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Spielberg lightens up for a caper film
On a blustery day at Eero Saarinen's gloriously Art Moderne TWA terminal at Kennedy International Airport, a fleet of finned Cadillacs and old Checker cabs waited to pick up non-existent passengers.
Inside, scurrying to the next Ambassador StarStream flight were more than 100 extras in early-1960s attire. Pillbox hats, pumps and coats with mink collars adorned the women, while the men wore sharkskin suits, skinny ties and white shirts. Flight attendants wore aqua outfits with coordinated carry-ons. Keeping with the period ambience,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cigarettes were in evidence everywhere.
Controlling this manufactured chaos was Steven Spielberg, in town to shoot scenes for his new film, Catch Me if You Can. and Minority Report,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], two relatively downbeat science-fiction films, Spielberg seemed overjoyed to be working on a light-hearted caper film about a particularly elusive impersonator and scammer. "You can assume that somewhere subconsciously I was looking for a way out of the tunnel," he says, referring to his previous films, "but that wasn't in the forefront of my mind. I was simply looking for something that had a lot of energy and forward motion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], almost like watching a magician perform close-up magic, sleight of hand."
Yet, there is also a recognition that Catch Me if You Can is not about just Abagnale, who, by the age of 21, had passed more than $US2 million worth of bad cheques in 25 countries and had passed himself off as a Pan Am pilot, an assistant state attorney-general, a college history professor and the chief pediatric resident at a Georgia hospital. Catch Me if You Can is also about a simpler, gentler time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as DiCaprio puts it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "you could get by on a handshake and a smile".
Spielberg's film is based on Abagnale's 1980 book of the same name, breezy tales filled with exotic locales,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fast cars and even faster women. "There's something about Frank's exploits that was exciting," says Walter Parkes, who is producing the film for DreamWorks. "This happened before the counter-culture, a time when we believed in the roles adult life provided us. The iconography of careers as expressed in uniforms was accepted. Frank understood that and exploited it."
Abagnale,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], now 54,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], served time in several prisons in the United States and other countries. He has etched out a successful career as a public speaker, he owns a firm that advises businesses on fraud-related issues, and he has been an FBI consultant for more than 25 years, helping the agency catch forgers and con artists.
His life of crime began when he was 16, after his parents were divorced. Forced to choose with whom he wanted to live, he ran away instead. Armed with a lively intelligence and a teenager's sense of bravado, Abagnale became an autodidact,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], passing the bar without attending law school. Meanwhile, he was printing his own bad checks and manufacturing false ID's.
Because he looked years older than his actual age, Abagnale had little trouble getting people to believe in his cons. Also, he committed his crimes in the mid-to-late 1960s, before the age of ID cards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so he was the beneficiary of a more trusting mind-set. In one escapade, for example, Abagnale posted a sign on a bank's night-deposit slot, saying that the opening was broken and all deposits should be left with the security guard. He then stood next to the slot in a rented guard uniform and carried away the night's deposits.
"I never thought I was real smart," said Abagnale. "I was just someone who saw things and said, 'Boy, if I could fly around the world as part of an airline crew . . .' This was a kid's mind thinking. I would just get these ideas and try it. I was an opportunist."
Opportunist or criminal genius, Abagnale and his capers have long been of interest to Hollywood. He sold the film rights to his story before Catch Me if You Can was even written, thanks to a 1977 appearance on the Tonight show that generated hundreds of phone calls asking if he had written a book about his experiences. After that, the material was under almost continuous option, passing through the hands of several producers and studios. Tom Cruise wanted to play Abagnale. Directors like Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules) and Gore Verbinski (Mouse Hunt) were also briefly attached to the project.
The story finally landed at DreamWorks, under the auspices of Jeffrey Katzenberg. "I think DreamWorks saw it as a $40 million movie along the lines of American Pie," Abagnale says. "They saw it as a kids' movie. But all of a sudden Leonardo DiCaprio got in touch with Walter Parkes, saying, 'This is my favorite book, I want to play this guy'."
"He goes to the utmost extreme," says DiCaprio. "He makes up his own rules as he goes along. The fact it's a story about crime is irrelevant to me. It's about human will-power and the fact this kid was able to con the world for several years from the age of 16 on. It's about human potential."
As a DreamWorks partner, Spielberg reads all the company's scripts. But it was not until the third draft, written by Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour 2), that Spielberg considered directing the film. He asked Parkes if he could have "24 hours to throw my hat in the ring".
"In a way, I related to the chutzpah of what Abagnale did," Spielberg says. "It reminded me of when I pretended to be an executive as a teenager,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wearing a suit and walking past the guard at Universal Studios. In a way, I lived a double life, hanging around that summer to see how movies and TV shows get made."
Spielberg was also drawn to the story because he, too, was a child of divorce. He was vacationing in the Hamptons at the time he was considering the script. "So I did something unusual," he recalls. "I basically had a reading. There were nine girls, including my daughter Jessica, and they began reading the script out loud. In the business we call them 'table reads'. This was a patio-table read. The story told itself very well."
That story has been altered in several important ways. The relationship between Abagnale and his father, played by Christopher Walken, has been beefed up (Abagnale never saw his father again after he left home). Hanks' part, Carl Hanratty, has been created to make him a surrogate father figure: the book makes reference to an FBI agent on Abagnale's trail, but he is barely mentioned.
"If Abagnale had been a 42-year-old guy, there wouldn't be anything special Hanratty would feel about him," Hanks says. "He does feel protective in a way. There's a 'this is me as a kid' feeling. And there is jealousy. The suits, the cars, the lifestyle. But at the end of the day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Frank Abagnale is not going to sleep as well as Carl Hanratty, and Hanratty knows that."
Ultimately, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Catch Me if You Can is about more than a scared and savvy teenager who lived a colorful life on the run. "This could only have taken place in an age of innocence, which we are no longer about as a global community," says Spielberg. "Today people are generally more suspicious of each other,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whereas in the '60s, there was a community of trust. That innocence was something that all of us are nostalgic about."相关的主题文章：

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