{"id":19577,"date":"2022-12-01T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19577"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:21:40","slug":"heist-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/12\/01\/heist-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Heist movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about heist movies lately, and it occurred to me that the kind of heist movie that I like has a bunch of pretty specific traits.<\/p>\r\n<p>So here are some attributes that heist movies and TV shows that I like tend to have. (Doesn\u2019t have to have <em>all<\/em> of these attributes for me to enjoy it, but most of the ones I like have most of these attributes.)<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>It\u2019s from the POV of the heisters.<\/li>\r\n  <li>They\u2019re at least semi-sympathetic characters.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Nobody gets killed, throughout the movie\/show. (Though people may <em>appear<\/em> to die.)<\/li>\r\n  <li>The heisters are a team of highly skilled specialists.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The heist seems impossible to carry out.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The heisters have a complicated and very clever plan, which the audience isn\u2019t entirely in on.<\/li>\r\n  <li>There\u2019s a point during the heist when everything seems to fall apart. Either it turns out that it was all according to plan after all, or the heisters have to scramble to deal with it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>There\u2019s some humor, but it\u2019s not primarily a comedy.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The tone is relatively lighthearted\/fun, rather than dark\/scary.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Near the end of the story, there\u2019s a reveal that shows a twist (usually some aspect of the execution of the plan) that the audience wasn\u2019t previously shown.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The heisters succeed (and escape) in the end.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026I guess another way to summarize that is that the story involves a group of likeable and skilled people doing something very clever in which nobody but the bad people get hurt (and even the bad people don\u2019t die). I find that kind of story really appealing.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>(Originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/pfbid02pv22736S3vQmcuaTvnCDBedBWCjPK9GWwiQ1jwSikPTLi72ZgFPLLMwWy4XFA2nzl\">posted on Facebook<\/a>; for followup comments, see that post.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19578,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions\/19578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}