By David Amoruso
Real People From Movie Casino
Hollywood loves gangsters. Not because film makers condone their crimes, but because their stories make them lots of money. It's difficult to name any other genre that has so many titles based on a true story. Yet, despite this label, the true story often gets twisted to fit the silver screen. That is why Gangsters Inc. shares its knowledge of the facts and truth behind these blockbuster gangster flicks.
Please subscribe. Im tired of all these low quality casino movie clips soo i made really good quality ones of some the best scenes on casino please go to m. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team.Though the book is classified as non-fiction, the Boston Globe alleges that the book contains significant fictional elements, that many of the key events propelling the drama did not occur in real life. Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, his real-life character got immortalized in the 1995 Movie CASINO, played by Robert De Niro. Frank Rosenthal, and Geri McGee Rosenthal.Played by Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone in the movie,'Casino.' Frank Rosenthal, and Geri McGee Rosenthal.Played by Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone in the movie,'Casino.' The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
When it comes to epic mob movies director Martin Scorsese outdid himself with Casino. It tells the true story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Anthony 'The Ant' Spilotro and how the Chicago Outfit dominated gambling in Las Vegas and is based on the research and eventual book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi.
In the movie the names have been changed. Lefty Rosenthal turned into Sam 'Ace' Rothstein while Spilotro was now named Nicky Santoro. Thankfully their actions remained the same and the acting of Robert De Niro as Rothstein and Joe Pesci as Santoro is, as you can expect from these two stars, top notch.
Where Scorsese had shown the gritty streets of New York City mob life in Goodfellas, in Casino he upped the ante and showed us the glamorous lives of the men who controlled a billion dollar industry. And, 'how [they] messed it all up.'
The true story of Casino was featured in several Gangsters Inc. stories. Most dealing with the individual players or certain incidents more than with the exact plot of the movie. The men responsible for the Las Vegas skim and the money from the Teamsters were bosses Antonino 'Joe Batters' Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa, while capo Joseph 'The Clown' Lombardo saw to it their orders were carried out as commanded. We have profiled them all.
Spilotro was sent to Vegas to oversee the skim at the casino. He had made a name for himself back in Chicago after learning the ropes from 'Mad Sam' DeStefano, one of the most evil mobsters ever to walk the streets of Chi Town.
All in all the violence portrayed in Casino did a good job at showing the capabilities of the group of stone cold killers the real Chicago Outfit had at its disposal. Like when Chicago boss Antonino Accardo needed to send a message to some guys wo burglarized his home.
In the movie Scorsese even cast real mob killer Frank Cullotta to play, essentially, himself as he shoots his way through the final scenes of the movie.
More on Casino: T slot bolt kit.
- The 25th Anniversary of Casino: Looking Back with Nicholas Pileggi and Oscar Goodman
- Mafia hitman Frank Cullotta on movie 'Casino', Tony Spilotro, Killing Informants, Cooperating with FBI
- The lucrative and violent years of Las Vegas mobster Tony Spilotro's infamous Hole in the Wall gang
- The story behind the documentary: Back Home, Years Ago: The Real Casino
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