With a pounding soundtrack, flashing lights, and immersive atmosphere, casinos are designed to thrill. But underneath the surface, they\u2019re rigged and meant to bleed you of your money. For years, mathematically inclined minds have tried to turn the tables by using their expertise to exploit the weaknesses in the rigged system. But they haven\u2019t been successful \u2014 until Casino.<\/p>\n
After the massive success of Goodfellas, Universal gave Martin Scorsese the green light to direct Casino. With De Niro and Joe Pesci returning as the mob duo, it was the perfect follow up to a film that already had people talking about \u201cthe next generation of Mafia movies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie is a true gangster epic, and it\u2019s set in Sin City \u2014 a civic portrait scribbled in neon in the shape of a rigged wheel. One of the film\u2019s most memorable sequences (shot with a deliberate nod to Goodfellas\u2019 Copacabana interlude) takes us into the Tangiers casino money counting room, where skimming off the till is an art form that Ace countenances only as long as the kickbacks go to his old-school bosses in Kansas City.<\/p>\n