Before I set out to write the Ganymede Job I embarked on a deep dive into the genre by watching 41 classic and contemporary heist movies during the 5-week paternity leave with our first born, Lila. We tracked everything that went into a good heist movie, recording our findings first in marble notebooks and then excel spreadsheets.
These are our findings.
This post is probably the one you want to start on if you want to get right to the 16 heist conventions (it was #2 in the series): charleskunken.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-heist-the-16-conventions-part-1-of-3.
And this PDF was the final assembled data.
Remember, rules were made to be broken.
BLOG Season 4 - The Anatomy of a heist (ah)
By studying what makes us love heist films we take a deeper look into the genre and the craft of storytelling.
The Skytalkers podcast recently aired an episode in which they ran Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) through the heist tracker - the one we made together during paternity leave ;) charleskunken.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-heist-the-16-conventions-part-1-of-3).
Star Wars plus heists? Yea…we just had to take this inspiration from our friends at Skytalkers and contribute our own ‘Milk in The Matrix version of ‘is Solo a heist film?’