McQueen undertook his own stunts, which include playing polo and driving a dune buggy at high speed along the Massachusetts coastline. The game depicted is based on a game played in Vienna in 1898 between Gustav Zeissl and Walter von Walthoffen. The film also features a chess scene, with McQueen and Dunaway playing a game of chess, silently flirting with each other. Steve McQueen was on hand for an advance screening of A Place to Stand in Hollywood and personally told Chapman he was highly impressed the following year, Norman Jewison had incorporated the technique into the film, inserting the scenes into the already finished product. The use of split screens to show simultaneous actions was inspired by the breakthrough Expo 67 films In the Labyrinth and A Place to Stand, the latter of which pioneered the use of Christopher Chapman's " multi-dynamic image technique", images shifting on moving panes. The photography is unusual for a mainstream Hollywood film, using a split-screen mode. She tears the telegram to bits and throws the pieces to the wind, looking up at the sky with tears in her eyes. However, when his Rolls-Royce arrives, she sees that Thomas has sent a messenger in his place, with a telegram asking her to bring the money and join him – or if not, "you keep the car". Vicki and the police stake out the cemetery, where they watch one of the robbers make the drop and they wait for Thomas to arrive so they can arrest him. The robbery is successful, but there are gunshots and the viewer is left with the impression that people might have been killed, raising the stakes for Vicki's decision. Thomas organizes another robbery exactly like the first with different accomplices and tells Vicki where the "drop" will be, because he has to know for sure that she is on his side. When she (seemingly) persuades him to negotiate an end, his point is proven when Eddy stubbornly refuses to make any deal. However, while Vicki is clearly closing in on Thomas, using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as leverage against his liquid assets, he forces her to realize that she is also becoming hemmed-in by her emotions. She tries putting Erwin in the same room as Thomas, but there is no hint of recognition on either one's part. Vicki finds out that he was hired by a man he never saw, but whose voice he heard (via a microphone). Their relationship soon evolves into an affair, complicated by Vicki's vow to find the money and help detective Eddy Malone bring the guilty party to justice.Ī reward offer entices the wife of the bank robbery's getaway driver, Erwin Weaver to "fink" on him for $25,000 ($194,809 in 2021 dollars ). They start a game of cat and mouse, with the attraction between them evident. Vicki makes it clear to him that she knows that he is the thief and that she intends to prove it. Thomas does not need the money, and in fact masterminded the robbery as a game. When Thomas first comes to her attention as a possible suspect, she intuitively recognizes him as the mastermind behind the robbery, and shortly thereafter guesses that he organized the robbers so none of the men knew him or met each other. Independent insurance investigator Vicki Anderson is contracted to investigate the heist she will receive 10% of the stolen money if she recovers it. He deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as not to draw undue attention to his actions. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can after secretly following the driver of the getaway car. None of the men ever meet Crown face to face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown accomplishes a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank ($20,731,748 in 2021 dollars ), along with a fifth man who drives the getaway car with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's " The Windmills of Your Mind". The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.
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