Extended Reading
  • Gerry 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    A thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and a thousand trees spring ahead of the sick tree

    In 1976, the people of the state voted to open a casino, and the renovation was completed in 1978, making it the second largest casino in the United States. The film was shot in 1980, and Louis Mahler keenly seized this opportunity.

    It is also thanks to the transformation of Atlantic City that the...

  • Rubye 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    The old man chats about teenage madness

    From Ma Gongzi's point of view, Atlantic City is like a rising third world city, such as Japan in the 1970s, South Korea in the 1980s, Taiwan in the 1990s, and now the mainland. People are running around to make money in a materialistic society. The instability of life and the happiness that comes...

  • Vicenta 2022-03-23 09:03:29

    There is always a vague sense of morality in Louis Mahler's films. Although it is a Hollywood movie, the camera movement style and the soundtrack surrounding the image are still very French. In the 1980s, Atlantic City was revived. The camera focused on the newly built casinos and the plank road left over from the golden age. It was a new era after the era of gangster rule, and there are still the old gangsters like Lou who boasted about their dreams. It is also a nugget for outsiders who are looking for a new life like Sally. In the moment when they brush shoulders, there is the spark of money and the erotic tension of peeping through the window. Drug dealing and gang threats help them complete their respective life stages. The mission, the desire and crime of Atlantic City during the prohibition period have been tossed to today, it is the retrospect of old age, and the escape of Shao Ai.

  • Dave 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    Atlantic City had floy floy coming out of its ears in those days. Now it's all so goddamn legal. Howard Johnson running a casino.

Atlantic City quotes

  • Sally: What about Grace?

    Lou: She came down here during the war - a beauty contest.

    Sally: Oh, for Miss America?

    Lou: Nothing like that. More like - Miss Pinball Machine.

  • Lou: I watch you.

    Sally: Huh?

    Lou: The place where we live. I watch you.

    Sally: Through my window?

    Lou: You saw me?

    Sally: I figured maybe somebody was there.

    Lou: Did you know it was me?

    Sally: You were just this guy across the way.