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2[[caption-width-right:330:Hit or Bust![[labelnote:*]]Clockwise from the bottom left: Brook, Roronoa Zoro, Usopp, Nico Robin, Gild Tesoro, Franky, Vinsmoke Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, and Monkey D. Luffy.[[/labelnote]]]]
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4->''♫ One, two, three, kick off the beat, it's time to start the show.\
5Let's take it nice and slow.\
6Five, six, seven, are you ready to leave your cares behind?\
7Just let it all unwind.\
8An angel and a devil will open up the door.\
9They'll give you everything you want,\
10But keep you begging for more.\
11Like they say, life is a roulette, so let the money flow.\
12Gran Tesoro. ♫''
13-->-- "Gold & Jive ~ Silver Ocean"
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15''One Piece Film: Gold'' is the 13th film, and 3rd ''Film'' label, in the manga/anime series, ''Franchise/OnePiece''.
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17The movie sees the Straw Hats arriving at the Gran Tesoro, a cruise liner so huge it's considered its own nation, that houses a massive casino, run by the Gold Emperor, Gild Tesoro. However, what starts off as a simple stop for some R & R and extra dough turns serious when Tesoro puts the crew in his crosshairs and they quickly find out that Gran Tesoro houses a dark secret beneath its glitz and glamour, leading into a battle against Tesoro and the Gran Tesoro staff.
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19As with ''[[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Strong World]]'' and ''[[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Z]]'', Oda was on hand to help supervise the film. Also as with the aforementioned movies, first-time attenders in Japan received a special manga volume as a bonus; this time volume [[LuckySeven 777]] (as in Triple 7, not a literal volume 777). It also has a tie-in special anime episode, ''[[Recap/OnePieceTVSP11HeartOfGold Heart of Gold]]'', which aired on July 16th, 2016, as well as the usual tie-in anime filler arc, ''[[Recap/OnePieceSilverMineArc The Silver Mine arc]]''.
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21The film was released in Japan on July 23, 2016. In a major first for the series, the movie was also announced for numerous international releases (some nations dubbed and other using the original Japanese language with subtitles), including the United States. Eventually the U.S got a limited theatrical run of the movie from January 10-17 in 2017, complete with a fully English dub. This made ''Film Gold'' the fourth One Piece movie to be dubbed, following after ''Episode of Alabasta'', ''Strong World'', and ''Film: Z''.
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23A Blu-Ray release of the dub, along with an English version of "Heart of Gold," was released on May 2, 2017.
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25!!! Trailers
26* [[https://youtu.be/tbNIEwqmNMA The first teaser]]
27* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGkNJVBzZU The second one.]]
28* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zaKkTRs8Q8 First official trailer]]
29* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bxq2uGjeHU the second official trailer]]
30* And the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwPVKV0jEvc&t=34s Trailer for the English Dub]]
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32!! ''Film: Gold'' provides examples of:
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34* ActionPrologue: The movie begins with the Straw Hats arriving at Gran Tesoro and entering into a dock/arena of sorts as Tesoro is putting on a show. A rival pirate crew attack the Straw Hats just as they enter as well. Tesoro, seeing this, decides to make a show of it, putting the spotlight on the two ships as the Straw Hats defend themselves and we're given a roll call of the crew and their bounties at the current time of the story (which was post-Dressrosa).
35* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being announced in the film [[spoiler: Rob Lucci and Sabo barely appear and at best just have a brief battle outside the Gran Tesoro. They don't even interact with the Straw Hats. Likewise Koala has one scene in the film talking with Sabo]].
36* AllThereInTheManual: Tesoro's backstory is explained in the Volume 777 book. In the film you just get snippets of it during Tesoro's breakdown but not enough to really elaborate. This is especially troublesome for folks outside of Japan [[NoExportForYou where the book isn't available.]]
37* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Much of Gran Tesoro is built out of solid gold, a metal well known for being soft and a poor choice for making huge casinos out of. His power might be able to negate that though.
38* BadassBoast: After Tesoro uses his gold to make a giant golem of himself, he proclaims himself as a god. Luffy, however, shoots back...
39-->'''Luffy''': The last god I faced [[note]]presumably referring to Doflamingo, though likely Eneru as well[[/note]] couldn't beat me! And neither will you!
40* BadassInDistress: For a significant portion of the movie, Zoro is imprisoned by Gild Tesoro, the other Straw Hats needing to pay off the money they owe or else he'll be executed.
41* BananaPeel: Just one of the ways Baccarat's stolen luck manifests- causing people to slip on these.
42* BananaRepublic: A variant. Gran Tesoro is recognized by the World Government as an independent nation despite just being an overly massive ship and its leader, Gild Tesoro, is certainly corrupt as they come.
43* BerserkButton: Don't laugh in front of Tesoro unless he tells you to. Ever. ''He's'' the only one that can decide what is or isn't entertaining. [[spoiler:This is because of the World Noble who brutally enforced the same sort of standards on him in his youth.]]
44* BigBad: Gild Tesoro. In the Silver Mine arc and Heart of Gold special, he was a GreaterScopeVillain and [[ManBehindTheMan Bill's boss and Mad Treasure's client]].
45* BreakingTheFourthWall: A very rare example in the franchise. During his fight with Chopper & Brook against Baccarat, Usopp is flung from an explosion and [[CameraAbuse faceplants on the screen]].
46* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Near the climax, Luffy, struggling to get up after being hit by Tesoro, is suddenly confronted by [[spoiler:Spandam, one of the main antagonists from the Enies Lobby arc, who's naturally looking to get revenge on Luffy for spoiling his plans.]] Luffy, however, doesn't even remember the guy, much to his shock.
47* CallBack:
48** Just like Skypiea, Luffy's arms get stuck in gold by the BigBad.
49** It's not the first time the Straw Hats found themselves in a [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland popular vacation resort with a dark secret]].
50** It's not the first time the Straw Hats [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld dressed well, either]].
51* TheCameo: For some reason, Heracles (or at least a guy with a very similar-looking armor) is seen walking around the Gran Tesoro in the trailer. Also, [[spoiler: Sabo, Akainu, Doflamingo (apparently in flashback before his defeat as this film was released after the Dressrosa arc finished) ''Rob Lucci'' and ''Spandam'' make an appearance in the movie. Wanze (a minor mook from the Enies Lobby arc) and Absalom (from the Thriller Bark arc) have a few blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameos as well.]]
52* TheCaper: The second half of ''Gold'' focuses on this with the crew trying to pull off a heist to get the money to prevent Zoro's execution. [[spoiler: Or so we think...]]
53* TheCasino: The main setting of this film is the Gran Tesoro, a cruise liner which doubles as a huge casino city. It's virtually Las Vegas on a boat!
54* CasinoEpisode: The movie takes place on a casino-themed boat so large that it's considered its own country.
55* ColorMotif: The color yellow is everywhere, even having the word "gold" in the movie title. Yellow is a symbol of prosperity and wealth, and because the movie is set in a casino, gold is aplenty, enough to make the Gran Tesoro its own nation. However, yellow also represents greed (casino = gambling, as well as Tesoro's obsession with money) and caution (a darker side of Gran Tesoro; trailers hint at the presence of slaves and poverty, not to mention Tesoro being the movie's BigBad and an utter whackjob).
56* TheCon: The Straw Hats fall victim to a con when they get lured to come to the VIP area of the casino they're in and tricked into playing a game of Craps against the owner of the boat they are on, Guild Tesoro. After they end up losing (thanks to one of Guild's associates having a Devil Fruit power to steal luck), Guild reveals that everyone in the room, the workers and the guests, work for him and the whole thing was to put the Straw Hats under his debt.
57* CoolBoat: The Gran Tesoro is quite the [[http://i.imgur.com/KLc3BdL.jpg behemoth]], rivaling Moria's as one of the most massive ships in the series since it houses a city within it. It's even recognized by the World Government as its ''own nation''.
58* DarkAndTroubledPast: Tesoro's is given snippets within the film and explained in more detail in the Volume 777 book. [[spoiler: He came from a poor and abusive family and turned to a life of crime as he grew older until he met a slave girl name Stella. The two fell in love and Stella convinced Tesoro to go straight, to which he vowed to get the money to buy her freedom. But before he could, a World Noble brought her. He tried to stop him but in turned was likewise imprisoned as a slave as well. After weathering the World Noble's cruelty, he was freed by Fisher Tiger. However he found out that Stella had died during her servitude. This pretty much warped Tesoro's mind that money is the truest source of power in the world and, after swiping the Gold Gold fruit from Doflamnigo, he set about building his empire.]]
59* DeathByMaterialism: Gild Tesoro invokes this, citing that many treasure hunters met their ends against him trying to rob from his stash. What's more, those he doesn't kill are thrown down into an IronicHell of a prison where there is nothing but gold around them, but there's nothing to spend it on. Not even food or water.
60* DisproportionateRetribution: Because one of Tesoro's men dares to laugh at something in front of him without his permission, Tesero promptly encases the poor soul's head in gold until he suffocates.
61* DistressedDude: Zoro gets kidnapped by Tesoro near the start of the movie and spends most of it trapped in gold, with most of the story focused on trying to save him alongside getting back at Tesoro for swindling the Straw Hats.
62* ElementalCrafting: The henchmen/women's gold armor.
63* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Carina and Tesoro are introduced singing "Gold & Jive - Silver Ocean" in the opening.
64* EyelidPullTaunt: During the ActionPrologue, Nami pulls her eyelid and sticks her tongue out at several pirates who she'd just zapped.
65* {{Flashback}}: Brief ones in the film.
66** There's one involving Carina and Nami's last meeting which ended with Carina abandoning her and taking some gold she had hidden. [[spoiler: However it's later shown that Carina had actually saved her by acting as a decoy and luring her captors away from her.]]
67** And another that shows bits of Tesoro's past.
68* GamblingRuinsLives: Gild Tesoro's arc is about how he ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' traps people in debts. Bill did his deeds mostly to pay Tesoro. Tesoro traps people with the help of Baccarat with the power of [[WindsOfDestinyChange Lucky-Lucky Fruit]]. Gild Tesoro is himself a victim of gold and an obvious {{Expy}} of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology King Midas]].
69* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Carina is revealed a woman of strong moral fiber when it comes to the lives of her friends and innocent people, putting her safety on the line to work with the strawhats so they can take down Tesoro and free his slaves.]]
70* GratuitousEnglish: In addition to the various attacks, Tesoro is oddly fond of using English words or phrases, even counting in English during the opening song and his odd catchphrase of "it's entertainment!"
71* HellbentForLeather: New designs have the Straw Hats in [[http://i.imgur.com/gE8olKn.png variations of]] [[http://i.imgur.com/a74KYh8.png black leather outfits]].
72* IAmNotLeftHanded: During the fight with [[spoiler: Tanaka, Robin and Sanji look to be unable to stop the former at first. It turns out that Robin was simply hiding her devil fruit power at first, only bringing it out after Luffy asks her to catch Nami and Carina, after which she shows how easily she could have restrained Tanaka]].
73* IronicEcho: Tesoro mockingly tells the Straw Hats that getting deceived on the Gran Tesoro makes you a loser, and relishes seeing Zoro's hope turn into despair as he gets executed before his crewmates can rescue him. After he gets {{Outgambitted}}, Nami repeats his line about getting deceived and Zoro repeats his line about hope turning into despair.
74* IronicHell: Stated by Raise Max himself when Luffy and Franky end up a prisoner area of the ship which is surrounded by many golden trinkets. As there's no way out of the area and there's no food or water, there's nothing to spend the gold on and all that wealth is utterly meaningless.
75* KansasCityShuffle: TheCaper is a big one. They get Tesoro to believe they're trying to rob him blind when the real plan is to [[spoiler:connect the pipeline to seawater to mess up Tesoro's abilities and free Zoro]].
76* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Quite literally in this case. The characters note the Gran Tesoro is constantly covered in gold dust, initially brushing it off as just the appeal of the city. However, it turns out this is part of Tesoro's power due to being an awakened Devil Fruit user, which makes him extremely powerful as he practically has control over every inch of the ship, and everyone who's been in contact with the gold dust.
77* LaResistance: The Revolutionaries somewhat play a role in the movie. In addition to new non-canon member Raise Max being introduced, [[spoiler:Sabo and Koala]] make a return.
78* LateArrivalSpoiler: As it takes place after Dressrosa, it gives away that [[spoiler: Luffy managed to defeat Doflamingo and that Rob Lucci and Spandam are back in the CP unit, in this case [=CP0=] with the former now the latter's boss. Likewise that Sabo, Luffy's other adopted brother, is still alive and working in the Revolutionaries.]] As well as Luffy having gained [[spoiler: a new move: Gear Fourth]].
79* LoadBearingBoss: Once Tesoro is beaten, a countdown on the ship occurs which forces everyone to escape. [[spoiler: Though it turns out to be a trick by Carina to get everyone off the boat while she takes it. All that happens when the countdown reaches zero is fireworks going off to celebrate her victory.]]
80* MaleGaze: All over the movie. More than a few scenes featuring some of the lovely woman (implied to be paid concubines) Tesoro keeps around on his ship. Carina also deliberately puts some focus on her breasts to distract some guards midway into the film.
81* MoneyFetish: Tesoro really loves his gold, if having the power over it is any indication.
82* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The heist might've gone off without a hitch if Luffy hadn't idiotically got himself seen by the guards in the surveillance room. [[Film/MissionImpossible Ethan Hunt]], he isn't.
83** Later subverted -- [[spoiler:the Straw Hats are all fully aware their captain's an idiot. They were counting on him getting caught so they could enact their ''real'' plan.]]
84* NonSerialMovie: This film cannot fit anywhere in the manga or anime without continuity problems. [[spoiler:The most obvious example being that the crew have their bounties gained during Dressrosa but not those from Whole Cake Island, even though the crew were separated for the entire time between those two events]]. For extra confusion, the anime added [[Recap/OnePieceSilverMineArc a prequel story arc]] immediately after Dressrosa.
85* {{Outgambitted}}: When Nami's group goes to rob the vault after Luffy gets spotted. They open the vault door, only to find out [[spoiler:there was no vault; Tesoro was just giving them false hope before trapping them in gold and forcing them to watch Zoro's execution in front of a huge crowd of onlookers. He even anticipated Luffy and Franky making their way to the pump room below the ship to wash off his gold dust, trapping them there and apparently drowning them.]] It seems like a complete victory for Tesoro... until it's revealed that the crew [[spoiler:(sans Luffy as they didn't want him to spoil the real plan) ''knew'' all along it was a trap thanks to Carina warning them beforehand. They just played along to give Tesoro a false sense of security, allowing Franky to get to the water pump and jury-rig it to spray sea water over the ship, weakening Tesoro's gold power.]]
86* OverlyLongName: The captain of the Long Long Pirates has a... well, long name. So much so that he never finishes stating it before Luffy beats him.
87* PrecisionFStrike: Luffy surprisingly puts a spin on his usual catch phrase in the dub as he fires his final attack on Tesoro.
88-->'''Luffy''': I'm gonna be king of the ''damn'' pirates!
89* PaletteSwap: [[spoiler:Sabo and Koala's outfits are recolors of their Dressrosa outfits.]]
90* {{Prequel}}: The usual supplementary materials: This time we have the anime four-parter, ''Silver Mine arc''. A TV special, ''Heart of Gold'' (which sets up how the crew get the Vivre Card to Gran Tesoro) and the smartphone special, ''Gold: Episode 0'' (which, like ''Film Z'''s ''Glorious Island'', just sees the crew having fun on the Sunny before the start of the movie).
91* RedBaron: Tesoro is also known as the "Gold Emperor".
92* SharpDressedMan: Once the crew arrive at the Gran Tesoro, Baccarat welcomes them as honored guests and treats them to some spiffy new threads. Tesoro is impeccably dressed as well.
93* ShoutOut: Tesoro's henchmen's gold armors look a lot like [[Characters/SaintSeiyaGoldSaints Gold Clothes]].
94* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Carina. For a moment in the climax, it looked like she had betrayed the Straw Hats when they had walked into Tesoro's trap. But in reality she had tipped them off what Tesoro was planning, allowing them to catch Tesoro off guard and even the playing field in the final battle.]]
95* SpyCatsuit: Luffy and Franky wear some when the crew attempt to infiltrate Tesoro's vault. In the climax of the film, the rest of the crew wear spy like outfits.
96* ThemeMusicAbandonment: Kohei Tanaka and Shiro Hamaguchi's themes from the TV series and previous films aren't used in Yuki Hayashi's score.
97* ThemeNaming: Several characters and elements are named after Spanish words, gold-related stuff or casino terms:
98** Gild Tesoro's name incorporates "gild", which means to cover thinly with gold, and Tesoro, which means "treasure" in Spanish and Italian. His Devil Fruit is called the Goru Goru no Mi in Japanese, from "gold".
99** The Gran Tesoro's name literally means "great treasure". Fitting for a great casino ship.
100** Baccarat is named after a card game played in casinos.
101** Dice comes from, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, dice]].
102** Carina is Italian for "pretty". Fitting for a cute girl with a beautiful singing voice. It's also a play on "canary", fitting both her singing ability and Oda's tendency to name female characters after birds.
103* TopHeavyGuy: Dice. His upper body and arms are massive, but his legs are tiny in comparison.
104* TownWithADarkSecret: Boat, in this case. Gran Tesoro looks like a nice little getaway spot where people can just relax, have fun and win at the numerous casinos. But in truth, many of its patrons and staff are stuck in debt due to Tesoro swindling or tricking people into playing their games and causing them to lose (mostly due to Baccarat's power to change luck) and enslaving them to try to work it off with any minor transgression only furthering the debt. The Straw Hats even end up becoming a victim of this when Tesoro kidnaps Zoro and sets to have him executed unless they pay an outrageous sum to free him. There's also a prison deep within the bowels of the ship where prisoners are surrounded by gold but given no food or water and left to rot.
105* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: For those who did not pass the Dressrosa Arc, [[spoiler: the second official trailer spoils Sabo, Koala and Rob Lucci's return, as well as Luffy's Gear Fourth.]]
106* TrappedByGamblingDebts: most of the workers on the Gran Tesoro were former customers who ended up heavily in debt.
107* ATruceWhileWeGawk: In the climax, Tesoro unleashes his Gold Splash attack on Luffy which can be seen from outside the ship. [[spoiler:Lucci and Sabo, who were fighting a few moments before, halt their battle to watch before they ultimately stop when Tesoro lands on Lucci's Marine ship after Luffy defeats him and knocks him into the air.]]
108* WackyRacing: Luffy, Usopp and Chopper get into this at the start of the film when they participate in a event called "Hot Shell" which allows the competitors to attack each other.
109* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Both Nami and Robin in the opening of the movie. Also Carina in a pool scene with Tesoro.
110* WithMyHandsTied: When dropped into the prison area. The prisoners point out that the only exit is guarded by golden bats which no one has been able to get past. Luffy, whose arms are encased in gold from fighting Tesoro earlier, manages to beat up all of them easily.

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