{ "interaction_id": "09d72b50-ef69-48ff-948c-c52807389367", "search_results": [ { "page_name": "Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Plot - IMDb", "page_url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/plotsummary/", "page_snippet": "Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...Benedict owns 3 Las Vegas casino-hotels: the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand. All three casinos share one vault, and Ocean plans to assemble a crew to steal the vault money. Gang is blackjack dealer Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), right-hand man Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt). They threaten to blow up all the money unless Benedict lets them get away with half of it. Upon hearing this, Benedict calls 911 and asks for a S.W.A.T. team, but the team that responds, unbeknownst to Benedict, is the rest of Ocean's crew. (Livingston has hacked their phones and intercepts the 911 call.) Upon hearing this, Benedict calls 911 and asks for a S.W.A.T. team, but the team that responds, unbeknownst to Benedict, is the rest of Ocean's crew. (Livingston has hacked their phones and intercepts the 911 call.) Benedict complies with Rusty's demands knowing that the S.W.A.T. team is on the way. With half the \"money\" in the vault and half the \"money\" being driven away in a van, Benedict accepts his loss and focuses on catching the culprits by allowing the S.W.A.T. team to enter the vault under cover of darkness. Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team, including Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150 million.\u2014Film_Fan", "page_result": "Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Plot - IMDb
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  • Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
  • Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team, including Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150 million.\u2014Film_Fan
  • With an elaborate scheme to strike it rich etched on his mind, slick con artist Danny Ocean contacts his friend and right-hand man Rusty the day he gets out of prison. And eager to get to work, the two partners in crime assemble a hand-picked team of specialists to rinse the impenetrable vault of stone-faced Las Vegas casino magnate Terry Benedict--$150 million in cash from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand, to be precise. However, such a robbery attempt is without parallel in the annals of crime. Can Ocean's Eleven pull off the perfect heist and live to tell the tale?\u2014Nick Riganas
  • Recently paroled con artist Danny Ocean is a man who keeps his cool in situations unlikely to make any individual comfortable. No sooner does he violate his parole that he's traveling around the country gathering people for his next big scheme: to rob three casinos owned by the ever ruthless Terry Benedict. With the aid of a right hand man named Rusty, a thief out of retirement, a pickpocket, a card dealer, a surveillance man, a Chinese acrobat, an explosives expert, two frontmen, and a bitter casino mogul, they make up Ocean's eleven, out to make one very big score.\u2014MonkeyKingMA
  • Danny Ocean is a thief who has just been paroled from prison. He seeks out his partner, Rusty and he has a job. And it is to rob the vault that houses the cash of three casinos in Las Vegas. And he plans to rob it on a night when 150 million is in it. So they recruit nine guys and they begin to put Ocean's plan in motion. Everything is going well until Rusty discovers that Ocean's ex-wife, Tess is the main squeeze of Terry Benedict the (ruthless) owner of the casinos. Rusty asks him what is he going to do if he has to choose. But Ocean says that if his plan goes smoothly, he is going to be able to have his cake and eat it.\u2014rcs0411@yahoo.com

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  • Daniel Ocean (George Clooney) is a convicted thief. his wife, Tess Ocean (Julia Roberts), left him. Ocean is paroled from his New Jersey prison harboring dreams of revenge on Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the man who stole his ex-wife. Benedict owns 3 Las Vegas casino-hotels: the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand. All three casinos share one vault, and Ocean plans to assemble a crew to steal the vault money.

    Gang is blackjack dealer Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), right-hand man Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt). Rusty is skeptical of Danny's plan but pledges his support. The financier turns out to be the flamboyantly wealthy Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould). Reuben is not interested but changes his mind when he learns the target is Benedict, an old enemy of his. Daniel doesn't tell them that part of the reason is revenge against Terry who stole his wife.

    Frank Catton gets a transfer to one of Benedict's casinos in Las Vegas to serve as an inside man. The Malloy brothers, Turk (Scott Caan) and Virgil (Casey Affleck), are a humorous pair of car enthusiasts from Utah. In charge of the electronics is the anxious and jumpy Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison). Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) is Danny and Rusty's top choice for a demolitions man, but his other project and subsequent arrest require Rusty to rescue him from the cops, which he does by impersonating an arrogant ATF agent.

    In San Diego they find their "grease man" in Yen (Shaobo Qin), a circus acrobat. Then they guilt old-timer Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner) out of retirement in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bloom's role is to sneak explosives into the vault by posing as a crooked international arms dealer who needs a safe place to stash some "precious stones." With 10 people already committed, Danny goes to Chicago to recruit the young but highly skilled pickpocket Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), and "Ocean's 11" travels to Las Vegas to organize their scheme at Reuben's house. Danny believes they can grab over $150 million from Benedict's casinos on the night of a big boxing match.

    Linus is assigned to shadow Terry & he tells Rusty about Tess, which reveals Daniel's true motive to Rusty. He confronts Daniel who convinces Rusty that though personal, the heist is professional as well.\nDaniel meets Tess & professes his love for her before Terry arrives.\nDaniel is kicked off the team & Linus is asked to "trigger the vault", a show of respect he had been dying for, but now that the task is actually conferred upon him, he is nervous. As we find out later, the whole situation was created by Rusty and Danny to give Linus the opportunity to play a key role.

    To get close to the vault, Linus poses as an agent of the Nevada Gaming Commission who comes to Terry with evidence that the Bellagio is illegally employing a convicted criminal as a dealer. The criminal turns out to be inside man Frank Catton, who drags out the interview by accusing "agent" Linus of racism. Terry is so eager to get back to work after this meeting that when, on the way out, Linus claims to have left something behind in the conference room, Terry leaves Linus to show himself out -- which of course he doesn't. Meanwhile, Danny, hanging around the casino floor, angers the thugs Terry has assigned to watch him and they drag him off to a back room to be taught a lesson. The "teacher" is an even bigger thug with whom Danny has arranged a trick: the thug throws himself around the room and makes a lot of noise to convince the guys guarding the door that he's beating Danny up, while Danny exits through the duct-work to surprise Linus in an elevator on the way to the vault.

    Fight Night has arrived and, with everything going according to plan, the team prepares to make the robbery. In their replica of the vault, they recorded nothing happening. While Rusty, Saul, Turk, and Virgil distract the vault monitors in the security headquarters, Livingston taps into their computer systems so that all they see from then on is a peaceful vault with nothing happening, although it is not the real vault--just the replica.

    With everybody doing their part, Basher cuts power across the city by triggering a "pinch" -- a bomb like device that fries circuitry with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Danny and Linus break into the vault, with help from Yen waiting inside, all unseen by the video cameras. Rusty calls Terry to reveal that he is being robbed. Incredulous, Terry goes to his security center to find that nothing is happening, until the monitors switch and show the three men in the vault packing all the money into black carry bags marked with X's. In reality, the bags are filled with fliers, not money, per the plan.

    The robbers rig the "money" with explosives and split it into two parts. They threaten to blow up all the money unless Benedict lets them get away with half of it. Upon hearing this, Benedict calls 911 and asks for a S.W.A.T. team, but the team that responds, unbeknownst to Benedict, is the rest of Ocean's crew. (Livingston has hacked their phones and intercepts the 911 call.) Benedict complies with Rusty's demands knowing that the S.W.A.T. team is on the way.

    With half the "money" in the vault and half the "money" being driven away in a van, Benedict accepts his loss and focuses on catching the culprits by allowing the S.W.A.T. team to enter the vault under cover of darkness. In the dark, the crew stages a confrontation while they are actually loading the real money into bags. During this confrontation, the "money" explodes, and Benedict thinks he has lost everything, because the van in which the other half of the money was taken away has also blown up.\nHe comes down to the vault and talks with the S.W.A.T. team on their way out. Here he discovers that both bundles of exploding money were actually just fliers advertising prostitutes. The van was a remote-controlled decoy. He realizes that somebody made a duplicate of his vault, and that he just watched the S.W.A.T. team walk out with ALL of the money.

    Terry goes to confront Danny, rightly assuming that he is somehow responsible. Danny slips back into the room where he's supposedly receiving a beating just in time to meet Terry. While never admitting anything, Danny tells Terry that he can get the money back if he's willing to give up Tess, who is watching the scene on closed circuit TV in her hotel room. Terry agrees and Tess is furious.\nThree to six months later, Tess and Danny are reunited outside of the same New Jersey prison from which Danny was released.
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In 2001, a remake of the 1960 heist movie \"Ocean's Eleven\"\u00a0was released. This new take on the material is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Hollywood mega-stars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts. It tells the story of an impossible job carried out by a huge team of criminal experts who are looking to get rich and get Danny Ocean's wife back. The film proved to be so successful, it spawned two sequels and a spin-off.\u00a0

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Like most heist films, \"Ocean's Eleven\" features a crew with many colorful members and centers around a big, complicated plan with a lot of moving parts. If a single step goes wrong, everything will fall apart. While this leads to riveting entertainment, it can also get a little confusing. That's why we're here to examine all the major beats in the story\u00a0and its most critical character motivations, in order to clear up any lingering questions you may have regarding the thrilling climax of this thoroughly entertaining movie. This is the ending of \"Ocean's Eleven,\" explained.

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\"Ocean's Eleven\" opens with a parole hearing for Danny Ocean (George Clooney). We learn that he's been implicated in several crimes, but only ever caught for one \u2014 stealing Incan matrimonial masks. This tells us that Danny is a careful and calculating man who makes sure his name remains as clean as possible. The authorities ask why he committed this crime, and Danny says his wife left him, which sent him into a self-destructive spiral. When asked if he'll do anything like this again, he points out that his wife already left him once and isn't likely to do so again.

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Danny is released from prison and immediately gets to work planning his next heist. He meets up with some old colleagues: Blackjack dealer Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), who's operating under an assumed identity in order to keep working, and his partner, Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), who's spending his nights teaching poker to teen idols like Topher Grace and Joshua Jackson.

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Before he agrees to help, Rusty needs to know why Danny wants to pull such a big job immediately after regaining his freedom. Danny tells him it's because he just lost four years of his life, and Rusty is wasting his skills teaching cards to young Hollywood. They both deserve better than this. With that, Rusty agrees, and they start to put a crew together.

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The plan is to rob three Las Vegas casinos owned by a man named Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). In order to fund such a huge operation, the crew needs someone with disposable income. They go to Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), a very wealthy man who was forced to sell his casino to Benedict just so Benedict can tear it down and build his own monstrosity in its place. Reuben agrees to help out of a desire to punish this hated rival. Since they need drivers, they next turn to Utah residents Turk and Virgil Malloy (Scott Caan and Casey Affleck), whom they dub the Mormon Twins. They haven't had a job in so long, they're racing toy monster trucks against a real one just to keep from getting bored.\u00a0

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The crew grows swiftly from that point on. A tech guy named Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison) who's working for the FBI and hating it jumps on board. An Englishman named Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle)\u00a0agrees to take care of their explosives. Their greaseman arrives in the form of an acrobat named Yen (Shaobo Qin). A retired con man with ulcer problems is brought in to pose as a wealthy old man. And then there's Linus (Matt Damon), a pickpocket from Chicago, who will help them steal the codes to the casino's vaults. Once assembled in Reuben's house, the crew discusses the details of the heist.

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Although they'll be robbing three casinos, the crew only needs access to one vault. Below the Bellagio hotel and casino is a massive vault that holds all the money for the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand. These are all casinos owned by the ruthless and cautious Terry Benedict. Therefore, the vault is almost impenetrable.

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Danny explains that they have to get into an area called the cages, which leads to the interior of the vault. Once this is complete, they'll need to get through a series of doors. Each door has its own six-digit code, which changes every 12 hours. The elevator that takes one down to the outer doors of the vault requires fingerprint identification and vocal authorization to operate. The shaft of said elevator is rigged with lasers, which will detect anyone trying to climb down.

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If they manage to make it to the corridor leading to the vault, they'll have to contend with two armed guards and the most complicated vault door ever conceived by man. Basically, it's impossible. However, the heist is set for the night of a big boxing event, which means there will be roughly $160 million in cash down there. For that kind of score, they're willing to brave these myriad obstacles.

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Danny's ex-wife is a woman named Tess (Julia Roberts). As stated in the opening scene, he was so screwed up over losing her, he got caught on his last heist. We later learn that she left him because he kept his thievery a secret. She now considers him both a liar and a crook.

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Since their divorce, Tess has started dating Terry Benedict. This doesn't sit right with Danny. He surprises (or ambushes) her at dinner while she's waiting for her new beau and tells her that he can accept her moving on, but not with Terry. He doesn't like Terry one bit, and is convinced he's bad for her. She, obviously, doesn't care what he thinks. He asks if Terry makes her laugh. She retorts that he doesn't make her cry.

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Terry shows up and meets Danny for the first time. Danny makes his excuses and leaves. When Rusty discovers that Tess is with Terry (thanks to Linus following Terry and learning his schedule), he demands to know if this is the real reason Danny wants to do this job. Danny lies and says no. In actuality, of course, it is all about getting Tess back.

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Now streaming on Netflix, Ocean's Twelve ends with a chronological\u00a0twist that explains the main characters' true motivations. Steven Soderbergh's 2004 film begins\u00a0with\u00a0Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) plotting revenge on Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his team of thieves, who previously stole $16o million from the business mogul in Ocean's 11. The movie franchise is based on Lewis Milestone's original 1960 spy film starring \"The Rat Pack,\" otherwise known as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.

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In Ocean's Twelve,\u00a0Danny's team is tracked down by Benedict\u00a0and formulates a\u00a0plan to pay back their collective debts plus interest. They settle on an Amsterdam-based heist, which ultimately fails due to the secret maneuverings of a\u00a0world-class\u00a0thief known as the \"Night Fox.\" Europol Detective Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones)\u00a0investigates the crimes, and warns Danny and company about the dangers of upsetting the Night Fox, the protege of a legendary thief known only as\u00a0LeMarc. Ocean's Twelve's second act begins with Danny's team\u00a0learning that the Night Fox is actually a\u00a0Frenchman named\u00a0Baron Fran\u00e7ois Toulour (Vincent Cassel), who is angry about not being properly acknowledged by his mentor as the world's best thief. So,\u00a0a jealous Toulour attempts to boost his legacy through a friendly competition with Danny. The goal: to steal the Imperial Coronation Egg at Rome's fictional\u00a0Galleria D'Arte di Roma.

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The\u00a0final act of Ocean's Twelve begins with Julia Roberts' Tess Ocean being recruited to Rome to portray none other than...\u00a0Julia Roberts. Danny's crew attempts to create a distraction, which will allow them to steal the physical egg and leave a digital replica.\u00a0After several team members are arrested, it appears that Toulour has won the competition, and so Danny and his team don't receive the money they need to pay back\u00a0Benedict. In a final twist,\u00a0Tess and Danny reveal that Toulour actually stole a replica, and that Ocean's crew actually won the competition. Here's\u00a0a complete ending breakdown for Ocean's Twelve.

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In Ocean's Twelve, Toulour wants to embarrass Danny and impress his mentor, LeMarc. His long-con begins when LeMarc praises\u00a0Danny's Vegas heist (from\u00a0Ocean's Eleven) while speaking with an American colleague, but doesn't pay proper to respect to his own protege. Toulour then secretly\u00a0tips off Danny's team about a heist job in Amsterdam, which he plans to do himself, just so that he can show off. He then waits for the competition to approach him out of curiosity, which then allows him to present them with a challenge. If\u00a0Danny can somehow steal the Coronation Egg first, Toulour will cover the expenses owed to Benedict, and can guarantee the money through his friend LeMarc.

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Danny's long-con begins\u00a0six days before the Rome museum heist. In Paris, he and Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) meet with the mysterious LeMarc, who tips them off about Toulour's plans. So, for nearly a full week, the Ocean's crew is\u00a0already one step ahead of the competition. LeMarc informs them that the real egg will be carried on a back pack leaving Gare du Nord station en route to Rome.\u00a0Ocean's team then boards the train and creates a distraction, which allows Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) to steal the\u00a0egg among all the confusion and chaos by switching the backpacks.

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Midway through Ocean's Twelve, Isabel\u00a0reveals that LeMarc stole the Coronation Egg in 1980, which is significant because approximately two dozen attempts had failed. However, LeMarc's wife essentially made him\u00a0return\u00a0the loot. So, in Ocean's Twelve, the real egg is stolen to make up for a past mistake, all the while allowing LeMarc to collaborate with arguably the premiere thief in the world, Danny. In the process, LeMarc establishes the Night Fox as the actual\u00a0mark, a man who needs to have his ego checked. By the end of the film, the power dynamics are clear. LeMarc is the true master, Danny is the modern master, and LeMarc's reputation is damaged but not entirely destroyed.

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Danny's team knows that Toulour will be surveilling them constantly, so they follow through with \"a very elaborate show,\" at the request of LeMarc. They also need to confuse Isabel and somehow thwart her plans to arrest them. So, the\u00a0team initially plans to use a hologram egg replica, and their contrived performance\u00a0becomes even more absurd when Tess is asked to impersonate Julia Roberts. When the plan seemingly goes wrong and Isabel steps in to make her big arrest, it's revealed that the FBI agent in charge is actually Linus' mother, Molly (Cherry Jones).

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LeMarc is revealed to be Isabel's\u00a0father, portrayed by the late Albert Finney. Earlier in the film, Danny questions Rusty about why he's been talking to Isabel, a detective, and learns that her father was a thief. According to Rusty, the man\u00a0got \"popped\" the day before his daughter's ninth birthday, and later died in jail.\u00a0As an adult, Isabel ironically becomes\u00a0a LeMarc expert, perhaps because she wanted to better understand the mindset of her father that she never really knew. By the end of Ocean's Twelve, Isabel learns the truth after meeting LeMarc, her long-lost father, face to face.

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Danny Ocean and company beat the Night Fox in Ocean's Twelve by taking advantage of his egocentric behavior. Even before their Italian villa meeting, Danny is\u00a0already one step ahead after being tipped off by\u00a0LeMarc. From there, the Ocean's crew\u00a0just needs to\u00a0maintain appearances and go along with the show. Since Toulour already believes that he has won, he pranks Danny's team and watches them stumble along, or so it seems. From beginning to end,\u00a0the Night Fox lets personal pride affect his decisions. In collaboration with Danny's crew, LeMarc teaches his protege a proverbial and valuable lesson by reminding him that pride comes before the fall.

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I'm looking for a movie from about the early 2000s or late '90s. The only real part I remember is in relation to a robbery. The robbery I believe was in Venice (as can be deduced from below), the robbers wish to gain access to the house which has laser or some light beam security. They cannot redirect the beam because the angle they have through the window misses the target. They end up bypassing it by raising the building by putting airbags under the foundation columns which are under water (hence Venice) which gives them the correct angle to bypass the security. I cannot remember where this occurs within the movie, i.e. weather it is stretched across the whole movie or just the opening scene. I do think the movie is about robbery, like the Italian Job or Entrapment.

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I am 99% sure that the movie you are describing is Oceans 12 with George Clooney, Brad Pitt et al. You've almost perfectly described their attempted robbery of a building where they need to raise the building to fire something through a window to disable security.

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Easily miscontrued as The Italian Job, where they stole a safe by cutting a hole in the floor and having it land in a boat. That movie did take place in Venice, so you may have combined a few facts about the two movies in your mind. But, as iandotkelly pointed out, it was most likely Oceans 12.

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There\u2019s always going to be something compelling about a crew pulling off an elaborate theft onscreen. Heist movies have suspense, stakes, and conflict baked into the structure. It\u2019s why the format has survived and thrived well into the 21st century. (This weekend, in fact, sees the release of King of Thieves).

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But it wasn\u2019t easy: Over the last two decades, studio output evolved, homogenized, and pushed mid-market adult fare like crime and romance toward extinction. Yet the heist movie lasted for a variety of reasons, not least of all the fact that the template itself is alluring. In the movies, the characters pulling off these daring acts of grand theft aren\u2019t just gimme-your-wallet punks, but something more elevated. They have a clear goal, often one with a higher significance. They\u2019re problem solvers, usually smarter than the audiences they\u2019re daring to keep up. In short, characters in a heist movie are figures audiences can admire on the screen.

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Written by Ted Griffin and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the Ocean\u2019s Eleven remake was cool, fun, energetic, and had more stars than could reasonably fit on a poster. And in December of 2001, it was a massive hit, making $450 million worldwide and cracking the top ten domestic earners for the year, just ahead of Jurassic Park III. The ripple effect caused by the movie\u2019s success is undeniable; it went on to include much more than the two direct sequels and 2018\u2019s all-female side-quel, Ocean\u2019s Eight. In the eyes of the studios, Ocean\u2019s Eleven became the template for what a marketable and bankable heist movie should look like in the 21st century. But in the nearly 17 years since, that model has barely been updated.

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By the turn of the century, however, the cinematic crime wave was slowing down, and heist movies went with it. Movies like Donnie Brasco, The Big Hit, and the Stallone-starring Get Carter remake came and went without much notice. Most tellingly, Tarantino\u2019s 1997 effort, the underrated Jackie Brown, did less than half the business of Pulp Fiction in the States. As for the heist, the news wasn\u2019t much better; a David Mamet movie that was called Heist couldn\u2019t break even at the box office. Things didn\u2019t look great.

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Then Danny Ocean got out of prison.

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Soderbergh\u2019s Ocean\u2019s recaptured some of the Leonard verve from his previous Out of Sight and the same reverence for New Hollywood cool of the late \u201960s and early \u201970s, but it felt entirely fresh in 2001. The daring plan to rob three casinos at once is certainly dangerous, but Danny Ocean (Clooney) never really sweats it. His eyes are on recapturing the heart of his wife, played by Julia Roberts. More than anything Ocean\u2019s Eleven is a joy. These characters are likable and like each other. They seem to have fun doing their job. The same could be said for the actors onscreen.

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And the studios paid attention. Eleven\u2019s success coincided with a sea change in studio filmmaking. It hit theaters on December 7, 2001, less than a month after the first Harry Potter film and 12 days before Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. X-Men, the year before, and Spider-Man, the year after, form the foundation of what would become a full-on superhero wave by the end of the decade. The kinds of movies being put out by these major corporations were becoming less varied, and adult-focused fare, like crime films and rom-coms, was about to become more scarce.

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But Ocean\u2019s defied the calculations of studios that were starting to value intellectual property and brand awareness above all. Sure, there was the original Rat Pack film, but Ocean\u2019s wasn\u2019t a smash because of people\u2019s fond memories of Frank, Dean, and Sammy. It was that alchemical mix of genuine stars, confident filmmaking, and the ability to dazzle.

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What followed was a generation of movies looking to replicate its tone, with mixed success. A rash of heist movies followed that lifted the Ocean\u2019s-y setup (stars making sarcastic quips as they pulled off a low-stakes heist) followed. There\u2019s 2004\u2019s The Perfect Score, which follows pre-Marvel Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans attempting to steal SAT answers. The Italian Job and Going in Style also looked to the heist history for remake fodder. Now You See Me kept the Vegas and added magic tricks \u2014 sorry, illusions. Mad Money had the unlikely grouping of Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah ripping off the federal reserve. Tower Heist even brought in Ted Griffin himself as one of its writers. Marvel got in on the action and made a heist the centerpiece of Ant-Man. Edgar Wright\u2019s Baby Driver set itself apart with some stellar direction and pop scoring, but it was a movie that audiences were largely primed for due to the Ocean\u2019s trilogy.

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None of this is to say that these movies are bad or rote rip-offs by virtue of their riding Ocean\u2019s wake. But the trend points to an unmistakable shift: the industry deciding that a heist movie must conform to a certain tone. Unlike the violent crime films of the \u201990s, this crop was light, nonviolent, and jokey \u2014 material designed to find a home in all four quadrants. And as studios pumped out more and more of them, the genre by and large grew stale. Ironically, the Ocean\u2019s effect eventually came to claim the Ocean\u2019s franchise itself: By the time Warner Bros. rebooted the series with Ocean\u2019s Eight, audiences and critics seemed to have had enough. Though the film, receiving lukewarm reviews, made a respectable $140 million at the U.S. box office, the total marked a low for the series, once adjusted for inflation. (That figure, however, isn\u2019t adjusted for misogyny, which was undoubtedly a factor.)

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So what happened? The Sandra Bullock\u2013led side-quel had a killer cast, Soderbergh on as producer, and his good friend Gary Ross directing. It\u2019s fun, the performances are strong, everybody seems to get along. Rihanna plays a hacker named Nine Ball!

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The movie also completely lacked stakes. Never once does it feel like everything could go badly and that these people\u2019s lives would effectively be over. At least Eleven had Andy Garcia\u2019s Terry Benedict. The crew in Eight are just trying to rip off Cartier. The closest thing to an antagonist is played by human teddy bear James Corden. Ross\u2019s direction doesn\u2019t bring any style to it that wasn\u2019t already there in Eleven, 17 years earlier. The whole thing came off as a soulless re-creation of past successes with no desire to innovate or differentiate itself.

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While light capers became the dominant form of studio heist movies, a few grimmer yarns sneaked through elsewhere. Inside Man was a massive commercial hit for Spike Lee. People started to take Ben Affleck seriously again after The Town. And Hell or High Water notched four Oscar nods. Each of these movies has its own merits, but their accolades feel at least in part indebted to the fact that they went against the popular strain. Had they been released a generation ago, they may have been viewed as just another solid action flick, but nothing to call home (or the Academy) about.

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And then came Widows. The Steve McQueen\u2013directed BBC mini-series remake he wrote with Gillian Flynn won over critics, but flopped with audiences in such an extreme fashion that it\u2019s actually head-scratching. Here was a movie with an acting lineup so strong that to call it \u201cstar-studded\u201d seems weak. Widows is ambitious in its view of a modern Chicago \u2014 possibly overreaching at points \u2014 but its twists and design are meant for the mainstream. In theory, it\u2019s exactly the kind of movie that should\u2019ve re-reinvigorated the heist movie, breaking the mundanity of Ocean-ism circa 2018. Except it didn\u2019t.

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The financial disappointment of a movie can be picked apart infinitely, but in this case, a lot it seemed to come down to marketing \u2014 namely, the struggle to understand how to sell a heist movie with a social conscience from an Oscar-winning filmmaker. Or perhaps both audiences and studios simply forgot what a heist movie can be \u2014 that it isn\u2019t defined by a specific tone or style. When big-screen thefts have all been fun and games for nearly 20 years, the dire economic inequality of Chicago doesn\u2019t easily fit into that equation. A night at the Bellagio this wasn\u2019t.

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Ocean\u2019s happened to hit at the exact right time to convince the industry that the heist movie could still be profitable \u2014 and the wrongheaded notion that only heist movies like it could succeed. Of course, the genre is much too rich to be hemmed in by any one template, and it\u2019ll certainly outlive the trends of the day. Heist movies can be hilarious, depressing, gritty, light, anxiety-inducing, sexy, or none of the above. The only thing they really need is a crew, a job, and a plan.

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