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alt title(s): Casino
No one stays at the top forever.
A 1995 film starring
Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro, and a few dozen fur coats and dresses as Sharon Stone's wardrobe.
- Okay, that was only partly a Take That. Given the subject of the film, it only makes sense to have some people dressing lavishly.
Anyway, until
the early 1980s,
The Mafia had a huge stake in Las Vegas. But while they ran the casinos, they didn't run the town. They had to use fronts to get their men in to run everything. One of these men was Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who unofficially ran three casinos for the bosses in Chicago. His work, and involvement with the fall of organized crime in Vegas, was the basis for this film.
The film is loosely based on the years between when he started running the casinos, and when he nearly died in a car bomb. Although the film isn't an exact account of what happened in that time (a lot of that is more
Artistic License than
Did Not Do The Research), it does provide a good overview of it.
It also got a lot of criticism for being not much different than
Goodfellas, largely due to
Martin Scorsese directing it the same way, and for some characters having a really close resemblance to similar characters in the last movie. Being significantly longer didn't help either.
But on its own, it's not bad. Just be prepared for some
Padding at points.
This film provided examples of:
- Ax Crazy: Nicky
- Badass Decay: Justified. As Nicky gets more into drugs, he isn't as tough anymore.
- The Casino: Of course.
- Cluster F Bomb: The entire movie. In fact, it currently holds the (dubious) honor of having the most F-Bombs in American movie history. 398, according the The Other Wiki, a classy 2.23 FPM (fucks per minute). This naturally leads to some funny Unusual Euphemisms when the film is edited for television.
- Ending Fatigue
- Eye Scream: The scene with the vise.
- Feed Me: In the second half of the movie, Ginger degenerates into this.
- Girlish Pigtails: Amy, which may have been to highlight that she's innocent in all this.
- Glory Days: Especially the ending.
- Good Bad Bugs: Rothstein is saved from a carbomb due to a balancing problem in his Cadillac that had necessitated a heavy steel plate being installed under the driver's seat.
- Heroic Sociopath: Nicky, until his Karmic Death.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The vise scene and bat scene. One because of Nicky, and the other is done to Nicky.
- Hollywood History: Probably justified. For one thing, a lot what happened in the film actually happened in Kansas City, Missouri. Given that the film is about Vegas, it's understandable that the filmmakers wanted to keep the action around there.
- Hookers And Blow
- The Load: In the pursuit of his own criminal endeavors, Nicky seriously undermines Rothstein's efforts to run the casino.
- The Mafia
- Mafia Princess: Amy, Sam and Ginger's daughter.
- Melodrama: The opening titles, and the last third of the film seem to do this most.
- No Holds Barred Beatdown: How Nicky gets killed. Nightmare Fuel City.
- The Pesci: Played by the Trope Namer himself.
- Pet The Dog: Nicky's relationship with his son.
- Pretty In Mink. Loads of furs are worn in this movie
◊. It would be easier to list the ladies in the film who didn't wear fur at one point. Even Amy wears a little white fur jacket for half her screen time.
- Taking The Kids: Ginger attempts to do this, but she comes back.
- Viva Las Vegas
