.carriesnotscary says that Steven Spielberg’s 'Catch Me If You Can' belongs in the canon of Christmas movies that are not actually Christmas movies
to this new canon of films that, while notis, should be recognized as Christmas movies regardless.Frank Abagnale Jr.’s autobiography that follows his late teenage years across the globe as a pilot, doctor, and lawyer is a secret Christmas film.stars Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his career-best performances, Tom Hanks with a weird accent , monologue king Christopher Walken, and, of course, Amy Adams with braces.
Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson uses Christmas as an emotional anchor. The holiday is both a clever indicator of passing time and, more importantly, a trigger for Frank . The first of many scenes set at Christmas happens early in the film, when 17-year-old Frank is living a happy life in a beautiful house with his very in-love parents: the American Dream of the ’50s.
From then on, Christmas connects Frank and FBI agent Carl Hanratty . Every Christmas Eve, Frank and Carl have a tense phone call. Frank is somewhere in the world alone, without a family to celebrate, without a soul who really knows him besides Carl. Carl, divorced and growing further and further apart from his daughter every year, is alone in his office, with a sad little Christmas tree sitting on a desk.
Choirs singing carols that echo through a square illuminated by twinkle lights while Frank gets caught by the wrong people is a juxtaposition that Spielberg plays with expertly throughout the movie’s Christmas scenes.represents the holiday as a melancholy period. By making Christmas the backdrop for devastating events involving tragic people, it’s become theChristmas movie of them all, Christmas films and non-Christmas movies included.
After Frank escapes arrest via an airplane toilet toward the end of the film, he visits his mother, who now has a new, bigger, more beautiful house and a new family, including a daughter. Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” plays as Frank learns his mother has all but forgotten him: He’ll never get back to that moment of watching his parents dance in the living room. Frank stands in the snow as the flashing blue-and-red police cars overtake the glow of colorful holiday lights.
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