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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:21_(2008_film).jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| ''"Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!"''}} [[Very Loosely Based Onon a True Story]], namely the book ''Bringing Down The House'', this 2008 movie is about a bunch of MIT students who go to Vegas and make a lot of money via card counting. Features supporting turns from Kevin Spacey as their maths professor, whose approach to things is '''''WRONG'''''<ref> OK, that's the obligatory ''[[Superman]]'' joke done).</ref> and Laurence Fishburne as a casino security officer. Not to be confused with the [[Game Show]] ''[[~~Twenty~~21 ~~One~~(game show)\|21]]''.▼ ▲Not to be confused with the [[Game Show]] ''[[Twenty One\|21]]''. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== This movie contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Adorkable]]: Ben. He's painfully shy, timid, and naive as well as very good looking. * [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: After Ben tells Miles about his crazy experience, all Miles latches on to is that Ben had sex with Jill. * [[Double Caper]] * [[Drink Order]]: The team members are told by their coach to order tonic waters with lime, so that the security personnel watching the cameras won't notice that they aren't drinking any alcohol. Line 17 ⟶ 19: * [[Fixing the Game]]: This is a film entirely about counting cards. They also did that in [[Real Life]]. The consequences are exaggerated in the film. * [[Game Show Problem]]: And not the one where a [[Game Show]] occupies this title in the Main space... * [[Good ~~With~~with Numbers]]: The entire team, obviously. Ben's [[Establishing Character Moment]] is tallying up a customer's (lengthy) order at a clothing store, including knocking off a percentage using his employee discount, and giving the final total, all without needing to use pen and paper or a calculator. * [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Most of the cast, but especially Kate Bosworth's character. * [[Improvised Weapon User]]: Cole's rings, which he keeps around only to use as an ''ad hoc'' set of brass knuckles. Line 26 ⟶ 28: * [[Product Placement]]: Bud Light and a couple of other Anheuser-Busch products got some pretty blatant plugs, complete with conveniently-faced bottle labels. * [[Race Lift]]: In both [[Real Life]] and the book, most of the team was Asian, but all but two are white in the movie. Never mind the black guy who was there in real life. * [[Lecture Asas Exposition]]: Kevin Spacey is playing an MIT professor after all. * [[Scary Black Man]]: Laurence Fishburne as the casino's chief of security. He keeps bag full of rings just for punching people in the face! * {{spoiler\|[[Secret Test]]}}: {{spoiler\|Ben's first time using the system in a live setting is simply a test to make sure he can correctly keep count even under extreme duress.}} * [[Once More, ~~With~~with Clarity]]: The film catches back up to the prologue, and this time it is shown mostly without the flashy closeups. * [[Very Loosely Based Onon a True Story]]: Not only the movie, but the book it was based on as well. * [[Viva Las Vegas]]: In the book and real life they move around a lot, going to every place they can to avoid getting caught. {{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~Twenty~~21 ~~One~~(2008 film)]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:21]] [[Category:Films Based on Books]]