Whether the reason for that is because many American comic book makers are not nearly as good at telling stories as they are just unconsciously reiterating the stories America tells itself I will leave to the courts to decide.Ĭatwoman is an inheritor to a pulp tradition that goes back, at least, to the French silent film serial Les Vampires. American comics do not have nearly as many heist stories, preferring to tell stories from the perspectives of the criminal’s opposite, the superhero or vigilante motivated to catch crooks. The heist movie, with its assembled crew of people with specialized roles to play within the process of misdirecting the authorities, neatly maps onto the collaborative-by-necessity nature of filmmaking. The criminal is affirmed as the hero of the story for how they charm everyone they meet, and each member of the audience delights in being made a mark, following along without knowing where things are going, only brought up to speed at the denouement.

From the perspective of a skilled storyteller, the appeal of the heist story is that the con artist is telling a story themself.

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