In Ocean's Eleven we finally get to see the Rat Pack together in film. A strong sense of masculinity is in place here but what makes it interesting is the somewhat various styles presented through each character. Frank Sinatra fits the playboy persona for all its worth while Dean Martin shows more of a feminine side while still being masculine, take the scene in which he calls himself mother for instance. Peter Lawford's holds a peculiar form of vulnerability and his economic place in the story sets him aside from the working class model for masculinity. Sammy Davis Jr. plays more like a buddy-character to Danny Ocean which is strangely similar to his off-screen friendship with Frank Sinatra.
A great scene in which these masculinities are displayed is when they are all playing pool and talking about girls and money. Frank Sinatra appears the most progressive stating that he'd end miss universe and invite girls to exotic locations and talk to them (making them less like objects) while Peter Lawford takes the power approach wherein he describes that with power he would order women to go with him and use money to go into politics whether this could be viewed as a slant on conservatives or liberals depends on your camp while Dean Martin jokingly takes the politics approach a step further by suggesting taking women's rights to vote away and bring back slavery. All the while Sammy Davis brings nothing to the table except backing everyone up and making small jokes.
Overall Ocean's Eleven presents the Rat Pack in all it's glory, its more of a buddy film which just so happens to involve a casino heist in Las Vegas. The characters seem to more or less mirror the actors that portray them and the fact that the film takes place in Las Vegas makes it all the more easy to feel like we're watching the Rat Pack being the Rat Pack and not actors working together in a film.
FUN FACT: the guy who plays Duke Santos in this movie is none other than Cesar Romero: the first man to ever play the Joker on screen and famously refused to shave his mustache for the role.
