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* BadHabits: The middleman in the deal for the ''Gospel of St. James'' is called 'the Reverand' who dresses like a priest, including a clerical collar. However, there is no eveidence that he is actually a minister of religion.
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* BadHabits: The middleman in the deal for the ''Gospel of St. James'' is called 'the Reverand' Reverend' who dresses like a priest, including a clerical collar. However, there is no eveidence evidence that he is actually a minister of religion.religion.
* BookEnds: Starts and ends with a character being a released from prison, accompanied by a voice-over narration that starts:
-->''Seasoned crooks swear you only remember two days about your stretch in jail: the day you get in...and the day you get out.''
* BookEnds: Starts and ends with a character being a released from prison, accompanied by a voice-over narration that starts:
-->''Seasoned crooks swear you only remember two days about your stretch in jail: the day you get in...and the day you get out.''
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Nicky seems genuinely unable to stop himself. He sells out his half-brother Crunch to the police after the job in Warsaw goes sour; knocks out Sunny and abandons him (leaving behind a mocking apology card) so he doesn't have to pay him the $30,000 his is owed for his part in TheHeist; and plans to double-cross the rest of the CaperCrew and abscond with the loot from TheCon. Nicky says he just doing what everyone else would do if they thought they could get away with it. Crunch says he doesn't blame Nicky for his behaviour, but he does hate him for it.
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* JustGotOutOfJail: The film opens with Crunch being released from a Polish prison after serving a 7 year sentence.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Two elderly Polish women on a subway train glance up briefly as three motorcycles roar down the middle of their subway car, then go back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.
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** Lola: The Distraction. Fills in whenever the crew neds a fenale role. [[spoiler:But her primary role is keep Nicky from cottoning to Crunch's real plan.]]
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** Lola: The Distraction. Fills in whenever the crew neds needs a fenale role. female role, such as pretending to be Olga on the phone. [[spoiler:But her primary role is keep Nicky from cottoning on to Crunch's real plan.]]
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The scenes set in Warsaw were actually shot in Budapest. Unfornately, several Budapest landmarks and Romanian flags are clearly visible in these scenes. Budapest also briefly doubles for Amsterdam, but this scene is so brief that it could have been in any European city.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The scenes set in Warsaw were actually shot in Budapest. Unfornately, several Budapest landmarks and Romanian flags are clearly visible in these scenes. Budapest also briefly doubles for Amsterdam, but this scene is so brief that it could have been in any European city.
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* TapOnTheHead: Nicky knocks out Sunny by rapping him on the head with a lead (having first handed him an apology card reading "Sorry for hitting you on the head with a lead pipe"). Later Sunny knocks out Crunch by hitting him on the head with a lead pipe before he attempts to extract Nicky's location and/or $30,000 from him.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Crunch Calhoun's given name is Dennis. He keeps telling Uncle Paddy--the only character who does address him as that--to stop calling him that, although no reason is given for his dislike of the name.
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* BadassDriver: Crunch used to be regarded as the best GetawayDriver in the biz. He shows his chops when he loses two motorcycle cops who are pursuing him by not only into the subway, but ''through a train''.
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* BadassDriver: Crunch used to be regarded as the best GetawayDriver in the biz. He shows his chops when he loses two motorcycle cops who are pursuing him by not only driving into the subway, but ''through a train''.
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* UnderTheTruck: In Warsaw, Crunch loses the second motorcycle cop who is pursuing him by sliding his bike under a tanker truck that turns in front of him.
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* BadassDriver: Crunch used to be regarded as the best GetawayDriver in the biz. He shows his chops when he loses two motorcycle cops who are pursuing him by not only into the subway, but ''through a train''.
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* GetawayDriver: Prior to spending seven years in a Polish prison, Crunch was regarded as the best getaway driver in the biz.
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* BadHabits: The middleman in the deal for the ''Gospel of St. James'' is called 'the Reverand' who dresses like a priest, including a clerical collar. However, there is no eveidence that he is actually a minister of religion.
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* CaperCrew:
** Nicky: The Mastermind [[spoiler:and becomes the Fall Guy and the end of the movie]]
** Crunch: The Driver and The Muscle [[spoiler:and revealed to be the actual Mastermind at the end of the film]]
** Uncle Paddy: The Fixer. He is the guy who knows everybody and can get anything. Also acts as The Conman (posing as an art expert in Warsaw) and The Fence (usually has a buyer waiting for the team's loot).
** Guy: The Specialist. He is an expert forger who can create anything from a Matisse painting to a Guttenberg Bible.
** Lola: The Distraction. Fills in whenever the crew neds a fenale role. [[spoiler:But her primary role is keep Nicky from cottoning to Crunch's real plan.]]
** Francie: The New Kid. Crunch's 'apprentice', he gets dragged along and does whatever he's told (often badly). Useful because he has no record and the cops don't know him.
** Nicky: The Mastermind [[spoiler:and becomes the Fall Guy and the end of the movie]]
** Crunch: The Driver and The Muscle [[spoiler:and revealed to be the actual Mastermind at the end of the film]]
** Uncle Paddy: The Fixer. He is the guy who knows everybody and can get anything. Also acts as The Conman (posing as an art expert in Warsaw) and The Fence (usually has a buyer waiting for the team's loot).
** Guy: The Specialist. He is an expert forger who can create anything from a Matisse painting to a Guttenberg Bible.
** Lola: The Distraction. Fills in whenever the crew neds a fenale role. [[spoiler:But her primary role is keep Nicky from cottoning to Crunch's real plan.]]
** Francie: The New Kid. Crunch's 'apprentice', he gets dragged along and does whatever he's told (often badly). Useful because he has no record and the cops don't know him.
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''Black ''Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerenceStamp.
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''The Black '''Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerenceStamp.
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* BoxedCrook: Samuel Winters is a convicted art thief who has been paroled into the custody of Interpol agent Bick to assist him identifying forgeries.
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* BoxedCrook: Samuel Winters is a convicted art thief who has been paroled into the custody of Interpol agent Bick to assist him in identifying forgeries.
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* EskimosArentReal: On being told that Bick is an Interpol agent, Francie's reaction is an an incredulous "Interpol's real?!"
* TheHeist: The plot centres around a plan to heist the Gospel of St. John from a secure Canadian border station.
* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch in Warsaw follow in into the subway and on to a train: all while still on bikes.
* TheHeist: The plot centres around a plan to heist the Gospel of St. John from a secure Canadian border station.
* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch in Warsaw follow in into the subway and on to a train: all while still on bikes.
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* EskimosArentReal: On being told that Bick is an Interpol agent, Francie's reaction is an an incredulous "Interpol's real?!"
* TheHeist: The plotcentres centers around a plan to heist the Gospel of St. John from a secure Canadian border station.
* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch in Warsaw follow in into the subway andon to onto a train: all while still on bikes.
* TheHeist: The plot
* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch in Warsaw follow in into the subway and
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Crunch and Nicky hide in the trunk of the car with the stolen Gospel and Francie drives them back across the border. Due to to Francie ActingUnnatural, this does not go as smoothly as they had hoped.
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* TrojanHorse: Crunch's original plan (as shown in an ImagineSpot) involves smuggling Francie into the warehouse inside some kind of container, with him getting out with three minutes oxygen to spare. Nicky shoots this plan down, but does implement a Trojan horse in an altered form: getting Canadian Customs to bring the forged Gospel into the warehouse by concealing it in a 4 ft. sculpture of a vagina.
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* TrojanHorse: Crunch's original plan (as shown in an ImagineSpot) involves smuggling Francie into the warehouse inside some kind of container, with him getting out with three minutes of oxygen to spare. Nicky shoots this plan down, but does implement a Trojan horse in an altered form: getting Canadian Customs to bring the forged Gospel into the warehouse by concealing it in a 4 ft. sculpture of a vagina.
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* MoneyToThrowAway: When Nicky is attempting to persuade Crunch to undertake OneLastJob, he tries to prove that it is not about the money by taking the cash he just stole by being a PercussivePickpocket and tossing it into the air as he storms off. However, as he does so, he mutters to himself:
-->''There has to be a cheaper way to do this.''
-->''There has to be a cheaper way to do this.''
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* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch follow in into the subway and on to a train: all while still on bikes.
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* PercussivePickpocket: While arguing with Crunch on the street, Nicky bumps into a pedestrian and lifts his wallet. When Crunch asks him why he is still doing that pennyante stuff, Nicky claims it is just to keep his later. A few seconds later, he does it to a 12-year old girl and Crunch loses it.
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* TrainEscape: Fleeing from the police, Crunch rides his dirt bike down into the Warsaw metro and onto a subway train. Two LemmingCops on motorcycles follow. Crunch rides along the inside of the train and out a set of doors just before they close. One of the cops manages to follow, but the second is too slow and is stuck on the train as it pulls out.
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* LemmingCops: The two motorcycle cops chasing Crunch follow in into the subway and on to a train: all while still on bikes.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to lines two the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to two lines two to the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.
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* ActorAllusion: When Crunch tells Nicky that Francie is his apprentice, Nicky makes a comment about Crunch being a wizard. Creator/JayBaruchel, who plays Francie, starred as a wizard's apprentice in ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''.
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* PunBasedTitle: A play on the title of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's memoir ''The Art of the Deal''.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Crunch and Nicky hide in the trunk of the car with the stolen Gospel and Francie drives them back across the border. Due to to Francie ActingUnnatural, this does not go as smoothly as they had hoped.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: While attempting to explain to the border guard why his wearing a false beard, Francie claims that he is in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical''.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: While attempting to explain to the border guard why his wearing a false beard, Francie claims that he is in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical''. (And, yes, he specifically mentions that it has an [[ExcitedShowTitle exclamation mark]].)
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* TrojanHorse: Crunch's original plan (as shown in an ImagineSpot) involves smuggling Francie into the warehouse inside some kind of container, with him getting out with three minutes oxygen to spare. Nicky shoots this plan down, but does implement a Trojan horse in an altered form: getting Canadian Customs to bring the forged Gospel into the warehouse by concealing it in a 4 ft. sculpture of a vagina.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to lines to the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to lines to two the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.''Film/Predator2''.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: While attempting to explain to the border guard why his wearing a false beard, Francie claims that he is in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical''.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: While attempting to explain to the border guard why his wearing a false beard, Francie claims that he is in a play called ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical''.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to lines to the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/Witness!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.
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* ActingUnnatural: When Francie has to drive across the border with Crunch, Nicky and the stolen book hidden in the boot of his car, he is supposed to say to lines to the border guard: "Going to Detroit" and "Nothing to declare". However, his nervousness causes him to behave so oddly that the guard start asking him questions, and he then starts going of on all kinds of bizarre tangents, like claiming to be in a play called ''Film/Witness!: ''Film/{{Witness}}!: The Musical'' and declaring that he likes ''Film/Predator2''.
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* CarHoodslide: The thief who originally stole the Gospel from the Amsterdam gallery slides across the bonnet on a parked car as he escapes from the pursuing policeman: surreptitiously tossing the book into the car as he does so.
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* CarHoodslide: CarHoodSliding: The thief who originally stole the Gospel from the Amsterdam gallery slides across the bonnet on a parked car as he escapes from the pursuing policeman: surreptitiously tossing the book into the car as he does so.
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* PlanningWithProps: Crunch demonstrates his plan for the smash-and-grab raid on the border station using toys as props, before Nicky points out all the reasons it won't work.
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* PlanningWithProps: Crunch demonstrates his plan for the smash-and-grab raid on the border station using toys as props, before Nicky points out all the reasons it won't work.work.
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''The Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerranceStamp.
Creator/TerenceStamp.
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* BoxedCrook: Samuel Winters is a convicted art thief who has been paroled into the custody of Interpol agent Bick to assist him identifying forgeries.
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* EskimosArentReal: On being told that Bick is an Interpol agent, Francie's reaction is an an incredulous "Interpol's real?!"
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''The Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerrenceStamp.
Crunch Calhoun is released after seven years in a Polish prison having been double-crossed by his half-brother Nicky following an art heist gone wrong in Warsaw. Barely scraping a living as a motorcycle daredevil,
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''The Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerrenceStamp.
Creator/TerranceStamp.
Crunch Calhoun is released after seven years in a Polish prison having been double-crossed by his half-brother Nicky following an art heist gone wrong in Warsaw. Barely scraping a living as a motorcycledaredevil,daredevil, Crunch is tempted back into a life of crime by Nicky for OneLastJob: the theft of a priceless historical book being held in a high security US-Canadian border station. Crunch reassembles the team from the Warsaw job and devises a plan, but Nicky also has a far riskier scheme in mind.
!!The Tropes of the Steal
* CarHoodslide: The thief who originally stole the Gospel from the Amsterdam gallery slides across the bonnet on a parked car as he escapes from the pursuing policeman: surreptitiously tossing the book into the car as he does so.
* TheHeist: The plot centres around a plan to heist the Gospel of St. John from a secure Canadian border station.
* OneLastJob: The Warsaw job was intended to be this, but things went wrong. Seven years later, the theft of the Gospel of St. James becomes a new last job for the CaperCrew.
* PlanningWithProps: Crunch demonstrates his plan for the smash-and-grab raid on the border station using toys as props, before Nicky points out all the reasons it won't work.
Crunch Calhoun is released after seven years in a Polish prison having been double-crossed by his half-brother Nicky following an art heist gone wrong in Warsaw. Barely scraping a living as a motorcycle
!!The Tropes of the Steal
* CarHoodslide: The thief who originally stole the Gospel from the Amsterdam gallery slides across the bonnet on a parked car as he escapes from the pursuing policeman: surreptitiously tossing the book into the car as he does so.
* TheHeist: The plot centres around a plan to heist the Gospel of St. John from a secure Canadian border station.
* OneLastJob: The Warsaw job was intended to be this, but things went wrong. Seven years later, the theft of the Gospel of St. James becomes a new last job for the CaperCrew.
* PlanningWithProps: Crunch demonstrates his plan for the smash-and-grab raid on the border station using toys as props, before Nicky points out all the reasons it won't work.
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''The Art of the Steal'' (a.k.a. '''The Black Marks'' and ''The Fix'') is a 2013 Canadian [[TheCaper heist]] film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. It stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/KatherynWinnick, and Creator/TerrenceStamp.
Crunch Calhoun is released after seven years in a Polish prison having been double-crossed by his half-brother Nicky following an art heist gone wrong in Warsaw. Barely scraping a living as a motorcycle daredevil,
Crunch Calhoun is released after seven years in a Polish prison having been double-crossed by his half-brother Nicky following an art heist gone wrong in Warsaw. Barely scraping a living as a motorcycle daredevil,
