Rewind Wednesday: Baller Style

Well today I felt real lucky, so I figured I would roll the dice and see what I can get ... And I came up with the 1995 crime drama film Casino.

It is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. Robert De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Jewish chain-smoking top gambling handicapper who is called by the Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on the late Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s.

This three-hour long film definitely will not bore you at all, as a matter of fact it will keep you excited and on edge until the very end. Casino is one of the best movies made especially mob-crime story. I can recall seeing this in the theater and just sitting in awe!! And for all my film director heads do you recall the use of the long camera shot effect done by director Martin Scorsese...just beautiful!! Casino is one of those films that truly showcases Sharon Stone as a prime actress, so good that she won an Acdemy Award for her role of De Niro's girl. In addition to the shining star of Sharon Stone she is definitely compliemented by the roles from Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.

Now I found this most interesting right here...When released, Casino had the most uses of the word "fuck"(422) in a feature length film, but was outdone two years later by the film Nil by Mouth although it remains the highest number of uses of the word in an American film excluding documentaries. Casino has been considered a companion piece to Scorsese's earlier film, Goodfellas (1990), which also starred De Niro and Pesci. (Wikipedia)

Now Casino was heavily crtiticized for the excessive violence and superfluous amounts of blood but yet in still it recieved pretty high reviews. The combined consensus of opinions ranged from "fascinating to a cozy little epic, to pure Scorsese!!"

And for a little bit more of your viewing pleasure a CLASSIC scene with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.