![]() The casinos provided excitement for their customers, and made fabulous amounts of money for the mob. Everything looks brighter and more vibrant than it really was. The colours in Goodfellas seem grungy by comparison with the digitally edited photography employed in Casino. If Goodfellas portrayed the gangster life as one of glamour and success, then Casino takes this a step further. In this version of events, Rothstein boasts about the time that he spent running the Tangiers, the biggest casino in the area (not a real one, I might add). Events in the film were inspired by the life of Frank Rosenthal, who is here called Ace Rothstein (Robert de Niro). There was indeed a brief time in the 1970s when the mob ran the casinos. ![]() This is part of a four-part examination of three Martin Scorsese gangster films:įor a review of The Irishman, click here.Īs with Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese based Casino on real-life events. ![]()
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