Today, I would like to recommend a masterpiece of team work. The author has seen many thieves and thieves' film works in the past, but I have a lot of respect for this movie, because in addition to entertainment, this movie has brought the audience more thinking and reasoning, even if this film was released in 2002, I still like it many times.
The film opens with a parole application in which Orson is jailed on suspicion of a Russian jewelry case, but as Orson says, there is no evidence that he is involved in the case and he is eventually released.
Orson took the prison storage, stroked the wedding ring he had taken out of the bag, as if recalling something, and left the prison alone.
Orson arrives at a casino and, through information provided by Black Frank, finds his former friend Russ, and through his friend Russ, finds 11 team members.
Frank, Black — Casino Guard
Friend Russ – Highly intelligent planner
The Myroy Brothers – Excelling at remotely controlled cars
Black Bashe – good at blasting
Casino guru Rubin – A casino investor
Old Man Thor – good at disguise
Shaw – Acrobat
Linus – Pickpocket
Livingston Dell – FBI computer and monitoring of weak currents and other aspects of the master
Eventually, 11 thieves gathered in a villa in Las Vegas to start a plan to steal the casino vault.
It is worth mentioning that even if the 11 team members are found in the opening 30 minutes, the director has a good grasp of each person's characteristics, and the audience can recognize each member in a very short narrative.
To tell this story well, the director and screenwriter have done a lot of preparation, of course, the first thing is to highlight the difficulty of doing this thing. When looking for the casino master Rubin, the director humorously laid out only 3 successful cases of casino theft in the world, and the first one was stopped without going out.
The second breath of fresh air by the door was blocked,
The third, and most successful, ran out of the casino less than 10 meters and hung up.
The second foreshadowing is suspense, the casino owner eats people and does not spit bones, and Orson actually wants to attack his casino.
The third paving is that on the night when the 11 thieves gathered in Las Vegas, Orson through the casino building structure, dense monitoring, vault location and wall, security personnel, ventilation duct infrared, etc., seems to be an impossible task, the key is to create suspense, as Thor said, "Even if we pass through those security doors, pass through the elevators that can't be moved, avoid the guards and guns, enter the vaults that can't be opened, and don't be discovered by the surveillance, even if we all dodge, We'll be able to take 150 million and not be stopped."
Every plan is possible by accident, weak current and monitoring masters are almost discovered when they are manipulating in the casino machine room; Orson is involved in his wife in this hotel, and his friends let him out in order to avoid the failure of the team's action due to emotional entanglement; the demolition and mechanical masters find that the casino engineers in the sewer have overhauled the originally designed bugs, and can only find another way to steal the electromagnetic bomb; the acrobatic brother Xiao Xiao is injured because of the closing door handle, and because the gauze on his hand is almost killed by the explosion Orson was locked up for seeing his ex-wife again, and so on, which made the plot twist and fall.
In the end, Orson and his team successfully stole and took 150 million in cash, in addition to which Orson's wife discovered the hypocrisy of the casino owner and returned to Orson. The whole story ended in a big way.
The ability to tell stories throughout the film is first-class, the early foreshadowing is concise and comprehensive, the image of the eleven thieves is distinctive and distinctive, the emotional line interspersed in the middle does not fall into the cliché, and the things women want are very simple: "Can he make you happy?" "At least he won't make me cry"; the process of completing the event in the later stages is tightly linked, without procrastination, and I have to lament the magic of the script and the wisdom of the director.
After Orson is released from prison again, his friends and beloved wife come to pick him up, which seems to be a perfect plot, but the casino owner's bodyguard follows him and paves the way for the uncertainty of future fate and the re-production of a sequel.
Now it seems that perhaps $150 million is a small amount, but if it is calculated at 10 times the amount of inflation in 20 years, each person should be able to get 100 million US dollars
The article concludes with a brief introduction to director Steven Soderbergh. I like directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors very much.
Born January 14, 1963 in Georgia, USA.
In 1989, he directed his screen debut "Sex, Lies and Videotape", which won the Palme d'Or at the 42nd Cannes International Film Festival, which attracted attention;
In 1998, the film "Strategists", based on Elmor Leonard's novel, was filmed, for which Soderbergh won the American Film Critics Association Award for Best Director;
In 2000, he was nominated for the 73rd Academy Awards and the 58th Golden Globe Awards for Best Director for directing the feature film "Never Compromise", and the best director at the 73rd Academy Awards for directing the feature film "Drug Network";
In 2001, he directed the crime film Eleven Rohans, which was Soderbergh's style-changing work;
In 2004, he filmed the sequel to "Eleven Arhats", "Twelve Arhats";
In 2008, he directed the four-hour super-long biopic "Che Guevara", which received critical acclaim;
In 2011, he directed the first action film "Victory Strike";
In 2013, Soderbergh also directed, edited and photographed the TV film Behind the Candlestick, which won the 65th Emmy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Cinematography in the Miniseries/TV Movie category;
In September 2014, the comedy film Magic Mike 2 began, in which Soderbergh held three positions: director of photography, camera operator and editor.
Soderbergh's profile is excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia