The Sting

The Sting is a classic story of revenge for the death of a good friend.

Instead of the revenge being an eye for an eye, Hill has the leading

characters get their revenge by coning the ,man responsible for the death,

out of his money. Within the first ten minutes you are grabbed into the

film. Hill breaks the conformity of other films by making the leading

characters con-men. This is very different from other films because these

men should not be looked at as the good guys but just the opposite. George

Roy Hill's film The Sting uses many forms of irony in the setting of the

1920's Chicago to show the theme of revenge for a friends death.

Johnny Hooker played by Robert Redford is the main character in the film.

The irony in the film is that he is the 'good guy' and is also a gambling

addict and street con-man. Hill also uses other forms of irony, Henry

Gandorf played buy Paul Newman owns a gamblingwhore house which has a giant

carousal in the middle.

The film starts out quickly and keeps up the pace as it goes on. The

film is set up like a book its opening credits are shown over each page. The

film is also split up into chapters each with its own title. When the title

of the chapter shows up it looks like a piece of paper and is turned going

into the next scene. The movie is very clever, the plan for the sting is

very tricky and surprising to the viewer. Hill shows us most of the plan but

leaves out small parts for an ending surprise. Johnny and Henry are very

witty and smart, they make us like them from the very beginning and they keep

it up until the end. The two con-men meet on behalf of the death of a mutual

friend. Before Johnny's friend died he told him of a great man who could

teach him to work the big con. The great man is referring to Henry and the

big con is something larger that pickpocketing and small tricks.

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