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Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Getaway |
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After being parolled from prison, a thief agrees to rob a bank. With help from his girlfriend and two other guys, they rob a small bank. One of the two men is killed. The other man tries to doublecross the thief, but the thief shoots him. However, the man's not dead and he follows the thief across the country.
The girlfriend kills the man that hired them and her and the thief keep the money and head for Mexico. The dead man's goons chase the thieves and catch up to him in a hotel. There's a shootout and all of the goons are killed. The other robber then shows up, but he's killed also.
Now, the thieves are free of the bad guys, but have the police after them. They're able to elude the police, hijack a man and his truck and make him drive them to Mexico.
Once in Mexico, they persuade the man not to tell anyone about them and they pay him thirty thousand dollars to give them his truck and to keep his mouth shut. The man agrees; he walks back to the border and the two thieves drive off into the sunset.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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After a botched bank heist, a recently paroled criminal and his wife run to the Mexican border with their former employers, cops, crooks, and other walking targets close behind. A great chase movie that was re-made fairly recently with Alec Baldwin adn Kim Basinger.
--Dave, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Getaway |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- very short/crewcut (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- a criminal organization
Specific kind of enemies?
- corrupt local officials
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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