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Ocean's Thirteen

FILM · 2007 · USA

Ocean's Thirteen

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19 Interesting Facts About Ocean's Thirteen

Interesting Facts (12)

  1. #001

    At 1:37:15, the numbers Mr. Weng chooses to win at the roulette wheel are 11, 12 and 13, a reference to the three Ocean's Trilogy titles.

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  2. #002

    The gold cell phone Willie Bank takes from Abigail Sponder was made specially for the film by Samsung.

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  3. #003

    At 54:00, as Danny and Rusty recall meeting Reuben, they walk toward the Bellagio and its pool. The melody playing is "Clair de Lune." It is the same melody heard at the end of Ocean's Eleven (2001) as the Eleven watch the Bellagio's dancing fountains (though not the same artist or arrangement).

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  4. #004

    The "Five Diamond Award" is the highest award given to hotels and restaurants by AAA (formerly the American Automobile Association). The award is given to fewer than 0.4% of all hotels and restaurants reviewed by AAA. As of 2015, Las Vegas hotels and restaurants had won the second-highest number of Five Diamond Awards, just behind New York City.

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  5. #005

    Linus tells Reuben that Rusty is pulling an "Irwin Allen" — Irwin Allen was a highly popular producer of disaster films and TV shows depicting how the end of the world would come. Later the audience sees a disguised Rusty telling Willy Bank that his casino could experience an earthquake. At the end of the film this "earthquake" provides the pretext for the Eleven's exit plan, allowing all the gamblers to leave with their winnings and preventing them from re-entering the casino and losing their winnings back to Willy Bank. Note: one of Irwin Allen's technical contributions to film and television was pioneering the "shaky-cam" technique to imply air turbulence or an earthquake. His approach was simply to tilt the camera back and forth and have the actors throw themselves around on set.

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  6. #006

    Steven Soderbergh shot all of Al Pacino's scenes in three weeks.

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  7. #007

    As of 2018, this was Steven Soderbergh's last feature film shot entirely on film.

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  8. #008

    Saul's character in the film is named Kensington Chubb. Kensington is the name of a lock type and a lock manufacturer, while Chubb is a brand of locks and safes — a blatant confirmation of what Ocean's crew basically is: thieves, lock and safe crackers.

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  9. #009

    If you add Roman and Benedict's active participation in this heist, you get Ocean's Thirteen. Or you can reach the same number by swapping Reuben (who does not take part in the heist) for Bobby Caldwell.

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  10. #010

    Among the aliases Agent Caldwell lists for "Lenny Pepperidge" is Sheldon Willis, the name Linus used when impersonating a Nevada Gaming Commission representative in Ocean's Eleven.

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  11. #011

    When Robert Caldwell receives a phone call from Abigail Sponder about "suspicious characters," he answers the phone with "extension 765." Extension 765 is the name of a company and website belonging to Steven Soderbergh.

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  12. #012

    The Village Roadshow logos on the front of the Warner Bros. film are a tribute to the 1970s/80s opening animation of New York station WOR-TV's "4 O'Clock Movie." The accompanying music is the same.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #013

    To infiltrate Willy Bank's office and distract Bank, Basher dresses as "Fender Roads." The Roads character, a motorcycle stuntman dressed in the colors of the American flag, is a tribute to (or parody of) the famous stuntman Evel Knievel. Likewise, Bob Einstein, who plays FBI Agent Caldwell, is known for the fictional stuntman Super Dave Osborne, also a parody of Knievel.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #014

    The special scent Linus applies to his neck to seduce Abigail is labeled "The Gilroy" in the title card. This is a joke aimed at Tony Gilroy, who wrote the screenplays for The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), all starring Matt Damon. Gilroy also wrote and directed Michael Clayton (2007), which starred George Clooney and was produced by Steven Soderbergh.

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  2. #015

    Al Pacino was director Steven Soderbergh's first choice for the role of Willy Bank. The film's producer Jerry Weintraub, a friend of Pacino's, convinced him to join the cast.

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Easter Eggs & References (3)

  1. #016

    The characters make several references to a "Susan B. Anthony" in their heist. This refers to the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin produced by the US Mint in 1979. Similar in appearance and size to a regular quarter, many people who did not realize its value mistakenly dropped it into quarter (25-cent) slot machines. This is the Eleven's trick — rigging a gambling machine so that people win millions by playing a single token — and it is staged twice in the film: when the woman at The Bank casino wins the $30 million jackpot, and when VUP wins $11 million on the airport gambling machine.

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  2. #017

    In the DVD commentary for "Ocean's Eleven," director Steven Soderbergh said he made a deliberate decision not to reference the original "Ocean's 11" film or Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., etc.) so that the remake could stand on its own. This included shooting a scene with Brad Pitt and Topher Grace in a nightclub that would hide the Rat Pack mural. Despite being set in Las Vegas, where the film has an almost godlike legendary status, the soundtrack also featured no music by Sinatra or the others. However, for "Ocean's Thirteen," Soderbergh included Sinatra's song "This Town" over the film's closing "You shook Sinatra's hand" moral code.

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  3. #018

    The fake nose Matt Damon wears is a joking nod to Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005), in which the director wanted the actor to wear a fake nose but the studio vetoed it.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #019

    Roman Nagel tells Danny and Rusty: "You're like the Morecambe and Wise of the heist world, but even they started to boil over after a while." The British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise drew more than 20 million viewers at their peak in the 1970s. Their material is generally thought to have declined after they left the BBC in 1978.

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