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Martin Scorsese's Casino Ace To Be His Heaven
9 April 2012
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The film “Casino” was directed by Martin Scorsese in 1995. Scorsese is a very talented director that always finds a creative way to get the point of the film across to the viewers. The main character of Casino is Sam “Ace” Rothstein who is played by Robert De Niro. Some of the other main characters are Ginger who is Ace’s wife and Nicky, which is Ace’s childhood friend and formally known as his business partner. In the film Casino, Scorsese uses a creative strategy to show two things be Ace’s heaven and hell. When Ace is inside of his casino it is seen by many people to be his heaven. When he is seen outside of his casino or back at home where he grew up it is considered his hell. Before Ace goes to Las Vegas to run the Tangiers Casino, he was a Sports gambler and a mob member. The reason Ace decides to go to Vegas is due to the amount of mobsters needing help in the Kansas where Ace is from. Ace never had a casino license the entire time he was running the casino, while he was waiting for his license to be validated he would change his job title every few mouths so he could continue to manage the casino while he was waiting for his license. Before any of aces profits are reported to the tax agencies, he splits money …show more content…
He feels like he is on top of the world and no one can do and say anything to bring him down. There is very rarely anything that happens in the casino that brings Ace down. The only time that ever shows aces being down while at the casino is when he has to fire the county commissioner’s nephew and, gets threaded to get his casino shut down by the county commissioner for firing his nephew and also not having his casino license. Ace never let anyone tell him what he could or couldn’t do. When he was in the casino he made sure everything was done his way. No one could tell Ace how to run his casino, this was his heaven, and was on top of the world
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