Episode 19: Ocean's Eleven

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses the importance of perspective when revealing information, what constitutes "lying to the audience," and how Ocean's 11 is just so freaking cool.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we are talking about Oceans 11, the 2001
0:12.4	Steven Soderberg film. I'm joined by the Lessons from the Screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand.
0:17.8	Hello, everyone. Writer Brian Bittner. Hello. And editor Alex Cayeros.
0:22.2	Hello.
0:23.1	So Oceans 11 is one of my favorite movies.
0:26.0	I think maybe it's the first heist movie I saw, but I immediately then became obsessed with
0:31.2	heist movies and wanting to both make them, but also be in them.
0:35.0	I want to just be George Clooney wearing a suit coming up an escalator in that one shot.
0:40.0	Of course.
0:40.6	Everybody does.
0:41.4	Right.
0:41.7	It's so much fun.
0:43.1	And it might have been my first Steven Soderberg movie that I saw.
0:46.2	Wow.
0:46.9	But there's just so many things I love about this movie, the style, and the energy of it and the cast, and the meta-humor is just so up my alley.
0:55.7	So I want to talk about all these things.
0:58.1	But I'm curious for you guys.
0:59.3	Did you guys get to see this in theaters?
1:01.0	What was your first experience with this?
1:03.4	I saw this in the movie theater.
1:04.8	I already was a heist movie fan.
1:08.1	So my dad was obsessed with The Sting, which is like the most dad movie ever.
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