The Bank Job

[rex]

I picked up The Bank Job today. It came with two discs, the second one labeled specifically for PC use only, saying it would not work in a console player. Great movie, BTW.

[TheMoose]

Originally Posted by rex

I picked up The Bank Job today. It came with two discs, the second one labeled specifically for PC use only, saying it would not work in a console player. Great movie, BTW.

The latest Rambo movie came with the same thing, I guess it would come in handy if you were on a trip & wanted to watch it on your laptop or PSP.

[rex]

That is right. The second disk is not a BD. It contains a digital copy of the movie (standard definition) for transfer to iPod or Windows Media Player. I had heard that some titles would provide digital copies for mobile viewing. They have to provide mobile copies since the industry claims it is illegal to make your own mobile copy. Personally, I feel that if you buy the movie, you should be able to manipulate it as you wish in order to view on the hardware of your choice.

[rex]

It has a very intriguing story, though how much of it is "true" is not at all clear:

"My film, The Bank Job, is about a 1971 London bank heist. It tells the story of an attempt to recover compromising pictures of a member of the British Royal family from a safe deposit box in a Lloyd's bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road in London. The reason this robbery has lived on in history is that the bank robbers were overheard by a ham radio operator as they communicated by walkie-talkie to their lookout on a nearby building. In making the film, I tried to get to the truth of what really happened with this robbery. The deeper I dug; the deeper I researched the subject, the more I was really unable to prove to myself conclusively what did happen. But what I did feel, and what I was able to commit to, as a filmmaker, was the spirit of the story; to portray as accurately as I could this particular theory of what had happened. Many details have been verified and others are impossible to prove or disprove. Some of the facts in the film have been changed in the interest of entertainment. True stories can never be true stories -- because you are always telling a story from a particular point of view. Journalists do this; photographers do this; documentary filmmakers do this, and we all do when we relay a memory from a unique point of view.

So, how much of a story is true? Well, it depends on who you ask...