Character Analysis Of Fletch

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Fletch
Fletch is an older movie, making it a little harder to find. This movies main character is Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a Los Angeles journalist who is played by Chevy Chase. This movie is great, it has a hysterical story line full of crimes waiting to be committed. He writes his stories for the herald as “Jane Doe”, generally because he publishes articles that cause trouble for others who play important roles in the community. When he investigates, he really lives his character. This movie begins by Fletch dressing up as a beach bum in an attempt to uncover drug trade. He doesn’t even return home at the end of the day, he lives at the beach to really “be” his character. While doing his “undercover operation” Fletch encounters a man who is very businesslike, which is where the storyline begins. Alan Stanwyk, is the character of the businessman in the movie, who asks him, (Fletch), the bum, a favor. For the sum of fifty thousand dollars, he solicits Fletch to kill him. Mr. Stanwyk presents himself to be a poor cancer-ridden man and wishes to be killed with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. Fletch is a “real investigator”, pun intended. Fletch returns to his normal life, and instantly starts research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself, but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah. Fletch is being sure there is more to find and does his own investigation of the situation. There are a couple things I found in this movie that show Fletch and others committing multiple offenses. The most conspicuous offenses being committed were the solicitation and conspiracy to comm...

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...ng away of someone else's property without the consent of the owner and with the intent to deprive the owner of the property permanently, Fletch knowingly takes both food and drink from Mr. Underhill, without intent of paying it back or giving it to Mr. Underhill.
The next scene I found criminal elements was from Fletch, when on the beach there are police officers who are attempting to arrest a black man, this is where I think Fletch could be charged with interfering or obstructing justice. When he goes to the scene of the arrest and tries to stop the police from beating this man. The police officers are exercising excessive force, but he was at this point “obstructing justice”. The next crime occurs in the end of this scene when Fletch throws a rock at the police officers car. The window shatters from Fletch’s attempt to bring them back to the scene, which could

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