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Why, again, does everyone assume that George Clooney and Brad Pitt are such great pals?

It's not because they rose upwardly through the Hollywood ranks together, starting with Handsome Preschool. Rather, it'southward because of the bonhomie on display in the ever-enjoyable Ocean'southward movies—star-studded heist flicks that grew bigger with every sequel, all three directed past Steven Soderbergh and populated by goodhearted career criminals having manner more fun than your average law-abiding denizen.

Ocean'due south 11, introducing Clooney every bit ringleader Danny Body of water; Pitt as his e'er-snacking, right-hand guy Rusty; Matt Damon as a talented pickpocket who'due south still to tap into his full potential for thievery; and many more hit theaters 20 years ago, cinematic proof that you cannot have too much of a good thing when the finished production is pulled off equally handily as the get-go offering in the trilogy.

On start watch, 2004'southOcean'south Twelvewasn't as good every bit the original thanks to an even more outlandish plot not equally much time spent on the fellas bonding, but over the years we've come to capeesh the slick wink-wink of it all, including the whole meta pregnant Julia Roberts moment that was written in to accommodate the moving picture star's real life expectant status.

Plus, the largely Amsterdam-set flick is simply gorgeous to sentry.

Even more screen legends joined the fun for 2007'south Ocean's Thirteen, and anytime you roll the die and addAl Pacinoto the mix, interesting stuff is bound to happen.

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And so without further adieu, a fiddling less conversation, and hither are 20 things to know about theOcean'sfranchise:

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Rat Pack Roots

The originalOcean's 11from 1960 starred Frank Sinatra and swain Rat Pack members Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, too as lady-of-the-pack Angie Dickinson—and it's famously not that peachy, the only magic still lingering to this mean solar day emanating mainly from the pop-cultural momentousness of it all, equally information technology was their first picture show in which they all appeared together.

That super-cool vibe, however, was alive and well in the remake.

"When I say Ocean'southward Eleven is a throwback to an earlier menstruation in cinema," director Steven Soderbergh explained, "I mean that the picture show is never mean, information technology'due south never complimentary, nobody is killed, nobody is humiliated for no reason or is the butt of a joke. It'south probably the least threatening film I've always made in a way. That was conscious on my part. I wanted it to be a sort of light entertainment and I didn't recall darker or meaner ideas had a place in a movie like this. I wanted information technology to be sparkling."

Dickinson and Henry Silva, also in the original, have blink-and-you-miss-'em cameos when fight night gets underway at the MGM One thousand, a scene that also features existent-deal boxersLennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko.

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We've Heard Good Things

Matt Damon said in 2001 that he was drawn toOcean's Eleven so he could work with Soderbergh, who was psyched to bring the script past Ted Griffins to life.

"People like Soderbergh, you know you're in great hands," added Pitt.

By the fourth dimension Ocean'south Xicame out, Soderbergh was the reining Best Manager Oscar winner for 2000'sTrafficand the only person ever nominated twice in one year in that category, the other nod coming forErin Brockovich.

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Inside Job

Soderbergh was worried that they were ready upwards to neglect logistically on Ocean's Eleven.

"I of the things that scared me when I read the script was the amount of fourth dimension that nosotros would accept to be shooting on the floor of the casino," he recalled in the 2001 pic'sproduction notes. "I've had friends who had worked on films there and knew that normally the hotels only want pic companies to shoot between midnight and 6 a.m. during the week. I was pretty broken-hearted about that aspect. As it turned out, the cooperation that was extended to us by the casinos, peculiarly the Bellagio, was unlimited."

But that wasn't just hotel management beingness nice.

"The reason we selected the Bellagio," saidJerry Weintraub, the late Hollywood power player who produced all three films, "is that information technology's the prettiest hotel in Las Vegas. It's also the near luxurious and the most of import hotel in boondocks. In addition, at the time I made our deal, it was owned by Steve Wynn, who is a very dear friend of mine. I had shot movies in his Mirage Hotel earlier then he had a sense of what I would be doing and he trusted me with the reputation of his hotel. Fifty-fifty though nosotros were going to rob information technology! As it happens, before we even began to film there, he had sold the hotel to Kirk Kerkorian, who also happens to be an old friend of mine, so our plans went forward."

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1000 Hotel

The product really did take over the Bellagio, including 25 to 30 percent of the casino floor at a fourth dimension.

"You have to empathise that we completely disrupted their operation," Weintraub said. "We closed their valet parking and porte cochere for three or four days, which meant their clients, including the high rollers, had to bank check into the hotel through the concrete self-parking garage. They let us turn off their fountains and the dancing waters in the lake. We closed downward the conservatory and botanical gardens, we closed down the reception surface area with its famous Dale Chihuly glass sculpture, and we even took over the high-roller gaming room at one point."

They built an 80-foot-long atomic number 26 and brass cashier'southward muzzle in Los Angeles and installed it at the Bellagio, part of production designer Phil Messina's vision as to how characters would smoothly get from the casino to the back of the house, where the foundation is laid for Danny's scheme to pan out.

"We had no time restrictions," Soderbergh said. "We would shut down an unabridged section of the Bellagio's casino floor during the day so that we could flick. They even choreographed their dancing fountains to a special piece of music for the film. In exchange of course, the pic is like a two-60 minutes commercial for Las Vegas and the hotel."

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A Night of So Many Stars

Wait, how do you become all of these movie stars in one identify again?

"Steven had just finished Erin Brockovich with [eventual Best Extra winner] Julia Roberts and he sends her a script with $twenty tucked in and a annotation saying, 'I hear you go $20 a film now.' And she'southward in," George Clooney shared.

"I've been a producer for 40-some years and I've never had an actor cut his own salary," Weintraub said, "and I've never had an actor say that in order to get the cast we wanted, he would talk to each actor. George became the kickoff to cutting his salary, then Steven and George went after our cast."

Clooney explained, "We said, if we all get paid, nosotros can't make the movie, so why don't nosotros all simply take a big chunk of the back end, work cheap and see if there's any money at the end."

Body of water'southward Eleven fabricated more $450 million worldwide, on an $85 million budget. That's more the $150 million Danny and his merry band of thieves made off with on fight night in Vegas.

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Moving Parts

Soderbergh originally envisioned existent-life siblingsLuke and Owen Wilsonplaying grouse brothers Turk and Virgil Malloy, just Casey Affleck and Scott Caan ended upwardly with the parts when the Wilsons opted to shootThe Royal Tenenbaumsinstead.

Mark Wahlberg was reportedly first to be cast as pickpocket Linus Caldwell, just he exited to practisePlanet of the Apes, paving the style for Damon. Alan Arkin and Ralph Fiennes were also function of the original lineup reported in 2000 before final casting was finalized.

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Insatiable Appetite

Information technology was Brad Pitt's idea to have Rusty be eating all the time.

"Nosotros just had [nutrient effectually]—well, there was actually method to that, considering he was ever on the run, always on the move, I figured he could never sit downwards and have a proper meal," the role player explained to JOE in 2019. "So he always had to grab something on the run."

"I like to busy myself," Pitt noted. "I'm a grazer by nature, and so..." Luckily he survived the indigestion that seemingly caught upwards with him by the stop ofBody of water'south Eleven.

Compression Me

The "compression" that Don Cheadle's cockney-absolute explosives expert Basher Tarr sets up to knock the power out for a few precious seconds is a ripped-from-reality device.

"We did a lot of enquiry early considering we wanted to at least have it exist based on reality," Messina said. "We contacted scientists on the Cyberspace and establish people who worked with these particle accelerators. Nosotros went into conversation rooms and basically posed design questions. Then our holding master visited a lab in Northern California that had a pinch and he brought back photographs and diagrams. I didn't want to get besides exact because I just wanted to draw from it what was visually interesting."

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Not Merely Whatever Extra

Tiffany & Co. basically never lends out jewelry, for whatsoever occasion. But they loaned jewelry to theSea'due south Xi production for Roberts.

"They were terrific," costume designerJeffrey Kurlandsaid in the product notes. "Outset they sent photographs of various items and then they would send the real piece so I could make a final decision. They sized things for u.s.a. and altered the hang of certain necklaces, they couldn't accept been more accommodating."

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On the Rocks

When he was makingOcean's Eleven, Pitt was newly married to Jennifer Aniston, and they were arm in arm at the 2001 premiere. When he was makingSea'south Twelvein the summer of 2004, Aniston joined the party at Villa Oleandra, Clooney'southward Lake Como estate, where the all-star carousal was the toast of celebrity mag covers all summertime.

But by the fourth dimension the sequel premiered in Dec 2004, Pitt was ducking questions about the inevitable. A calendar month later, he and Aniston announced that they had separated.

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Unsung Hero

Ocean's Twelve may be but 55 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, only Soderbergh thinks it's the virtually successful film of the franchise in many ways.

"The funny thing was that in terms of the previews and testing process, Sea's Twelve tested every bit well equally the offset one did," he told Huffington Post in 2014. "Information technology too made $363 million, hardly a disappointment."

"I think in these situations, when you're making a sequel to a movie that has been successful, you lot're dealing with expectations. That is what this picture confronted and got browbeaten by, because it's a completely different flick from the beginning ane. It's weirder. I would fence—and I'thou happy to be challenged on this—that information technology'south one of the biggest budgeted stoner movies of all time. It certainly rewards a viewing in an altered state."

"In terms of shot construction, cutting patterns, the use of music—from a filmmaking standpoint," he concluded, "that'southward the best of the 3."

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Uncanny Resemblance

The studio overlords were concerned about the Julia Roberts-as-Tess-equally-Julia Roberts bit inOcean's Twelve.

"I remember scouting in Chicago, I think in Grant Park, on a jail cell phone with [onetime Warner Bros. president] Alan Horn, and him going, 'Are yous sure this Julia thing is going to work?' I said, 'Yes. There'southward a precedent. It's in 1940 in His Daughter Friday. It's going to work. People volition exist able to follow it. Their heads volition not split in half. I think it's going to play,'" Soderbergh recalled to Huffington Post. "Only I understand from Warner Bros.' betoken of view that's a weird idea to put a pyramid on top of. Information technology's a fiddling meta."

At to the lowest degree the actors were onboard, as far equally he knew.

"If they didn't, they hid it well," Soderbergh said. "Simply my retention of information technology was everybody was in on the joke, and happy to be in on the joke. Everyone was trying to detect means to keep enhancing the joke, too. In the scene where they're trying to get her prepare and Bruce Willis comes in, all of the guys were trying to come with ways in which to build this joke."

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House Hunters

Rumor had it that the scene inOcean's Twelve where Catherine Zeta-Jones reunites with her father (and primary thief) Gaspar LeMarque was filmed at Clooney's villa in Lake Como, which apparently induced enough FOMO that some people angrily criticized the production for beingness so lazy.

But no, it was shot at the onetime abode of tardily Italian cinema titan Luchino Visconti.

Also, they reportedly couldn't get Zeta-Jones and Albert Finney'due south schedules to match upward, so, fifty-fifty though in that location's a hug, they filmed the big reunion separately and that'southward why you never see both of their faces at the same fourth dimension.

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Twelve's a Crowd?

Soderbergh best-selling, "I recollect with Ocean's Twelve, you lot could make the argument that I sacrificed the characters, our core grouping, past introducing ii new characters. I took real estate away from the Bounding main's gang, and handed information technology over to 2 new people [Jones as Detective Isabel Lahiri and Vincent Cassel every bit art thief François Toulour]. And on meridian of information technology, congenital a very elaborate plot. So I think a lot of people felt like, 'I came to see the guys be sort of the guys, and yous took from them!'"

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Godfather Style

When information technology came time to makeOcean's Thirteen—aka "the one we should have fabricated last time," as titled past Clooney, doing the math—Soderbergh's big thrill was working with Al Pacino, who steps in as Willy Bank, the bad-guy hotel possessor who the previous bad-guy hotel owner, Andy Garcia'south Terry Bridegroom, also has it in for.

"That's a dream come up truthful and we had a great time," the managing director told Huffington Post. "He was crawly. That really made it fun."

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Barkin Up the Correct Tree

Roberts didn't make it to theOcean's Thirteenparty, nor didTwelve'southward Zeta-Jones (in that location'south always that women's prison down the road, Rusty), so enter Ellen Barkinin true Angie-Dickensonian femme fatale fashion. Every bit Banking concern's right-hand adult female Abigail Sponder, Barkin hones in on Damon's Linus.

"I didn't even know that scene existed, because it did not exist in the script I read," Barkin told Admission Hollywoodabout the "seducing women of a certain age" scene that involves an bad-mannered hand-brushing-against-chest bit. "It was something that, um, evolved."

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Looks Can Be Deceiving

Ocean's 11was a bigger claiming for Soderbergh than directingTraffic, the bilingual saga nigh the bottomless morass that has been the The states' state of war on drugs that won four Oscars in 2001.

"Not fifty-fifty close," he said in an interview for DGA Quarterly in 2014. "Traffic was not difficult. I knew exactly what information technology was, and I never had a moment'south hesitation. The schedule was tight and in that location were a lot of locations and speaking parts, but it wasn't difficult. AndErin [Brockovich] is probably the well-nigh pleasurable shoot I ever had. It was the kind of moving picture I hadn't made before, and only sort of bearing witness to what Julia was doing every day was and then much fun. For the first four weeks, we were all in this Holiday Inn in Barstow and I'd come up back covered in dirt every twenty-four hour period, just smiling.

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Ocean's Malaise

"But I had days of real agony on Sea's," Soderbergh continued. "It was a kind of shooting that I hadn't really attempted before. I hadn't built a whole movie that needed a very designed, bravura visual approach. And I don't like to storyboard, and then I had days of telling [first assistant director] Greg Jacobs, 'Just send everybody away. I don't know how to practise this. I need to think almost this.'"

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Plow the Tables

"In that location's 1 scene in the third Bounding main'southward where there are a bunch of people in a hollowed-out cave, and they're all looking at schematics of the hotel," Soderbergh told DGA Quarterly. "You've got 8 or ix people effectually a pocket-sized table in a small infinite. And I merely go along saying, 'Run it over again. Run it once more. Run information technology over again.' I've got a viewfinder with a lens on it, and I'm trying to piece of work my style effectually the space to discover the shot that's going to form the fundamental visual premise of the scene. And I just can't come with a shot. It was horrible."

Information technology was but 10:30 a.m., also early for a lunch break, so he just sent anybody away.

"And I'm sitting there and the cast is gone, and I say, 'Tin somebody motion this table? I'thou sick of looking at this table.' And so they have the tabular array out, and I'1000 walking effectually and I sit down where the table was and then I realize, oh, the camera is the tabular array. That'southward it. Nosotros called everybody dorsum in and put the camera basically where the centre of the table was, and I did a series of two-shots. Shoot, plow, shoot over again. We literally did the scene in an hour."

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Build It and They Will Come

Weintraub, who in 2007 was the get-go non-performer to accept his hands and feet cast in cement in the courtyard of Grauman'southward Chinese Theatre alongside Clooney, Pitt and Damon, said it actually wasn't that difficult getting all those large names involved in Ocean's Eleven. "We didn't really have to wrestle anybody," he said in a backside-the-scenes featurette forElevenandTwelve ."They wanted to come. When you have a great project, with a great director—you lot can become all the stars you lot want."

Added Soderbergh, "Information technology seemed to me that this was one film that could withstand having a lot of stars in information technology because it really is an ensemble piece. But nosotros'd take to make certain to get the right stars, the right cast, considering they're supposed to have camaraderie, which is very difficult to fake. Information technology had to experience like they enjoyed each other's company without having information technology wait like they were having more fun making the movie than you are watching information technology."

They came close to out-larking the audience, but ultimately everyone had a great fourth dimension.

Just the infectious chemistry among thieves wasn't left up to chance.

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Weintraub explained, "When nosotros went to Las Vegas to start shooting, nosotros made a conscious effort on a production level to have the 11 guys hang out together. It wasn't hard to do because they all liked each other and equally before long as they started spending fourth dimension together away from the fix, real friendships developed.

"You can't buy that. When you take actors who can't wait to go to work and work with one another other and be with each other, that's exciting. In all my years in testify business, I don't think I've e'er had every bit much fun as I've had on this film."

And what better time than now, amid the winter of our ongoing discontent, to binge a trio of carefree romps set in Las Vegas and Europe?

Ocean'southward Eleven,Ocean'due south TwelveandOcean'due south Thirteen are all currently streaming on HBO Max.

(Originally published December. 10, 2019, at 3 a.m. PT)

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