For those who sleep through the night, there’s a gangster movie masterpiece that sees the Goodfellas trio at their best again: Martin Scorsese’s Casino, starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, is on TV.
Casino was inspired by a real story
Scorsese once again collaborated on Casino with writer Nicholas Pileggi, who penned the template for GoodFellas: Three Decades in the Mafia. This time the two adapted Pileggi’s factual book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas, which tells how the mafia made money from the boom in the gambling metropolis in the 1970s.
The story centers on “Ace” Rothstein (Robert De Niro), who is sent to Nevada by the gangsters to run the new casino in Tangiers. Together with his man for the rough (Joe Pesci), he enforces the criminal interests, but private and professional complications cloud the paradise in which the dollars flow.
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De Niro was inspired by Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, while Sharon Stone plays a fictionalized version of his wife, Geri McGee. Stone received some of the best reviews of her career for her performance and an Oscar nomination.
While Casino doesn’t enjoy the same cult status as Goodfellas, it does impress as a further development of Scorsese’s Confrontation with the existence of gangsters as a gloomy vision of advancement within American society. In Casino, he goes a few steps further to show the gap between self-portrayal and the brutal reality of Ace and co.
How to watch Martin Scorsese Casino
Casino will be in the Night from Monday to Tuesday from 00:25 a.m. on MDR aired. If you want to catch up on the film, you have to grab the disc, since the Scorsese classic is currently not available in a streaming flat rate, nor in the purchase or rental version. If you’re up for more Scorsese and De Niro, you can watch Taxi Driver on Arte today from 8:15 p.m.
Fortunately, we only have to wait a few months until the master director’s next epic. Killers of the Flower Moon will start in German cinemas on October 19, 2023. This film is also based on a true story, but it took place in the 1920s. Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and casino star Robert De Niro star. The running time is over 200 minutes this time.
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