DANNY: Gentlemen, the 3000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard, otherwise known as the Bellagio, Mirage and MGM Grand. Together, they're three of the most profitable casinos in Las Vegas. This is the vault at the Bellagio, it's located below the strip, beneath 200 feet of solid earth. It safeguards every dime that passes through each of the three casinos above it. And we're gonna rob it. LINUS: Smash-and-grab job, huh? RUSTY: Slightly more complicated than that. LINUS: Well, yeah. DANNY: This is courtesy of Frank Catton, a new blackjack dealer at the Bellagio. Okay, bad news first. This place houses a security system that rivals most nuclear missile silos. First, we have to get within the casino cages, which, anybody will tell you, takes more than a smile. Next, through these doors. Each of which requires a different 6-digit code changed every 12 hours. Past those, lies the elevator. This is where it gets tricky. The elevator won't move without authorized fingerprint I.D. RUSTY: Which we can't fake. DANNY: And vocal confirmation from both the security system within the Bellagio and the vault below. RUSTY: Which we won't get. DANNY: Furthermore, the elevator shaft is rigged with motion detectors. RUSTY: Meaning, if we were to manually override the lift, the shaft's exit would lock down automatically, and we'd be trapped. DANNY: Now, once we get down the shaft, though, then it's a piece of cake. Just two more guards with Uzis and the most elaborate vault door ever conceived by man. Any questions? AMAZING YEN (in Cantonese) RUSTY (in response): No, tunneling's out. There are sensors monitoring the ground a hundred yards in every direction. If a groundhog were to nest there, they'd know about it. DANNY: Anyone else? TURK: You said something about good news? DANNY: Yeah. The Nevada Gaming Commission stipulates that a casino must hold, in reserve, enough cash to cover every chip in play on its floor. That means on a weekday, by law, it has to carry anywhere between $60 and $70 million in cash and coin. On the weekend, between 80 and 90 million. On a fight night like the one two weeks from tonight, the night that we're gonna rob it: $150 million. Without breaking a sweat. Now, there are 11 of us, each with an equal share. You do the math. RUSTY: Exactly. SAUL: I have a question. Say we get into the cage and through the security doors there, and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open... RUSTY: Without being seen by the cameras. DANNY: Yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention that. SAUL: Yeah, well, say we do all that. We're just supposed to walk out of there with $150 million in cash on us without getting stopped? DANNY: Yeah. SAUL: Oh. Okay. — Ocean‘s Eleven (2001), written by Ted Griffin, based on a screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer and a story by George Clayton Johnson & Jack Golden Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIVEUEnIZjM Trivia: At the end of the movie Danny Ocean (George Clooney) says to Rusty (Rusty) "$13 Million and you drive this piece of shit." During the heist, Benedict (Andy Garcia) is handed a piece of paper that says the vault is holding $163,156,759. In the first meeting of all eleven, Ocean says that they will each get an equal share. Doing simple math, that means Reuben (Elliott Gould) put up about $20 Million in finance to pull off the job. Dialogue on Dialogue: We don‘t hear about a plan in this scene, we just hear how impossible the heist is. And the more impossible the cooler. And the writer (and Danny Ocean) planted the question in our heads and those of Danny‘s buddies: How will they do it?

Fletch Lives (1989), by Gregory McDonald (character), Leon Capetanos Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PbAk_SMdo FLETCH: Aha! I got one. See that? These little buggers are the piranhas of the insect world. The only thing they like better than wood is human flesh. COP: Really? FLETCH: You bet. COP: Well, if you can't see it, how do you know you got one? FLETCH: Well, I'm glad I asked that question. They make this horrible, high-pitched noise. It's kind of like a tiny little scream. Can you hear that? The cop shakes his head no. FLETCH: Can you hear that? Like a tiny little piglet? No? Let me see ... Uh-oh. I seem to have dropped it in your ear. COP: You what? FLETCH: It's alright. Better get that, can't let that nest in there. They multiply by masterbation. The only way to get that out is to get as close to the floor as you can. Go on down to the floor, that's right. They're drawn to the floorboards. Now, shake your head like you're trying to get the water out of your ear. That's good. Hit it, no, harder. [Fletch hits him in the head.] No, this side. It's on this side, that's right. Now make that scream, that high-pitched scream. That'll draw 'em out. The cop begins squealing like a pig. FLETCH: Uh-huh, squeal like a pig, a little higher. Hey, I found a queen! I found a queen, I don't believe it. No one's ever found a queen. I gotta get this to the lab and get a stool sample. Dialogue on Dialogue: Here, Fletch gets busted poking around a crime scene and quickly has to formulate an (escape) plan. I've always appreciated the over-the-top situations in this film -- they've inventive, not run of the mill.

The Imitation Game (2014), screenplay by Graham Moore, based on the book by Andrew Hodges Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpHkJX5MOY STEWART MENZIES: Six minutes? Is that even possible? ALAN TURING: No. It takes me eight. But this isn’t about crossword puzzles — it’s about how one approaches solving an impossible problem. Do you tackle the whole thing at once or divide it into small… You’ve finished? JOAN CLARKE: Yes. ALAN TURING: 5 minutes and 34 seconds. JOAN CLARKE: You said to do it in under 6. Dialogue on Dialogue: Presumably, Turing would have offered a lengthier explanation on the crossword puzzle's purpose if Joan hadn't finished so quickly. As is, the dialogue suffices -- and is very naturally, stylishly abbreviated.

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