The Pit

[anonniemouse]

For all your Andy-related info-dumping needs. If there's information you'd like to archive, please post it here, and feel free to link to it from the main post if you'd like to discuss it.

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Re: Andy describes how he passes himself off as an "expert" & admits to conning people

[(Anonymous)]

Abignale is best known for having been played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the (frankly excellent) movie "Catch Me If You Can." I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear Andy has studied his memoir (or at least watched the movie a few times) to perfect his own act.

Re: Andy describes how he passes himself off as an "expert" & admits to conning people

[(Anonymous)]

SA

*Abagnale

I would also note that while Andy of course fancies he and Abagnale have a lot in common, Frank actually went on to make something of himself and is responsible for a lot of the anti-fraud measures built into paper checks over the past few decades. I've gotten a lot out of his books on detecting financial fraud (unsurprisingly, the kinds of people who pass bad checks and the kinds of people who use and manipulate other people have quite a bit in common).

Andy compares himself to Frank Abignale, but says he DOESN'T behave like him

[(Anonymous)]

Funny you should mention that, anon.

I'll post this here for archiving, but any more discussion should probably happen in the main post so we don't clutter things up:

http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/14008743022/i-could-if-i-wanted-to-i-choose-not-to

[Image description: Pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio portraying Abignale]

I could if I wanted to. I choose not to.

Re: Andy compares himself to Frank Abignale, but says he DOESN'T behave like him

[(Anonymous)]

He posted that right around the time he was bringing up Abignale with me on Facebook.
~Carlanime

Re: Andy compares himself to Frank Abignale, but says he DOESN'T behave like him

[(Anonymous)]

No, sorry, it was an LJ message.