Casino, the movie
The 1995 Martin Scorcese movie ‘Casino’, is considered by many to be the definitive casino film. Amid the high-rolling casino games of Blackjack and Baccarat is a story uravelling. This tells the true story of Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein, a mobster who moves to Las Vegas and becomes the operator of the Tangiers casino. Robert De Niro makes the lead role his own, as Rothstein copes with marriage to a drug addict (played by Sharon Stone) and friendship with Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a fellow mobster slowly spiralling into a world of violence.
Casino Royale, poker not baccarat
A brand new James Bond is in town. Forget Baccarat, he’s playing Texas Hold’em poker now. Based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced Agent 007 into a Cold War world, Casino Royale is the most brutal and viscerally exciting James Bond film since Sean Connery left Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In classic Bond film tradition, his global itinerary takes him to far-flung locales, including Uganda, Madagascar, the Bahamas (that’s more like it), and Montenegro, where he is pitted against his nemesis in a poker game, with hundreds of millions in the pot.
Ocean’s 11, the Las Vegas heist
‘Ocean’s Eleven’ a 2001 remake by Steven Soderburgh stars George Clooney in the leading role of Danny Ocean and Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Elliott Gould as gang members, among others, who plans a heist on a Las Vegas casino amid the busy and buzzling Slot Machine and table betting noise. The 2001 version updated the storyline of the 1960 movie starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishopwhile still putting across the same glamorous image of Vegas as in the first movie.
Honeymoon in Vegas, sex and gambling
‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ is a comedy that tells the story of Jack Singer (Nicholas Cage) who decides to wed his long-time partner Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Vegas. However, when they arrive, Betsy is spotted by a high-stakes gambler who decides he wants to spend a weekend with her. He engages Singer in poker games in an attempt to wrestle her from him. With Cage acting his best as the love-struck bridegroom, James Caan as the sinister gambler, and a number of parachuting Elvis impersonators, ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ offers plenty of laughs.
The Good Thief
Enter the world of junkies, whores, gamblers and pimps where everything is bleak and beaten up. The Good Thief is directed by Neil Jordan. n loosely remaking the French classic Bob le Flambeur, Jordan crafts what one reviewer aptly called "the underbelly of Ocean’s Eleven," involving an impenetrable vault full of priceless art, a rescued Russian prostitute, an eccentric band of accomplices, and high-stakes poker in Monte Carlo.
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