Week3：Catch Me If You Can

Analisis Cerita:

1. Frank is a genius and he is a great learner.During his youth, he witnesses his father’s many techniques for conning people.
2. Frank that her parents are divorced and runs away from home.Needing money, he turns to confidence scams to survive.Finally He impersonates a Pan Am pilot and forges the airline’s payroll checks. Soon,he was making millions of dollars.
3. USAA finds people using cheques to steal money,Agent Carl Hanratty begins tracking Criminals.Carl finds Frank at a hotel, but Frank tricks Carl into believing he is a agent. He escapes before Carl realizes that he was fooled.
4. Frank begins to impersonate a doctor.he falls in love with Brenda, a naive young hospital worker. He asks her attorney father for her hand in marriage and also for help with arranging to take the Louisiana State Bar exam, which Frank passes.
5. He returns home and meets his father in a tavern, where he gives him a large sum of money in the hope that he will remarry his mother and attend his wedding. However, his father refuses the request and Frank leaves the tavern in anger.
6. At the same time,Carl tracks Frank to his and Brenda’s engagement party,but Frank escapes through a bedroom window, telling Brenda to meet him at Miami International Airport two days later.
7. At the airport, Frank spots Brenda, but also plainclothes agents. He realizes she has given him up, then drives away.Using his identity as a pilot, he held a fake recruitment drive for stewardesses at a local university. Surrounded by eight female flight attendants, he escaped without incident on a plane to Madrid, Spain.
8. 2 years later,Carl tracks down Frank in his mother’s hometown of Montrichard, France. He is incarcerated in a French prison in Marseille, where he becomes very ill due to its poor conditions.Carl takes Frank on a flight back to the United States. As they approach, the FBI agent informs him that his father has died. Grief-stricken, Frank escapes from the plane and reaches the house of his mother, who is now married to Barnes and has a daughter. Frank surrenders to Carl and is sentenced to 12 years in a maximum-security prison.
9. Carl occasionally visits Frank. During one visit, he shows him a fraud check from a case he is working on. Frank immediately figures out that the bank teller was involved in the fraud. Impressed, Carl convinces the FBI to allow him to serve the remainder of his sentence working for the FBI Financial Crimes Unit. Frank agrees.
10. Frank soon grows restless of the tedious office work.One weekend, Frank prepares to impersonate a pilot again and is intercepted by Carl, who allows him to carry on his act.But, Frank will die of old age in prison if he is caught again, leaving him to make his own choices. Carl is nervous when Frank doesn’t show up on time for work day the following week. However, Frank eventually shows up at his desk and the two begin to work together to solve the crime of fraud.

Character Analysis

Frank:I think Frank is an intelligent, outgoing man with a passion for life who could have been an outstanding contributor to society if not for his youthful admiration for his father and his broken family. (Even in the film,Frank becomes a cheque fraud expert with the help of Carl, who invents the most advanced cheque security sign available)

Carl:Carl is an FBI agent who works as a logistician researching economic crime theories. He had a happy family and a daughter with his wife, but unfortunately the couple divorced and the daughter went to live with her mother, making it difficult for Carl to see them. In the process of tracking down Frank, he discovers that he is the same kind of person as Frank – someone who wanders alone at Christmas without his family. I think if Carl hadn’t met Frank, he would have gone to work every day, writing his dissertation on economic crime, and in a few years, got a promotion and a pay rise. It’s a boring journey through life. It was when he met Frank that Carl felt that this talented young man was very much like himself, so he had the compassion to spend time with Frank during his ten years in prison.

Create a timeline

1. Frank is a genius and he is a great learner. In his youth, he witnessed many of his father’s deceptive tricks.

2. Although Frank’s family suffered a great change, his parents did not divorce and together they supported the family that was about to break up. Frank needed money and he found that becoming a pilot would be a quick way to earn it. He tricked his mother into dropping out of high school straight away and through his skills of language and deception, Frank quickly gained a lot of money to make up for the family’s financial shortfall.

3. However, Frank’s dropping out of school eventually becomes known to his mother, who leaves home alone one night, and Frank confronts his father about why he let her go. Frank confronted his father about why he had let her go. He explained that they had divorced long ago, but for the sake of Frank’s life, he begged his mother to stay until Frank could afford to live on his own. The father pleads with his mother to stay until Frank is able to live on his own. Angry, Frank also leaves home and uses his identity as a pilot to travel alone to New York.

4. Frank changes his identity, dresses up as a student and, by virtue of his forgery, gets into the economics department of New York University, where he meets Carl, who comes to teach, and the two have a good conversation. As Frank’s deception grows bolder, the FBI takes notice of the economic criminal and they invite Carl, hoping to provide professional support.

5. As Carl analyses the case, he realises that the criminal is his favourite student, Frank. Before that, because they were both alone, both due to family reasons, they had become best friends and knew enough about each other’s habits to allow Carl to detect this behaviour belonging to Frank.

On Christmas Day, Frank is ready to reveal his feelings to his closest friend, Carl. However, when he returns home, he finds the FBI police in Carl’s house and puts away the Christmas presents he had bought for Carl and leaves the house.

7. With mixed feelings, Carl sits on the sofa, wishing that Frank would not come home, but also hoping that Frank is not the financial criminal, even though the evidence is so obvious, Carl still does not want to believe this fact. Just as the clock strikes 12, Carl receives a phone call from Frank with the simple words “You’re a liar”.

8. Since Frank had disappeared into New York, the economic criminals who had been defrauding USAA had disappeared. Although Carl didn’t catch Frank, he still made a name for himself at the FBI and was hired to head the Economic Crimes Division, and Carl lived up to everyone’s expectations by solving several major economic frauds during his tenure. On Christmas Eve, a retired Carl was sitting in a park, enjoying himself, when a middle-aged man sat next to Carl, holding a worn gift box with the words ‘To Carl’ written on it. “”Merry Christmas to you too, Frank.”