Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: Frank pretends to be the substitute teacher – 'My name is Mr. Abagnale.' Also the Hollywood Tropicana Hotel scene where Carl almost catches Frank.
• Sean: The eight stewardesses sequence – trying out at the high school, interviewing them, choosing them, the airport escape.
• Also discussed: Frank becoming a Pan Am pilot (the whole sequence of figuring it out), the FBI crashing the engagement party.

• 2002 Leo – 'the seeds are there for this is going to be a guy who matters.' The beginning of his 20+ year run as the most impressive movie star.
• The cavalcade of young actresses who went on to be famous: Ellen Pompeo, Jennifer Garner, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Adams.
• The con man process stuff – toy planes in the bathtub to make Pan Am seals, learning about MICR numbers.
• Christopher Walken and Leo as father and son.
• The Saul Bass-inspired opening credits.

• Bill: 'The Christmas Song' (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).
• Sean: 'Come Fly With Me.'
• Chris: 'You Really Got Me' at the Atlanta apartment.
• Chris: The John Williams score itself – 'Escapades for Alto Sax.'

Unanimous: Tom Hanks' accent. Bill: 'Just be Tom Hanks. Why are you talking like this?' The character is a composite, not a real person, so there was no reason for the accent. Hanratty is supposed to be from Chicago but Hanks does some unidentifiable accent.

• Nearly all of Frank Abagnale's story has been debunked.
• Chris: Writing checks – 'It's fucking amazing that that used to be a thing.'
• Los Angeles motel inns – the Tropicana is 'just a motel.'

• Sean: This is the first great Leo performance – prior movies relied on the filmmaking style; 'if he's not good, this movie is nothing.'
• Bill: Amy Adams is bad in this movie – 'completely over the top.' Also: Amy Adams is overrated more broadly (six Oscar nominations seems 'insane').
• Bill: The Hanks GOAT argument has some cracks – 'he's had some bad accent movies' and a rough stretch post-2002.

• James Gandolfini was originally locked in to play Carl Hanratty. Chris: 'This is a better movie with James Gandolfini.'
• David Fincher was attached in 2000, dropped out for 'Panic Room'.
• Gore Verbinski was going to direct with Leo, Gandolfini, Ed Harris as Walken's part, and Chloe Sevigny as Brenda.
• Johnny Depp – Spielberg apparently wanted him at one point for Frank.

• Bill: 2003 Scarlett Johansson for Amy Adams' part.
• Chris: Today's version – Timothee Chalamet as Frank with Leo as Tom Hanks (the aging actor taking the supporting role).
• Bill: Sterling K. Brown as today's Tom Hanks part.

Amy Adams – both the overacting and 'doing their own thing' awards.

• Nathalie Baye (the French mom) – 'a veteran of Jean-Luc Godard.'
• Sean: James Brolin.
• Chris: Elizabeth Banks.

• The rights were bought in 1980 by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin after seeing Abagnale on the Tonight Show.
• Production passed through Columbia, Hollywood Pictures, Paramount, then DreamWorks in 1997.
• The real Abagnale never saw his father again after running away – Spielberg invented the father-son stuff.
• Frank Abagnale Jr. appears in the film as the French officer who arrests Frank.
• Janusz Kaminski screened Maysles Brothers documentaries to prepare.

• Leo: No – 'Titanic' is his apex. But this is the beginning of the run.
• Spielberg, Hanks: Not this movie.
• Christopher Walken: Not this – probably Deer Hunter or 1993-94 range (SNL hosting, 'True Romance', 'Pulp Fiction').
• Pan Am Airlines: Maybe.

Bill: 'Clearly a better prestige show. If it was like Poker Face, what's this guy going to do this week?' Maybe 1-2 seasons.

• Carl's not going to look at Frank's wallet for five minutes in the hotel room.
• The Atlanta to New Orleans to Miami to France transition is very choppy.
• How did Hanks get to France after being told he can't go to Europe?
• Frank being a doctor – 'once you have a guy's tibia sticking out, you're probably like, I don't know how to fix this.'

• How did he cheat on the bar exam? 'I still am not buying he studied for two weeks.'
• Could you really escape from an airplane through the toilet?
• Why is Tom Hanks using that accent?

• Sean: The Fabelmans.
• Bill: Gangs of New York (came out five days apart, same Leo era).
• Bill: The Aviator.

• Chris: The Aston Martin Silver 1963 DBS (~$25 million car).
• Chris: Leo's sunglasses from the Miami airport scene.
• Bill: The suitcase of cash.

Bill: 'Check forging is my favorite of all the crimes' – if you're going to be a criminal, forge checks (no real victims, just banks).

Unanimous: Leo won the movie. Walken got the Oscar nomination but Leo is better.