Casino (1995)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
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There's an interesting expositional side to the film, with De Niro and Joe Pesci's characters both serving as interactive narrators, but the film never becomes very involving as drama, and the appropriation of Georges Delerue's theme from Godard's Contempt is the tackiest hommage since the use of “Singin' in the Rain” in A Clockwork Orange.
Stunningly shot by regular Godard collaborator Raoul Coutard (who also worked on Demy’s Lola and Truffaut’s Jules et Jim ), this apparent idyll is rendered suffocatingly sad by Georges Delerue’s iconic ‘Theme de Camille’, which was later pinched by Scorsese for Casino .
Adding to the dreamy atmosphere is Georges Delerue's monothematic score, a piece so achingly beautiful Martin Scorsese later used it to kick off his Casino over thirty years later.
Sometimes Godard eliminates the sound track entirely (except for the repeated motifs of Georges Delerue's score, which Scorsese recently used in Casino); in one sequence, at a noisy audition in a movie theater, he periodically turns off the ambient sound in order to let us hear the dialogue.
Finalmente merece la pena mencionar la música de Georges Delerue, quién ya había realizado por ejemplo el año anterior la música para “Jules et Jim” (1962) de François Truffaut, y cuyo tema en esta película de Godard fue recordado por Martin Scorsese en “Casino” (1995).
When Billy Wilder pulled a similar stunt in Sunset Boulevard, it was a ghoulish joke.
There's an interesting expositional side to the film, with De Niro and Joe Pesci's characters both serving as interactive narrators, but the film never becomes very involving as drama, and the appropriation of Georges Delerue's theme from Godard's Contempt is the tackiest hommage since the use of “Singin' in the Rain” in A Clockwork Orange.
There's an interesting expositional side to the film, with De Niro and Joe Pesci's characters both serving as interactive narrators, but the film never becomes very involving as drama, and the appropriation of Georges Delerue's theme from Godard's Contempt is the tackiest hommage since the use of “Singin' in the Rain” in A Clockwork Orange.
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Like " The Godfather ," it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place.
For every Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Boxcar Bertha there are dozens of Johnny Boys and Travis Bickles roaming the Mean Streets, dividing women up into the virtuous and the fallen.
This fails to take into account the many Oscar nominations his actresses have earned: Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Color of Money, Lorraine Bracco in GoodFellas, Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear, Winona Ryder in The Age of Innocence and Sharon Stone in Casino.
For every Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Boxcar Bertha there are dozens of Johnny Boys and Travis Bickles roaming the Mean Streets, dividing women up into the virtuous and the fallen.
"Casino" doesn't achieve the same level of cinematic excellence as "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver" or " Raging Bull ," but when compared to a majority of the other films of that particular decade, "Casino" is A-grade filmmaking at its best.
CASINO is a film by legendary director Martin Scorsese, who is famous for the movies Taxi Driver and Scarface .
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Pesci, who has basically re-created the same personality in two other Scorsese films ( Goodfellas and Casino), presents Joey as a slightly more intelligent version of his brother.
"Casino" doesn't achieve the same level of cinematic excellence as "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver" or " Raging Bull ," but when compared to a majority of the other films of that particular decade, "Casino" is A-grade filmmaking at its best.
Plus it continues Scorsese's deeper fascination with volcanic men inevitably exploding into deadly violence that encompasses films as diverse as "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "Cape Fear."
The "Casino" project wasn't a bad bet, reteaming as it did key principals from "GoodFellas" and "Raging Bull," and indeed De Niro as the trying-to-steer-right overseer of a Vegas casino and Joe Pesci as his old pal who wants to continue working under the table provide two face cards toward a royal flush.
Joe Pesci plays Santoro, a character similar to the ones he played in “Raging Bull” and “Goodfellas”.