![]() Although the movie producers got the numbering system right, the numbers of the rooms aren’t stuck on the lower right of the glass panels of the rooms (especially not in Building 4 – they’re affixed to a placard next to the door). * “4-145,” the blackjack team room, should be one of the first-floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Also, there are other shots of Bay State Road (one artery of the BU campus). Shots outside of Ben’s dorm? Towers Dormitory at BU. * Random hallway with lots of students at one point of the movie – the hallway outside of Tsai Auditorium on BU campus. Exceptions: one lecture hall on the second floor of Building 4 and Sloan lecture halls. long table at each row with built-in swivel chairs). Lecture halls in that format aren’t common at MIT (i.e. * Remember Professor Rosa’s lecture hall (where Ben has his nonlinear equations course)? That’s totally a BU lecture hall. * The movie features THREE MIT alums who had credited parts in the movie. Most of the “in-school” scenes are filmed at BU. * The movie is not shot on MIT campus at all. To be completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book. Actually, aside from the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the fact that they traveled to Vegas and got in trouble with the authorities at the end, most of the side plotlines (and the major plot twist at the very end of the movie) are completely only present in the movie. * The movie is very loosely based on the actual book, Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. ![]() Although this might viably be a mistake on the movie producer’s part, it’s important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school (especially med school), they will recalculate your GPA to fit into a 4.0 scale anyway, so I don’t think this is such a big error as people make it out to be. * A lot of people made a big deal about Ben’s supposed “4.0 GPA” at MIT, which would be a B average here (because we work on a 5.0 scale). Although Ben quickly makes enough money to cover his medical tuition and then some more, he must come face to face with the implications of his increasingly souring relationship with Micky Rosa, as well as the bitter reality of law enforcement – reincarnated as the cold card-counter-turned-cop, Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne). Through “17 weekends” in the City of Sin, Ben discovers the high-rolling life, explores his boundaries with women, and snubs his close friends back at MIT. Ben initially declines, but with increasing pressure from Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), a current (and very seductive) team member, Ben caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would “quit after $300,000.” Through a trial by fire at a sketchy Chinatown gambling den, Ben performs brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members – Micky, Jill, kleptomaniac Choi (Aaron Yoo), dazzling Kianna (Liza Lapira), and the hot-headed Fisher (Jacob Pitts). Impressing his nonlinear equations professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) with his outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT blackjack team. Moreover, he is bored with his life as an academic superstar and breezing through his courses with little excitement (or success with girls). Synopsis: ( some spoilers for the first hour of the movie)īen Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to Harvard Med School, after attaining 1590 SAT, 44 MCAT, and a 4.0 GPA * at MIT. * Check out “General Observations” below. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT.
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