Pick A Metaphor
The Cliché: A movie heist is vary rarely about a movie heist. Come on, this is cinema people! Any screen story is just a garbled metaphor for something else entirely.
A case in Point Break; the real heist wasn't the bank cash, it was Bohdi robbing Johnny Utah's heart.
Appears In: Point Break (1991)
How To Recreate It: Pick the most handsome member of your crew. Sit him down for a five film bromantic comedy marathon.
Maybe suggest playing a drinking game, where you neck a bottle of Jack Daniel's everytime something funny happens. Then, we he least expects it, suggest you go skydiving together.
Next: Add Some Humour
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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