Find A Bad Guy
The Cliché: No matter how large or small the movie heist, there will always be a snake in the ranks who wants the cash all for themselves. Your job is to find one.
Appears In: The Usual Suspects (1995)
How To Recreate It: Everybody works with this guy. Go into any job anywhere and ask the lackeys who their version of this guy is, then invite him to a self-promotion dinner, and tell him to bring mother.
Once you’ve collected enough of these douchey denizens, stage some kind of soiree. During cocktails, enter with a gun, the person who hides behind his mother and offers her up fastest is your guy. If he has a limp, all the better.
If his mum is hot, tell him you want to marry her in return for a part in the movie. He'll say yes.
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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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