...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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...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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...to pass 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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...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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...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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...Check Fraud and Check Washing: Prevention and Strategies “What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.” or so says Frank William Abagnale, Jr (2008), one of the most infamous check forgers and imposters of all time as he reflects back to his reign as a check fraud kingpin of 1960’s. Some may remember the movie Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002) that stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks portraying the true story behind the great confidence trickster that is Frank Abagnale, Jr. Mostly known for his various impersonations as a security guard, airline pilot, teaching assistant, physician, and attorney, he is also widely known for his ability to forge checks and after numerous escapes from law enforcement leading up to his capture in France in 1969. He was sentenced to 12 years at a Federal Corrections Institute facility in Petersburg, Virginia. After serving only 4 years of that sentence his talents were used for the greater good. The U.S. Federal Government released him on the condition that he aid the authorities in helping find con-artists similar to himself…without pay. Why is this significant? Because this mastermind is telling us that all these things that he did are actually easier to do today. But how? The first step to prevention is being informed. And the first thing piece of information we need to know is that there are many types of check fraud to include check washing, forgery, counterfeiting and alteration, paperhanging...
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...Conclusion___________________________________________________________7 References___________________________________________________________8 Introduction In 2002 DreamWorks produced a block buster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks titled “Catch Me If You Can.” This film portrays the glamorous lifestyle and subsequent fall of perhaps the most infamous check fraud perpetrator of all time, Frank Abagnale. Fraud is defined as “deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence…” (Dictionary.com, 2012). Check washing is when a person would “…erase the ink on a check…and rewrite the check to themselves increasing the amount payable…” (Center, 1995-2009). If you saw “Catch Me If You Can,” this is what you witnessed Mr. Abagnale doing with the Pan Am pilot paychecks. Both of these types of fraud are very simple ways to steal from the consumer when they least expect it. Check Fraud According to the National Check Fraud Center, “check fraud is one of the largest challenges facing businesses and financial institutions today.” With the availability of home computers equipped with photograph editing software and the advances in printing technology, criminals are able to create duplicate checks in large numbers without ever leaving their homes. Victims can range from a consumer having a check stolen out of their wallet, an employer with a paycheck copied, or a business who accepts a fraudulent check for purchase of tangible assets. (Center, 1995-2009)...
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...------------------------------------------------- Hachiko Monogatari ------------------------------------------------- Hachikō Monogatari (ハチ公物語?, "Hachikō monogatari") is a Japanese language film starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino, andMasumi Harukawa. The film, directed by Seijirō Kōyama, is a tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death. The film was released in 1987 and was the top Japanese film at the box office that year. Hachikō Monogatari is a melodramatic film that tells the true story of friendship, trust, and affection of Japan's most faithful dog "Hachi", whose bronze statue, to this day, stands watch over Shibuya Station, Tokyo. kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人 Shindō Kaneto?, April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012)was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238.[1] His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba,Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa,Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei andTadashi Imai. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb.[2] Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his films feature strong female characters. He was a pioneer of independent film production in Japan, founding a company called Kindai Eiga Kyokai. He continued working as a scriptwriter,...
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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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...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...
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...A pre-credits scene shows an episode of the popular game show 'To Tell the Truth' set in 1977 where three contestants appears claiming to the panelests to be the legengary Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) who impersonated an airline pilot, a lawyer, and doctor, as well as scammed people on three continents for millions of dollars... all before reaching the age of 19. The film begins in 1969, with FBI agent Carl Hanratty Jr. (Tom Hanks) arriving at a French prison to meet the flu-stricken Frank Abagnale Jr, who attempts to escape from the prison prior to his extraction to the USA for a series of crimes. The scene flashes back to six years earlier. 16-year-old Frank Abagnale Jr lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). Frank's father cons a woman into lending him a suit for Frank Jr., who later acts as a driver for Frank Sr. in a ruse to get a loan from Chase Manhattan Bank. When the loan is denied (due to a series of IRS tax frauds by Frank Sr.), the family is forced to move from their grand home to a small apartment, with tension building within the family. Frank soon realizes that his mother is having an adulterous affair with his father's friend Jack (James Brolin) and feeling that he will not fit in at his new school, poses as a substitute teacher in his French class for a short time. Eventually trouble builds between Frank's mother and father, who file for divorce and ask...
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...TABLE 4 Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity of $1 1 1 (1 i)n PVA i n/i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1.0% 0.99010 1.97040 2.94099 3.90197 4.85343 5.79548 6.72819 7.65168 8.56602 9.47130 1.5% 0.98522 1.95588 2.91220 3.85438 4.78264 5.69719 6.59821 7.48593 8.36052 9.22218 2.0% 0.98039 1.94156 2.88388 3.80773 4.71346 5.60143 6.47199 7.32548 8.16224 8.98259 9.78685 2.5% 0.97561 1.92742 2.85602 3.76197 4.64583 5.50813 6.34939 7.17014 7.97087 8.75206 9.51421 3.0% 0.97087 1.91347 2.82861 3.71710 4.57971 5.41719 6.23028 7.01969 7.78611 8.53020 9.25262 9.95400 3.5% 0.96618 1.89969 2.80164 3.67308 4.51505 5.32855 6.11454 6.87396 7.60769 8.31661 9.00155 9.66333 4.0% 0.96154 1.88609 2.77509 3.62990 4.45182 5.24214 6.00205 6.73274 7.43533 8.11090 8.76048 9.38507 9.98565 4.5% 0.95694 1.87267 2.74896 3.58753 4.38998 5.15787 5.89270 6.59589 7.26879 7.91272 8.52892 9.11858 9.68285 5.0% 0.95238 1.85941 2.72325 3.54595 4.32948 5.07569 5.78637 6.46321 7.10782 7.72173 8.30641 8.86325 9.39357 9.89864 5.5% 6.0% 7.0% 0.93458 1.80802 2.62432 3.38721 4.10020 4.76654 5.38929 5.97130 6.51523 7.02358 7.49867 7.94269 8.35765 8.74547 9.10791 9.44665 9.76322 8.0% 0.92593 1.78326 2.57710 3.31213 3.99271 4.62288 5.20637 5.74664 6.24689 6.71008 7.13896 7.53608 7.90378 8.24424 8.55948 8.85137 9.12164 9.37189 9.60360 9.81815 9.0% 10.0% 11.0% 12.0% 20.0% 0.94787 0.94340 1.84632 1.83339 2.69793 2.67301 3.50515 3.46511 4.27028 4.21236 4.99553 4.91732 5.68297 5.58238 6.33457 6.20979 6.95220 6.80169 7.53763 7.36009 8.09254...
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...But if you are successful you will move down the field faster and get the ultimate reward. Winning the game. The key to a good offense is being able to throw the football because it will open up opportunities in the run game. Throwing is very difficult, it is a process that if you miss one step then you throw will be unreachable or inaccurate.There are 4 steps to throwing a spiral. When you throw a spiral it makes it easier for the receiver to catch the ball. This is difficult because if the ball isn't a spiral and is wobbly then the receiver cannot read the ball and won't know where to put his hands in order to catch the ball. Many people find that they cannot make passes...
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