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The new crime action movie "Bank Robbery" directed by David Leitch, the action director of "Bullet Train" and "Deadpool 2", subverts the traditional police movie gameplay. A group of robbers not only boldly commit crimes wearing animal masks, but also film each robbery and upload it to the Internet. They rely on crime to increase traffic and accidentally become Internet celebrities, but also attract police pursuit.

"Preparatory Bank Robbery Class" describes a group of robbers wearing animal masks who boldly commit crimes. The robbery process was also filmed and uploaded to the Internet, which generated astonishing traffic. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures)

In the film, Nicholas Holt leads a group of robbers, wearing wolf, rabbit, bear and other animal masks to commit crimes. Each bank robbery process is filmed, edited and uploaded to the Internet. As the number of crimes increases, the Internet popularity also increases.

The film also stars Zooey Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Peter Davison, John C. Reilly and other cast members, respectively playing the roles of a genius software engineer, a getaway driver, a member of the robbers and a senior FBI agent who pursues the case, making this Internet-famous criminal operation gradually evolve into a battle of wits between police and criminals.

In order to present the crazy world of these "Internet celebrity robbers", David Leitch specially designed two completely different image languages ​​​​for the film. When the characters return to real life, the film is shot extensively on 35mm film, deliberately retaining the grain, flaws and rough texture; but as soon as the robbery begins, the scene instantly switches to social images familiar to the Internet generation.

The crew even set up a "YouTube filming team" specifically to film robberies, using special equipment such as small cameras, aerial cameras, and 360-degree cameras to rush into the crime scene directly from the robber's own perspective. Even other community videos that appear in the film also have a dedicated production, editing and dynamic image team, so that each robbery is not just an action scene, but more like a video made by the characters themselves and ready to be uploaded to the Internet.

Anna Sawai played the role of a team escape driver in "Bank Robbery Class". She received stunt driving training for the role and personally challenged the 180-degree tail-flip. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures)

The actors also worked hard for the movie. Anna Sawai, who plays the role of the team's escape driver, received special stunt driving training. From the initial fear, she was even able to complete a 180-degree flick herself in the end; Lance Feliz, who played the technical expert Hugo, received weapons and stunt training, practicing overcoming obstacles and various action scenes.

The crew also moved a large number of chase and escape scenes to live shooting in Pittsburgh, using local bridges, rivers, railways and steep terrain to create action scenes. One of the large-scale riot scenes was filmed continuously for two weeks, with hundreds of extras mobilized every night. Even producer Kelly McCormick was surprised to say that she had never encountered such a large cast of extras before. After a whole night of filming, all the crew were able to return to continue filming the next day.

Talking about the reasons for filming the film, David Leitch revealed that instead of studying "how to rob a bank," he was more curious about "why would a person decide to rob a bank?" The protagonists in the film are not master thieves, but a group of ordinary people who work hard to live but cannot catch up with reality.

When work, debt and life pressure push people into a corner step by step, the act of robbing a bank that originally sounded crazy no longer seems so absurd under the pressure of reality. David Leitch admitted that this was what attracted him the most: "What happened to make robbing a bank sound like a reasonable plan?"

The movie also deliberately blurs the lines between good guys and bad guys. When robbers become idols sought after by millions of netizens, the law enforcement officers who pursue them begin to rethink the boundaries between justice and the system.

David Leitch bluntly said that he never wants to decide who is right and who is wrong for the audience: "If the audience is still debating the choices made by these characters on the way home after watching the movie, then we have succeeded." When a group of ordinary people begin to feel that "robbing a bank" is more reasonable than continuing to live by the rules, is it they or the rules of the game itself that really go wrong? "Bank Robbery" will be released in Taiwan this Friday (13th).

Highlights from "Preparatory Bank Robbery Class" "Wolf Pack":