Number 242 on IMDb's Top 250
Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas, attempts a civilized lifestyle with his money-conditional wife, Ginger (Sharon Stone). Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a boyhood friend of Ace and now a Made-Man of the Mafia, arrives in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that soon disrupts Ace's life. Before long, hilarity ensues as Ginger and her long-time leeching lover Lester (James Woods), along with Nicky's mistakes, causing problems.
Trivia: The word "F***" is said 422 times, including in the narration - 2.4 times per minute on average. The blackjack cheats were using a technique known as "spooking". It is highly illegal. The movie is based on the career of casino boss Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal as portrayed by Robert De Niro's character Sam "Ace" Rothstein. The character played by Joe Pesci, Nicky Santoro, was based on the real-life gangster Tony "The Ant" Spilotro. To avoid the continuity problems that accompany a chain-smoking movie character, Robert De Niro always held his cigarettes the same distance from the lit end so that their lengths never appear to change. The 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. Casino was filmed entirely in the Las Vegas Valley. The casino and office scenes were filmed in the famed Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip and the driving scene in the beginning of the movie was filmed on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas, which is no longer open to automobile traffic.
What is it with good ganster movies having to be so dang long? This movie was 2 minutes shy of three hours, The Godfather 2:55, The Godfather Part II 3:20, Goodfellas 2:20, Once Upon A Time in America 3:49. This movie was by far the most pastel of those movies with De Niro wearing pinks and line greens and tangerine suits and stuff. Out of the three main characters, I would say Sharon Stone did the best but she also had the character with the most emotional swings. De Niro was his solid self playing very natural as he always does, so easy it doesn't look like he is acting. And then there is Pesci. Joe Pesci is a solid actor and did very well in the role, but he always plays the same type of character, there isn't much difference between his characters in Casino, Goodfellas, or Once Upon A Time In America. Hey, I just noticed that, Pesci was in three of the five movie I mentioned above, but more interesting really is that De Niro is in four of the five just missing out on The Godfather. I guess he and Pesci make good gangsters. Another interesting thing about this movie is the narration, it is prevelent all the way through the movie and I like how it switches back and forth between De Niro and Pesci.
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Ok, maybe it's just me but every time I think of Joe Pesci, (now with a little Italian background on my plate I think of fish), but most often, I think of My Cousin Vinny (what is a yut?) or Home Alone. I guess since I've not seen him in anything other than the annoying funny Italianish character, I don't get him in a mob movie. I need to watch more mob movies I guess. Joe Pesci just is too much funny little man to me to be characterized with De Niro or Pacino.
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