A group of four men were arrested by the Belgian police in 2010 after the discovery of a mutilated dead body. Next to the body parts, a piece of paper was found on which these words were scribbled, 'WATASHI WA KIRA DESS'. Apparently, the killers wanted towrite 'Watashi wa Kira desu', which in Japanese means 'I am a killer', a reference to the hit anime show 'Death Note'. As if murder was not bad enough, the killers will find it hard to explain their spelling gaffe to other anime lovers. Such incidents go on to show how much we breathe in the pop culture which is crammed with violence.
If you have spent a lot of time watching movies and TV shows that depict crime, then you would definitely know that crime does not pay.After all, the good guys almost always win on the celluloid screen. But what if we tell you that there are people who have taken the value lesson from these movies/shows and turned them upside down using their own version of logic; and recreated or got inspired by some of the reel life crimes. Here are some movies and TV shows that played their part in creating somebody's rap sheet.
Mission: Impossible
A vault. Cable drop. Rappelling from the ceiling. Suspended in the air. Did that jog your memory? Yes, we are referring to the iconic scene of Mission Impossible, where Tom Cruise breaks into a vault filled with lasers, and hacks into a computer while dangling on two ropes. If you think this scene had badassery worthy of Bruce Lee, you will agree that the real life copycat crime took its impeccability one notch up, by just being real.Here's the real deal: A man broke into a Florida pawn shop in 2009 in similar style. He managed this feat of breaking into the shop (which had pretty good security system in place) via the ceiling. Imitating all the skills of the Spider Man, he descended from the ceiling effortlessly with the help of a rope. Next, he quickly spotted what he was looking for, which was guns, and he made off with those weapons through the backdoor as the alarm went off. Though this daring act was captured on the CCTV cameras, the police couldn't make a positive identification of the burglar, as he was wearing a mask. Not an Ethan Hunt kind-of-a-mask, but a clichéd black skiing mask that has become a uniform for criminals. We are cutting down one point just for unoriginality in costume designing.
The Town
Ben Affleck's famed heist film, The Town, had romance set in between the violent backdrop of a robbery. Affleck, a.k.a the-guy-who-should-have-never-played-Daredevil, was inspired by some real life robberies that took place in Boston while he was shooting the film in that city. This, in turn, inspired him to incorporate MO of these crimes into his movie, which was dressing up as nuns and robbing a bank. The movie become a runaway hit. And so did the brilliant costume idea, which 'inspired' many amateur robbers into donning a nun's outfit and Halloween mask, and breaking into a bank.In the real life version of the crime, a Chicagoan couple copped the nun costume move from The Town for robbing a TCF Bank in Illinois. They were armed with handguns, and carried a duffel bag which they stuffed with $120,000, after forcing two bank employeesinto a vault. The partners in crime were later apprehended by the police. However, in true movie-style, the couple turned on each other and helped the prosecution make the case against them.
The Twilight Saga
We are not saying that Twilight is a bad film. May be a little bad. Keeping our critical analysis aside, we can say that the characters in these movies were not ideal role models for impressionable teens. This movie series inspired its fans to do pretty dramatic things, like writing fan-fiction stories, donning Emo clothes and makeup, obsessing about its lead actors, biting other people...eh... biting?Yes, that's right, biting. And when we say biting, we are not discoursing about a love bite or a hickey - reminder of your lover's passion. We are talking about a full-scale bite that draws out blood,just like the vampires do. Twilight movies have spawned a new biting trend among tweens and teens. In fact, some teens even suck and lick each other's blood. It seems that they haven't learnedabout blood-borne diseases in school as yet.Here's one incident involving a real life wannabe vampire, that takes the cake. A 13-year-old in Des Moines, Iowa, took his twitard obsession too far, when he bit 11 of his classmates. His biting spree ended when he was caught by the police and sent to a juvenile correctional center. His 'tendencies' came to light when a teenage girl came forward and reported it to the school authorities.
Pushpa Duddukuri from www.buzzle.com
If you have spent a lot of time watching movies and TV shows that depict crime, then you would definitely know that crime does not pay.After all, the good guys almost always win on the celluloid screen. But what if we tell you that there are people who have taken the value lesson from these movies/shows and turned them upside down using their own version of logic; and recreated or got inspired by some of the reel life crimes. Here are some movies and TV shows that played their part in creating somebody's rap sheet.
Mission: Impossible
A vault. Cable drop. Rappelling from the ceiling. Suspended in the air. Did that jog your memory? Yes, we are referring to the iconic scene of Mission Impossible, where Tom Cruise breaks into a vault filled with lasers, and hacks into a computer while dangling on two ropes. If you think this scene had badassery worthy of Bruce Lee, you will agree that the real life copycat crime took its impeccability one notch up, by just being real.Here's the real deal: A man broke into a Florida pawn shop in 2009 in similar style. He managed this feat of breaking into the shop (which had pretty good security system in place) via the ceiling. Imitating all the skills of the Spider Man, he descended from the ceiling effortlessly with the help of a rope. Next, he quickly spotted what he was looking for, which was guns, and he made off with those weapons through the backdoor as the alarm went off. Though this daring act was captured on the CCTV cameras, the police couldn't make a positive identification of the burglar, as he was wearing a mask. Not an Ethan Hunt kind-of-a-mask, but a clichéd black skiing mask that has become a uniform for criminals. We are cutting down one point just for unoriginality in costume designing.
The Town
Ben Affleck's famed heist film, The Town, had romance set in between the violent backdrop of a robbery. Affleck, a.k.a the-guy-who-should-have-never-played-Daredevil, was inspired by some real life robberies that took place in Boston while he was shooting the film in that city. This, in turn, inspired him to incorporate MO of these crimes into his movie, which was dressing up as nuns and robbing a bank. The movie become a runaway hit. And so did the brilliant costume idea, which 'inspired' many amateur robbers into donning a nun's outfit and Halloween mask, and breaking into a bank.In the real life version of the crime, a Chicagoan couple copped the nun costume move from The Town for robbing a TCF Bank in Illinois. They were armed with handguns, and carried a duffel bag which they stuffed with $120,000, after forcing two bank employeesinto a vault. The partners in crime were later apprehended by the police. However, in true movie-style, the couple turned on each other and helped the prosecution make the case against them.
The Twilight Saga
We are not saying that Twilight is a bad film. May be a little bad. Keeping our critical analysis aside, we can say that the characters in these movies were not ideal role models for impressionable teens. This movie series inspired its fans to do pretty dramatic things, like writing fan-fiction stories, donning Emo clothes and makeup, obsessing about its lead actors, biting other people...eh... biting?Yes, that's right, biting. And when we say biting, we are not discoursing about a love bite or a hickey - reminder of your lover's passion. We are talking about a full-scale bite that draws out blood,just like the vampires do. Twilight movies have spawned a new biting trend among tweens and teens. In fact, some teens even suck and lick each other's blood. It seems that they haven't learnedabout blood-borne diseases in school as yet.Here's one incident involving a real life wannabe vampire, that takes the cake. A 13-year-old in Des Moines, Iowa, took his twitard obsession too far, when he bit 11 of his classmates. His biting spree ended when he was caught by the police and sent to a juvenile correctional center. His 'tendencies' came to light when a teenage girl came forward and reported it to the school authorities.
Pushpa Duddukuri from www.buzzle.com
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