casino : intro to movie
Casino 1995 movie is a classic movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is considered one of the best movies that talks about the world of gambling, the money that is circulated in it, and the influence that protects this world, whether represented by authority or crime gangs. It shows us how things go behind the curtain, and all of this is presented in a wonderful and unusual framework, in which you see all of this intertwined with each other, through a very elaborate plot, that makes you delve more and more into the details, and mixes all of this with the personal interests that everyone wants to achieve for himself, even if that conflicts with the entire system.
casino robert deniro : The name of the movie Casino is associated with the name of Robert De Niro, for the high performance given by the giant Robert De Niro, in this masterpiece that will not be repeated.
The events of the movie take place in Las Vegas in the seventies, where poker games were widespread and attracted everyone, and unlimited money was pumped into them, and a certain number of businessmen benefited from them, and this money needed special protection and supervision so that no one could steal it. It must be legalized and not suspected, to avoid falling into the clutches of the police and the government.
The intertwined events in this movie and the main characters provide us with an unique mythical field that makes you wait eagerly to see how the matter will end, and makes this movie one of the best works presented in history.
Description of the main characters
The movie introduces us to its main characters at first, and shows us the nature of each of them, their qualities, goals, advantages and disadvantages.
There is Sam, who has a strong ambition, and knows how to achieve it, relying on his sharp intelligence, his unusual vision in the world of betting, and his reading of the characters around him. Despite using his intelligence and mind to evaluate all his affairs, he let his heart control the choice of one decision, which had a great impact on his life, and caused him a big predicament that we will show when the time comes.
The second character is Nicky, Sam's close friend, who is characterized by excessive violence that reaches the point of recklessness, and rarely uses his mind to calculate actions before doing them, but rather relies on the principle of force, violence and frightening others with his anger. He also has a terrible ambition to achieve huge gains of money, and does not care about using any illegal methods to do so, so these mistakes will lead him in the end to a very bad consequence that we will see later.
The third character is Ginger, a professional cheater who is characterized by excessive beauty and vitality, and she exploits that to earn the largest amount of money, through the world of gambling and men, as she is able to reach the hearts of many and subject them to her desires, and despite that, she has a huge weakness towards a man named Lester, and she is also characterized by rebellion even if it is against her interest, and we will see later how this will affect her life.
There is also Lester who is in a relationship with Ginger, and exploits her to make money without the slightest effort on his part, and controls her in a strange way, which changed many things in her life that led to a very bad ending.
The beginning and important events
The events begin in Las Vegas, where Sam's extraordinary abilities in the world of gambling and betting are used to manage a large casino for a group of businessmen, and their profits from this casino are traded and transferred to them in a regular manner. Sam is the first person responsible for everything that happens inside the casino, so his full focus is on him. This group of businessmen finds that Sam needs very special protection, because he was the reason for doubling the profits since he took over the management of the casino. They decide to bring his friend Nicky into this world, in order to protect him and protect their interests with him, but their decision was ill-considered, and it was the reason for many problems that we will discuss in succession.
Sam cares about the small details inside the casino, and is always keen to see things directly, which made him see Ginger fooling around and having fun with others, and he began to watch her carefully because he liked her very much, and he knew that his relationship with her would cost him a lot of money, but he was fascinated by her, which made him neglect his intelligence a lot, and his relationship with her began to deepen, and she was interested in making money from him and others, she controlled everyone except Lester who was completely controlling her.
Nicky appeared in Las Vegas and met Sam, and suggested to him the idea of moving to Las Vegas, so Sam warned him that the situation is different in the city, and that he should not draw attention to himself, but Nicky did not see the city as anything but a river of money, which would certainly pour into his pocket.
Nicky and his family began to integrate into the Las Vegas community, and he began his work in terrorizing anyone who dared to harm Sam's work in the club. They were fraudsters and many gangs who knew him and feared him at the same time. This was very useful for Sam's work, while he focused on the strange ways in which some people profited from the club, and he exposed their fraud very intelligently, then he destroyed them and sent messages through them to all the fraudsters who dared to try to steal the club. Because of this, the profits increased greatly, and Sam began to relax a little, to take an important step for his personal life, which was to propose to Ginger.
On their wedding night, Ginger called Lester and cried. Her marriage was a financial guarantee for the rest of her life, while for Sam it was love for the girl he liked, and stability for his own life. but he saw her crying while talking to Lester, and she tried to convince him at the time that she was saying goodbye to him, so he told her that it was okay, but that part of her life was over, and she was now with him, so she agreed to that immediately.
Sam deposited a large sum of money in a bank as insurance for him, in case he was arrested for any reason, and the control of spending this sum was in the hands of Ginger, who began to trust her with his life and money, since she was his loyal wife, of course, and he also deposited money and gold in her name as insurance for her future, and this made her very happy, while on the other hand, Nicky and his gang tried to make money in every way, especially through their gambling and cheating inside the club, and this greatly annoyed Sam, because he knew that the gambling control agents were monitoring all of this, and he tried to warn Nicky about it, but he only believed in the principle of power and others’ fear of him, so he did not care and continued to make money.
Sam came up with new ways to attract more gamblers and bettors, so he opened betting offices inside the club, and brought in some famous show bands as well, and continued to highlight his ideas that all gambling clubs sought to imitate, at the same time that Nicky protected Sam and the interests of the businessmen inside the club, which made that gambling club the best in the area, and he was honored for that in a big party.
Nicky was banned from entering gambling clubs in Las Vegas, and any club that violated that was fined. It even reached the point that just seeing Sam with him anywhere could bring down Sam as well, which was what Sam had warned him about in advance, and Nicky did not care about that at the time. This prompted Nicky to form his own gang, so he invited some criminals in addition to his brother to be with him in Las Vegas, and indeed they were there to start his own activities in making money by all illegal means such as theft and extortion, and he formed a good number of informants cooperating with him from all walks of life in Las Vegas, to continue to collect money by all means, then he began to launder his money through real and legal projects, such as jewelry stores, restaurants and other projects, to become over time a major criminal and financial force in the city.
Things continued in the same manner for a while, between Sam's interest in all matters of the casino, and its development in various ways, and Nicky's interest in imposing his dominance over everything, with crimes of all kinds committed by his gang, to gain more money, a share of which he would send to businessmen, until one day Ginger did something stupid, she tried to bring some money to Lester, from their money in the bank, and Nicky was watching her so he informed Sam, who went to them and surprised them while they were sitting in the restaurant, and he kicked Lester out, so Sam's men beat him severely, and then he and Ginger left while Nicky was watching them.
After that, Nicky met Ginger in a private place, and she was complaining and trying to explain the matter to Nicky, who told her that Sam was jealous of her because he was infatuated with her, but she was completely drunk, and tried to justify the matter by saying that Lester was a friend, and that Sam knew that from the beginning of their marriage, then she tried to get close to Nicky, who was a bit embarrassed, but he ended the situation by comforting her, and told her that he would try to talk to Sam about what happened.
the tension of events
First, there was a problem of some of the money being leaked to some of the workers in the counting room, and it was logical that some would steal a very small part of the winnings, and this would please him so that he would not do anything bigger than that, or even allow a bigger theft to happen, but this did not please the businessmen to whom all the profits go, so they brought someone to prevent that, but he was not efficient or smart at all, and we will know why in a moment.
Second, and this is the most important and difficult part, the person named Green, who is the president of the gambling club on paper only, got involved in a partnership with a woman who financed him with money, and when she demanded her profits, he stalled her, so she filed a lawsuit against him, and she almost won it if it were not for the intervention of Nicky, who killed her based on the instructions of his businessmen bosses. The matter was not related to money as much as it was related to integrity and good reputation, which he should have.
In an attempt to correct this, Sam gave several press interviews, to acquaint everyone with the integrity of the casino management, which made him reveal something about his management of the casino, in the absence of Green, which was considered by the gambling control board to be a violation, because he did not have a license to practice that job, which put him in a completely awkward position, increasing his relationship with the gang leader Nicky.
Nicky's continued recklessness in his actions, the number of people killed through him, and his dialogue with Sam in which he called him a coward and arrogant, and Sam accused him of recklessness and raising suspicions against him, and not caring about the public interest for them, and the matter extended in this heated dialogue to Sam's wife Ginger, and about her going to Nicky to complain to him, and Sam was surprised by that matter and his request from Nicky not to interfere in his personal life, all of which made the situation catastrophic, and each of them became threatened in his life, Sam losing his job and his dream, and Nicky being convicted and imprisoned for his crimes.
Also, the person who was brought by the businessmen to stop the leakage of money in the counting room, committed a great foolishness that caused the problems to deepen more and more, when he was gossiping about everything that was happening inside the gambling club, and the place was monitored by the FBI by chance, and all of this information was recorded, of course, and it is enough to demolish the temple over everyone's heads.
There was a session to determine Sam's eligibility for his license, but it did not go well, as they refused to give him the license without hearing any arguments or statements, as if the decision was ready to be pronounced, which made Sam get very upset, and attack the members of the session with violent words, but that did not succeed in anything, and when his bosses learned what happened, they felt that things were starting to slip out of his control, so they sent a representative to convince him to retire and leave the field permanently, and this was very shocking to him and completely unexpected, the important thing is that he refused to leave, and blamed Nicky and his actions, and continued to head the club under a new job title, and also continued to attack those who prevented him from obtaining his license, through a small show inside the club, and this made many people see his exaggeration in his reaction to what happened.
Then came the day when Sam met Nicky, it was a more heated meeting than the previous ones, and Nicky violently criticized what Sam said to the delegate sent by the presidents, regarding blaming Nicky, and the delegate's demand that Nicky disappear for a while, until things calm down completely and Sam regains his control over everyone, and this is what motivated Nicky more against him, as he saw that Sam was still on the scene because of him, and that he prevented many in the world of crime from extending a hand to Sam or his club, and he was somewhat right, and the opposite, Sam saw that he was the one who allowed Nicky to be in the city, and opened all the doors for him that led him to where he is, and he was somewhat right as well, the important thing is that the dialogue did not reach a meeting point, and ended with Nicky threatening Sam not to cross his boundaries with him again.
There is no doubt that things began to take a complex and very dangerous turn for both of them, and their relationship began to cool down but did not turn into complete hostility yet, and this appeared in more than one situation after that, at the same time that Ginger tried to get a divorce from Sam, she could never love Sam, despite all the money and wealth he surrounded them with, and the child she had from their marriage, so she tried to run away with Lester who benefited from her, which prompted Sam to contact his bosses to ask for their help, and completely ignored Nicky who used to resort to him in such situations, and when he reached their place and contacted them, Lester tried to encourage Ginger to travel to Europe, and with them the child of course as a means to ask for more money from Sam, who would inevitably try to get her back, but Ginger was aware of the extent of her husband Sam's influence, and that he would reach them and inevitably take revenge on them even if they were in the farthest place on earth, so she did not listen to Lester this time, and she quickly called Nicky to tell him what happened, so he ordered her to stay where she was until he settled the matter with Sam, and tried to return her to him with the least possible harm to her.
Nicky immediately went to Sam to tell him that his wife called him, and blamed him for calling the presidents and not resorting to him directly, and that they should get the child back in the first place, and temporarily overlook what Ginger did, so Sam called Ginger, who begged him to forgive her, and to return with their daughter to the house, so Sam agreed and sent a plane to take them home immediately.
Ginger and the child returned, and one night Sam caught her talking on the phone with someone, asking him about the possibility of getting rid of Sam, and whether he was willing to help her with that, which made him throw her out of the house immediately. Sam was in a very bad psychological state after what happened while she left, but he was surprised when she came back again, and the strange thing is that he allowed her to do that because of the love that still existed in his heart for her.
The beginning of the end
Ginger only came back to manipulate Sam again, in order to get her jewelry and money as well, and her meetings with Nicky continued without Sam's knowledge, and their relationship developed further to reach complete betrayal, and of course she was hoping that Nicky would help her get her jewelry and money back, and they were being watched at that time by federal agents, who filmed everything, and Sam discovered that as well, and he feared it because her relationship with Nicky was enough to destroy everyone, when it came to the presidents.
Things were getting worse for Nicky, as the money he sent to the bosses was decreasing every time, and he and his gang were gradually losing control, due to their recklessness and committing their crimes without thinking, and it extended to killing some policemen, and things were no longer simple or easy wherever they went, as the feds had placed listening devices in all the places the gang frequented, but Nicky was busy at the time with what Sam would do, in revenge for his relationship with Ginger, who told him that she had to confess to Sam about this relationship, and he expected that he would wage war on him or at least inform the bosses of what happened, so he was monitoring him and knowing his movements through the informants.
When Ginger was with Nicky in his restaurant, Sam called home but no one answered, so he went immediately to confirm his suspicions, only to find their daughter tied to the bed by Ginger, then he was surprised by a call from Nicky to know that she was with him in the restaurant, so he went there immediately, anger raging inside him, Nicky tried to calm him down but he scolded her harshly, and took her home with him, and when he started talking to her she got very upset and shouted at him, then left the house to return to Nicky in the restaurant.
Sam called one of his assistants at the club and asked him to bring him a gun, while Ginger went to Nicky and asked him while screaming to kill Sam, she had completely lost her temper and was no longer in a normal state, so Nicky scolded her severely and threw her out of the restaurant, while he sat confessing his grave mistake to his closest assistant, in having a relationship with her, he had realized that too late.
Ginger returned the next morning with the police, and asked to enter the house to collect her things, but she intended to steal the keys to the bank safe, which contained the money that Sam kept in case he was arrested, the safe was in their names together, so when she went to the bank and took the money, no one objected, while Sam tried to catch up with her when he realized that she had taken the keys, but he was unable to prevent her in the end from taking the money.
A series of arrests began, Ginger was arrested right after she left the bank, then Nicky's gang, then many members of the gambling club, and the matter extended to the actual heads of the club, in short, everyone started falling off the slope, Nicky had managed to escape by then.
A lot of evidence had been revealed regarding what was happening inside the club, and a trial session was held for the actual owners of the club, who sat alone during the court break, to decide to get rid of many who carried what could condemn them, and who caused the very embarrassing situation they had reached.
At the top of the list were Nicky and his brother, and some workers inside the gambling club who knew a lot, and there were also those who tried to get rid of Sam but he escaped, and Nicky and his brother and many others with them were actually killed, and the club was closed forever, so things became stable after that.
As for Sam, things went back to normal, and he continued to make profits for the presidents, but this time from the gambling game in which he was and still is skilled, and so the matter ended where it began.
message of Casino 1995 movie
Casino 1995 movie is one of the movies that truly influenced cinema, as it shed light on the world of gambling in the seventies, and showed us how much money was being pumped into it, who the largest part of this money was going to, and how many people benefited from this attractive and tempting world, as people enter it full of money, then leave it like a tomato after squeezing it to the end. The temptation of money is irresistible, especially when it is combined with adventure, women, alcohol, and all kinds of entertainment that many people seek.
The movie presented us with several models of characters who seek to make money. There is Sam, who is very intelligent and uses it to the best of his ability, without explicitly violating the law. He knows his limits well in dealing and calculates his steps accurately. There is Nicky, the gangster who fears nothing and does everything that is against the law in order to reap the most money. He does not stop for a moment to think about the consequences of what he does. We can almost describe him as reckless or impulsive. There is Ginger, who seduces everyone with her beauty and makes them ready to do anything to reach her. This is her way of making money. There is Lester, the pimp, who seizes opportunities and strangely controls Ginger, who brings him money. Finally, there are the businessmen who have invested huge amounts of capital in the gambling club, so that they can receive monthly profit shares without any trouble, other than giving them orders and following up on things only.
Casino 1995 movie carries a very important message for us, that giving priority to the voice of reason is the only savior for us as humans, and that the temptation of money should not lead us to bad or dangerous situations, such as breaking the law, for example, or gambling with everything we own, and that following desires and the heart may drown us without us knowing, so we must sometimes let our minds lead our hearts, so that we do not regret it later, and the example is evident before us in Sam, who seduced Ginger with money and gold to marry him, believing that his intelligence would make him control things, or that his generosity with her would make her love him, but her rebellious nature made her refuse to be a bird in a golden cage, and she never saw Sam except in the form of a bag of money, and she did not listen to his heart that loved her intensely, so the natural fate was the failure of their marriage.
The dream of getting rich is almost common to all people, but the way we want to get rich varies from one person to another, and that is why Nicky's violent, reckless and even criminal nature is what led him to get rich, exceeding all reasonable limits, and that is why his end was appropriate to his nature and what his hands committed. Ginger also, with her greed, ended up at zero as she started, and Sam, despite being a victim of his friend's recklessness and his wife's betrayal, ended up at the same place he started his life with with the dream of getting rich, which gives us an important glimpse that there is a tax that you will inevitably pay on the way to achieving your dream of getting rich, whether the way is legal or illegal.
Despite the long duration of the movie, it is a very enjoyable movie with dazzling performances from its stars. It shows you interesting models of people, their ambitions and their fluctuations, and makes you know that power and authority are not necessarily permanent, especially if they are used in a way that violates the law, and with the recklessness that we saw in the movie Casino.
Also, the directing is very distinctive in highlighting the characters, and since they are the narrators of the events, it shows you their point of view on things, and makes you get to know them closely as if you were sitting with them.
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