This is an exclusive place, not for bumbs. This is why they cannot enter with private security even. So the only security is the one on the place and no one can fool around
The sting wasn't just on Lonnegan, it was on the audience, too! Half a million in 1936 is equivalent to over eleven million today. A sizeable wager in any year! I liked when Doyle would say, " Ya follow? "
@@Mitjitsu They needed that raid, otherwise Shaw could've gone ballistic on them. This way, he felt lucky to get out without being arrested. (Shaw: "My money's in there!!" Durning: "You can't get mixed up with that!!") Brilliant.
Nominated for 10 Oscars in 1973. Won 7, including Best Picture. Selected for preservation by the National Film Registry (for cultural, historical and/or aesthetic significance). One of the best screenplays ever written. Highly influential stylistically for several generations of filmmakers. Truly one of the best films ever made. A must-see for anyone who loves movies. PS: It’s sequel “The Sting II” was a complete and utter disaster.
As a recovering gambling addict, I have to laugh at this scene. Me: "There's been a mistake! Give me my money back!". My bookie who I bet with for 10 years: "Who are you?...".
If you want to make money with little risk just bet on sports. I usually do a 3 leg multi with pretty safe odds somewhere between 1.15 and 1.20 to win for all three options. Turned 20 Bux into over 300 in a week.
If I had to pick a film that would win a "favorite film" contest across all demographics, across the decades since its release? Haven't thought it through completely, but I can't think of any other I'd pick than this one right now
@@jeflak2044 "you all know me. You know how I earn a livin. I'll catch this bird for ya but it ain't gonna be easy. It's a bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasing bluegils or tommycots. This shark swallow you whole. Little shaking, little tenderizing and down you go. Now we gotta do it quick. That will bring back the tourists and put all your business on a paying basis. But it's not gonna be pleasent. I value my neck a lot more than 3000 bucks cheif. I'll find him for 3. But I'll catch him and kill him for 10. Now you gotta make up your minds. You wanna stay alive and ante up or you wanna play it cheap and be on welfare the whole winter. Now I don't want any volenteers I don't want any mates there's to many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing. Mr mayor, cheif, ladies and gentleman." And he walks away.
This movie was so well directed...it played the viewer..it showed scene's and slight of hand glimpses to us very ambiguously we bought the deception..very smart...and yet we couldn't analyse the situation...l bought it cold flat! Great movie!!
One of the most brilliant aspects of the script? The audience thinks the sting is being played on Doyle Lonnegan. In reality, it's being played on THE AUDIENCE! Watch it again. When the FBI is introduced at 1:30:40, the story about getting Gondorff makes total sense. This entire subterfuge is exposed at 2:04:54 when Redford opens his eyes. We were played!! Extraordinary.
Go into a bookies place a bet and after your horse loses, go up to the counter and say oh sorry that was a mistake, can I have my money back? Yeah right 🤣
Not only did they pull a highly sofisticated con on a big time gangster (and on the audience), but they also managed to ultimately make the victim think it's his fault for making that 'stupid' mistake. Absolute and complete humiliation of an over inflated ego. Hilarious. What an awesome movie.
I like how simply he delivers his very first line in the video: "five hundred thousand dollars to win ... Lucky Dan ... third race at Riverside". As if it's the most natural bet in the world!
Another example of the writer, the director, and Robert Shaw's brilliance somehow managing to make Lonegan a combination of a horrifying psychopath and a laughable idiot - look at the bonkers hysterical way he demands his bet money back!! I've never seen any other actor achieve this, ever.
This film gets cleverer with each viewing. After all the preparation, all the last minute improvising (eg at the wire office), the whole sting depended upon Lonnegan interpreting 'Place it on Lucky Dan' as meaning 'to win', an understandable interpretation !! Watching the film today for the umpteenth time I realised that when the 'clerk' checked out the 'win' bet with Gondorf at about 0.20 he was actually confirming to Gondorf that Lonnegan had indeed bet to win. Presumably if Lonnegan had tried to make a 'place' bet Gondorf would have had to refuse it despite the 'gutless' jibe.
Yeah, but it wasn't what it would be without what it could have not been before, being itself in the sense that it was, then it wouldn't be what it could have been if it should not have been after it wasn't for all of it being in, rather more or less, comparing it to itself, again that which is the opposing opposition of the opposite side of the complimentary metal oxide semi-conductor, yet halfway through the top part of the bottom. In conclusion, is it not that much of an example to show what it fully understood the side on the left, minus what they would add on to Both you and your judgement? I mean come on, that's as simple as I can make it.
Modern Illusionist. You over simplify, always a danger as you imply. Unless my inference discombobulates your implication. And by the way, I think you mean 'complEmentary'.
+ysgol3 No, I meant complimentary. I was supposed to spell semi conductor a specific way too. By my phone changes certain words on me. It was meant to be a king of the hill reference. lol..but I'm gonna use your comment to add on to the one I already made. "Discombobulate"..lol I can't wait to use that word.
They intended for Lonnegan to misinterpret 'Place it on Lucky Dan' to mean that he should bet on that horse to win. That way after he had made the bet they could spring it on him that he had bet wrong and was going to lose it all. Lonnegan would no doubt have called in some of his goons to take back the money at gunpoint, but that's what the fake FBI raid was set up to prevent. And the raid was also necessary to 'kill off' Gondorff and Hooker so that neither Lonnegan or Lt.Snyder would have any reason to try to hunt them down.
@@jamescollinson2179 Yes, absolutely, what I was pointing out was that if Lonegan had actually made a 'place' bet, since the word 'place' was used in the phonecall, Gondorf couldn't have taken it and the whole scam would have failed, and it was the 'clerk' who, in the guise of checking the matter out with Gondorf, actually confirmed it to him that it was 'to win'. Then the sting could proceed as planned.
Early on in the film they explained that he gambles alone except for the card game on the train. But the biggest reason was his vendetta against Gondorff and wanting to crush him personally
every time robert redford reacts surprisingly to paul newman's actions in this movie, I used to wonder whether or not it was feigned surprised as the character of "Shaw", or whether his true persona, Hooker, was really surprised at Gondorff's actions. I'd really like to think that it's the latter - that Gondorff has Lonnegan so very much in the palm of his own hands that even Hooker doesn't realize what he's doing. I really think that's the case.
VERY interesting suggestion - I saw the film again today and would suggest that the con was so cleverly and thoroughly worked out that EVERY reaction was calculated, but part of the brilliance of the film is that your interpretation is equally valid !
Gondorff was the master of the Big Con and Hooker was a low life grifter in awe of the entire operation, including Gondorff's attention to every detail. According to the book The Big Con upon which this film was based, confidence men were the aristocrats of grifters, the smoothest of the smooth.
== Same here. It's my guess that it wasn't the director's suggestion but Robert Shaw's idea. There's a fierce violence in that gesture. I know Robert tended bar occasionally in the local pub where he lived in Ireland. Maybe the gesture came from pulling drinks away from smashed, rowdy drunks. Is the gesture in the Sting screenplay? Haven't read it. But on another level, which I thought is brilliant, it's a great little con for prepping the audience for the gambling house con: the audience knows Newman watered the gin down, but Shaw doesn't. He thinks Newman is drinking straight gin. The mark, Shaw, grabs the gin bottle, unaware how he's been duped. He's got the con right in his hand! Shaw thinks he's in control, but he's not. Great writing has these kinds of layers of meaning going on in each scene. Such a great film. Just saying.
My dad got stuck at work on family movie night so we got to the theater about 30 minutes into the movie. We were very confused for the next 90 minutes.
@@argentiquenoborentino6780 Oh, they don't say the name in the movie. That's just the name they gave the shark on-set. Still, I will always think the shark's name is Bruce in the movie as well.
This payoff was set up when Lonnegan couldn't pin Gondorff/Shaw for out-cheating him on the train when they met - Lonnegan thinks he's buying into a fortune with this accusation, and Gondorff/Shaw has played him right into a pocket with his own Jacks.
With this movie I realized Robert Redford was not at the acting level of Shaw or Newman, I'm sorry but it's obvious. I think he got better with age though
