This week the DVD Club is taking a trip to Rio Bravo, and we're inviting you along for the ride.
To get you nice and warmed up for the Western classic, we thought we'd take a look at the ins and outs of the Heist movie, and how you might go about creating one of your very own.
So mount up then as we ride into the sunset of our latest in the series of how-to guides, and remember, if anybody out there actually makes a hack job film out of one of these instructionals, don't blame us when it all goes tit-shaped.
Step One;
Find A Building
The Cliché: This isn't so much a cliché as a necessity; you can't hold a heist movie in an open field, for example.
Unless the protagonists want to heist /the field itself/. Wow, that'd be amazing. It'd be like Ocean's 11 meets Lord Of The Rings. We're digressing.
As we know from watching films, heists take place in grimy cities, in the middle of nowhere, in suburban homes or, occasionally, in shiny places like Las Vegas.
Appears In: Ocean's 11 (2001)
How To Recreate It: Head for Blackpool with a digital camera under your arm and ten of your smuggest mates.
Point the camera at your pals, and ask them to make self-referential jokes about Julia Roberts. Or, if you don't know Julia Roberts, your nana.
Then do your level best to crack the lock on the fruit machines before the arcade security chucks you out.
Comments
sleepwalker
Aug 26th 2009, 17:11
youve done some marvelous features on here just recently but this one was a little thin. how is Aliens a heist movie?
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torsloke
Aug 28th 2009, 18:35
Aliens is totally a heist movie in the same way that Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a heist movie. Team of experts gathered together to go after a valuable object, object ends up being more than any of them bargained for, people pay the cost for their greed. Just substitute alien xenomorph, highly valuable for its military applications for gold and bingo! Go back and read the article and see if Aliens doesn't match up point for point with the heist recipe.
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