Robbery movie

Robbery film ( English heist film ^[1] ) - a film whose plot is built around the planned and most often successfully carried out theft in the form of robbery , robbery or theft .

The theft of carefully guarded property has been the pivotal point of many noirs ( Jules Dassin 's Men's Showdown , John Houston 's Asphalt Jungle , Stanley Kubrick's Murder ). The attractiveness of this plot scheme is that it allows you to keep the viewer in a state of tension ( suspense ). Typically, a robbery is planned and carried out by a group of like-minded people. Variations on the same theme are films about the release of hostages , about escape from places of detention and about political killings (The Great Escape ).

The peak of the popularity of robbery movies in Hollywood came in the 1960s . During these years, examples of the genre were created, such as " Eleven Ocean Friends " (1960), " How to Steal a Million " (1966) and " Italian Robbery " (1969). The genre was initially perceived as light and was saturated with elements of comedy , even farce . Signs of a robbery film are featured in many comedies of the time, such as The Pink Panther and The Diamond Arm . However, already in 1973, the film " Scam " received an Oscar for the best film, which indicated that the genre was among the respectable.

In the 1970s, robbery films were replaced by no less action - packed disaster films , then the rise of fantastic blockbusters began . The robbery movie genre began to win back lost positions only in the 1990s and especially in the 2000s , when remakes of many classic sixties robbery films were released in Hollywood.

Among the robbery films of recent decades, the cult ones were not those who scrupulously follow genre traditions (The Real McCoy ), but those that are marked by bold experimentation with the storyline and cast doubt on the usual moral and ethical coordinates ( Crazy Dogs , Suspicious faces ”,“ Beginning ”).