Jean-Pierre Melville was a French filmmaker celebrated for some of France’s greatest crime films. Melville was an early hero to the champions of the French New Wave because of his aesthetic and is penchant for shooting on location with natural light. Godard drew a great deal of inspiration from ‘Bob le flambeur’ and Melville even had a cameo in Godard’s first feature film, ‘Breathless.’ Allegedly, it was Melville who suggested that Godard use jump cuts in the film which went on to be one of the film’s most memorable features.