The Perfect Crime: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Inside Man]]'' is the story of "The Perfect Bank Robbery." {{spoiler|They take hostages, but don't hurt any of them (though they pretend to kill one, purely to scare the police). They continually switch around robbers and planted hostages, keeping everyone confused as to who is who. Instead of stealing money from the bank, they steal a drawer full of ill-gotten (and therefore undocumented) diamonds--so to the police, it looks like nothing was stolen. And they evade capture by hiding among the hostages.}}

* Parodied in the Bill Murray movie ''[[Quick Change (film)|Quick Change]]'', in which the highly complex robbery the characters plan and execute in the movie really ''is'' perfect, and goes off flawlessly. The [[A Simple Plan|relatively simple matter]] of the getaway, on the other hand, becomes a complicated and mishap-strewn nightmare, until the characters are reduced to wandering around the streets of Queens in the middle of the night with millions of dollars taped to their skin under their clothes trying desperately to hail a taxi or catch a bus.

* ''[[Murder by Numbers]]''. Epic failure, no thanks to [[Fair Cop|Cassie]].

* The first fantasy in ''[[Unfaithfully Yours]]''.

* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (film)|The League of Gentlemen]]'''s heist would have gone off flawlessly if a random little boy hadn't been collecting license plate numbers outside the bank. This, coupled with the fact that they rendezvous at Hyde's house afterwards, allows the police to catch them all cash in hand.

* In ''[[The Life of David Gale]],'' this is played straight. An anti-death penalty activist is found dead, and the eponymous character, a fellow activist, is convicted and executed due to an abundance of evidence, despite claiming his innocence. Doesn't sound like the perfect crime, you say? Well, {{spoiler|the actual crime was the "victim" and the "murderer" conspiring to be respectively "murdered" and executed for the murder. Evidence would then be released that the "murder" was really a suicide, which would in turn show that an innocent man was executed and hopefully gain sympathy for their anti-death penalty views.}}

* In ''[[The Master of Disguise]]'' the [[Big Bad]] Devlin Bowman ''claims'' The Perfect Crime is this: Force-disguise a Master of Disguise as him, then push that Master of Disguise over a cliff, making everyone think he's dead. Or something. It isn't really clear on what this accomplishes.

* ''[[Rampage]]'' the film, how to pull of the ultimate murder spree/robbery in small town hell.

 

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