Casino Critique
Casino, one of the most prolific movies of the mid nineties. This is a movie of betrayal, money, sex, lies, videotape, and yada yada yada. No, seriously, this is an excellent movie. This is why I picked this movie for my major critique.This movie is coming from the point of view of Sam (Robert Dinero) and Nick (Joe Pesci). There is certain parts of the movie were Sam is the narrator and there is others were Nick is the narrator. For instance, the scene were Sam was trying to get his gaming licensees. He starts talking about how he is being questioned by people about his connection with mob connected Nick. A scene were Nick was a narrator was the one were he was talking about the FBI being on his tail, but, he is not worried because he paid top dollar for scanners, debuggers, and etc. You can feel what the characters are going through at the parts were they were also playing narrator. Lets go back to one of the before mentioned scenes; The scene were Sam was trying to get his gaming licensee. While the hearing was going on, the editor must have decided that it would be a good idea if they cut from the hearing room to the anchorwoman. Telling what was going on while this was going on. Normally, they would have showed th
If you haven't seen this movie, you should know that Sam and Nick was friends for thirty-five years. In this scene the two faces were fairly lit. One shot they did that really impressed me was the ECU (Extreme Close Up Shot) shot of Sam's glasses as he watched "his friend" Nick pull up. As a matter of fact this movie should have been called "Casino Intensity". Another scene were this evident is the scene after they see each other in the nightclub and Nick is at Sam's casino acting an ass. One of Sam's assistants calls him and as he talks to Sam they show what Nick did then they would cut back to what he was doing at that particular time the assistant was on the phone. One example of this is the scene were they show Ginger (Sam's wife; Sharon Stone) having oral sex with Nick. In the scene fore mentioned, which is the day after the fight, they played a song by B. This particular framing of this shot gave me the impression that there was nothing left and with the condition she was in there wasn't anything left. This type of continuity editing is called sectional. This shot would have given any viewer the impression that something serious was pulling up on Sam. She comes out and then fills up the rest of the screen as she slides across the wall down the hallway.
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