Ripped off from Ocean's 11?
I think yes.
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MovieChat Forums > The First Great Train Robbery (1979) Discussion > Ripped off from Ocean's 11?
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Are you guys all serious? I don't really even understand what you're all trying to say exactly.
The Great Train Robbery (Crichton's book) was published in 1975. The First Great Train Robbery (Crichton's film) was released in 1979.
Ocean's 11 was released in 1960 (and then later remade in 2001, but what difference could that possibly make?).
That would certainly make the original question a legitimate one, if you ask me.
The Great Train Robbery, though, IS supposed to be based in some fact, which makes the ripoff theory a little harder to agree with, but it's still a fair question.
Or am I missing something here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery_of_1855
shareNo. Ripped off from Edwin Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" with Broco Billy Anderson, made only 49 years after the actual robbery.
Right...
Michael Crichton wrote an original novel; screenplay, and directed the film. If you think that this is a ripoff of the rat pack's swan song; then any heist flick is a ripoff of the 1903 classic the Great Train Robbery. Grow up.
shareI didn't bother to read all the responses. I simply couldn't wait to comment.
The original post is ridiculous. Beside the fact that this is based on a true story that occurred a good 100+ years before Ocean's 11 was even conceived, the novel was written by Michael Crichton. In case you didn't know, Michael Crichton went on to do Jurassic Park, Congo, Rising Sun, Andromeda Strain, Spehere, 13th Warrior, Twister, and finally he created "ER". Yeah, ever heard of that TV show? So the fact that you suggest Michael Crichton had to rip off anyone for anything is completely absurd. How about we give credit where credit is due.
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Personally I don't see it, because it's absed on a book, based on actual events.
The only link to Ocean's 11 that I see is a big heist pulled off by a competent team using a clever plan and inside help. And that's conceptual. And the concept is over a hundred years old.
Now if anyone who knows better wants to tell me that the director or the cinematographer ripped off/paid homage to (depending on your perspective) certain shots/scenes/sequences in Oceans 11 then please tell me. Otherwise the passing resemblance really can't be a rip off becaus it's based (loosely) on well established events.
??????????????? ocean's 11, even the original (1960), was ripped off from jean-pierre melville's Bob Le Flambeur. some of the people who comment about movies on this site are very ignorant. anyway, the movie is fun , but The Great TRain Robbery book by crichton was really a fun read.
shareWhatever. I just hope we can all agree on the fact that The Great Train Robbery is far and away a superior film to both versions of Ocean's Eleven, and is even more superior to boring dreck like Ocean's Twelve.
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you can say that again. great train robbery underrated!
shareAgreed. I have read all of Crichton's fiction through Prey. The Great Train Robbery is my favorite.
shareI think that anyone who asks a question that inane and moronic should have their ability to post, revoked.
sharenoWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Isn't Dracula a rip-off of Nosferatu?
OP is a twit.
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