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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hiding the money [[spoiler:in Bergdorf's coffin. His widow decides to cremate him, though noteably, her share of the money isn't in the coffin]].

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hiding the money [[spoiler:in Bergdorf's coffin. His coffin probably wasn't the smartest idea as his widow decides to cremate him, though noteably, her share of the money isn't in the coffin]].
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** After Creator/ShirleyMacLaine calls Creator/DeanMartin "Music/RickyNelson", he replies "I used to be Ricky Nelson but now I'm Music/PerryComo." In RealLife, early in his singing career, music critics used to derisively refer to Martin as a knockoff of Perry Como. In addition, Martin had just done ''Film/RioBravo'' with Nelson.

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** After Creator/ShirleyMacLaine calls Creator/DeanMartin "Music/RickyNelson", he replies "I used to be Ricky Nelson but now I'm Music/PerryComo.Perry Como." In RealLife, early in his singing career, music critics used to derisively refer to Martin as a knockoff of Perry Como. In addition, Martin had just done ''Film/RioBravo'' with Nelson.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Ocean's Eleven successfully pull off the heist and hand $10,000 (a not inconsiderate amount of money by Sixties standards) to Bergdorf's widow, but their own cut of the loot is cremated alongside Bergdorf's body]]. The film's closing credits play over them walking down a Las Vegas street, despondent.
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* OhCrap: All of the CaperCrew take a long time exchanging surprised/horrified looks when they finally notice that [[spoiler:Bergdorf's vigil is for his cremation and they can't do anything to prevent their loot [[BurnBabyBurn from becoming ashes]]].

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* OhCrap: All of the CaperCrew take a long time exchanging surprised/horrified looks when they finally notice that [[spoiler:Bergdorf's vigil is for his cremation and they can't do anything to prevent their loot [[BurnBabyBurn from becoming ashes]]].ashes]].]]
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* OhCrap: All of the CaperCrew take a long time exchanging surprised/horrified looks when they finally notice that [[spoiler:Bergdorf's vigil is for his cremation and they can't do anything to prevent their loot [[BurnBabyBurn from becoming ashes]]].
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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 [[TheCaper heist]] film directed by Lewis Milestone, which brings together five members of the Creator/RatPack (Creator/FrankSinatra, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/SammyDavisJr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop) as well as a [[AllStarCast whole mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 [[TheCaper heist]] film directed by Lewis Milestone, which brings together five members of the Creator/RatPack (Creator/FrankSinatra, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/SammyDavisJr, Peter Lawford, Creator/PeterLawford, Joey Bishop) as well as a [[AllStarCast whole mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
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** After Creator/ShirleyMacLaine calls Creator/DeanMartin "Ricky Nelson", he replies "I used to be Ricky Nelson but now I'm Music/PerryComo." In RealLife, early in his singing career, music critics used to derisively refer to Martin as a knock off of Perry Como. In addition, Martin had just done ''Film/RioBravo'' with Nelson.

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** After Creator/ShirleyMacLaine calls Creator/DeanMartin "Ricky Nelson", "Music/RickyNelson", he replies "I used to be Ricky Nelson but now I'm Music/PerryComo." In RealLife, early in his singing career, music critics used to derisively refer to Martin as a knock off knockoff of Perry Como. In addition, Martin had just done ''Film/RioBravo'' with Nelson.
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* BigBlackout: Part of the group's plan is to deliberately cause one of these in order to disable the casinos' security.
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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone which brought together five members of the Creator/RatPack (Creator/FrankSinatra, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/SammyDavisJr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop) as well as a [[AllStarCast whole mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist [[TheCaper heist]] film directed by Lewis Milestone Milestone, which brought brings together five members of the Creator/RatPack (Creator/FrankSinatra, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/SammyDavisJr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop) as well as a [[AllStarCast whole mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the Creator/RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[FromCamouflageToCriminal 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos]] at midnight on New Year's Eve. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone which brought together five members of the Creator/RatPack together (Creator/FrankSinatra, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/SammyDavisJr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop) as well as a [[AllStarCast whole mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Lawford) bring together a group of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[FromCamouflageToCriminal 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes purpose of [[FromCamouflageToCriminal robbing five Las Vegas Casinos]] casinos simultaneously]] at midnight on New Year's Eve. They Their plan is to to knock out the city city's electricity towers, and then rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, Santos (Creator/CesarRomero), shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.


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* ATasteOfDefeat: Discussed; Danny's wife left him because she couldn't stand to go on living on a "floating crap game", and when Sam awkwardly allows that they had "a little bad luck", she says that far from it, she wishes he ''had,'' because "a little bad luck might've made him realize what things can mean when you earn them."
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* SuspiciouslySpecificSermon: Right as [[spoiler:the money being burned]], the priest presiding over funeral service the crew is attending quotes Job 1:21: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
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Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos at midnight on New Year's Eve. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.

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Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of World War II UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[FromCamouflageToCriminal 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos Casinos]] at midnight on New Year's Eve. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.
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* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the money is burnt. Bergdorf is dead. They'll probably get arrested, but it was hilarious]].

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* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: ShaggyDogStory: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the money is burnt. Bergdorf is dead. They'll probably get arrested, but it was hilarious]].

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* ActorAllusion:
** Music/FrankSinatra identifies himself on the phone as "[[Film/GuysAndDolls Detective Lieutenant Brannigan"]].
** After Creator/ShirleyMacLaine calls Creator/DeanMartin "Ricky Nelson", he replies "I used to be Ricky Nelson but now I'm Music/PerryComo." In RealLife, early in his singing career, music critics used to derisively refer to Martin as a knock off of Perry Como. In addition, Martin had just done ''Film/RioBravo'' with Nelson.
** Peter Lawford's line about buying votes and going into politics is a reference to his involvement in the 1960 Presidential campaign of his brother-in-law, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
** When Sinatra, Lawford and Buddy Lester are in the Burlesque nightclub where Buddy works and Buddy's wife starts her strip act, the music she dances to is "The Tender Trap" - the theme song from Sinatra's 1955 movie of the same name.
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* ArtisticTitle: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnG3OjIcN8M&ab_channel=MovieTitles opening credits]] were created by Saul Bass.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The plan would have gone off perfectly with a getaway if only [[spoiler: Bergdorf hadn't suffered a fatal heart attack.]]
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* BadAssCrew: Danny Ocean's crew. Being World War II veterans, they know their stuff. Being from the same airborne division, they know each other.

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* BadAssCrew: BadassCrew: Danny Ocean's crew. Being World War II veterans, they know their stuff. Being from the same airborne division, they know each other.


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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack Creator/RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
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* AllStarCast: Five RatPack members as well as many other popular actors and actresses of the time.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around Las Vegas.

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''Ocean's 11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around Las Vegas.
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* VivaLasVegas
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-->-- '''Danny Ocean''', ''Ocean's 11''

'''''Ocean's 11''''' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around Las Vegas.

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-->-- '''Danny Ocean''', Ocean'''

''Ocean's 11''

'''''Ocean's 11'''''
11'' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around Las Vegas.



* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. The movie ends with them walking down the street, despondent. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now]].

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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. The movie ends with them walking down the street, despondent. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now]].



* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDogStory]]: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the money is burnt. Bergdorf is dead. They'll probably get arrested, but it was hilarious]].

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* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDogStory]]: ShootTheShaggyDogStory: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the money is burnt. Bergdorf is dead. They'll probably get arrested, but it was hilarious]].

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The crew walking despondently down the street, losing all the money]].



* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now]].

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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. The movie ends with them walking down the street, despondent. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The crew walking despondently down the street, losing all the money]].
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* CoffinContraband: Danny Ocean and his crew plan on smuggling back the money stolen from the Vegas casinos in a coffin. [[spoiler:Their plan is thwarted when the widow opts for cremation]].
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Most of you are probably [[AdaptationDisplacement more familiar]] with the [[OceansEleven 2001 remake]] and its sequels.

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Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos at midnight on New Years. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.

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Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos at midnight on New Years.Year's Eve. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.


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* VivaLasVegas
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* CelebrityParadox: At the end of the film, the cast walks past the Sands hotel, which has an advertisement for their entertainment: the cast. Dean Martin plays a singer, Sam Harmon, and nobody mentions how they look similar.

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* DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now.

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now.now]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hiding the money [[spoiler:in Bergdorf's coffin. His widow decides to cremate him, though noteably, her share of the money isn't in the coffin]].



* TrueCompanions: The team decide to take out a share for [[spoiler: Bergdorf's widow, instead of hiding it in the coffin with the rest. As a result, she is the only one to benefit from the heist after Bergdorf is cremated]]

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* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDogStory]]: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the money is burnt. Bergdorf is dead. They'll probably get arrested, but it was hilarious]].
* TrueCompanions: The team decide to take out a share for [[spoiler: Bergdorf's widow, instead of hiding it in the coffin with the rest. As a result, she is the only one to benefit from the heist after Bergdorf is cremated]]cremated]].
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->''"Why waste those cute little tricks that the Army taught us just because it's sort of peaceful now?"''
-->-- '''Danny Ocean''', ''Ocean's 11''

'''''Ocean's 11''''' is a 1960 heist film which brought five members of the RatPack together as well as a [[AllStarCast mess of other popular actors]] for a romp around Las Vegas.

Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster bring together a group of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans for the purposes of robbing five Las Vegas Casinos at midnight on New Years. They plan to knock out the city electricity towers, and rewire the casinos' automatic backup generators so that they will open instead of close the safes. Team members disguised as bellhops and waiters will then sneak out the money under cover of darkness before anyone knows what's happening. The highly trained team has nothing to fear... Until Foster's father-in-law to be, former gangster Duke Santos, shows up in Sin City on the eve of the heist.

Most of you are probably [[AdaptationDisplacement more familiar]] with the [[OceansEleven 2001 remake]] and its sequels.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AllStarCast: Five RatPack members as well as many other popular actors and actresses of the time.
* BadAssCrew: Danny Ocean's crew. Being World War II veterans, they know their stuff. Being from the same airborne division, they know each other.
* TheCaper
* CaperRationalization: Most members of the team have a reason for wanting all this money that at least they and their friends consider adequate. The fact that they aren't a typical criminal gang is also stressed near the end once the heist goes off, since their tight organization means that there's no underground information to be had about them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jimmy
* DownerEnding: The crew loses all their money when the container it was smuggled in, a coffin, is cremated. On the upside, they're not going to jail -- for now.
* TheNotableNumeral
* TrueCompanions: The team decide to take out a share for [[spoiler: Bergdorf's widow, instead of hiding it in the coffin with the rest. As a result, she is the only one to benefit from the heist after Bergdorf is cremated]]
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