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** The jewellery store owner who gets robbed by Nicky's boys is an actual Las Vegas jeweler. His line "I just got a shipment of diamonds from Israel" was not in the script.

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** The jewellery jewelry store owner who gets robbed by Nicky's boys is an actual Las Vegas jeweler. His line "I just got a shipment of diamonds from Israel" was not in the script.
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* RealitySubtext: Scorsese doesn't share the nostalgia for the GloryDays of Vegas in TheSeventies. But Scorsese was a part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood movement, a period where filmmakers like Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, Creator/RobertAltman, Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/GeorgeLucas ran wild with innovative and provocative movies like ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' or ''Film/TaxiDriver'', an era which was a sort of Wild West of filmmaking, with runaway budgets and the rise of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory. A series of big-budget bombs like Spielberg's ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', Coppola's ''Film/OneFromTheHeart'', Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}}'s ''Film/HeavensGate'' and Scorsese's own ''Film/NewYorkNewYork'', however, saw the New Hollywood era come to an abrupt end -- auteur theory lost out to tight studio control and directors were never again given the same budgets or creative freedom. With that in mind, ''Casino'''s [[EndOfAnAge lament on the death of the old Las Vegas]] takes on a whole new meaning.

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* RealitySubtext: Scorsese doesn't share the nostalgia for the GloryDays of Vegas in TheSeventies. But Scorsese was a part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood MediaNotes/NewHollywood movement, a period where filmmakers like Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, Creator/RobertAltman, Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/GeorgeLucas ran wild with innovative and provocative movies like ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' or ''Film/TaxiDriver'', an era which was a sort of Wild West of filmmaking, with runaway budgets and the rise of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.MediaNotes/TheAuteurTheory. A series of big-budget bombs like Spielberg's ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', Coppola's ''Film/OneFromTheHeart'', Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}}'s ''Film/HeavensGate'' and Scorsese's own ''Film/NewYorkNewYork'', however, saw the New Hollywood era come to an abrupt end -- auteur theory lost out to tight studio control and directors were never again given the same budgets or creative freedom. With that in mind, ''Casino'''s [[EndOfAnAge lament on the death of the old Las Vegas]] takes on a whole new meaning.
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** Alan King plays the mob facilitator Andy Stone.
** Dick Smothers plays a corrupt Nevada senator.
** Kevin Pollak plays Tangiers titular head Philip Green.
** John Bloom, aka Joe Bob Briggs, plays the doofus nephew of a senator who works at the Tangiers.

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** Alan King Creator/AlanKing plays the mob facilitator Andy Stone.
** [[Series/TheSmothersBrothersComedyHour Dick Smothers Smothers]] plays a corrupt Nevada senator.
** Kevin Pollak Creator/KevinPollak plays Tangiers titular head Philip Green.
** John Bloom, aka ''a.k.a.'' Joe Bob Briggs, Briggs[[note]]the comedic movie host of ''Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater''[[/note]], plays the doofus nephew of a senator who works at the Tangiers.



** Creator/RobertDeNiro's tirade at the incompetent casino employee played by Joe Bob Briggs was partly improvised, which includes calling Briggs a "momo." After the take, Scorsese asked De Niro what a "momo" is, and De Niro answered that he wasn't sure.

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** Creator/RobertDeNiro's tirade at the incompetent casino employee played by Joe Bob Briggs John Bloom was partly improvised, which includes calling Briggs a "momo." After the take, Scorsese asked De Niro what a "momo" is, and De Niro answered that he wasn't sure.
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* FakeNationality: Sam Rothstein is Jewish, yet Creator/RobertDeNiro has Italian and Irish ancestry.

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