A casino is a place that offers a wide variety of gambling games, often with a high house edge. It can also offer free drinks and food. These amenities are intended to entice players to stay longer and gamble more money. This practice is known as comping. In a way, it\u2019s similar to the strategies used by marketers in other industries.<\/p>\n
A lot of mob films struggle to balance the professional lives of their protagonists with their turbulent personal lives. Goodfellas, for instance, goes a long way to establish Henry Hill\u2019s professional life but is less clear about his personal struggles. Casino is more focused on the latter.<\/p>\n
This is mostly thanks to the excellent performances by its cast. Robert De Niro is once again a charismatic and brooding bad guy but he\u2019s more than just an unstoppable force in the movie. He\u2019s also a bit smaller than usual, as the film doesn\u2019t confuse him for some kind of dashing underworld hero.<\/p>\n
The other standout performance comes from Sharon Stone. She\u2019s the type of femme fatale most men would be tempted to tame, but she\u2019s also the type of opportunistic sex-seeker that many of them wouldn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n
While not up there with Scorsese\u2019s greatest works like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, Casino is still a remarkable movie. It\u2019s also a great showcase of his unmatched camera sense, with the film gliding across the screen in a frenzy of angles, movements, and framing without ever slowing down or stopping. It also features a few truly hellacious scenes, including a torture-by-vice sequence that had to be trimmed for an NC-17 rating and a baseball bat-beating scene that\u2019s both shockingly edited and perfectly designed with sound effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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