Film Analysis

The Italian Job

Ordinary World - John is dead and his daughter, stella, is cracks safes for the FBI. Charlie, Left Ear, Handsome Rob, and Lyle continue to stay in contact as much as possible.

Call to Adventure - Charlie gets intel that the person that killed Stella's dad has changed his name to Steve Frazelli. He gets the group back together hoping to get revenge.

Refusal - Stella doesn't want to go after Steve. She says that it was in the past and it doesn't matter anymore.

Mentor - Stella chose on her own to get revenge. I guess in this case it could be her own conscience.

Threshold - The meeting and introduction of the crew. When they get their fake ID's.

Tests, Allies, Enemies - Finding a way to see the inside of Steve's house. How to get in to his house without the police showing up. They have to find a way to get the cable company van. Handsome Rob goes with his favorite solution. A party at Steve's neighbor's house makes it so that they can't pull off the heist. There will be too many witnesses. The motorcycle escorts were always causing them problems. "It's a shell game." Steve uses three trucks to get his gold out. Steve switches safes on them. Steve asks Stella, the cable company worker, out to dinner and finds out her real identity.

Approach - They want to do the heist but when they drive past they see that their neighbor is having a party and there will be too many witnesses. Stella has to go on a date with Steve because he is waiting for her. Charlie is hoping that Stella will make a good impression so she can stand him up at another date while the rest of the crew pulls the heist.

Ordeal - Steve figures out about the whole thing when he figures out Stella's true identity. Charlie has to steal the gold while Steve has a plan of his own to move the gold to mexico. He decides to go with his plan and try to steal the gold.

Reward - Everything works and they now have the armored car in a subway tunnel all to themselves. The only thing left is to open the safe.

The Road Back - Stella tells them that he changed safes to make is harder to crack. She doubts that she can do it but Charlie helps boost her confidence.

Resurrection - They get the gold and are chased by Steve in a private helicopter. Two of the mini coopers make it to the train station but charlie is chased by Steve. Charlie makes it to the train station and even though Steve tries to bribe the train loader Charlie already has everything planned out.

Returned with Elixir - Charlie and his crew make it out without a scratch and 27 million dollars richer. They leave on the train without being caught.