Ocean's Eleven

Rusty: You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons. Danny: Like what, do you think? Rusty: Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald, ever. Where do you think you’re going to get the money to back this? Danny: We hit these three casinos, we get our bankroll. Benedict's got a long list of enemies. Rusty: Enemies with loose cash and nothing to lose? [pauses, then nods] Ah...Reuben. Danny: Reuben.

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Rusty: I need the reason. And don't say money. Why do this? Danny: Why not do it? [Rusty shakes his head] 'Cause yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking "Teen Beat" cover boys. [pause] 'Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house. Rusty: Been practicing this speech, haven't you? Danny: Little bit. Did I rush it? Felt like I rushed it. Rusty: No, it was good, I liked it. The "Teen Beat" thing was harsh though...I wonder what Reuben will say. Reuben: You're outta your goddamn minds! Are you listening to me? You're, both of you nuts! I know more about casino security than any man alive. I invented it. And it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got watchers, they got locks, they got timers, they got vaults. They got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris!...Okay, bad example. Danny: It's never been

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Danny: We'll need Saul. Rusty: He won't do it, got out of the game a year ago. Danny: He get religion? Rusty: Ulcers. Danny: ...You could ask him. Rusty: Hey, I could ask him. Saul: I saw you at the paddock before the second race, outside the men's room when I placed my bet. I saw you before you even got up this morning. Rusty: How you been, Saul? Saul: Never better. Rusty: What's with the orange? Saul: My doctor says I need vitamins. Rusty: So why don't you take vitamins? Saul: You come here to give me a physical? Rusty: Box seats. Come on. Saul: So you gonna tell me? Or should I just say "no" and get it over with? Rusty: Saul you're the best there is, you're in Cooperstown. What do you want? Saul: Nothing. I got a duplex now. I got wall-to-wall and a goldfish. I'm seeing a nice lady who works the unmentionables counter at Macy's. I've changed. Rusty: Guys like us don't change Saul. We get old or we get sloppy. We don't change. Saul: Quit conning me. Rusty: [Gestures to the running do

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Danny: [holds up a black wallet] Hello Linus. Whose is this? Linus: Who are you? Danny: A friend of Bobby Caldwell's. [produces a plane ticket and places it down on the table] You're either in or you're out. Right now. Linus: What is it? Danny: It's a plane ticket. A job offer. Linus: You're pretty trusting pretty fast. Danny: Well Bobby has a lot of faith in you. Linus: Fathers are like that. [pauses, Danny is genuinely surprised] Oh he didn't tell you? He didn't want me trading on his name. Danny: You do this job and he'll be trading on yours...You don't, we'll find somebody else who won't be quite as good and you can go back to feeling up stockbrokers. [To waitress] Can you get the check, please? [When Danny turns back, Linus has taken the plane ticket that Danny thought he was still holding] That's the best lift I've seen you make yet. Linus: Las Vegas Huh? Danny: America's playground.

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Reuben: You're Bobby Caldwell's kid? From Chicago? Linus: Yeah. Reuben: You like it there? Linus: Yeah. Reuben: That's wonderful. Get in the goddamn house.

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Danny: Gentlemen: the 3000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard. Otherwise known as the Bellagio, the Mirage and the M.G.M. Grand. Together, they're the three most profitable casinos in Las Vegas.....Livingston. [Livingston brings up Casino blueprints] This is the vault at the Bellagio. Located below the Strip, beneath two hundred feet of solid earth. It safeguards every dime that comes through each of the three casinos above it. [pause] And we're going to rob it. Linus: Smash-and-grab job, huh? Rusty: Slightly more complicated than that. Linus: Well, yeah. Danny: This is courtesy of Frank Catton, new Black Jack dealer at the Bellagio. Okay. Bad news first. This place houses a security system which rivals most nuclear missile silos. First: we have to get within the casino cages. Which anybody will tell ya it takes more than a smile. Next: through these doors, each of which requires a different six-digit code changed every twelve hours. Past those lies the elevator, and this is where it gets tr

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