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    Intro to American Cinema The Great Train Robbery The main characters in the film The Great Train Robbery(1999) were slick‚ good-looking criminals. They were very good at what they did and were well-known in the underworld. The main characters involved were Bryan Field‚ Fred Forman‚ Gordon Goody‚ Master Edwards‚ Charlie Wilson‚ Roy Jones‚ Bruce Reynolds‚ and Ronnie Biggs. This included Bruce Reynolds being chief planner‚ who worked among the trains‚ while the mastermind of the plan was Bryan field

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    And ‘The Great Train Robbery’ filmed in 1979 must have been one of the movies that set out the example for all of the others. However‚ the movie does not only contain the characteristics of the adventure movie‚ but also a western and drama. It has all of the needed factors for the audience to be on the edge of the seats throughout the whole film. Even though it is based on the real story‚ we are not quite sure how it might end until the very end. ‘The Great Train Robbery’ was distributed

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    that analyze the motivation of a criminal. Some individuals are inspired by the thrill of danger‚ welcoming the stimulation of a challenge. Undertaking a crime of this nature is exhilarating for this type of offender. Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery‚ displays Edward Pierce’s unquenchable thirst for a challenging adventure‚ which entails his use of intellect‚ manipulation‚ and wealth to mastermind the greatest theft in Victorian times. The confidence Pierce has in his intellectual ability

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    enough to satiate the importunate avarice that rests innately within a man. Such a spectacle was seen in Edward Pierce‚ the protagonist of Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery. Edward Pierce‚ a man of great wealth and dominance in both the public and underground of society‚ constructs a heinous scheme to steal a load of treasure off a train. Although Pierce is shown to have unshakeable perseverance‚ Crichton never explicitly states a motive behind Pierce’s actions. However‚ because Pierce seems

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    the robbery

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    The robbery I was serving a lady and her child at the front of the cupcake shop‚ cute cupcakes. I was placing vanilla and chocolate cupcakes in a box when I heard a gunshot. My head shot up to the direction of the piercing sound. When my eyes find the attacker he had already shot 5 people‚ a child and mother and also two men. I froze as I saw the attacker moving towards me. As he was walking towards me I suddenly remembered there was an emergency button if there was ever an emergency the button

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    narrative movie was The Great Train Robbery‚ created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter. The silent film is only about 10 minutes long‚ but was the precursor to the action and western genres. The popularity of the movie proved that motion pictures could be commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29‚ 1900‚ four members from the famous outlaw George Leroy “Butch Cassidy” Parker’s “Hole in the Wall” gang stopped a train in Table Rock‚ Wyoming

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    Robbery

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    I could not believe my eyes when I saw these foreign robbers who make an attempt to rob my kind neighbour sundry shop.They looked very strong and mean.Two of them‚tall and dark-skin wearing masks and wanted to rob Mr.Samy’s shop.It happened one evening when the sun was about to set‚ my mother asked to me to go and buy some onions and salts from a nearby sundry shop which is apparently my neighbour.The shop was managed by Mr Samy ‚ a jovial middle-aged indian man with a huge pot-belly.His wife and

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    Elements of Robbery

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    ROBBERY Art. 293- Who are guilty of robbery?  -any person who‚ with intent to gain‚ shall take any personal property belonging to one another‚ by means of violence against or intimidation of any person‚ or using force upon anything‚ shall be guilty of robbery Elements of robbery  there must be personal property belonging to another  there must be unlawful taking of that property  that the taking must be with intent to gain  that there is violence against or intimidation of any person

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    Robbery

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    I woke up to complete silence but a screaming in my head that something wasn’t right. My eyes opened to the sight of two strangers walking through my living room. There was still no sound‚ not even the creak of their footsteps as they deliberately crept towards the door. I was instantly flooded with adrenaline as I shattered the silence with a single word. “HEY!” I barked‚ causing the eyes of the men to snap straight towards the source of the word. Dropping what was in their hands they burst out

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    Kampung Desa until a gang of robbers had fled from a police station near the village recently. They were on the most wanted list by the police since they had harmed victims before. Ever since their getaway‚ there had been abundant of reports involving robbery occurring in Kampung Desa. Most victims were unable to identify the culprits because they were wearing masks. The villagers of Kampung Desa had been warned by the police to stay on guard at all times. The villagers were beginning to worry. Some

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