Train robbery

were times of legends, cowboys, train robberies, and valiant acts of courage. There are many different things you could discuss when talking about the Western era and I wanted to discuss the train robberies by comparing a film and a piece of artwork. Although both The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S Porter and “Wilcox Train Robbery” by Andy Thomas convey how the west was a place where you did what you had to do to survive.Edwin S Porter emphasizes the train robbery and how people would go to any length

The Great Train Robbery No crime in British history has ever come close to the Great Train Robbery. It shocked the people of Britain as well as Scotland Yard who were bewildered by just how well executed it was and how a group of convicts managed to pull it off. They would make off with little over £2.6 million in a raid that would take as little as 46 minutes to execute. But these petty criminals would soon learn the price of their deeds as they would get 378 years in jail between them. But with

The Great Train Robbery was one of the earliest silent films, made in 1903. The film begins with two masked robbers bursting into a railroad station office, and binding and gagging the railway dispatcher. From the very beginning The Great Train Robbery is off to a dramatic start. It instantly engages the viewer. A person viewing this film for the first time in 1903 would have been hooked from the start. The film is about twelve minutes long and has a fully developed narrative and distinguishable

a crime are sometimes not as clear as some may believe. In the Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton, Edward Pierce had complex motives for his crime. He was aware of how difficult the robbery would be, and decided to undergo the whole ordeal for that reason alone. Edward Pierce decided to commit the train robbery to know that he can succeed in completing a massive challenge few have attempted. Pierce chose to rob the train because of the difficulty of the task. He wanted to complete a challenge

In The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce is the most credible because of his intelligence and knowledge of all the social classes in London. Pierce is able to charm the wealthy into finding out information of the trains and the location of the keys. Pierce is the mastermind of the entire robbery and makes his plan patiently and is able to change them when setbacks happen. Pierce is able to trick Chokee Bill, a pawnbroker, into telling the authorities that he is heading to Greenwich when he is really

The unity of England after the events of Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton would not have happened if it were not for the bringing together of criminals of different societal backgrounds to execute the crime.   Pierce committed the great train robbery to push societal limits and obtain a reward to punish classist society.  The overarching concept exhibited in the book is unity and the downfall of a group when unity is lost.     The consolidation of criminals both common and unexpected constituted

Viktor Frankl argues that “man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.” Individuals agonize over how they will introduce themselves and make a mark of their existence. In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce organizes the crime not for the money but for the renown. Pierce’s abundant wealth, evidenced by his house in the affluent Mayfair area, eliminates the possibility of a monetary motive (Crichton 76). In fact, living in Mayfair proves

person may or may not follow through with an action depending on how much the motive drives the person. In The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, Edward Pierce has a motive for committing a very difficult crime. Pierce’s motive for committing this crime is to seek more power for himself. Even though he is already well-off, Pierce wants more power so he commits the train robbery. Pierce seeks power because he has already gotten a taste for it. Pierce is described as "a gentleman” because of “his

against one another and transforming life into a competition. It has allowed the human race to revamp its lifestyle and prosper. On the contrary, money has been the predominant motive for conflict, crimes, and war. Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery took place in Victorian England where money divided people between lavish wealth and dreadful poverty. Edward Pierce executed one of the most heinous crimes on the South Eastern Railway, stealing about £12,000 in gold bullion. In the way he formulated

The first movie theater, the Electric Theater, opened in Los Angeles. Lots of films are released like Alice in Wonderland, Life of an American Fireman, and The Great Train Robbery. Films that released in 1903 are regarded as a milestone in film history because of their unique ideas and camera works. Especially, The Great Train Robbery had inspired to modern movies by its camera movement, cross cutting, and innovative composite editing. Isabela Duncan, who was an American dancer and devoted her whole