Casino, bustling nothingness

Braxton 2021-10-13 13:05:51

The gambling city, the prosperous emptiness
For a person who enters the casino, he will bet more and more, because when he wins 10,000, he sees that he does not win 10,000, but loses 90,000.

---------------- From Casino to Casino, Casino from

Casino is the last part of Grandpa Ma, the gangster trilogy, the same Robert De Niro, the same Joe Paisi, it seems The original crew of the good guys, the only one who has more is our beautiful and sexy Sharon Stone. This movie is a movie that men like. When the damn Nemo inserted a pen into the throat of his friend to provoke his friend, I believe that all men should be enthusiastic. Although this method is simple and rude, it tells us in the most primitive way. Everyone, don't mess with us, don't mess with our friends. This is the way men like, the way real men like.
I don’t know why. For Robert De Niro, his badness is always righteous, bad is justified and well-founded. If you are bad, don’t you think he is bad. For Joe Paixi, he is bad, bad and ruthless. The evil spirit, the bad one makes you scared. Two kinds of bad together, really make you have to be in ecstasy.
Women in Grandpa Ma’s movies are all bad things. The beautiful and sexy Jinjier abruptly messes with the wise Rothstein. As always, the bosses are equally stupid, money is equally seductive, and women are the same with only a trace of soul decoration. Brotherhood is always so vulnerable to temptation. A man advancing towards materiality is always sad, whether he is dead or alive.
This movie is very long, but not boring. Among all the gambling movies, I think there is nothing that can surpass this one. Fa Ge’s windbreaker, the special function of the star, the handsome face of Hua Zai, although I like it very much, but If we talk about the depth and breadth, at least it is unprecedented in gambling movies. Let's talk less nonsense, let's watch the wonderful plot and dialogue.

One sentence introduction: fuck, fuck, fuck………….

1, a woman like a snake
Wonderful dialogue: Ginger: I should've never married Sam. He's a Gemini, TRIPLE Gemini. Gemini's a snake, you can't trust the snake.
Ginger: I should not marry Sam. He is Gemini, triple Gemini. Geminis are snakes, you can't believe in snakes.


Maybe this sentence should be more appropriate for sam. Sam is not like a snake, but Jinjier is more like it. Maybe, money is not the only thing that maintains relationships. They all thought wrong at the beginning, and they value money too much. Function and neglect the feelings. In the end, Jinjier’s death made me feel pitiful and sad.


2. The
wonderful dialogue of the moral toilet : Ace Rothstein: Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.
Ace Rothstein: Opening a casino is like robbing a bank without the police. For people like me, Las Vegas can wash away my sins. It is like an ethical washing workshop.

Perhaps this sentence reveals the true essence of the casino ecology. In fact, it is robbing the bank without the police, or the police and you are robbing the bank in partnership. Sam has a deep knowledge, a deep understanding of casinos, and a deep understanding of himself. People like him can only survive in Las Vegas, in a moral washing workshop, so that the evil cloth is no longer a sin, but one by one. Zhang's blood-stained certificate.



3 The temptation of casinos,
wonderful dialogue: Billy Sherbert: (to the winner) That's a lot of money to be counting out in public.
Billy Sherbert: (To the winner) The money is too much to be counted in public.


Perhaps this is the most sincere temptation of the casino to gamblers, but this usually only stays at the level of temptation. This sentence is not more appropriate for the gambler to say to the casino. The biggest winner can never be a gambler. It's not even a casino, just someone behind it.


4, come out to mix, sooner or later want to change
Dialogue: A Plane Crash-the Just Landed at The Golf Course, ON)
Ace Rothstein: the feds were at The Watching Nicky Long Play Golf for SO RAN OUT of that They Gas.
(A plane just crashed in golf (On the court)
Ace Rothstein: The FBI people watched Nicky play golf for too long and finally ran out of gas.


Is this line very black? Does Nicky look really awesome? The FBI that monitored him found that the plane was out of fuel. On the one hand, we can see that Nicky is indeed very arrogant. Second, we can also. Seeing that he is not far from bad luck, when I saw this, I guessed that either the police were dealing with it, or the old guys in his hometown were going to deal with him. The scenery of the bosses is infinitely different, but it is the same when unfortunately. When you come out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later, it's just a matter of time.


5. Gamblers,
wonderful dialogue in the casino: Ace Rothstein: In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all .
Ace Rothstein: In the casino, the most important thing is to let them come back after playing. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end everything belongs to us.


This time, Sam’s opponent was a ghostly Japanese. I heard that some casinos were destroyed on Bird Island. He won money at Sam Casino and wanted to get on the plane, and Sam asked someone to do tricks on the plane, and finally This Japanese uncle, lost everything, this is Sam's view on this matter, once again tell us a truth, in the long run. Gamblers will never be able to play in casinos, and they will never be able to play bankers.


6, a
wonderful dialogue with a wolf-like man ; Nicky is a natural villain, he dares to deal with no matter how big he is. You use your fist against Nicky, and he will hit back with a bat; if you use a knife on him, he will use the gun to return the color. If you shoot him, then it is best to kill him... because he will never end. Revenge until one of you and him dies.


If Jin Jier is a woman like a snake, then Uncle Nicky is a man like a wolf. This is a very objective description of him. You will know that this is not an exaggeration after watching the movie.


7. Where is this?
Wonderful dialogue: Ace Rothstein: Back home, they put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they give me awards.
Ace Rothstein: Back home, because of what I did they would send me to prison. And here, they also reward me.



This is Las Vegas!


8, the sorrow of men
Wonderful dialogue: Ace Rothstein: When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.
Ace Rothstein: If you fall in love with someone, you have to believe them. There is no other way. You have to give them the keys to all your things. Otherwise, what's the point? I once believed that I had such a love.


This sentence itself is correct, but the most terrifying thing is that the other party doesn't love you. Sam Smart I just didn't see this through, so he failed. I hope everyone doesn't like this. Otherwise, smart and sam can't handle it well, let alone other things.



Behind the scenes
• The word "Fuck" is said 439 times in the film, including in the narrative. Calculated that is an average of 2.4 times per minute.
•Sharon Stone spent many unbearably long working days on the set. She had an old back injury and was wearing the 45-pound beaded pajamas in the film.
• Madonna was considered to play Ginger, but Sharon Stone eventually persuaded Scorsese to let him play.
• The writer and screenwriter of "Goodfellas" Nicholas Pelej Peregi still wants to write the whole story as a documentary novel and then into a script like "Goodfellas". However, during the five-year creative process, he encountered a lot of resistance. Those casino bosses and behind-the-scenes masters were unwilling to confide in him and reminisce about the past. They didn’t seem to care that the writer would write a book for themselves, especially the focus of this book, Frank Rowe, nicknamed "left-handed". Cental. Fortunately, news came out from the media at this time that Pelegy's book will be brought to the screen by Scorsese, and the protagonist will be Robert De Niro. As a result, the gambling tycoons were all interested, and Rosenthal even took the initiative to ask to meet his idol De Niro. Peleji's creation is finally getting better.
• The kind of trick used when playing blackjack poker is called "Spooking", which is highly illegal.
• The entire film was shot in Las Vegas, including the famous Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Fremont Street, where the driving scene was shot at the beginning of the filming, is no longer open to vehicles.
• The characters involved in the film often come to the set to provide some key information.
• Director Martin Scorsese hired some real parole prisoners to provide information about the plot, and also hired FBI agents who arrested them.
• There are many details in the film that are related to "The Good Guy". For example, Joe Pessi said "What's right is right." to Frank Vincent before he was killed. The Chinese center of "Good Guy" was killed by Pessi. The same thing was said before.
• Sharon took this opportunity very seriously. As soon as she arrived at the shooting scene, she constantly "harassed" Martin with various questions, which eventually annoyed the great director. Martin asked her angrily: "Sharon, what do you want?" Sharon said, "I hope you can be tough on me and push me to the extreme that you never thought of." Martin agreed. In subsequent shootings, Sharon showed great initiative and put forward a lot of constructive comments on the role of Ginger.
• In the Oscar selection, Sharon Stone was nominated for an unprecedented actress. Although she lost to Susan Sarandon, she was nominated for the Worst Actress in the Golden Raspberry Award in the previous few years. , This is already a miracle.



After watching this movie, the most direct feeling to me is that almost every sentence is fucked. Fuck is the essence of American culture. This is how Grandpa Ma’s gangster movies are. No one’s script lines can be more direct, vivid, than his. Complicated and rough, everyone's mouth seems to be able to speak flowers, as if every punch hits your forehead, and then it hurts in your heart. When De Niro kept yelling "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck" in his mouth, and when Joe Pesci plunged his pen into the body of the bastard who provokes his best friend, there is no other place for that kind of refreshing energy. Can find it. Martin's movies can reveal the most desperate hardcore and the most careless softness of men, because women in his movies never do anything good.
Maybe this is the real ecology of the casino! This is also one of the best works of Grandpa Lao


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Extended Reading
  • Cordie 2022-03-25 09:01:03

    The two-line narration is over-the-line, and the camera switching flows smoothly. It tells a very ambitious story for three hours. Watching the gangster p movie is Martin Scorsese

  • Rosalind 2022-04-22 07:01:02

    It's always from hell to paradise and then to hell, and then all over again. Back then, the small technical loopholes were quite obvious, and the old horse's story was told very patiently and slowly. The classics from more than ten years ago are there, and the gangster films after more than ten years are everywhere with no distortion or traces of blue.

Casino quotes

  • Ginger: I should have never married him. He's a Gemini. A triple Gemini - duality. Gemini's the snake. You know you can't trust the snake. I mean it.

  • Nicky Santoro: [voice over] You gotta know that a guy who helps you steal, even if you take care of him real well, I mean, he's gonna steal a little bit extra for himself. Makes sense, don't it? Right?