OVER BLACK SCENE CARD
Catch Me If You Can Makes Fraud a Status Performance
The fraud works because costume is only half the con. Frank survives by performing institutional language until strangers enforce the identity for him.
Why it works
Airlines, hospitals, schools, and courts become stages where status can be borrowed. The chase is a grammar lesson in how institutions recognize authority.
craft_lanes
dialogue as leveragecrime governanceprestige identity collapse
arena
airplanehoteloffice
institution
fbiairlinelegal system
pressure
identitystatusproof
violation
identity reversalfalse read
cost
truthfamilyfreedom
dialogue_function
misdirectionstatus testprocedural exposition
character_entrance
contradiction
turn_mechanic
story becomes weaponinformation reprices scene
setpiece_type
heistpursuit
body_logic
visibility object
myth_object
case file