Martin Scorsese's Casino Ace To Be His Heaven

9 April 2012
Casino
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
with the mafia member back in Kansas, that is ran in the back of a gas station in the middle of nowhere, that no one is aware of. Nicky, Ace’s best friend was always there to make sure Ace was always okay, he was kind of known as the enforcer, people know not to mess with him, and Nicky showed why people shouldn’t take advantage of him just because of his smaller size. In the beginning he was there to protect Ace’s business, but later became more of a liability then anything for the casino. Nicky’s attitude quickly got him banned from gamboling in the Tangier Casino, then later every casino in Las Vegas, after his name was put into the black book he was not wanted in Vegas at all. After this had happened to Nicky he decided the open up his own restaurant to try to clean up his reputation, that later became one of the best known restaurant in Vegas. But at the same time he began to gather up his own mafia crew that was known to be doing shakedowns and burglaries. Before Ace and Nicky had even begun arguing and Ace was new to the casino business he had met his wife Ginger, who he quickly fell in love with and had their daughter Amy together. When Ace met Ginger she was a prostitute that was working for her ex-boyfriend Lester, who was also know as a pimp. Ace told Ginger if she quick doing her job that she would be set for life and would never have to worry about money another day in her life. He had also told her that if they were ever to split up that she would not have to worry, he would make sure her and Amy would be okay. Ace and Ginger went to a bank and put two million dollars in a lock box that was all for Ginger incase anything would ever happen between them. After all of this had begun to happen this is where the hell of Ace’s life had begun. Nicky and Ace were no longer as close as friends as they had once been, and the information that Ace did not have his casino license had started to leak out and also after Ace fired the county commissioner nephew due to his lack of knowledge in gaming. After this had happened the county commissioner was trying to do everything he could do to shut down the Tangier Casino. Ace and Ginger also begin having problems when Ace finds out that Ginger is talking to Lester after they had been married. Lester knows about the money that Ginger and Ace had locked up together. Lester was doing everything he could do to make sure he could get Ginger back and get his hands on the stash of cash is lockbox. This was making Ace’s life even more of a hell, while he was trying to get his wife away from someone he hated and his wife was still in love with. Ginger was never really in love with Ace, she was just wanting his money, and was always still in love with Lester. During all of the fighting Nicky was betraying Ace and was talking to Ginger behind his back and was hooking up with her telling Ginger to leave Ace. The entire time Ace was not working in the casino, Ginger and Nicky were making aces like a living hell. When Ace is in the casino he feels like it’s his heaven.
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
there. In Conclusion, the movie “Casino” was a brilliant movie that Martin Scorsese directed. It is also my favorite piece of work that I have seen of his. He is a very brilliant director that always makes his films connect together greatly. He always does a great job making all of his films in a mirror way, meaning what happens early in the film has a way of connecting with the later in the film in the same type of way. All of the actors in the movie do a great job, and couldn’t have found a better person to place Ace. Robert De Niro did an excellent job playing this part, along with the rest of the actors and actresses. I would recommend this movie to anymore that enjoys an action type of movie. I personally thought it was a great movie and would watch it multiple times and would recommend it to anyone.