The Film Catch Me If You Can Accurately Show Frank...

Does the film Catch Me If You Can accurately show Frank Abagnale Jr’s crimes? I believe the movie glamorized Frank’s crimes and made them a little bit better than they actually were, of course you can expect this from Hollywood. Frank Abagnale Jr. made a lot of mistakes as a teenager. He was trying to make a life for himself out in the real world and be able to make money. Frank was determined too, he could think of amazing ways to make a buck. Which eventually led him to posing as a teacher, doctor, pilot on a commercial airline, CIA agent, and a lawyer. He also committed many different kinds of crimes including cashing fake checks at hundreds of different banks all across the world, printing fake checks, unlawfully obtaining private information and a plethora of other felonies. The list goes on and on, but comparing the events that took place in Catch Me If You Can to what actually happened in real life, the film made a numerous amount of mistakes in that aspect. They shot scenes that didn’t accurately show the details of his crimes but got the main idea. They do this to make the movie a lot more appealing to the viewers. Which isn’t a surprise, but knowing the true facts about this con man’s story is appealing enough. It is believed that Catch Me If You Can, as a whole, changed Frank’s story and the details about his crimes. There was a lot of uninformative and inaccurate information that was displayed as Frank Abagnale’s true story in the movie, the film makers