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The Anderson Podcast discusses the movie "Catch Me If You Can" directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a con man who became successful at a young age. The movie explores his various impersonations and crimes, as well as his cat-and-mouse game with FBI Agent Carl Hanratty. The host of the podcast praises the film's music, storytelling, and the performances of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. The movie ends with Abagnale working for the FBI and helping catch other criminals. Overall, the host recommends the film for its entertaining and thrilling story. Hello, and welcome to the Anderson Podcast. Today, I will be doing a movie review on the movie Catch Me If You Can. I'm your host, Foster Anderson. Now, let's get right into the review. This movie, Catch Me If You Can, was filmed in 2002 and was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. Now, this film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and the music was produced by John Williams. The release date of this film was December 25, 2002. This film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale, Jr., Tom Hanks as Agent Carl Hanratty, and Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale, Sr. Now, the backstory of this film was inspired by the true story of Frank William Abagnale, Jr. when he was about 16 and 17. He became the most successful U.S. con man in the United States' history. Now, the synopsis found on the Internet of this movie states this. Frank Abagnale, Jr. worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline, previous Pan Am American Airways, way back in the 1960s, all before his 18th birthday. He was a master of deception. He was also a brilliant forger whose skill gave him his first real claim to fame. At the age of 17, Frank, Jr. became the most successful bank robber in the history of the United States of America. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty makes it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him. Now, this was found, disclaimer, this synopsis was found on the Internet, was not my own, and I just thought that it would give a good explanation and backstory on the film. So, so now I want to give my take on this movie. So, what I really like about this film is the music. John Williams' score in this movie just makes you feel like you're part of it, you know? In the beginning, when they're doing the title scenes, they have a bunch of drawings of stick figures or figures like you would see for men and women near the bathrooms and everything, you know, those little signs that say men and women, kind of like those. But what's really cool is John Williams' take, he begins the film with a bit of jazz music, jazz instrumental music, where we're having the, having the orchestra like be silent, make it, make it pianissimo, very silent at first, but then it builds up with the violins and then the saxophone solo in the middle, which really brings the film to life and makes you want to learn more and, and watch more of this film. Also, what's really cool is in the beginning, it shows a game show, which is called Tell the Truth, which is, which was an actual show. And basically, there's a panel of famous people, and they bring in three people, and one of them was the real person, but they all have to tell the truth and try to throw, and the other two have to try and throw off the other people, the other, the, the panel, and the one person has to tell the truth for everything. The other people can lie or whatever. But what's really cool is it goes back and forth. The film goes back and forth. So it's, so the film actually starts way after Frank Jr. has been committed, or whatever, to prison and everything. And then it, and then it goes all the way back to when Hugh was first captured in Paris, or not Paris, but in France, which is really cool, which was really cool. I really liked how they, how that, how Steven Spielberg made that little transition. Then it goes way back to the very beginning of when this, of when the story first started back in the 60s at the Rotary Club, where Frank's father was being recognized as a lifetime member. But this film really shows its, really shows its, its good side just throughout, just throughout through the actors and throughout the storyline itself, really shows that, that, you know, there's a lot of history in this world, and, you know, people can do anything. You know, Frank was seven, was 16, 17 when he first did this, which is crazy, because you would think, like, a 16-year-old would never want to do anything like this, which, and, you know, and when I first saw this film, I'm like, wow, like, this man really had a big imagination and was a very smart man and knew what to do. So now getting back to the film, so like, like, so in the first, the first thing that Frank has ever impersonated was the substitute teacher. So it's his first day of school, and what he decided to do was, there were some bullies in his class, in his, one of his new classes, it was a French class, and he, what he decided to do, because of the bullies, he, because he had a suit on and everything, and it looks like he was a substitute teacher, he actually decided to become the substitute teacher. So he had the students read their, their French textbooks and everything, and then all of a sudden, the real sub comes, and, and he takes it very calmly, and she says that she was supposed to be here, and she came all the way from somewhere, and Frank, and he, he said to her, like, I always sub for this person, like, he took charge, and it actually made them believe that he was the actual sub. So he really had a lot of confidence when he was going through this time in his life, when he first started doing this, and so after, you know, there's a meet, they haven't, they find out, and they have a meeting with the parents, and his mom, his mom was just not happy into it, was like, Frank, like, why'd you do this? But his dad, on the other hand, was that, was just laughing at him, and was like, that was a good one, and so what, but what's really cool is, actually, Frank's father actually did some, did that before Frank ever started, or got into it, which was, which is really funny, that he got it from his father, and so after that, after that all happens, and everything, they go back, and they decide, like, they're gonna get a divorce, they just can't agree on anything, and so, like I said, Frank ends up running away, just running, and doesn't come back, and begins to forge checks, and make his own, and impersonate a, an airline pilot for Pan American Airways, and what he does, he, he has his old suit, that he did, and he went to the, he went to the Pan Am headquarters, and he said that he had a, he had a meeting, he was a young man running an article for the school paper, which he was not in school, he had his all dressed up, and he talked to the director of Pan American Airways, the CEO, and basically, he got, he got an old airline license that the guy didn't use, and he was able to take a picture of himself, and make his own ID badge, and get his own, get his own suit, and everything, so it really made him look official, which was really crazy for someone at his age, way back in the 60s, to do anything like this, so that's basically what the main story is, and then he gets caught, you know, Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent, gets, gets this, and he begins to chase Frank, and finally gets up to him, and, and, and blocks his path, and Frank actually decides in the end to, yep, I trust you, I'm gonna go, I would, I did something wrong, and, but Carl really cared about Frank, and before Frank was gonna walk out, he told him that they were gonna kill him, and because, you know, you know, even though Carl was chasing him the entire time, he, he actually really cared about Frank, he didn't want anything bad to happen to him, he wanted him to learn, because he was young, he was 18 when he finally got caught, which was, which is very young for someone to go to prison for that long, but what's really cool is, at the very end, so he goes to prison, and Carl comes to visit him, okay, and then what he does is, Frank asks Carl if they, if they caught anyone recently, if there was more check fraud coming in, in everything, and so Carl shows Frank through the glass window a check, and Frank looks at him, he's like, oh no, it's fake, like, just by looking at it, just right there, it's fake, and he gets all, he tells Carl all this information, and Carl goes to the head of the FBI, brings him to the prison, and gives Frank another check to look at, and here he says it's, it's fake, and he didn't even touch it, look, look at it, he just touched it, and he's like, fake, sorry, fake, and which was really cool, and so he just, the head of the FBI was very impressed by that, and so what he had him do is, he asked him if he wanted to work for the FBI, and he said that they have the power to take him out of prison, and that he would serve the remainder of his sentence that was supposed to be in prison, working for the FBI, and so they give him his own office, and they give him all these checks to look at, and one day, he decides to leave again, but, and Carl catches up with him, and he's like, and he's like, why are you chasing me? I'm like, and he's like, Frank, no one's chasing you, and I, I trust you, you'll be back on Monday, and he walks off, and he's like, how do you know I'll come back, and he's like, Frank, look, there's no one, there's no one chasing you, no one's going to get you, no one's going to chase you, so he walks away, and then Frank doesn't show up at one point, and while Carl is looking at this, at this check, Frank comes back, and he looks at it again, and he looks at all these checks, and he's like, you know, we're going to have to do this, and everything, and, and I, he says, and the last thing he says is, Carl, I think we can, I think we can get this guy, we just got to find a way to catch him, and that's how the movie ends, and that's really how the story ends, and basically, after that, the story ends with, so it tells, it talks about how Frank William Abagnale Jr. is still living today, and we actually founded a whole new way of checks, and made a whole bunch of checks, and he's been giving conferences on bank fraud, and checks, and everything like that for a very long time, which is really cool, but, and that's how the story is, but, and Steven Spielberg's take on this story is very, very well interpreted, really good storytelling, real thrilling, the music is good, the actors that chose are great, the whole film series is just, the whole film is just amazing, I would really recommend it to everybody, it is like over two hours long, but it's a good film, it's a good film about American history on this, on this one true story, which is really cool, so thank you for listening guys, I really hope you enjoyed this, this podcast, my talk, my interpretation on the movie, text me if you can, I really enjoyed this movie, and I really hope that you guys will take a look at it for yourselves, and let me know what you think on this, on this awesome movie, I hope you guys have a great day, and thank you so much for listening, and I suggest you go take a look at this movie, because it's really going to blow your mind, this is Foster Anderson from the Anderson podcast, signing off.
