Ace Rothstein has never lost a bet once he found a winning formula… Until he left it all to chance and for a street walker, no less. 'Absent from my initial observations (watching for the first time many years ago) is that, at heart, Casino is a tragedy, and one, ironically, self-inflicted to a degree. This is an excerpt from a review I wrote on Casino: It is really thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end. It's a very long movie, but somehow it really doesn't feel like it. Hopefully, some of you guys will appreciate what I'm talking about.Īs Kanye West would say: 'damn, they don't make them like this anymore.'Įdit: since this post has gained some exposure I also wanted to point out that I love many more things about Casino, especially its pace. I truly believed they hated each other during certain scenes and the fear a man like Ace puts in the heart of Ginger is truly reflected in her acting and in De Niro's stern looks. I think Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone together had such incredible on-screen chemistry. She manages to look experienced, naive, and calculating at the same time when she realizes he's for real. His life is gambling, he breathes it and eats it every day, and at this time, he's so confident he can change Ginger that he just bets it all on a less-than-sure thing (to say the least). First of all, it's exactly the kind of lingo Sam Rothstein would be using. GINGER: What, are you trying to handicap me?ĪCE: I'm gonna do you one better.

Don't you think it's time? Aren't you gettin' tired of all this shit? Bangin' around, hustlin' around?

Here's the scene, and I'm quoting from the screenplay:ĪCE: We're not getting any younger. Scorsese is totally making me see things, but I just LOVE the scene in which Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) asks Ginger (Sharon Stone) to marry him. Perhaps I'm just crazy and my love for the movie Casino (1995) directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Nicolas Pileggi and the aforementioned Mr.

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