after learning the truth i dont want to watch the movie again,also, he literally made money by having some hollywood person i.e. spielberg giving him money
Dicaprio movies are outstanding, just not the most rewatchables, blood diamond, revolutionary road, j Edgar, the revenant, gangs of new York, the aviator
Damnnn! He not only swindled once as an international conman. Twice by selling his expertise at swindling to institutes he have swindled. But actually thrice, by writing so successful it got made into a Spielberg's movie, which I must add, also swindled my young self into believe that beautiful friendship. That's a long marathon of conning.
For those who are confused about the title: "WTF _REALLY_ HAPPENED TO THIS MOVIE" compares the movie with it's book whereas "WTF HAPPENED TO THIS MOVIE" talks about troubled productions.
A former Boss of a company I used to work for unknowingly went to a speaking engagement of Abagnale. My boss said Abagnale was one of the most interesting and engaging speakers she had ever listened to
The minor changes to the actual historical story bug me a lot less than the fact that Frank was able to pull off most of these cons because he looked much older than he actually was. They cast Leonardo DiCaprio who up till early middle-age looked immensely younger than he actually was.
DiCaprio was meant to look younger than he was. In real life he (DiCaprio) was 28 years old and in the movie he is 16. DiCaprio pulled it off perfectly.
I will say one thing. I know there were tweaks made to the story to turn it into a better movie but it always bugged me that the whole thing was made possible from the fact, but if you look at photos of him, as a teenager he looked much older. So when he walked into that high school you could pay us as a teacher. That’s why when he put on a uniform and jumped out of the airplane two grab a free flight people accepted it. So then they turn around and cast Leonardo DiCaprio who is notorious for looking younger than he was open till he hit a magic point and suddenly look at his age. I remember the joke from when titanic came out I’m not attracted to 12-year-old boys. Because he looks notoriously young.
Dicaprio STILL looks like a kid to me. For this film, despite the inversion of fact, his casting was a brilliant idea. It kept the audience from ever forgetting the brilliant insanity at work. Had the actor looked older it would have taken a huge mundane bite out of gloriously unusual story and it's gloriously unusual lead character!
I just want to point out that for some reason I could not find this comment again. That’s why there’s almost an identical comment from me slightly above this and why I was unable to fix the glorious disaster that is my voice to text conversion combined with auto correct.
My favorite part of the book didn’t make it in the movie. He’s on a bus in France after his release from prison, 2 school girls make many comments in English about his appearance, assuming that Frank is French. When they get off the bus, he speaks to them in English and the girls are quite embarrassed of course.
Great video on a masterpiece movie. I heard the real Frank Abagnale Jr speak at an event i worked a few years back and his stories are always fascinating and entertaining!
I read Catch me if you can, back when it came out in 1980. And I bought the book again after seeing the film. There were changes. In the 1st edition he wrote of actual time at the controls during his dead heading. That was no longer in the book. I believe it was removed because beyond a thief actually sitting at the controls he was putting many other peoples lives at risk. I bet that’s why it’s no longer found in the book.
After learning that most of his incredible story was a lie, I decided upon taking the movie (which I enjoy everytime I watch it), with a grain of salt, but simultaneously admiring the balls of Abagnale- basically pulling the wool over the eyes of anyone willing to believe.
I hoped this video would be about how Frank faked his whole life story. None of the stuff ever happened and it was general knowledge back when he was on 'To tell the truth'. Unfortunately this movie made his fabricated story legendary and no one questioned it.
I only just learnt that everything, and I mean everything that Frank claims was a lie. Times that he was scamming people he was actually in jail. Much of this was known before the movie, it kind of all makes sense now. He was never a good scammer, just a great liar.
@@josephforest7605 saw that too. This story always sounded super fishy. Everyone he came across had to be extremely stupid. That and he pulled this all off in 2 years?
Two mice fell into a bowl of cream. The first mouse struggled and drowned. But the second mouse ran so hard he churned that cream into butter and climbed out. I'm proud to say I'm that second mouse. Regardless if he actually said it. That's my favorite quote
I just read the book. Frank did teach college classes as a substitute teacher. It was to be for a month but the original teacher did not return so he did that job for many months. He did not have to soak the model planes to get the decals off. The model kits had decal sheets in the box. He was a doctor for almost a year but only let others make the decisions, even interns. And yes just a gofer as a lawyer. In the book, his close call was when they were surrounding his apartment so he walked out, said he was a FBI agent and that yes, Frank was still up in his place. Then walked away. A girlfriend’s dad had a printing company and he conned the guy to print the Pan-Am checks.
I know , I also read his book and he fooled me , also Johnny Carson .He never did anything in the book or in the movie . Alan C Logan investigated Frank and his entire story is fiction.
"He would never have to suffer in an european prison" by going to Prison in the USA. Comparing european and american prisons today would probably sound different today.
The real Frank wrote in his book something like "I mostly have to be physically there in order to arrange those cons in the day. In the near future this con/scam will be much worse, since the con man could be anyone half the globe away with stolen identity. The real owner of that identity will be the real victim in the con." (Can't remember the exact book title and the quote however, sorry. But not too far from this.) Considering how internet con/scam is actually happening today. That prediction is pretty accurate...
@@MickeyKnox Queen isbrilliant, but you must acknowledge the score in this movie. The playful jazz is pretty unusual for a movie score, sets the tone perfectly, and is extremely memorable.
In a talk, I heard the real Frank say that to pass as a doctor, he’d read medical journals then ambush his doctor neighbor and spout off what he’d learned every day, so that the real doctor would never want to talk to Frank about medicine because he was too annoying and he wouldn’t risk being found out.
I passed the CA real estate exam in 2007, and had a friend who did the same before switching careers, going to law school and then passing the Bar exam. I asked him how much harder the Bar exam was from the real estate exam. - He said if passing the real estate exam is like passing your first driver's test, then passing the Bar is like qualifying for the Indy 500." - Abagnale must be a real smart dude..
