CASINO 1995
INTRODUCTION:
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The movie casino was released in 1995 which was
directed by one of the greatest directors of all time Martin Charles Scorsese.
At that time in 1995 Casino was rated 8.2/ 10 from IMDB, It starred the
well-known and famous actors still date like Robert De Niro (ACE), Joe Pesci
(Nicky Jam) and Sharon Stone (Ginger). This was considered as one of the
classics directed and performed by the partnership of Robert De Niro and Martin
Scorsese. Like most movies of the martin Scorsese even this one was based on
mafia and the characters were Italians and so in order to reach the standards
beyond the limitations actors casted in the movie was also from the Italian
origin. Here we can take an example of certain actors which are always casted
in the movie of martin Scorsese such as Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, John manca
etc.
Awards and
Budget: -
This movie was
produced and Distributed by Barbara De Fina and Universal Pictures. The run
time for the movie was 178 minutes and It was created with the budget of
estimated between $40-50 million and after that it was released in November 22,
1995. The Box Office collection of this movies is considered as $116.1 million
which really elegant and splendid for a movie released and produced before the
era of 2000’s. It was considered as a blockbuster and nowadays a classic with
respect to the 8th collaboration of Actor Robert De Niro and
Director Martin Scorsese. Someway feel that the movie is long but still it has
achieved some greater feats in order to receive certain awards like Nastro
d’argento for Best Production Design in 1997 by Dante ferretti and Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress – Motion Pictures - Drama to Sharon stone at 1996.
Story: -
This Movie Casino (1995) was adapted by a book by the
name called Casino: Love and Honor which is a non-fiction book by a reporter
Nicholas Pileggi which talks about an aid received by mafia bosses who runs
casino’s across the vegas and this guy called ACE comes to the rescue by
running this casino and creating wealth out of it in order to satisfy goals of
his bosses. The screenplay was written by martin Scorsese and co- written by
Nicholas Pileggi they both started writing it’s script in 1994 and was finished
by 1995 and Scorsese said that it will be a huge success and Sky has it’s
limits he wanted to make this as a Crime/Drama genre in order to show the
authenticity of how Italian mob bosses controlled the town by creating profits
from the casino’s they owned and managed by a comrade. The Story mainly
revolves around 3 characters Ace who was the gambling expert and was hired by
casino mob bosses to create profits by
managing the place and his love interest ginger and one of his best friends Nicky
who was with the mafia. Some of the characters are based on real life for
example Frank Rosenthal who managed a casino in las Vegas from 1968 till 1981.
The movie gets interesting when it shows how the love triangle gets formed
between Ace, Ginger and Nicky. As the story continues the authenticity and the
details are noticeable that how the mafia works under the noes of government
and how everyone and everything is connected to each other but the bosses
residing at the top level of the management and the runner of mafia family does
not bother until and unless they are receiving profits from their casino’s and
due to this the middle level managers and the so called “Made Man” takes
advantage of it and creates wealth for themselves also without coming into the
sights of their bosses.
Partnership:
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The 8th installment of the actor and
director Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese is supposed to be a mafia related
movie in order to show hoe Italian mafia used to reside in American states and
their rule was not only for crimes but also for the reason of faulty white
collar jobs also. This partnership was carried and enhanced by the screen
presence of another famous and magneficent actor called Joe Pesci who was with
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese in the movie goodfellas which was also a
cult classic and considered as one of the fantastic contribution to the cinema
across the world by Scorsese. The nuance in both the films were shown but in
this the different thing was shown as character of ACE was considered in debt
and weak by the Nicky on the other hand in goodfellas Jimmy ‘Conway’ was like
the strong and smug personality across the story. The storyline was amazing in
order to make plot twists and it holds the audience throughout the film because
of the signature narration style utilized by martin Scorsese in his films.
Which follows in a designated path with the story continues narration also
improves which bides the audience to the movie. This is one of the unique
traits are seen in the directors such as martin Scorsese. The characters are
narrating the story in the background while story proceeds. Martin Scorsese is
known for creating the greatest art pieces but most of his movies are adapted
from the books and novels and then he adapts the screenplay for the movie with
the original writer in order to keep the touch with the authenticity of a
story.
Color
Grading: -
The technical part of the film is color grading which
is a strike to the eyes. In those times movies are not that much focused on
color grading and editing part so many scenes are not well edited due to the
lack of knowledge with respect to the field of technology but in modern days
color grading is one of the important part of the films here we can take an
example of Avatar 2 which is considered as a visual spectacle from the creation
of James Cameron. If we talk about casino then the colors were marvelous as per
the vibe of casino and the gaming equipments also with the change in
surroundings colors were also changed. Casino was shot in gren skiw and neon
colors as per it’s story is based on casino. It is necessary to take care of
this details while creating a film, colors in the movie is only noticed by
audience when they are utilized in a visually striking manner to the eyes of
the audience who are watching the movie.
Cinematography:
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The Academy Award Winning Cinematographer Robert
Richardson has done the cinematography of this film which includes scenes when
Ace was explaining the process of how casino works and the cash is settles in
the other accounts and one of the marvelous scene shot when Ace catches the
hustlers which is considered as a fraudster when camera shoots from table to
table and then it explains how the scam is done and after that how the
fraudster uses a machine which helps him to win the games which he should not
be winning. One of the desert scene is also amazing because it shows how Nicky
gets angry on Ace and the utilization of workhorse camera is also seen.
Different aspect ratios were seen such as 4:1,11:1,3:1 etc. To shoot the steep
light scenes he used to shot the scenes
in the afternoon from the time of 12pm To 4pm. The cinematography is ambitious
with respect to the factor of sprawlingness because it is important to shoot
the movies with the artistic style in order to capture the attention span of
viewers and to take care they are not bored so to deliver a visual spectacle at
least if unable to focus on story.
REVIEW: -
At the end to would like to say it’s a masterpiece
delivered by martin Scorsese and their team by providing a beautiful story and
with respect to the technical factors also like visually striking color grading
which will be appraised by your eyes while watching the film and the indicator
of cinematography will not make you feel bored, the chemistry of Robert De Niro
and Joes Pesci is also elegant with their extraordinary performance while
portraying different type of character roles. Movie has a long time length but
all the characters are developed while the story is progressing, the adaptation
style of martin Scorsese should be praised that he is able to explain and shoe
the characters both from the novel and inspired from the real life events in
order to make people know that the Italian mafia once rules the streets of las
Vegas also as a Italian himself it feels authentic to cast actors who are
Italians themselves while portraying the Italian characters. Scorsese films are
famous nowadays also and the story has reached it’s end by providing justice to
the characters of the film which does not feels forced so as per my opinion
everyone should checkout this Classis Masterpiece Peace Out Folks!!
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