It’s impossible not to fall in love with the heroes of films about scammers and scammers, they cannot help but empathize and wish that they succeed in deceiving, stealing, winning in a casino or robbing a bank. What to do if they are usually cute and charming monsters.
If you are unlucky once and again, and again - this does not mean that you are ordered to go all-in. As a rule, the best heroes of films about scams and scammers do just that. And how magnificent they are when they carry out their masterly plans! Especially when their scams and fraud are driven not just by a banal thirst for profit, but by a noble goal - revenge for a friend, the return of lost love or the restoration of justice. Needless to say, since the time of Robin Hood, noble scammers are the weakness of female hearts and the hidden desire of men.
Classics of the genre
"Scam" (The Sting, director George Roy Hill, 1973) - in this film, one of his best roles was played by the magnificent Robert Redford. Here he is organically beautiful, as befits one of the greatest movie scammers. In “Scam, ” young Radford is so sincere, so incredibly clumsy and at the same time clever that watching him paired with no less great Paul Newman scam revenge for one of America’s worst mafia - it’s a pleasure.
“Va-Bank” and “Va-Bank 2” (Vabank, directed by Juliusz Makhulsky, 1981, 1984) - an amazing crime comedy. It is also based on revenge, and also for a friend. Restoring justice, the hero of the film (performed by Yan Makhulsky) - a talented violinist, no less talented bear cub and a charming man, wittily builds traps for his enemy, playing on the most obvious, but no less curious human weaknesses. By the way, he does it under one of the best soundtracks of the 80s. The ease and speed of reaction, with which the characters perform a cunning intrigue, is fascinating. And it is gratifying that the sequel, shot by Juliusz Makhulsky for his father Jan Makhulsky, is in no way inferior to the previous story, which in itself is wonderful.
"Shuler" (Rounders, director John Dahl, 1998) - is it possible, if you have a unique criminal talent, to "tie up" and become a regular lawyer? The hero of the movie "Shuler" (performed by Matt Damon) tried very hard to acquire a new profession and say goodbye to the old, but
.Yes. An old friend returns to prison who cannot help but be helped. Yes, and the hero himself has recently gone too far and lost all his accumulations. So the motivation for a huge win in a big and real game, with real rivals and the choice between game and death, leaves him no choice.
“Catch Me If You Can” (Catch Me If You Can, director Stephen Spielberg, 2002) is one of the conditions for the success of someone who once decided to become a professional fraudster - the ability to mimic. The hero of the film “Catch Me If You Can” (performed by Leonardo DiCaprio), nature generously endowed with such an exceptional gift. A cute young man, a fledgling sucker who has not experienced either his first love or his first sexual experience, who does not know life, but who has extraordinary observation and feels people like some tenth - beast? - instinctively discovered a talent in himself to become what he wants. He easily turns into an experienced pilot, then into a doctor, then into an assistant prosecutor. No less easily and inventively falsifies bank documents and until adulthood manages to get rich indecently, and, at the same time, almost wipe his nose for an FBI agent (performed by Tom Hanks). For the time being. After all, even the most successful of all kinds of scams has its own Achilles heel.
Ocean of charisma
Fraudsters from the movie are always the most cheerful, the coolest handsome men, with a wonderful sense of humor. Almost all of them are smart, not always lucky, but always monstrously attractive. The numerical superiority of just such scammers and swindlers by one square millimeter of film, with each new film about Danny Ocean and his friends is unbeatable: Danny Ocean is simply a very good friend.
"Ocean's 11 Friends" (Ocean's Eleven, director Stephen Soderbergh, 2001), "Ocean's 12 Friends" (Ocean's Twelve, director Steven Soderbergh, 2004), "Ocean's 13 Friends" (Ocean's Thirteen, director Steven Soderbergh, 2007) - no matter how much the most charming Danny (played by George Clooney) had no friends about each of them, it can be said - he is unique. Of course, these machos will always have the nobility of the ultimate goal in the first place: the return of a beloved woman, revenge for a friend or help him. But a beautiful, with a special chic, decorated noble robbery of one and then the second super-protected casino or the abduction of Faberge eggs looks with special interest when it is performed exclusively by sexy characters.
“Trans” (Trance, directed by Danny Boyle, 2013) - it’s hard to imagine a more complicated and ramified plot. The hero of the film (performed by James McAvoy) will improbably get out of all the scrapes that have fallen on him, which will reach for him, tied in loops with an invisible hook. Eyelet-hook, eyelet-hook: theft of a picture, murder, pursuit, pursuit, meeting with a woman - the love of his life … In one day the hero will survive as much as many over the centuries do not have time. But what will he choose in the finale - the opportunity to forget this crazy day and run away from himself or?..
"The Illusion of Deception" (Now You See Me, directed by Louis Letrier, 2013) - no one has committed a larger-scale fraud at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Such an idea, which the heroes of the film managed to realize, could have occurred to an exceptionally gifted swindler and / or magician. Or both. And only a single team of superheroes could carry it out. Yes, again, the motivation for the plot is a familiar motivation - the restoration of justice. And this time it was performed it was extremely impressive and beautiful. This was worthy of the one for whom his son avenged - the brain center of the operation, which brought together four magicians. Separately, they were little of themselves, but brought together and learned to work in a team, they were able to fully reveal their talents - brightly, beautifully and spectacularly. Together, they became a crushing force that could conquer tens and hundreds of thousands of spectators at once.
Swindlers and crooks are the most attractive heroes of the film industry. They combine everything that women like and attract men so much: intelligence and a sense of humor. Even the most unfortunate of them - absolute losers - have a mankind that is difficult to resist. Otherwise, how could they commit scams, right? Vulnerability of a swindler makes only love. Though
.It’s impossible not to fall in love with them
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