Maddd Science If you ask me, the heist movie is the purest wish-fulfillment film genre. Sure, Superhero movies are the other big example, but they're bogged down with all that spectacle. Heist movies are entirely about a perspective that's unknowable by definition, the successful criminal, which allows audiences to project their own sticking-it-to-the-man fantasies onto the movie without worrying about reality.
Heists
Heists
Heists
Maddd Science If you ask me, the heist movie is the purest wish-fulfillment film genre. Sure, Superhero movies are the other big example, but they're bogged down with all that spectacle. Heist movies are entirely about a perspective that's unknowable by definition, the successful criminal, which allows audiences to project their own sticking-it-to-the-man fantasies onto the movie without worrying about reality.