This blog is by Shelby and Kate.
What Kate and I have learned through the past three films is that Soderbergh allows the actors to control the film while he just sits back and okays it. We also noticed that most of his films that the good films contain a lot of name brand actors and actresses. For instance he has used George Clooney (5times), Julia Roberts (4times), Don Cheadle(4times), Catherine Zeta Jones(2 times), and Matt Damon(4times). Soderbergh doesn't seem to control his films the actors does. And we think that is why when the acting is bad the directing is bad too. An example of this is his film Bubbles, it had no name actors and it had really terrible film techniques. It seemed like the film was like a documentary and grainy where as the Oceans movies were more professional and had a more old school Hollywood feel to them. More specifically the Oceans movie has really good music that allows you to feel like a spy and it makes you believe that the characters no more then you do where as in the film Bubble he refrained from using music. Music is a key role for making a film good. If you don't have good music then most of the time you don't have a good movie.
Throughout Oceans 11 they never use a gun which is unrealistic and a bit of an optical illusion because we know that it would never go down that way. A lot a "gangster films" use guns to intimidate people but in Oceans 11 they use their minds to intimidate people not their weapons. Which we really liked! Soderbergh also did an optical illusion with the twins, he puts one of the brothers in a monster truck and then there is what seems to be a miniature one next to it almost to imply a little person is in it. But we later find out that its just a remote control car. Yet again using the idea of optical illusions and also another comedic moment in the film. With an "optical illusion" there always seems to be a comedic moment just to tell you that this isn't possible so don't take it seriously. Another interesting dynamic that he uses is that he has one of the thieves played by Don Cheadle, watching the news and they have an exploding hotel on it, but if he looked behind him he could of just seen the same thing happen live. Once again this was a comedic optical illusion.
What Kate and I have learned through the past three films is that Soderbergh allows the actors to control the film while he just sits back and okays it. We also noticed that most of his films that the good films contain a lot of name brand actors and actresses. For instance he has used George Clooney (5times), Julia Roberts (4times), Don Cheadle(4times), Catherine Zeta Jones(2 times), and Matt Damon(4times). Soderbergh doesn't seem to control his films the actors does. And we think that is why when the acting is bad the directing is bad too. An example of this is his film Bubbles, it had no name actors and it had really terrible film techniques. It seemed like the film was like a documentary and grainy where as the Oceans movies were more professional and had a more old school Hollywood feel to them. More specifically the Oceans movie has really good music that allows you to feel like a spy and it makes you believe that the characters no more then you do where as in the film Bubble he refrained from using music. Music is a key role for making a film good. If you don't have good music then most of the time you don't have a good movie.
Throughout Oceans 11 they never use a gun which is unrealistic and a bit of an optical illusion because we know that it would never go down that way. A lot a "gangster films" use guns to intimidate people but in Oceans 11 they use their minds to intimidate people not their weapons. Which we really liked! Soderbergh also did an optical illusion with the twins, he puts one of the brothers in a monster truck and then there is what seems to be a miniature one next to it almost to imply a little person is in it. But we later find out that its just a remote control car. Yet again using the idea of optical illusions and also another comedic moment in the film. With an "optical illusion" there always seems to be a comedic moment just to tell you that this isn't possible so don't take it seriously. Another interesting dynamic that he uses is that he has one of the thieves played by Don Cheadle, watching the news and they have an exploding hotel on it, but if he looked behind him he could of just seen the same thing happen live. Once again this was a comedic optical illusion.
