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"Casino is perhaps the first gangster movie to use the mob as a backdrop instead of a subject. It's basically a three character drama about people who happen to have mob ties. Unlike another Scorsese film, GoodFellas, the protagonist sees being a gangster as a job instead of a lifestyle. The protagonist is a Jewish gangster named Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), who is given the job of running a Las Vegas casino resort for a close friend who just happens to be a mafia don. Sam does his job well, mostly because he is an expert at gambling. He only hurts people who cheat him. Although not a fine upstanding citizen, by mob standards he's a saint. And this finally etched character is why the movie is so compelling. Sam is unlike any wiseguy we've ever seen in the movies. He does what needs to get done, but never seems drunk with power. He likes gambling more than violence. He is apprehensive when his hit man friend from out east, Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) moves to Vegas in search o ... "
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"Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and
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"Let’s face it, fellow film bloggers, we don’t have many readers who don’t have film blogs of their own. The world of cinephilia is quite cannibalistic, and we need each other to survive. However, we don’t just feed on ourselves. We also are part of an extended food chain that includes filmmakers, many of whom nowadays are also or were once cinephiles themselves. These filmmakers like to borrow, pay homage and reference movies of the past more than they like to advance the craft forward with distinct and/or innovative style. But admit it, you sometimes like the movie references, at least if you like the movie being referenced. And maybe sometimes your judgment is a little clouded by all those obscure bits that you feel cool for having gotten. Paul Soter’s Watching the Detectives looks like yet another movie that only us cinephiles are made to enjoy, which is unfortunate since many of us are too pretentious to admit that we’d enjoy just any movie about a fellow movie geek working at ... "
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