Working the Long Con, Tuesday, First Period

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When the students showed up today, John had actually brought coffee for everyone - but not decaf, don't get carried away - and the room was set-up with a television at the front.

"Right. Movie day, you lot," he said, taking a bracing gulp of his own beverage. Hungover librarian was hungover. "Because I know at least half of you are probably traumatized as fuck, and aren't going to pay attention today anyway."

"For those of you that do have higher brain functions...How do you shoot the devil in the back? Well, I can suggest a few ways, but I've used them all and they don't work twice."

"Watch it, then tell me where the con falls down, and where it holds up. What would you have done differently?"

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During the Lecture

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Short & sweet. Get some coffee, grab a chair.

Activity: Watch the Movie

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Fenster: They treat me like a criminal. I'll end up a criminal.
Hockney: You are a criminal.
Fenster: Why you gotta go and do that? I'm trying to make a point.

Discuss: A rumor's not a rumor that doesn't die.

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"McManus came to us with the job," John said, as he clicked off the telly. "Fenster got the vans, Hockney supplied the hardware, I came through with how to do it so no one got killed, but Keaton... Keaton put on the finishing touch. A little 'fuck you' from the five of us to the NYPD."

"Talk to me, oh paragons of study. What worked, what didn't, and where did the con go wrong?"

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He's around!

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Still love this movie and I don't care who knows.

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I have actually never seen this movie. Is it told with first-person narration throughout?

(I'm confused by John's discussion opener.)

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It's a mix of flashbacks and present day, all from the POV of Verbal Kint, one of the five criminals put in the lineup by the police at the start of the film. So it's a mix of first-person narration from Verbal, and more traditional eye-of-God camera work that lets us see events as if it were in real time. If that makes any sense.

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If you decide to watch the whole movie, be sure to click the 'settings' to change from 3D to 2D otherwise the color is TERRIBLE throughout.

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Hee! Okay, thanks; and yep, your description makes sense!