Gender Roles in Film; Ocena's Eleven

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Danny Ocean: Welcome to Las Vegas.

Danny Ocean: Has everybody eaten? Good.

Danny Ocean: Everybody sober?

Danny Ocean: Close enough. Before we start, nobody's on the line here yet.

Danny Ocean: What I'm about to propose is highly lucrative and highly dangerous.

Danny Ocean: If that's not your brand of vodka eat as much as you like and have a safe journey. No hard feelings. Otherwise come with me.

[After Danny's speech everybody follows him into the mansion.]

This extract shows how Danny introduces the rest of the coup to some initial information of his plan. It is striking that no other person tries to interrupt Danny or even tries to add something. After Danny speaks everybody follows him without any comment. This extract serves as an example for the “single floor”. Danny opens the conversational floor and the rest of the group does not try to enter the conversational floor.

2. Men Friends Talking

The SSJ model of turn-taking describes men's talk as “one speaker speaks at a time” conversations, in which no audible gaps and no overlaps occur. Another feature of the ssj model is that the next speaker predicts the end of the current speaker's talk.[4]

Example 2: 00:54:16 – 00:55:32 min

[The gang is watching Yen practicing the robbery inside of a re-staged vault. Suddenly Basher Tarr comes in...]

1-Basher Tarr: Window or aisle, boys?

2-Basher Tarr: Yeah, we are in deep shit.

3-Basher Tarr: That poxy demo crew didn't back the main line.

4-Basher Tarr: They naused up the mainframe. Naused it up!

5-Reuben Tishkoff: You understand him?

6-Livingston Dell: I'll explain later.

7-Bashar Tarr: Listen! They are so pony they blew the backup grids by one.

8-Danny Ocean. Basher, what happened?

9-Bashar Tarr: They did what I would have done but by accident. Now They know their weakness, they are fixing it.

10-Danny Ocean: So...

11-Bashar Tarr: So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we are in Barney.

12-Short silent interruption of 2 seconds.

13-Bashar Tarr: Barney Rubble. Trouble!

14-Danny Ocean: We could always--

15-Rusty Ryan: By tomorrow?

16-Basher Tarr: Hang on a minute, hang on. We could use a pinch.

17-Danny Ocean: What's a pinch?

18-Bashar Tarr: A device which creates a cardiac arrest for broadband circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb without the bomb. When a nuclear weapon detonates, its electromagnetic pulse, which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. It usually doesn't matter because a nuclear weapon destroys everything. A pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, without mass destruction and death. Instead of Hiroshima you get the 17th century.

19-Rusty Ryan: How long?

20-Bashar Tarr: 30 seconds.

21-Danny Ocean: Could a pinch knock out the power of an entire city? Like for instance--

22-Bashar Tarr: Las Vegas? Yeah, I think it might. There is only one pinch big enough to do it.

23-Danny Ocean: Where?

24-Bashar Tarr: Laughs

In this scene, the gang listens to Bashar explaining the issue with the pinch. Everybody listens closely because if this problem does not get fixed the whole coup is going to fail. Line 10 shows how the speakers take turns almost without any interruption. Ryan expected Bashar to end the sentence and utters a simple “so...” in order to signal Bashar that he should go on. There are almost no gaps during the conversation. In line 14, Danny says “We could always” and Ryan finishes the sentence by saying “By tomorrow”. It seems like Danny does not even want to complete the sentence. This is why Ryan completes the sentence in order to leave no gap during the conversation. A similar feature appears in line 21 where Danny says “Like for instance...” and suddenly Bashar says “Las Vegas”.

Danny's Questions serves here as a rhetorical question because everybody knows that their coup is going to take place in Las Vegas. Bashar finishes the sentence as a kind of release and solution of their issue. It is striking that despite the robbers are in trouble the conversation contains no overlaps. The speakers predict the end of the current speaker or finish the sentence of the speaker in order to avoid gaps.

3. Nominating The Next Speaker

The previous examples are typical conversations in which the speaker holds the floor without the expectation that someone else interrupts. The following example shows how the single floor opens up and gives space for other participants to speak.

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Example 3: 00:59:22 –1:00:50 h

[Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell leave the elevator and enter an apartment where the rest of the crew is waiting.]

1- Livingston Dell: We have a problem! You have been redflagged. The moment you enter the casino, they'll be watching. Like hawks. Hawks with video cameras.

2- Danny Ocean: That's a problem.

3- Danny Ocean: Saul, turn that off!

4- Saul Bloom: I turn it off, when I'm ready.

5- Danny Ocean: SAUL! (yells)

6- Saul Bloom: It's off! It's off!

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