Line #8 Awesome/CatchMeIfYouCan


1	* [[Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio Frank Abagnale]] has a ton of nice moments (that show he has balls of rock), but the best one is when [[Creator/TomHanks Agent Hanratty]] walks into the hotel room that Frank's been using to forge cheques with gun out, Frank steps out of the bathroom, never misses a beat in pretending to be a Secret Service agent and then, once the FBI agent has lowered his gun... asks to see some ID. Balls of steel? Fuck it, he's got balls of titanium.
2	* How did Abagnale fake his way into practicing law in Louisiana? Simple: he ''studied for the bar exam, took the test three times, and passed it on the third try.'' For once in his life, Frank Abagnale "faked it" by actually becoming a licensed attorney.
3	** In the movie, Frank says he just studied his ass off for a few weeks. In real life, he claimed [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Abagnale used process of elimination]] for answers he got wrong on his previous two tries to finally pass on the third, so he passed the bar [[BoringButPractical by using a method any prospective attorney could do]].
4	* After Frank Jr. moves to a new school, he pretends to be a substitute teacher to get back at a bully. He does this successfully for a week. After he's caught, the principal even notes that he was trying to arrange a field trip for the class!
5	* Frank manages to outfox the FBI with nothing but a suit, an empty wallet, some food labels, and a decoy.
6	* The fact that after being convicted, his expertise got him a responsible job in the FBI, and when he was through with that, he became a millionaire legitimately - and paid back every dime he stole.
7	* In an 'interview' with the FBI where Hanratty is trying to persuade his boss to hire Frank, Frank only has to pick up a cheque to tell it's fake (amazing the boss), noting that the paper is too thick and flexes wrong, and then adds thats the ink smells wrong and is too heavy to confirm his analysis.
8	** While these are subtle things that Frank likely picked up because his father owned a stationery store, his first clue was something obvious that most people would easily overlook - if this was a real check, why is there no perforated edge?
9	** Hanratty first catches on that Frank could be a valuable asset when he's visiting him in prison and casually shares some evidence on a case he's working on. He presses the cheque against the glass partition and after taking one quick glance, Frank replies, "It's the teller at the bank." How'd he know? The sixes and the nines were worn on the stamp for the date. Frank had either seen or replicated enough cheques to know which numbers on the stamp wear out fastest.
10	* One of Frank's best moments in the movie is when he isn't even present. Hanratty and his FBI agents are swarming a car outside Miami International Airport, only to find a frightened driver paid to wear a pilot's uniform and pick up a passenger. When they ask him who he was receiving, the driver pulls out a sign reading "Handratty" [sic]. Cue Carl looking up and seeing a single Pan Am plane taking off.

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