...Catch Me if You Can: An Entertaining Roller Coaster Ride Imagine having the ability to become an airline co-pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer all before turning the age of twenty-one. Well believe it or not; this became a reality for Frank Abagnale Jr. as he infiltrated the system in the 1960’s. The Steven Spielberg directed movie “Catch Me if You Can” brings out this true story, in which a sixteen year old runaway Frank Abagnale Jr. (played by Leonardo Dicaprio) began his “brilliant three year run as a master of deception” (Hollywood.com). In this three year stint, he also forges over a million dollars of fake checks across the country, creates several aliases for himself, and manages to become the youngest person on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Carl Hanratty, an FBI Bank Fraud Agent (played by Tom Hanks) engages with Abagnale Jr. in what Starpulse.com calls a “a highly enjoyable cat-and–mouse escapade.” After Frank Abagnale Jr. was eventually caught, Carl Hanratty realized that Abagnale’s check-savviness could be a benefit to his department in the FBI. He later went on to have a successful career as an FBI Agent in Check Fraud, instead of facing a timely prison sentence. The movie flows well due to a plethora of acting skills, well-written dialogue, and an entertaining back and forth battle that Abagnale Jr. encounters with Hanratty and also within himself. “Catch Me’s acting shines,” Hollywood.com raves. The movie contains a respectable and veteran class of Hollywood talent...
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...Frank Abagnale was an intelligent man. One of the most successful con men in history, Frank lived as a pilot, doctor, lawyer and an FBI agent all before his 21st birthday. His primary technique was defrauding banks using different fake check schemes eventually amounting to over 2.5 million dollars. Along with a friend, Frank wrote his story which was later turned into an autobiographical film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Steven Speilberg. Much of what Frank accomplished in the film defied believability. Throughout the film Frank is creating different identities to try and make some money, but even though his name is changed his personality seems to remain the same. From the beginning his father, Frank Sr., is a huge role model for him and becomes the source of Frank’s longing for acceptance and appreciation. Once his parents are divorced Frank just wants everything to be ok and to have the perfect family back together, no matter the cost. In his eyes, his father just needs to win his mother back with a better life and material things when in reality, the relationship has been over for quite some time, a truth made clearly evident by his mother’s affair. Unable to deal with the stress of choosing which parent to live with, Frank runs away and soon realizes he needs to find a way to make money quickly. He first begins to create fake checks at different banks, scamming them out of hundreds of dollars and eventually realizing he needs to find a different...
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...CATCH ME IF YOU CAN SEC 1 of NIL states the requirements of an instrument to be negotiable. SEC 185 of NIL defined a check that is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank payable on demand. Frank Abagnale Jr. uses forges payroll checks from PanAm Airlines. Cashier’s check means that it is drawn by the cashier of a bank upon the bank itself, payable on demand to the payee and it is accepted practice in the business sector that a cashier’s check is deemed as cash. Frank uses this kind of check in order to cash it immediately by the teller because it is deemed trusted by the banks. SEC 7 of NIL defined some instances when an instrument is payable on demand. Check is payable upon demand at sight or on presentation of the payee to the bank. SEC 8 states instances when it is payable to order. Check is payable to order of a payee who is not maker, drawer or drawee. SEC 22 states that infants may incur no liability except where he is guilty of actual fraud. Frank is 17 a minor and the courts decided that he is actually guilty of fraud and sent him to jail. SEC 23 defined forgery is meant the counterfeit-making or fraudulent alteration of any writing with the intent thereby to defraud. Frank counterfeits payroll checks and cashier’s checks and presents it to the beautiful tellers to use his charm in order to cash the check. SEC 24 states that the presumption of consideration in the instrument is prima facie and SEC 25 defined a value which is any consideration given to support a simple...
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...nk Abagnale was an intelligent man. One of the most successful con men in history, Frank lived as a pilot, doctor, lawyer and an FBI agent all before his 21st birthday. His primary technique was defrauding banks using different fake check schemes eventually amounting to over 2.5 million dollars. Along with a friend, Frank wrote his story which was later turned into an autobiographical film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Steven Speilberg. Much of what Frank accomplished in the film defied believability. Throughout the film Frank is creating different identities to try and make some money, but even though his name is changed his personality seems to remain the same. From the beginning his father, Frank Sr., is a huge role model for him and becomes the source of Frank’s longing for acceptance and appreciation. Once his parents are divorced Frank just wants everything to be ok and to have the perfect family back together, no matter the cost. In his eyes, his father just needs to win his mother back with a better life and material things when in reality, the relationship has been over for quite some time, a truth made clearly evident by his mother’s affair. Unable to deal with the stress of choosing which parent to live with, Frank runs away and soon realizes he needs to find a way to make money quickly. He first begins to create fake checks at different banks, scamming them out of hundreds of dollars and eventually realizing he needs to find...
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...Introduction ‘Catch Me If You Can’ is a movie based on true story about a boy named Frank William Abagnale Jr. During Frank early teen years in the 1960s, after I.R.S. Investigate his father financial affairs, the family lost their home and this lead to divorce between Frank parents. When lawyer ask Frank to decide who he want follow after his parent divorce, he decided to run away, at this time, he just 16 years old. While on the run, Frank impersonates a pilot, doctor and even a lawyer to make money. While him impersonating others, he also cash multiple forged cashier’s checks, as the amount getting higher and higher, FBI agent Carl Hanratty get assigned to this case to find the criminal. The movie follow Frank adventures and constant running from FBI which start with impersonate a pilot. After impersonate as a pilot, he manage to become an emergency room supervisor at a hospital with a fake certificate from Harvard Medical School, at here he get to know Brenda and plan to married her, when he meet her parents, he says that he has passed bar exam at California before and become assistant prosecutor of Brenda dad’s until he get caught at age 19 by Carl when Carl found out he print real checks at Monrichard. After he get caught , he served in prison for few years and then start to working with FBI to help in catching other check forging criminal, he also helps in developing the design of current checks to make it more difficult to forge . Frank William Abagnale Jr is a very...
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...The way you look at me #3 You’re so trustworthy #4 That you honestly crack me up You’re too funny! #5 Your cheeks (Cheekos) lmao #6 I think about you 24/7 and your fine with that!! #7 You’re focused on your dream job #8 The cute things that you do for me #9 How we can be ourselves when we’re together #10 You can cook #11 I’m not afraid to love you forever!! #12 That cute wrinkle above your nose #13 How traditional and family oriented you are #14 You listen to my bad singing and seem To enjoy every minute #15 Your supportive, always know what to say #16 Your kind hearted, sooo sweet #17 Your Booooootaaayyy haha #18 You can dance, like realllly dance #19 You don’t smoke #20 You pay for me at times #21 Your tiny ears are sooooooooo cuuuute!! #22 You legitimately trust me #23 Going on the 6th month and we still kiss like it’s our first one #24 You dedicated differences to me =) #25 You have my heart and willingly gave me yours #26 Our mutual weirdness that is definitely LOVE #27 The way you dress, have all the swags #28 I love you for you, and I’ll show you every chance I get #29 You don’t tell people our business #30 You show affection publicly, I loooove this ughh #31 You’re comfortable with me #32 I miss you immediately when you leave #33 You’re kisses are literally to die for !! Muuuuaah! #34 That you hoped that I would love you someday...
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... The Monkeys from the Arctic Nowadays succeeding in the music industry it’s very challenging. Moreover if you come from England and you have the pressure of big rock bands like The Beatles behind you. Arctic Monkeys have now four CD’s on the street, but as all the bands they have been trough many changes and difficulties. I personally encourage people and listen to all of their songs. The Monkeys are like wine, the older, the better. And they are only 25. After their debut in 2006, their second CD, Favourite Worst Nightmare, wasn’t so good. It was a grey come back in general. It’s entertaining because you can dance to some songs, but it wasn’t so gripping as the first one. Only the songs “505” or “This house is a circus” are impressive and shine over all the other songs. With Humbug, their third album, they reached the top. They were bored of doing the same over and over. The album starts with a lot of energy and it gets better while you are listening to all the tracks. One particular strength of Humbug, is the use of keyboards, that gives the track an innovating sound never heard before. A marked difference between the two albums is that the band has grown up a lot and their sound is more mature than before. They won’t be anymore a teenage-rock band. I would strongly advise you to listen to them and if you have the chance, go to one of their concerts. A stunning performance is...
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...Spectacular, Spectacular: a brief discussion of two engaging portrayals of the famous Parisian cabaret, the Moulin Rouge Yuxin Xue 10051309 IDIS290 Prof. Catherine Dhavernas 11 November 2014 Although the nature of their stories share some important qualities: romance, underlying motives, and the ever-elusive sensation of love, the two films Moulin Rouge and French Cancan are very different illustrations of the famous French caberet. While Jean Renoir uses facets of performance to emphasize the magnificence of the Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann does the opposite, effectively employing the setting as an enhancer to his tragic love story. The Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the cancan, a high-spirited dance originally performed as seductive entertainment by courtesans. Renoir focuses on this in his 1954 French Cancan, and much of the film is devoted to plans for building the Moulin Rouge, the courtesans’ efforts in learning the dance, and their internal feuds and doubts spurred on by the need to be the best of performers. The film also shows clear dedication to the relationships between performer and audience, with the courtesans frequently engaging with their patrons through dance and conversation. The Moulin Rouge is in its early days, and thus portrayed freely and in a glorious spotlight, making for a lighthearted atmosphere unchanging throughout the film. When Nini locks herself in her dressing...
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... I can never seem to keep a movie on until the end. That’s why I always make it a point to keep them interesting no matter what genre and last October 9’s movie didn’t disappoint. We watched an indie film by Joey De Guzman titled Tumbang Preso. The title seemed really familiar to me so because I was curious, I looked it up. Tumbang Preso was actually a child’s play, no wonder why it was so familiar. I used to play it at my grandma’s place back in Leyte when I was younger too. I actually thought it meant the fall of a prison cell since tumbang means fall and preso was jail. Lo and behold, it meant both. I was impressed with what Mr. De Guzman had going on. So tumbang preso has always been played in one way for kids. A player called an IT, is assigned to guard a can. The rest of the players with their “pamatos” or what they use to hit the can, line up behind a line drawn on the ground. Once settled, the game starts and each kid gets a chance to make the can fall with his or her pamatos. Once the can falls, the owner must retrieve the pamato that made the can fall immediately before he or she is caught. If he is caught, he becomes IT. If the can is hit and falls outside the circle but still stands, the IT has the right to tag the one responsible for the pamato once he or she leaves behind the line. The can may be kicked or knocked down under when it is outside the circle. If the player is not able to retrieve his pamato, the others can save him by hitting the can. ...
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...over 2.5 million dollars in phony checks. Frank's increasingly audacious work soon attracts the attention of Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), an FBI agent who is determined to put Frank behind bars. Frank seems to enjoy being pursued by Carl, and even goes so far as to call Carl on the phone to chat every once in a while. While posing as a doctor, Frank falls in love with Brenda Strong (Amy Adams), a sweet girl working as a candy striper. When Frank asks Brenda to marry him, he decides to assume a new identity to impress her father, Roger (Martin Sheen) -- who happens to be the District Attorney of New Orleans, LA. Catch Me If You Can was based on the autobiography of the real Frank W. Abagnale Jr., who has a cameo in the film and today works on the side of the law as a top consultant on preventing forgery and designing secure checking systems. Catch Me if You Can deals with themes of broken homes and troubled childhoods. Spielberg's parents divorced when he was a teenager, similar to Frank Abagnale's...
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...College Writing 1 17 January 2011 “Can You Handle It” Nextier Stadium, home of the Raiders, rumbles with anticipation; the overhead lights flicker on eliminating the field in a harsh glow. The stadium is filled to capacity, everyone anticipating the start of the game but none more than members of the Seneca Valley student section. Each student is pulsing with eagerness as they await kickoff. The bleachers are vibrating, shaking as the students jump up and down. The Seneca Valley kicker, dressed in rich Columbia blue and black, runs at the brown freckled football sitting on the neon orange tee. He catapults the ball to the fifteen yard line where North Allegheny’s returner waits for the ball to come down. He begins to run the ball back. “Get Him!” the student section screams with all their power willing the players on the field to crush the NA player. Do you want to know more about the section? Do you want be to part of the section, for each member of the student section will experience something unimaginable, will create memories that last a lifetime and will be a part of something special. In the lower-left hand corner of the home side of Nextier Stadium sits the student section, a place where the craziest of Seneca students go to root for their friends, boyfriends and classmates, who are fighting for victory on the field. Students come with faces and stomachs covered in paint. Taking more time to ready themselves for the games then they do for school in the morning;...
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...The film I chose to write my analysis about is “Catch Me If You Can”. I chose this film because its based on a true story and it amazes me how this individual got away with a lot of things. How his professional clothing and communication with others influenced in whom he became and what he did to accomplish his goals. This film illustrates how identity isolates him from significant others such as his fiancée. I know many people are judged by what they wear in most situations. It surprises me how well he communicated with others and the things he did to get to where he wanted, how people, who didn’t even know him help him out, they wanted to give him everything. The main actor in this film, which was Frank Abagnale Jr. I believe had an amazing nonverbal communication with others. His movements, gestures, appearance and facial expression played a major role in this film. Impersonating a Pam Am co-pilot, teacher, a physician, and a lawyer, he is able to pass hundreds of fake checks only partly because the clothes make the man, more because he posses enough charm to acquire information, flights around the world and whatever he wanted. As it talks about in our textbook in chapter 6, nonverbal communication in clothing. Clothing is a means of communication nonverbally. It is suggested that clothing conveys over ten types of messages to others. In our textbook it explains that communicators that wear special clothing often gain persuasiveness. For example uniforms, as Frank...
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...I chose the film catch me if you can because I feel like it follows the true story well. Many crimes are committed and roles are played by one person.Catch me if you can is based on a true story about Frank W Abagnale. Frank was a doctor, a lawyer, & a co pilot for a major airline company, all before his 19th birthday .He was a master of deception and a successful con artist. He was a brilliant forger, who netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. Carl Hanratty, An FBI agent made it his prime duty to catch Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank was always one step ahead of him. he was sentenced 12 years and isolation. Hanratty got him off on parole. Part of his parole agreement was for him to work under the supervision of Hanratty, to help the FBI catch con artists. there are many wonderful scenes in this film, but there were a few in particular that stood out to me the most. the first scene that stood out to me the most was when Frank interview the air pilot, and then he found a way to get a uniform and everything he needed to pretend to be a co-pilot. “I was an opportunist so when I saw an opening I ask myself ‘Could I get away with this?’.... The more I got...
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...Buela, Mary joy D. BSBA-1302 Catch Me If You Can Introduction The title of the movie that I watched is “Catch me If You Can” and it is directed by Steven Spielberg. This movie is all about the real life of Mr. Frank Abagnale Jr., he is the sibling of Mr. Frank Abagnale and Mrs. Paula Abagnale. It show of how can Mr. Frank Abagnale Jr. live for a long time even he is separate from his parents and what he will do to survive for a long time. How he made a fake cheque to withdraw in a bank, what are his different strategies to do this? Does he succeed at the end? And how he starts again his life after this situation? In life, we don’t have to make things wrong just to have money. Even your wise, it not show that you have the capability to do things wrong, unless you have to use that knowledge on the things that nobody would be affected at the end specially yourself. Plot Synopsis When Mr. Frank Abagnale Jr. separate from his parents he start his life to act like a Pilot, Doctor, and a lawyer from different places even though he doesn’t accomplish those courses. He also makes more fake cheque and withdraws it on different banks. He doesn’t realize that he will be arrested because he continues to make more cheque and act like a professional for a long year. Themes This movie is interesting to watch because you can learn a lot that you can apply in your real life. Being a one of the audience of this movie, I learn how to control myself in doing wrong like I had watched...
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