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Genre-Heist
1. Gathering the crackerjack team that can do the job. At least one member must be wooed away from a
good (but boring) job in the straight world. Also, the team must be a collection of oddfellows--misfits and
mismatched folk who would only come together in a situation like this.

2. Love interest--essential member of dream team (the safecracker, for example) turns out to be dead ...
but his knockout daughter inherited his talent!

3. Hero has to a have a personal reason to rob THIS PARTICULAR bank, casino, etc. He's got a grudge
against the guy who owns it, or it's on the turf of his enemy the evil sheriff, etc.

4. Super duper technology special. Something so interesting the audience goes "ooh." Harder to manage
these days.

5. The doublecross. Or fake doublecross.

6. One guy dies heroically saving the others.

7. The "secret" ending--it looks like the hero's gotten beaten, but then it turns out this was all a part of his
plan and he put some safeguard in place and the surviving team members get away scot-free with all the
money.

Narrative
The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is
a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals
throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history.
Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just
out of British prison. Shunning rehabilitation for recidivism, Croker
takes over "The Italian Job," a complicated plan to hijack gold
bullion from Italy -- right from underneath the noses of the Italian
Police and the Mafia. The job, whose original mastermind was
murdered, clearly requires the sponsorship of a richer, more
established criminal than Croker. He turns to the auspices of the
eccentric Mr. Bridger (Nol Coward in his last film role), a suave,
regal, incarcerated English crime boss with a peculiar fascination
with the Queen. Bridger provides Croker with a quirky group of
Britain's most infamous computer hackers (including a lascivious
Benny Hill), bank robbers, hijackers, and getaway drivers -- the ex-
con is soon well on his way to relieving Italy of the gold.
Audience
PG-13, violence and some strong language
Drama, Action, Adventure, heist
Directed By: Asger Leth
Man on a ledge
Genre-Heist
1. Gathering the crackerjack team that can do the job. At least one member must be wooed away
from a good (but boring) job in the straight world. Also, the team must be a collection of
oddfellows--misfits and mismatched folk who would only come together in a situation like this.

2. Love interest--essential member of dream team (the safecracker, for example) turns out to be
dead ... but his knockout daughter inherited his talent!

3. Hero has to a have a personal reason to rob THIS PARTICULAR bank, casino, etc. He's got a grudge
against the guy who owns it, or it's on the turf of his enemy the evil sheriff, etc.

4. Super duper technology special. Something so interesting the audience goes "ooh." Harder to
manage these days.

5. The doublecross. Or fake doublecross.

6. One guy dies heroically saving the others.

7. The "secret" ending--it looks like the hero's gotten beaten, but then it turns out this was all a part
of his plan and he put some safeguard in place and the surviving team members get away scot-free
with all the money.

Narrative

Todays the day that everything changes one way or another. Theyre the words of disgraced cop and
escaped convict Nick (Sam Worthington) as he prepares to step on to the window ledge of a Manhattan
hotel. Is he suicidal or is a plot afoot? It doesnt take long to find out in this popcorn thriller that throws a
conspiracy and a heist into the mix. It turns out Nick has been convicted of stealing a diamond from tycoon
David Englander (Ed Harris), a villainous character who leaves us in no doubt as to Nicks innocence. But
the cops are far more concerned with preventing Nick from jumping several storeys in front of the baying
crowds gathered for the show.
If the rubberneckers add a touch of much-needed believability, the realism ends there. The main action
comes from a cunning plan involving Nicks brother Joey, who, as played by Jamie Bell, is a more
interesting character than his wobbly-accented sibling. While Nick is fobbing off police officer Lydia (a
solid Elizabeth Banks), Joey and his clothes-shy girlfriend, Angie (Genesis Rodriguez), grapple with security
cameras and wriggle through air ducts in a nearby building. Theres more than a whiff of the TV series
Prison Break about Joeys protective-brother act, not to mention the tidy pace and brazen implausibilities
that escalate towards a ridiculous ending. But preposterousness can be forgivable in a B-movie clock-ticker
at least to fans of the genre. This embraces its own lunacy readily enough, never aiming for anything
more than the disposable thrills it delivers thick and fast
Audience
PG-13, violence and some strong language
Mystery & Suspense, Drama, heist

Rick Altman
Rick Altman teaches courses on film sound, film genres, and narrative theory. In
recent years he has taught courses on silent film sound and exhibition,
Hollywood's conversion to sound, genre theory, the musical, the films of Rouben
Mamoulian, and narrative theory. Having recently completed a longterm project
entitled A Theory of Narrative, published by Columbia UP in 2008, Altman is
currently working on a book that will trace the development of standardized
sound practices during Hollywood's studio years. He continues to perform his
Living Nickelodeon program in venues around the world (in 2009-10 at the
Eastman School, Notre Dame, the Buffalo International Film Festival, a German
tour, and NYU).
Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, United States. He has also published under the name
Charles F. Altman.
Semantic Syntactic
A plan
Money
Get away cars
Guns
Police men
Expensive item
A chase
Revenge
Truth
Pride
Power
Greed

5 Stages of Film Evolution
The 5 stages of film evolution are 5 different stages in which
films have been created. It first started off as The form found
itself which is the first kind of film for a genre but not
knowing they had made it in that genre. The next stage is the
classic which is a film that is made in a genre that everyone
knows of and loves. The next stage is stretching the
boundaries which is where it fits a genre but have done
something different in it which makes it unique. The forth
stage is Parody which is a mock of a specific film in a genre.
The final stage is a Homage which is a film made in honour
of a classic.
Heist
5 stages of film evolution:
The form finds itself: The Great Train Robbery
The Classic: The Italian Job
Stretching the Boundaries: Inception
Parody: Tower Heist
Homage: Oceans Eleven

The form finds itself: The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film
written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. At ten minutes long, it
is considered a milestone in film making, expanding on Porter's previous
work Life of an American Fireman. The film used a number of innovative
techniques including composite editing, camera movement and on
location shooting. The film is one of the earliest to use the technique of
cross cutting, in which two scenes appear to occur simultaneously but in
different locations. Some prints were also hand collared in certain scenes.
The Classic: The Italian Job

The Italian Job is a 1969 British caper film, written by Troy
Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed
by Peter Collinson. Subsequent television showings and
releases on video have established it as an institution in
the United Kingdom.
Its soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and
includes "On Days Like These" sung by Matt Monro over
the opening credits, and "Getta Bloomin' Move On"
(usually referred to as "The Self-Preservation Society", after
its chorus) during the climactic car chase. Lead
actor Michael Caine is among its singers.


Stretching the Boundaries: Inception

Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist thriller film
written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher
Nolan. The film stars a large ensemble cast that
includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom
Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger,
and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a
professional thief who commits corporate
espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his
targets. He is offered a chance of redemption as
payment for a task considered to be impossible:
"inception", the implantation of another person's idea
into a target's subconscious.
Parody: Tower Heist

Tower Heist is a 2011 heist comedy film directed by Brett
Ratner and written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson, based on a
story by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Griffin. It was released on
November 2, 2011, in the United Kingdom, with a United States
release following two days later. Tower Heistfollows Josh (Ben
Stiller), Charlie (Casey Affleck) and Enrique Dev'reaux (Michael
Pea), employees of an exclusive apartment building who lose their
pensions in the Ponzi scheme of Wall Street businessman Arthur
Shaw (Alan Alda). The group enlist the aid of criminal Slide (Eddie
Murphy), bankrupt businessman Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick)
and another employee of the apartment building, Odessa
(Gabourey Sidibe), to break into Shaw's apartment and steal back
their money while avoiding the FBI agent in charge of his case,
Claire Denham (Ta Leoni).
Homage: Oceans Eleven

Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 American comedy heist
film and the remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of
the same name. The 2001 film was directed
by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble
cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt
Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garca, and Julia
Roberts. The film was a success at the box office
and with critics. Soderbergh directed
two sequels,Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's
Thirteen in 2007, resulting in the term
the Ocean's Trilogy. It was the fifth highest-
grossing film of 2001.