#i. frank abagnale jr.

[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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[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

[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)

[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

[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 .

[disastergenius]

my take on the casting for the RWRB movie that no one asked for and is coming very late in the game:

I don’t mind that they aged the characters up nor do I mind that the actors look older. 

Aging the characters up gives them a bit more credence to why they are able to do the things they do, besides just being in their positions. Yes, their “youth” is important to their characterization, a new generation of leaders etc, but aging them up a bit is not going to make that much of a difference. 

Looking older makes sense. Like yes I am aware both are described as young looking due to them being 21/22, but I also never really pictured them looking that young? Maybe that’s just me, but they’re young adults, and while some (me) young adults that age look like they could still be in high school, I don’t ever characterize Henry or Alex as looking like this. Alex in particular actually, and I think I made this characterization due to the fact that his goal is to be the youngest Congressperson ever elected. One doesn’t do that by looking like a high schooler, and looking a bit older than his age would likely get people to treat him more seriously. Thinking about all the youngest Congresspeople currently in Congress, they all look their age if not a bit older (ex: Maxwell Frost is 25 in the House, and looks his age). Also around the same time I first read RWRB, I watched Catch Me If You Can with Leonardo Di Caprio, who was much older than the character he was playing (a high schooler ~16, Di Caprio was late 20s and looked it), but one of the things that was noted about the real person the movie is based on, Frank Abagnale Jr, looked older than he was and that helped him get away with a lot of things he did. 

Henry I can give a bit more leeway to just because he’s the prince, I have less to say about what his age range looks like vs what it actually is. 

Idk I am pretty happy with the casting and I think a lot of people have come around on it, but I think a lot of people were thrown off because they’ve been viewing these characters with the typical awful internet gay stereotypes that they so badly want to assign each of these characters to be and I think that made the reactions worse. 

[person-1-one]

I just finished watching Catch Me If You Can (great movie, go watch it). But more importantly, it was all a pretty normal movie experience until the last scene and it read out “Frank Abagnale Jr. has been married for 26 years.” This line hit me like a truck once I processed what it meant. How the absolute hell is this about an actual teenager? When I was his age I was now, sitting in bed making this post. What I have taken away from this movie is that I need to catch ip on my fraud

[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.

[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.

[swolesome]

What's your favorite film about fathers and sons?

Since so much of your content is about masculinity and how we learn about it, I wanted to see if you had any thoughts or examples from pop culture that explored that relationship. (And obviously, it doesn't need to have a "father" or a "son", but somehow connected to cultural ideas of masculinity.)

For me, I've always loved grifting stories, so Catch Me If You Can is an all-time fave. I love watching Frank Abagnale Jr as a mindful student of his world up until the moments when he needs to perform inside of it.

And ultimately, having to "perform" masculinity is an overwhelming prospect. It's so stressful and exhausting that, eventually, Frank realizes it's not even worth financial security or prestige.

When we meet Frank's dad, he's telling a story at the rotary club about "two little mice" falling into a bucket of cream, frantically flailing for life until they churn it into butter.

Later, while pretending to be a doctor with a law degree, Frank tells that same story to his prospective in-laws. It moves them so much, they don't hesitate to give permission to marry their daughter. It also creates the image of an impossibly hard-working man that Frank will have to spend the rest of his married life trying to prove.

It's not until we see Frank catching up with his dad at a diner that we see how much this has been tearing him apart. After learning his father has fallen into a secure, yet boring, mail job and is no longer pursuing his ex-wife, Frank begs his dad to "Tell me to stop". The performance is causing him too much stress and, ultimately, isn't worth the financial and familial security of maintaining the grift.

On the other side, we have Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent who couldn't care less about performing for others. When in a car with two other agents, Hanratty doesn't laugh at one of the other agents' lewd stories. Annoyed, he asks why Hanratty never laughs, so Hanratty asks if they want to hear a joke. When they say, "Yeah," he sets up a "knock knock" joke only to reply, "Go fuck yourselves." He's not interested in performing for other people, even the masculine tradition of telling off-color jokes.

By the end of the movie, Frank has a closer relationship to Hanratty than his own father, and the main reason is that Hanratty wants Frank to be himself. Sure, that means letting himself be arrested and confessing to his crimes. But it also means letting himself be vulnerable: to let himself be arrested instead of shot down, to share his secret about passing the Louisiana Bar exam, and to help others instead of just himself. It's such a strong motivation that Hanratty lets Frank get on a plane, breaking his parole, and says he trusts him to come back to work.

So yeah, watching his father perform masculinity left such a strong impression he let it absorb his entire life to the point that he became an internationally wanted criminal.

(FYI I don't know how Tumblr works; i just started using it and don't know if this will show up on my feed, like a post, or will be direct messaged, so this is me trying to learn this system as much as anything else; thank you for your time.)

I absolutely love this question, and your example, as well. This is something I've thought a fair amount about (I actually have a video on fatherhood in media planned for the future!), and I have a whole handful of answers, but I'm going to go with the first one that jumped to mind:

How to Train Your Dragon is definitely up there for me. I really appreciate the way it tackles patriarchy in a sort of... non-judgmental light while highlighting the problems with it, if that makes sense? It's not framed as "Clearly this traditional, combative Viking (masculine) way is bad and terrible and destructive and shameful", but rather based around fear of the unknown and the drive to protect one's own. For that reason, it's understandably glorified, even in its violence, because that violence is seen as serving an essential purpose.

Hiccup and Stoick's relationship is so fascinating to me, because it's clear there's love between them, but the fact that they have nothing in common means the relationship begins and ends at familial, there's no friendship or connection beyond that. You don't get the sense that Stoick is disgusted by Hiccup's poor masculine performance so much as worried about his ability to stay safe and fit in. I'm not going to go so far as to say he's not embarrassed by his son's eccentricity, even Hiccup calls it out that his dad wanted a son who's all power and glory, but Stoick never says that himself, he more just laments Hiccup being different. Stoick's own words point more at apprehensiveness where his son's safety and social future is concerned, as well as frustration about how to raise him. He talks about his own boyhood, his father telling him to bang his head against a rock and doing so without question, the way he was taught that being a Viking (man) means power, ruthlessness, and following orders--how he embodied that as a boy... and Hiccup doesn't. For me, this reads less as him being ashamed of his son and more as him simply not knowing what to do because the blueprints he was given are useless. We even find out he's tried typical father-son bonding activities, but Hiccup's nature always means they deviate from the plan and he's left at a loss again.

That Stoick feels this way is really driven home when he finds out that Hiccup is a natural born "dragon slayer", his love for his son is so obvious here when he says "We finally have something to talk about," and is downright giddy over the opportunity to connect with him. But that promptly falls back into their usual distance and awkwardness, because the problem of Hiccup pretending to be someone he's not hasn't been solved; he's just gotten more skilled at lying.

When Hiccup eventually does try to show his dad his truth, Stoick isn't ready for it. Eccentric deviation from the norm is one thing, but he's gone so far off course that it poses a much larger threat, welcoming in the Dangerous Other they've been at war with. Because of this, Hiccup isn't just confronting his dad with his own truth, he's confronting his dad with the fact that he, Stoick, was misled. That his entire worldview of what it is to be a Viking (MAN) is based on fear and misunderstandings rather than an accurate assessment of the world.

So he does what that misinformed framework taught him to do in the face of opposition. He lashes out, doubles down, and refuses to communicate and engage with the fact that maybe he's just wrong. He fights. Again, this comes from that protective impulse, but we begin to see where it becomes internally destructive in addition to its external destruction; it's been paired with the fear of fallibility and a threat to the status quo.

What a love so much about Stoick realizing his mistake is that before anything else, this rock-headbutting, skull-crushing pinnacle of manhood apologizes. He apologizes and he verbally acknowledges his son's autonomy. After the grand finale, he recognizes that it's his son's differences that not only make him wonderful, but were the key to solving an ongoing problem of violence and suffering. "Turns out all we needed was a little more of this." "You just gestured to all of me." The call back on that one is just *chef's kiss* The Old Way was one of defensiveness and mistrust, and The New one of empathy and understanding. I love the way this message is given, and the way it highlights how guidance in growth is a gift children can give to their parents, as well, when given the space to do so.

[sachingja]

oh god. i can smell the blood. (marcus for frank!)

his first instinct is to laugh at the absurdity of it all — only he could befriend a vampire and end up cutting himself preparing a dinner that no one but himself will really benefit from. the irony is not lost on him, but the laughter comes to die at the back of his throat, hoarse due to the aborted nature of it, and frank is standing there, in his kitchen, holding his palm in his other hand while he is watching the blood spill between his fingers, crimson against pale skin ( he really should go outside more, but england, as it were, does not have much sunlight to offer. that is one of the few particular reasons why he even came here, the other presently standing in the doorway. ) well, it probably could be worse, right? marcus is perhaps the best physician frank has ever known, no less due to the fact that he had centuries to perfect his craft.

" whoops, " is what leaves his lips first, and the winsome smile following directly after is instinct, too, second-nature to frank. he could talk his way out of anything and has talked his way into a number of situations, too, but this might turn out to be a little trickier than expected. then again, when will he ever get the chance to witness a vampire's reaction to his own blood first hand? he might as well look at the bright side of it all. " sorry, uh. i think there is an emergency kit in the bathroom, above the sink. if you could just get that — i don't think this needs any stitches. " he shrugs and turns towards the kitchen sink, aware of marcus' eyes on him, the tense line of his shoulders. when the cool water washes most of the blood off his palm, he winces. christ, this hurts more than he would have liked. not that he planned this, or anything, it's just been a while. dinner hasn't even made it onto the stove, yet.

frank is hungry, but beneath the starvation lies a different kind of curiosity, one that wonders what marcus will do, how frank will affect him. maybe, it is a little selfish but frank has never had any problem admitting to that; marcus must see people bleeding out every day, but has he ever been ever marginally interested in any of them as he is in frank? or is this all wishful thinking? either way, he could use some medical assistance right about now, he is beginning to feel somewhat hazy around the edges.

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[ao3feed-thor]

Book of Villain One-Shots

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by VioletAdler0224

Do you have unpopular opinions on Villains? Do you find yourself drawn to the psychopaths and criminals? Well, let me tell you that you are not alone! I will be your author today, and I am open for requests anytime(but that doesn't mean I'll write it for sure).

Words: 13229, Chapters: 22/22, Language: English

Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Beetlejuice (1988), Gotham (TV), Thor (Movies), The Silence of the Lambs, Chicago (2002), Captain Marvel (2019), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Wreck-It Ralph (Movies), Batman (1989), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994), Brighton Rock - Graham Greene, Heathers (1988), Killing Eve (TV 2018), Stand By Me (1986), The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M

Relationships: Jim Moriarty/Reader, Jonathan Crane/Reader, Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)/Reader, Victor Zsasz & Reader, Tom Hiddleston/Loki/Reader, Hannibal Lecter/Reader, Velma Kelly/Reader, Frank Abagnale Jr./Reader, King Candy | Turbo (Disney)/Reader, Joker (DCU)/Reader, Lestat de Lioncourt/Reader, Gomez Addams/Reader, Pinkie Brown/Reader, Jason "J. D." Dean/Reader, Villanelle | Oksana Astankova/Reader, Ace Merrill/Reader

Additional Tags: Villains, Reader-Insert

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[palearbiterkid]

Frank Abagnale Jr., la storia del truffatore che ha ingannato gli Usa

Frank Abagnale Jr. inizia la sua carriera nel crimine in età adolescenziale, cominciando a muovere i primi passi nel mondo delle falsificazioni con truffe su carte di credito e libretti degli assegni. A sedici anni, quando se ne va via di casa, non ha né una vera e propria educazione né abbastanza soldi sul proprio conto per poter badare a sé economicamente. Il ragazzo, però, falsifica la sua patente per apparire più vecchio di dieci anni, così da avere la possibilità di potersi presentare a colloqui di lavoro più redditizi rispetto a quelli che potevano essere destinati a un adolescente. Tuttavia il mondo del lavoro non sembra quello adatto a lui e così comincia a truffare le banche, attraverso assegni scoperti, grazie ai quali si fa anticipare delle somme in contanti. La truffa deve la sua riuscita al fatto che Frank è molto bravo a cambiare identità e nome, di modo che sia molto difficile per le autorità scoprire il responsabile del maltolto. Ben presto, però, le truffe degli assegni non gli bastano più e l'uomo tenta un'altra strada: quella delle impersonificazioni. Riesce infatti a farsi passare per un pilota della Pan Am, la compagnia aerea fondata negli anni '20 del Novecento e che, nel 1991, è costretta a dichiarare bancarotta. Grazie ad alcuni stratagemmi riesce a farsi dare una divisa da pilota e falsifica dei documenti, risultando così come impiegato della compagnia aerea. Sebbene impari molte nozioni sul volo, lui non è interessato a pilotare un aereo, ma a utilizzare il cosiddetto Deadheading, una pratica con cui la Pan Am offre viaggi gratis ai propri piloti. In questo modo il truffatore può viaggiare per il mondo senza mai versare un solo dollaro. Quando anche questa identità viene scoperta e la polizia comincia a mettersi sulle sue tracce Frank decide di sfuggire e di improvvisarsi medico in Georgia. Tra le altre identità del truffatore c'è quella di un avvocato, ma anche di un professore universitario. Alla fine, però, con l'Fbi sulle proprie tracce, sceglie di scappare in Europa, con un patrimonio che si aggira intorno ai due milioni di dollari grazie alle truffe sugli assegni. Ed è proprio nello stato transalpino che viene arrestato, nel 1969: nonostante numerosi tentativi di fuga, è costretto a scontare una pena di cinque anni. È a questo punto che nella sua vita c'è un ulteriore svolta. Il governo degli Stati Uniti d'America, dopo essere stato "preso in giro" dal falsario, decide di offrirgli un lavoro. Il rilascio dopo cinque anni di prigione, infatti, avviene solo a condizione che lui accetti di lavorare con il governo, mettendo a disposizione tutte le sue conoscenze e le sue abilità per aiutare l'America a impedire che altri come lui truffassero lo Stato. Successivamente Abagnale si privatizza: offrì i suoi servigi alle banche dietro lauto compenso e apre una sua compagnia, la Abagnale & Associates che, in breve tempo, gli permette di vivere da milionario, come fa ancora oggi.

[rainrosewater]

I am rotating frank william abagnale jr in my mind like a little microwave man

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.27

Beer Birthdays

Adam Gettelman (1847)

John Maier (1955)

Gwen Conley (1966)

Latiesha Cook (2004)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Rogers Hornsby; St. Louis Cardinals 2B (1896)

Walter Lantz; animator, Woody Woodpecker creator (1900)

George Petty; artist, illustrator (1894)

Kate Pierson; rock keyboardist, singer (1948)

Sergei Prokofiev; Russian composer (1891)

Famous Birthdays

Frank Abagnale Jr.; security consultant & criminal (1948)

Philip Abelson; physicist (1913)

Irving Adler; mathematician 1913)

Anouk Aimee; actor (1932)

Earl Anthony; bowler (1938)

Ludwig Bemelmans; Italian-American author & illustrator (1898)

Judy Carne; comedian (1939)

Wallace Carothers; chemist & inventor of nylon (1896)

Jenna Coleman; English actress (1986)

Cecil Day-Lewis; Anglo-Irish poet & author (1904)

Sandy Dennis; actor (1937)

Sheena Easton; pop singer (1959)

Charles Emanuel I; king of Sardinia (1701)

Ace Frehley; rock musician (1951)

Edward Gibbon; historian, writer (1737)

Ruth Glick; author (1942)

Ulysses S. Grant; 18th U.S. President (1822)

Pete Ham; rock musician (1947)

Sally Hawkins; English actress (1976)

Casey Kasem; DJ (1932)

Jim Keltner; rock drummer (1942)

Theodor Kittelsen; Norwegian painter & illustrator (1857)

Jack Klugman; actor (1922)

Jules Lemaître; French playwright (1853)

Lizzo; singer and rapper (1988)

Samuel F.B. Morse; code inventor (1791)

Ann Peebles; soul singer-songwriter (1947)

Dave Peel; rock musician (1947)

Alan Reynolds; English painter (1926)

Enos Slaughter; St. Louis Cardinals RF (1916)

Herbert Spencer; English philosopher (1820)

James Samuel Stone; British historian (1852)

Yoshihiro Togashi; Japanese illustrator (1966)

Friedrich von Flotow; German composer (1812)

August Wilson; playwright (1945)

Mary Wollstonecraft; writer, feminist (1759)

[bjfinn]

Okay *cracks knuckles* #9, #22, #23, please!

A film set in a place I've always wanted to visit:

"The Secret of Roan Inish" (1994) -- a quiet and beautifully atmospheric indie film set in Ireland (Donegal, to be precise), about a young girl looking for her long-lost baby brother. It's based on the Irish and Scottish folktales of the selkies -- seals who can shed their skins and become human. (Roan Inish -- Rón Inis in Irish -- means "Island of Seals"). Ireland is the home of my ancestors -- I hope one day to visit it.

A film that is a novel/play adaptation:

"Catch Me If You Can" (2002), a crime comedy-drama, based on the allegedly autobiographical book by Frank Abagnale Jr and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as master con-man Abagnale and Tom Hanks as the FBI agent trying to catch him. The movie is a real gem, with great performances by both DiCaprio and Hanks. Highly recommend!

A film that is a box-office flop:

"The Lost City of Z" (2016), the story of an early 20th-century explorer, Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon looking for evidence of an ancient advanced civilisation -- and it's based on a true story. It flopped at the box-office, however, only grossing $19 million (it cost $30 million to make) -- probably because it doesn't have a lot of action. Recommended for anyone with an interest in history, archaeology or the history of archaeology.

(All three are book adaptations, btw! 😁)

Thanks for asking!