Useless Movie Trivia For
Ocean's 11
Memorable Movie Quotes
Reuben: You guys are pros. The best. I'm sure you can make it out of the casino. Of course, lest we forget, once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the fucking desert!
Terry: All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you're a dead man.
Tess: You're a thief and a liar.
Danny: I only lied about being a thief, I don't do that anymore.
Reuben: I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris!
Basher: It will be nice working with proper villains again!
Linus: Apparently, he's got a record longer than my... well, it's long.
Danny: I'm not sure what four nines does, but the ace, I think, is pretty high.
Tess: You of all people should know Terry, in your hotel, there's always someone watching.
Trivia
Matt Damon's part as the pick pocket was meant for Mark Wahlberg.
The house used as Ruben Tishkoff's home is in Palm Springs, California. It was designed by architect Quincy Jones and was originally built by a Chicago family. Warner Brothers paid $200,000 for its use in the film.
George Clooney had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room.
Henry Silva and Angie Dickinson, who both appeared in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), make cameo appearances during the fight scene.
Shaobo Qin builds a house of cards on the diving board. Joey Bishop and Akim Tamiroff built a house of cards in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960).
Sammy Davis Jr. appeared in the original version of this film. Don Cheadle, who appears in this version, played Davis in The Rat Pack.
Stephen Carpenter wrote the original draft of the screenplay.
Matt Damon punches "1138" on a elevator keypad as a homage to George Lucas's first movie THX 1138.
The scene of everyone standing around watching the Bellagio fountain and leaving was improvised. The actors were told to line up and depart in whatever order felt natural.
Brad Pitt wears a fire tattoo on his left arm. George Clooney sported the same tattoo in From Dusk Till Dawn.
Don Cheadle receives no credit.
In nearly every scene Rusty's in, he's eating something. According to Brad Pitt, this is because the whole gang (his character in particular) would be so busy that they'd rarely be able to eat; it was decided that Rusty would just eat all the time. He first mentioned this when he was eating after having worked all day without a break for lunch and was hungry, because he thought it would be a good character trait for Rusty Ryan as well. This leads to a gag at the end of the film where Rusty gets heartburn and throws the food away.
Terry Benedict is heard on the phone refusing the request of a "Mr. Levin" to attend the prizefight ringside, saying he should instead watch it on cable TV as "surely he must have HBO." In real life, Gerald Levin is chairman of Time-Warner, of which HBO is a subsidiary, as is Warner Brothers, the film's distributor.
The password, "Ia vas liubliu", that Carl Reiner's character (Saul Bloom) gives to the courier with the briefcase is the same Russian phrase that Charles Bronson's character (Flight. Lt. Danny 'The Tunnel King' Velinski) taught to 'James Coburn''s character (Flying Officer Louis 'The Manufacturer' Sedgwick) in The Great Escape (1963). It translates as "I love you".
There is a scene in the trailer in which Danny asks the parole-board members how much they earn a year. This was cut from the movie because the director talked to some actual parole-board members and they all agreed that if a prospective parolee were to make that comment, he'd be denied parole.
The "pinch" that Basher uses to knock out Las Vegas's power is based on a device called the z-pinch, which creates a burst of energy (mostly x-rays) by using a magnetic field that "pinches" a column of charged gas particles. However, the movie departs from science in several ways: first, a real z-pinch is much too large to fit in the back of a van; second, a pinch can't create energy out of nowhere, and would need a power source much greater than Basher's "score of car batteries" or anything that would fit inside a van; third, even with such a power source, the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by a real z-pinch is barely powerful enough to knock out an electronic device across a room. In fact, under current science, the only thing capable of generating a city-wide EMP is a genuine nuclear explosion.
Andy Garcia's line to Brad Pitt, "If you should be picked up buying a $100,000 sports car in Newport Beach, I'm going to be extremely disappointed," is in reference to the kidnapping of Steve Wynn's daughter, Kevyn. The kidnappers were caught trying to spend some of the ransom money in Newport Beach as they attempted to buy a very expensive car in cash.
The boxing match that takes place in the MGM Grand is between Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. These two have never fought, but on June 21, 2003, Lewis fought Vladimir's older brother, Vitali Klitschko.
When the security guard takes the cart and briefcase into the vault elevator, the computer ID scan shows his names as Joseph Coyle. This is a reference to the real-life Joey Coyle, who found 1.2 million dollars that had fallen off an armored car and attempted to keep it. Coyle's story was made into the film Money for Nothing (1993) starring John Cusack.
In the scene where Rusty is teaching the celebrities to play poker, Joshua Jackson can be seen playing with the skull-ring he wore in the film The Skulls.
The wig used by Rusty (Brad Pitt) in his disguise as a doctor was Mike Myers's rehearsal wig for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
During the several takes it took to shoot the scene in which Rusty and Linus are spying on Tess as she is introduced coming down the stairs, Brad Pitt, who plays Rusty eating shrimps from a shrimp cocktail, ate 40 shrimps.
The script was sent to Julia Roberts with a $20 bill attached. Included was a note from George Clooney that said "I hear you're getting 20 a picture now". This of course is a joke referencing Julia Roberts becoming the highest paid actress at $20 million per picture.
The painting Terry Benedict and Tess evaluate is a replica of Pablo Picasso's Woman with a Guitar, painted in March, 1914 in Paris, France. The original is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York.
2,000 extras were used during the filming of the boxing match scenes.
Voted #500 on Empire magazine's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time.
Goofs
The camera and operator are reflected in the narrow mirror at Reuben Tishkoff's house as the gang discusses the robbery.
Chain attached to briefcase is longer when in the vault then when it is transferred to Saul. When Yen opens money cart in vault and briefcase slides off, the chain is longer and the briefcase goes a lot further over the side of the cart.
When Turk is racing Virgil's R/C truck, the raceway that they are on is a rounded track. But in shots from the back of the truck race appear, they are racing on a long desert road.
When Mr. Benedict tells the security guy to cut the power, you can see the power go off on the computer screen a few seconds before the security guy presses the button on the computer.
During the scene in which Danny explains the security of the Bellagio vault a map is displayed on the screen which shows a portion of the Las Vegas strip. It is incorrect in that it places the MGM Grand casino in the place where the Aladdin (now Planet Hollywood) casino should be. If the MGM Grand were placed in its correct position, it would be partially off the screen.
Danny Ocean says that Nevada Gaming Commission regulations require casinos to have enough cash in their vaults to cover every cent in play on the floor. In fact, no such regulation exists.
The $100 dollar bill is currently the largest US note in circulation (and has been since the sixties). One million dollars in $100 bills (10,000 notes) weighs about 22 pounds according to the US Treasury Dept web site. Therefore $160MM dollars would weight about 3,520 pounds. There is no way eight people could carry that much weight in canvas bags in one trip from the vault to the SWAT van.
Danny supposed to get a really bad beating. But when Benedict goes to see him after he's been robbed, Danny is hardly out of breath, there's not a mark on him and only his shirt is no longer tucked in, yet Benedict and the two guards don't find this at all suspicious.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $85,000,000
$38,107,822 (USA) (9 December 2001) (3,075 Screens)
Gross: $183,405,771
Filming Dates: February 10, 2001 to June 24, 2001.
Filming Locations
999 N Patencio, Palm Springs, California, USA
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Bellagio Casino & Hotel - 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deep Nightclub - 1707 N. Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
East Jersey State Prison, Avenel, New Jersey, USA
Infinite Horizon Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA
(Casino Vault and Casino interiers) (studio)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Orlando, Florida, USA
Santa Monica, California, USA
(Ocean and Ryan meeting at the beach park)
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
The Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
(Casino Offices and Rooms) (studio)
Universal Studios Florida, Universal Orlando Resort - 1000 Universal Studios Plaza, Orlando, Florida, USA
(Casino interior) (studio)
University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA