Casino Critique

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Casino, one of the most prolific movies of the mid nineties. This is a movie of betrayal, money, sex, lies, videotape, and yada yada yada. No, seriously, this is an excellent movie. This is why I picked this movie for my major critique.

This movie is coming from the point of view of Sam (Robert Dinero) and Nick (Joe Pesci). There is certain parts of the movie were Sam is the narrator and there is others were Nick is the narrator. For instance, the scene were Sam was trying to get his gaming licensees. He starts talking about how he is being questioned by people about his connection with mob connected Nick. A scene were Nick was a narrator was the one were he was talking about the FBI being on his tail, but, he is not worried because he paid top dollar for scanners, debuggers, and etc. You can feel what the characters are going through at the parts were they were also playing narrator.

Lets go back to one of the before mentioned scenes; The scene were Sam was trying to get his gaming licensee. While the hearing was going on, the editor must have decided that it would be a good idea if they cut from the hearing room to the anchorwoman. Telling what was going on while this was going on. Normally, they would have showed th


Music and sound is another way you can show emotion in a movie. It can show fear, sensuality, suspense, grief, etc...etc. One example of this is the scene were they show Ginger (Sam's wife; Sharon Stone) having oral sex with Nick. If you haven't seen this movie, you should know that Sam and Nick was friends for thirty-five years. In the scene before Sam and Ginger got into a big fight. In the scene fore mentioned, which is the day after the fight, they played a song by B.B. King, "The Thrill is Gone". This showed me that Ginger didn't care any more. Then she had oral sex with Nick.

The last part of the movie I want to talk about is the one were Ginger dies. Before she dies the camera zooms down a dim yellow-lit hallway. The left two thirds of the screen was filled with the one of the walls in the hallway. She comes out and then fills up the rest of the screen as she slides across the wall down the hallway. This particular framing of this shot gave me the impression that there was nothing left and with the condition she was in there wasn't anything left. Then she collapsed and died.



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