What Your Favourite Martin Scorsese Movie Says About You

Casino3125925071_1_9_t2lNszGrThe Movie: The film follows Las Vegas casino operator Ace Rothstein as he enters into affiliations with a mob, his wife as she enters similar questionable affairs of her own, and a childhood friend Nicky as he enters a downward spiral characterized by substances and violence in this bustling city of sin and stealth. What It Says About You: Sleaze, scandal, strategy, success, and suaveness: these are the terms that excite you and characterize the ventures you would dream of having. Las Vegas is a city you love precisely because it has character-building flaws and an intricate community of slick individuals that deliver its seductive, toxic pulse. You believe in a city and its people defining each other as jointly dependent entities; neither is quite the same without the other, leaving a gaping space for disappointment if one or the other of elements were to remove itself. In the way that Mean Streets has Little Italy, Vegas has Casino. Favorite Movies: Place all your bets on Carlito's Way, Heat, and The Untouchables. Don't worry about action; these films, like Casino, go all-in. Soundbite: "Give yourself a hand, right across your f---- mouth" is one of the best examples out there of how Scorsese masterfully manipulates humor as well as he does tension.

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Sydney is from Roswell, Georgia, where she takes pride in Georgia's growing film industry. She is a sophomore at Northwestern University with a minor in Film & Media Studies and a love for writing. Her life has unsuccessfully aspired to model a Keira Knightley period piece. Sydney is most likely to be found in an emptied theater viewing the credits and sipping her staple drink: all the theater’s sodas mixed together.