Question

catch me if you can (2002) write a report about catch me if you can (2002) must be 900 words that fully describes the movie including describing the main characters, the fraud situation in the movie, and how the situation plays out. The second part of the paper should discuss the actual persons and/or companies on which the movie focuses: Identify these actual persons / company; identify the type(s) of fraud(s) are alleged in the film; discuss your personal feelings about these people about the film; after doing some research, discuss what has happened to the people / companies featured in the film.

Answer 1

Introduction       

Based on the analysis of the movie and the real characters define the originality of the fictional characters with the real characters. The name of the movie is ‘Catch me if you can (2002) and it is an American biographical crime film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg inspired from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson. The movie gained the maximum reach to the entertainment masses and won 75 titles of awards for the nominations. The movie portrayed the fraud situations of Frank Abagnale and the counter incidences connected to his life.

Characters

The film stared by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Nathalie Baye, and Martin Sheen in the roles to furnish the characters. The surrounding characters position describes Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale, Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty, based on Joseph Shea, Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale Sr., Nathalie Baye as Paula Abagnale, Amy Adams as Brenda Strong, Martin Sheen as Roger Strong, James Brolin as Jack Barnes, and Nancy Lenehan as Carol Strong.

Fraud Situation and Plays

The main situation of the movie is based on the real-life of Frank Abagnale and (the lead role is handed by Leonardo DiCaprio), who, before his 19th age birthday, successfully performed the cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot role, a Georgia doctor and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. Frank’s foremost crime was the check fraud and became so highly skilled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later turned to him for seeking help to catching other check forgers in the same background of the case.

Based on the true story, Leonardo DiCaprio (as Frank W. Abagnale) was employed as a lawyer, a doctor, and as a co-pilot for an airline company-all before reaching his 22nd birthday. A successful artist, DiCaprio is also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud has seen netted him millions of dollars in the stolen funds - much to the irritation of the authorities. Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent Tom has made it his prime mission or goal in his career to capture the DiCaprio and bring him down to justice, however, DiCaprio is always on one step ahead of Tom, who is baiting him to continue the overall chase.

Actual Persons and Background

The lead character is originally Frank Abagnale and he was a famous check-forger, imposter, and con-artist specialist. Frank committed all his crimes primarily between the ages of 15 and 21 within the span of 6 years. He was arrested multiple times in relation to different cases in multiple countries, spending six months in a Swedish prison, six months in a French prison, and the last and final four years in a US prison in Atlanta, Georgia. For Joseph Shea, is the actual FBI agent acted by Tom Hanks, and instead of reel character Christopher Walken, the real-life character is Frank Abagnale, Sr.

Type of frauds

Frank Abagnale also exaggerated his main education credentials. He started writing out the bad checks to himself through banks, overdrawing on the tiny bank account by thousands of dollars himself. Whenever that set of schemes was blocked, Frank Abagnale would open-up other multiple accounts under different false identities to continue the operation and created his main source of income for making new adventures in life. Other fraud, he faked his ID card and license to become the air pilot in Pan Am Airlines and he flew hundreds of thousands of miles.

Conclusion

Catch Me If You Can movie illustrates the background in costs, rewards, and ethical dilemmas of deception, involvement, and self-disclosure in interpersonal relationships. One of the important morals of the story is that money, power, and prestige cannot only satisfy the basic human needs to be known and loved by others.

In the recent trend, the current status of Frank and his company is founded on Abagnale & Associates, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA which consults and advises the companies on fraud issues and protecting the clients’ interests. Frank Abagnale also continues to advise the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with whom the Frank associated for more than 40 years, by guiding and teaching at the FBI Academy and offering lecturing for FBI field offices throughout the United States of America, and served to more than 14,000 institutions adopted Frank’s fraud prevention programs.