#frank abagnale jr

[yellowandnothing]

Seeing and thinking

Typa guy to have a neutral ahh "😐" face but in reality, he's thinking of all the things he missed in life. Maybe there's more to it than just heaps of cheques and paperwork.

I have so many thoughts about them. This guy and his wife....

(I forgot what eye color he has)

[lecaudal]

Think about the character and their personality, not how perfectly they fit the setting or relationships

Also please go vote on all the other polls!

[arsuns-ramblings]

You know when you think about a crossover/AU of two things that you can be sure no one ever put together? Yeah anyway i’m having ideas for a Catch me if you can sort of No good nick Au with Frank as Nick and Carl as his foster parent. Frank’s dad is sort of a mix of Nick’s dad and the Harbaugh. I think i have issues there is no way there has ever been two people in these two fandoms specifically

[welcometogrouchland]

Guy who's late to the party by 23 years voice. Um guys Catch Me If You Can (2002) is really good. I think this Spielberg guy might be cooking

[midnight-drip]

catch me if you can whiteboard drawings :33

[thosesadsuburbanghosts]

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

"I blew it, didn't I? Why didn't I concur?"

[incorrectmusicaltheatre]

Frank Jr.: *rolls down window* What seems to be the problem, Officer? Hanratty: Get out of my car.

[sachingja]

can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song? (jack for frank!)

the sky is cloudless and blue and the sun is spilling in through the windows of their newly-acquired apartment in a perfect symphony of spring. he slowly opens his eyes as the piano stops its lilting melody and lifts an affectionate gaze towards the source of such poetic musings — leave it to his husband to compose a mere hypothetical that would perhaps put the great shakespeare to shame. frank hums a continuation of the leitmotif of jack's latest work, the one that has been rolling around his head for weeks now, ever since his better half started working on it and has filled their new home with arrangements bordering on heart-wrenching and others, lighter and easier to digest. he might be jack's most biased audience but he, selflessly, would also be the first to admit how brilliant he is, as if that would have ever been up to question. watching him blossom into the promise of his talents has been one of the great pleasures of frank's adult life, ever since they stumbled into each other outside of that concert hall in london so many years ago.

he has no show lined up currently, perfectly content where he is at the moment, happily assisting jack in case he is short of a tenor to fill the gaps and bring the music to life. and, in any case, the television gigs have paid handsomely and so do the concerts he has been doing here and there, perhaps eying a residency at 54 BELOW for a month or so, but he will have to finalize these thoughts with carl sometime later, when they will talk shop, and frank has left the perfectly attuned bubble of their honeymoon behind.

" is this about your new piece, or something else? " he asks, making no motion to sit himself upright, happy where he is sprawled out on their absurdly comfortable couch, a blanket thrown over his bare legs. he has yet to put on anything resembling something other than pajamas, but that is what days off are for. so he watches jack, how the light breaks across his cheekbones, and registers with some satisfaction that he does look unfairly handsome in the warm light of noon. my, he really got luckier than most. " because i would say anyone can learn a new song, it just depends on how well they can carry a tune. " he stretches his arm above his head with a soft, contemplative sigh. " if this is about the children-thing, you know we can start whenever you want. i am ready for it, if you are. "

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[ghostofavictorianbastard]

watched catch me if you can (2002) last night and there's no way this hasn't been done before but also there's so little fic for this fandom so idk but.

i had an idea for a fic that takes place on the flight back to the states, perhaps in an au where frank is a bit older, where after years of running and being different people all the time he is so tired of it all and genuinely starting to lose his sense of identity and tells carl about how last week he nearly fucked up bad when the bank teller asked him for his name and he fully blanked.

and carl has a moment of realisation about just how fucked up it all is and asks frank how he did it for all these years and frank asks whether he looked through his wallet when they collected his personal effects and then we either cut to a different scene or the scene was disconnected from the rest at the beginning (probably that, this isn't a movie after all) where the fbi seize frank's possessions as evidence and *of course* carl personally looks through his wallet in a callback to frank handing him his whole wallet when they first met (maybe it's a similar model to the one from their first meeting or something) and he finds all the normal shit in it and goes to put it into an evidence bag when he notices, tucked away in its own little compartment, a photograph of himself, cut out of a newspaper or something.

and back on the plane frank explains that when he struggled to remember who he was he would take out that picture and look at it because to carl, who bought his bullshit once and then never again, he would always be frank william abagnale jr. or something. might actually write this.

[blackthornluce]

Amy Adams and Leonardo DiCaprio as Brenda Strong and Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can (2002) directed and produced by Steven Spielberg

[elisadoreyou]

thinking about how both brody and brent have played frank abagnale jr and theres no recording of either of them singing goodbye anywhere . please drop a cover i beg .

[midnight-drip]

ngl Against The Kitchen Floor kinda gives me Frank Jr vibes

like. near the end of act two. I feel like maybe a mix of him talking to Brenda and talking to Carl

[simplyarabesque]

Aaron Tveit and Sarah Gettlefinger as Frank Abagnale Jr and Cheryl-Anne in Catch Me if You Can (pre-broadway seattle run) performing 'You've gotta pay for love'

note; it's absolutely criminal that they cut this song out before opening on broadway

[incorrectmusicaltheatre]

Frank Jr.: Morning, Carl. Collecting money for the FBI ball? Hanratty: We don’t have balls. Frank Jr.: I honestly have no response to that.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Catch Me If You Can

Rating: PG-13

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, James Brolin, Brian Howe, Frank John Hughes, Steve Eastin, Chris Ellis, John Finn, Jennifer Garner, Nancy Lenehan, Ellen Pompeo, Elizabeth Banks, Guy Thauvette

Release year: 2002

Genres: drama, crime

Blurb: Before his nineteenth birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr successfully cons millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars...but Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

[way-too-addicted-to-fandoms]

This man is the definition of "fake it 'til you make it."

“I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.” ~ Frank William Abagnale Jr. - Catch Me If You Can

Also, Abagnale himself claims that it wasn't intelligence that enabled him to get away with so much, but because he was observant and had no fear.

“A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.” ~ Frank William Abagnale Jr.

“I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.” ~ Catch Me If You Can

I think this is another important quote to include:

“I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of – nor will I ever be proud of.” ~ Frank William Abagnale Jr.

Food for thought.

I learned about the most intelligent criminal in history, Frank William Abagnale (born 1948).

He carried out his criminal activities between the ages of 16 and 21.

Within this period :

He forged his driver’s license to seem ten years older, and then opened several bank accounts using different identities. In order to remove suspicion while cashing his forged checks, he decided to become a pilot. He forged a pilot’s license and an employee ID.

He forged $2.5 million worth of bank checks across 26 countries he had flown to as a pilot.

Shortly after he stopped working as a pilot he moved to Georgia where he became a pediatrician. He quit after he almost killed a baby.

He then moved on to work as a lawyer claiming to have graduated from Harvard.

When he was arrested in 1969 twelve countries sought his extradition.

While he was in prison he posed as an undercover inspector and this made him receive special treatments. He was able to escape from prison but was re-arrested.

He was released on parole, the condition being that he must work for the FBI. Till this day Frank still works for the FBI.

Each of those three professions he impersonated takes years before anyone could practice them.

How was he able to work as :

a doctor without going to medical school.

a lawyer without being to law school.

a pilot with no training.

I don’t know how he was able to pull this off. But this can only be done by a highly intelligent criminal.

The most intelligent criminal in history is still alive today and he is Frank William Abagnale jr.

His life inspired a movie, Catch Me if You Can.