Not only Russia is rich in criminal talents. In all countries there are people who believe that an honest life is not what Mother Nature created them for. Let's talk about the dodger today . Who is this? Pretty interesting character for our article!
Value
The explanatory dictionary is indispensable in the linguistic search for truth, and he tells us that the word in question has two meanings:
- A cunning and clever deceiver, a fraudster who has professional status in this matter.
- A man who loves to cunning, to cunning. Value is conversational.
In the first meaning of "rogue" - this is a professional catch, no matter what it is called. Several images pop up in memory at once, for example, Count Cagliostro, Ostap Bender, Benya Krik, Chichikov, Khlestakov, Voland's retinue. Of course, there were real scammers who did not become heroes of fiction. But we don’t want to advertise to them, let's talk about synonyms.
Swap words
We partially touched upon the topic of synonyms when we defined the word “rogue”. You can verify this if you re-read the above. But for convenience, we will bring together all the already used ones and some new ones into a single list:
- swindler;
- beast;
- bug;
- rogue;
- scam;
- a fox;
- scammer;
- cheater;
- rogue;
- scoundrel;
- rogue;
- cunning;
- charlatan;
- a witch.
As we see, there are many types of deception, but there are also many synonyms for the concept of “dark deeds”. And that’s not all. We have chosen those that are used especially often. The reader, as usual, is free to add something of his own to this list. We will not mind. We turn to the most interesting - examples in literature and cinema.
Ostap Bender, Woland and his retinue
Already become almost synonymous with the definition of "rogue", "dodger" and the hero Ostap Bender. But so much has been said and written about the great combinator that writing something else probably does not make sense. Moreover, people know the books of Ilf and Petrov almost by heart.
But there is one curious connection that Dmitry Bykov emphasized in his lectures - this is the influence of Ilf and Petrov on the work of Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov. It is clear that the “Master and Margarita” even in tone is similar to “12 chairs” (meaning, of course, “Soviet” chapters). But another thing is more interesting: in the novel about Margarita, not only Koroviev and the Hippopotamus are crooks to look for. Ryukhin, Aloysy Mogarych, Styopa Likhodeev - they are all crooks and rogues.
Serious Woland and his retinue become only at the time of the ball. Until then, endless fun continues uninterrupted. Another thing is that Woland's humor is mostly black and evil. But the spirit of evil is not alien to nobility. It seems that life is joking with a person in the same tone as Woland with Soviet citizens: only a person thought that he was the owner of all the gifts of the world, as the next second he was on the street in his pants, and that's good.
So it is with life: it sets a person with ever new tasks so that he copes with them. Shakespeare once wrote that the world is a theater, and the people in it are actors, but if there is a performance, then there must be a spectator, right? And he should be interested. That is why life torments us, exposing its roguish character.
Top 10 scam movies
Once upon a time in one old Soviet film, which the reader will now easily recognize, it was said that in 20 years there will be no theater, no cinema, no books, there will be one continuous television. Fortunately, this did not happen. Cinema and books are still two equal forces, and television, on the contrary, is surrendering to the power of the Internet. According to recent data, some YouTube channels have overtaken the state in popularity. The character of the famous film clearly did not take into account the interference of high technologies, which then had no idea. It's all about the fact that the tastes of moviegoers are also worth satisfying. Not everyone can enjoy a classic book. So, a list of movies about rogue crooks:
- “Route 60” (2002).
- The Code of the Thief (2009).
- The Illusionist (2006).
- The Illusion of Deception (2013).
- "Otponye scammers" (1988).
- "Cheating" (1997).
- “How to Steal a Million” (1966).
- “Ripley's Game” (2002).
- “Cards, money, two trunks” (1998).
- The Big Jackpot (2000).
Here films are even presented about how the state is fraudulently leading its citizens by the nose (“Cheating”). The rest of the films are only related to the topic of deception. Of course, there are whole sagas about fraudsters, for example, Ocean Friends or Mission Impossible. But we think the reader will see them without us. The list contains those films that could have been thoroughly forgotten by the general public.
Someone perceives films better, someone else books. The main thing is to learn, learn new things every day, so as not to let the brain relax. The latter also needs loads and training. Today, the minimum is fulfilled: we have learned the meaning of the word “rogue”.