Las Vegas and its casinos have always been an inspiration for filmmakers looking to inject excitement and intrigue into their movies. One of the most famous movies with a Las Vegas backdrop is 1960?s ?Ocean?s Eleven?, which sees the members of the original ?Rat Pack? ? Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis ? planning to rob five of the top casinos in Vegas in just one night. Things go according to plan ? at least until after the heists.
?Ocean?s Eleven? was remade successfully in 2001 by Steven Soderburgh, who cast George Clooney in the leading role of Danny Ocean and Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Elliott Gould as gang members, amongst others. The 2001 version updated the storyline while still putting across the same glamorous image of Vegas as in the first movie. View the rest of this article
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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