Steven Soderbergh's 11: Quintessential Crime Film

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Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen. As movie critics of crime today I will be talking about why the movie that I have chosen is the quintessential crime film. As a crime enthusiast, I can assure you that my film is extremely satisfying not only for any crime enthusiast but also for any other enthusiast. You have heard today many claims for the quintessential crime film. The movie that I have chosen is Steven Soderbergh directed film, Ocean’s Eleven. Even though it was released 13 years ago, the movie has all the elements of the genre that are fundamental for success. There is a group of skillful people, perspective is from the criminal’s point of view instead of the good guy, a crime that it committed in an urban American setting. I assure you that Steven Soderbergh has formed the quintessential film mainly due to its amazing elements.
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Steven Soderbergh does this by creating a remake of a well-known crime film. The original ocean’s eleven movie has a different purpose to the remake, the first movie was all about getting the money from five different casinos in Las Vegas but they don’t get the money in the end. The remake is the pretty much the same thing but they rob three banks, they get the money and Danny Ocean gets his wife back. In the remake Danny Ocean (George Clooney) has a plan to pull of the biggest robbery in the history of robberies but he needs a team of skillful people to help him achieve this massive heist. After the plan has been shown and everyone starts preparing Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) finds out that there is more to this heist than just the money he asks Danny Ocean whether he incapable of pulling this of but Danny refuses. Steven Soderbergh decisions with film techniques help in the general pace of the plot. It starts off with Danny Ocean in jail being asked

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