayal of Eleanor Shaw in the 2004 movie was based on Hillary Clinton, PowerHair notwithstanding. She also reports that many British viewers assumed that [[HilariousInHindsight her take on Eleanor Shaw was based on Margaret Thatcher.]]
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Raymond's reason for keeping Ben in the dark at the end of the 1962 film version.
-->''You couldn't have stopped them; the army couldn't have stopped them. So I had to. That's why I didn't call. (Beat) [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh God, Ben!]]''
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Raymond is a top tier douchebag. He's rude, haughty, and [[LackOfEmpathy 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 [[HeterosexualLifePartners Major Marco]] and Jocie.
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