Why did Thomas donate the Pizzaro?
What was the point of loaning it to the museum?
shareDid you watch movie ? (Watch it again !)
Pizarro was fake and just mask for stolen Rembrandt !
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I came here to ask that very same question! And a couple others too...
Did he really donate the Pizarro with the plan of revealing the Rembrandt, regardless of meeting Rene Russo? Revealing himself to be a felon without even alluding to the reason why he'd give up his entire life? I as a viewer had assumed he was only running away at the end of the movie because he found "an equal" that he loved in Rene Russo.
Well I was just watching this movie for the millionth time and, for the first time, I found myself asking, Did Thomas Crown know of Catherine Banning before he planned the Rembrandt heist? Did he expect and knowingly set in motion a plan so that they would meet?
If so, that would help explain why Crown hired crooks who spoke Romanian, a language that Banning spoke fluently (to her benefit). And why he didn't bid anonymously on that long list of Rembrandts that he purchased legally that led to him being the lead suspect. And it reminds me of that line Banning said at breakfast, the morning after he slept with her, "Damn, I hate being a foregone conclusion".
I'm kind of blowing my own mind here while I think about it. I'd love to hear some other opinions or feedback on this.
Good theory. With the information he was able to obtain, he could certainly know the insurer, and know who they were most likely to send as an investigator.
He's just lucky they didn't send Banacek!
Id say
Thomas decided to return the painting since he saw it hanging in his wall so when he gave the fake Pizarro happened he just met Katherine and went all with the flow since she told him she was after him.
Maybe it was just a funny joke since the very beginning and with this joke he met Katherine and gave her the chace she wanted. Thier first dinner says everything.
They first meet and makes a challenge then he invites her to their date and talk about being bored and how she wasn't in it for the money and he tells her you like the chace and from that on he just went to flow and he gave her the thrill of chasing someone.
It wasn't Rembrandt. It was a Monet
shareWhat was the point of loaning it to the museum?
The thrill of the heist and the satisfaction of knowing the piece was returned unbeknownst virtually everyone meant more to him than the actual Monet. share
Itsda has nailed it: the whole story, all of it, from the beginning was a set up specifically to win Rene Russo's character.
Thomas had learned of her, fallen in love with her, and set up the heists to draw her attention, and then every single thing that he did was designed to draw her undivided attention. He was a big risk taker, but not when it came to stealing paintings (note that he returned everything as soon as he'd taken it), but in the matters of the heart.