Differences From The 1968 Film
The film makes several major changes from the original, most notably the ending. In the original, the insurance investigator betrays Crown but he escapes, saddened that she did not join him. In the remake, after the betrayal and the realization that her jealousy of Anna Knutzhorn was unfounded, she unsuccessfully attempts to join him. Her sadness is short-lived as he surprises her by being on her scheduled plane trip home.
There was no painting stolen in the first film, with Crown and his men instead stealing $2.6 million in cash from a bank. The change was based on the idea that the more tumultuous society of the time would be less inclined to sympathise with a man who committed armed robbery out of boredom.
Faye Dunaway, who played the insurance investigator in the 1968 film, plays a small, cameo-like role in this one as Thomas Crown's psychologist.
The original story took place in Boston, not New York.
Steve McQueen's version of Thomas Crown has no physical involvement in the actual robbery; he merely plans it. Pierce Brosnan's version steals the painting himself.
Read more about this topic: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 Film)
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