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11 years, 11 months ago - Sam Seal
Following Blake Snyder's advice on working out your story's genre and then watching many movies of that type... I'm working on a story that's part "Heist" and part "stranger comes to town". Or as Blake labels them, "Golden Fleece" and "Institutional".
So, shooty shouty folk, what are your recommended fab movies of these genres and why?
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11 years, 10 months ago - Royston Deitch
For Stranger Comes To Town, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (screenwriters Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville (Mrs. H.!). Hitch uses the shadow of an arriving train to presage the darkness on-board villain Joseph Cotten is bringing to his small-town niece Theresa Wright, and the gradual peeling away of all his layers to reveal the killer beneath make this a classic.
And for a heist movie, I know it's been recommended already but I don't think you can get better than "Reservoir Dogs" for the sheer visceral adrenaline-filled rush of this robbery-gone-wrong story.
Enjoy!
Royston Deitch
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11 years, 11 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
If you want classic heist in episodic format how about TV's "Hustle" - 7 series of it all pretty much following classic heist movie structure with false ends, cunning plans, reveals, the gang of skills, etc. And a charming and enjoyable programme too.
11 years, 11 months ago - Stuart Wright
Stranger comes to town: Shane, Drive, dead mans shoes,
Heist: Un Flic (aka A Cop), oceans 11, Heat, The Town, Italian job, point break, thief, fish called wanda
11 years, 10 months ago - Allan McTaggart
Heist: Heat (for practical SAS designed element & characterisation), Reservoir dogs (almost a cliche to recommend but I would), The departed (general criminality/tension), Sexy beast (criminality/character/humour).... I'll probably get crucified for saying this but Point break is still a good film if you take away the shooting in the air cheese!
Stranger: I CANNOT RECOMMEND DEADMAN'S SHOES ENOUGH!!!!
11 years, 11 months ago - Ed Griffiths
RIFIFI, a French film from 1974, is excellent. The half-hour heist sequence itself, almost silent, is unique and full of tension. THE KILLING, 1957, by Stanley Kubrick, certainly. Classic robbery sequence. THE ANDERSON TAPES, 1971 (starring Sean Connery) is interesting too with its angle on secret surveillance and has a brilliantly ironic ending. And if you're thinking you can get away clean there's THE GETAWAY with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw...