Frank Abagnale's Life

Exaggerating the truth, or the telling the complete truth. In many so called “based on a true story” movie inclined to extend the truth of a person 's life or an event that occurred. The directors and producers of these movies change up the true story to make it into a Hollywood version of it. The director and producers of the film will only show and tell what they want the audience to know and hear. In the film Catch Me If You Can produce by Steven Spielberg and Walter Parkes and directed by Steven Spielberg. The producers of this film focused on the main crime Frank Abagnale Jr. did, which was acted by Leonardo DiCaprio. The director of the film made the movie more focused on the real main crime Abagnale committed during the 1980s. Yet he still made it into a Hollywood movie to get the audience

Which were all the different professions he claimed to have. At the beginning of the film, Frank claimed to be a pilot of the Panama Airlines. Then he claimed to be a doctor at a hospital. Lastly, he claimed to also have a degree in law and said to be a lawyer. According to Josh Boehm writer of the article “How True to Actual Events was Catch Me If You Can?” states that the movie was very accurate with the information they provided about the three fake careers Frank managed to proclaimed he had. Not making any change to this part of Frank’s life in the film was very important because it basically showed the types of career frauds Frank had at a very young age. The reason why the film did not change the story behind the careers Franks claimed to have was to provide more information to the audience that did not know much about Frank Abagnale Jr. Because the film was based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. and his crime it was necessary for the producers to include this part of Frank’s life into the