Jeeves' Diary

Everyone lies, said Bertie…sorry, Dr. House. And a pretty lot of us just once in a lifetime met or dealt with people who appeared to be cheats and rogues …and, to be honest, not everyone of us could proudly say he/she has never been cheating – so others likewise may feel distrust to us because of our own falses…
As it could be traced in numerous books & movie, well-done swindling always had a bit of double and controversial evaluation in people's mind - the resentment first ( often after we ourselves have experienced it ), and an astonishment, second, of those who have not normally experienced it. It may explain, to some extent, the sympathy of potential victims to a character which, having a chance, would have victimized them without a single scruple. This could partly explain why successful + talented fictional criminals ( often having their real prototypes) are always felt sympathized for the artistry of swindling from that part of public who saw it in books or in movies, but unlikely would feel the same were it directed toward them.
Most phenomenal thing is, I think, when persons who previously had been badly suffered as a victim of any criminal action - and , moreover, are fighting it now due to some convictions, motive or duties – well, they paradoxically may feel delighted of mastership of criminal actions like these they actually had experienced …It is curious doubly when a criminal starts feeling the same sympathy to his enemy who, he/she knows, is to detect and reveal what he/she has commited. So they both start to respect and sympathize each other the more the longer their fight lasts, but… IS it virtually the fight, not a sophisticated theatrical performance to mutual enjoyment? Like one of two kung fu masters who are founders of two different schools, having different methods of fighting –that's why they need each other to demonstrate each other their skills as before they had been trained exactly to neutralize each other like + and -. Without one's life there is no point of other's…

I tnink it is an alter-ego manifestation of these types of personalities:
it could be happened the way that on a certain time span both of them had 50/50 propensity to good and evil, then, due to some event the equilibrium got shaken and one of them got a ever hero, another a malefactor. All of it happened in some moment X of both life cycle , so now they got the way they are, but if it COULD have been happened another way and one of two got in the other's circumstances he would have been acting exactly as other …They both know it, at least may subconsciously guess it. That's why these antagonists respect and sympathize each other. As both know: it could be me if I got once in your situation.

Most typical example I can adduce, of mutual hatred + respect for skilfull contra-performance, is a Sherlock Holmes vs Prof. Moriarty in Conan Doyle's books.
The second that I like most is Vincent Hanna vs Neil McCauley face-off in "Heat"


So what about artistry?
Saul Bloom of "Ocean's Eleven" as a psychological type mustbe most of one trust-worthy con men I have ever seen, if not the first-rated of them. I think so because I have watched a lot of movies about cheats
He's a perfect actor-in-actor I ever seen.

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This is just a movie, but in a real life, types of men like Saul, amazingly played by Carl Reiner, often so convincing that I am not sure I wouldn't trust him implicitly if I meet him and have a one-two hours talk with a little drink… even if I had already known who that man is I never dare to play with him poker as he is no doubt is a king of bluff.