Friday, July 24, 2009

Casino (1995)

Did I pick a great first movie to do after vacation! This could be as fun as RoboCop since the death toll in this one really piled up. But, here we go anyway. The movie appears to end in the mid- to late-1980s, so let's pick up 20 years later.

Sam "Ace" Rothstein: Ace moved to San Diego, where he continued to excel at picking games. Unfortunately, his glasses continued to get larger and larger until finally, in 1991, he showed up to a Tyson fight with a pair of reading glasses so large that they reflected arena lights directly into Mike Tyson's eyes. Tyson, temporarily blinded, turned around and wiped his eyes with his boxing glove-covered hands, looking like a young boy wiping tears from his eyes after his mom refused to buy him that awesome Batmobile toy. Having humiliated Tyson, Ace is banished from the family by the bosses, who finally realize that he has gotten too old. Disgraced and alone, Ace moves to the desert and lives underneath the shelter of his latest pair of glasses. Asleep one afternoon, Ace is burned to death after his glasses set fire to his corpse beneath the hot Nevada sun.

Ginger: Still dead.

Lester: Without Ginger, Lester devotes himself full time to pimpin'. He is largely successful as the money he got from Ginger goes to buying increasingly outrageous suits. Business is good. In 2000, however, Lester takes on "Big Pimpin'" as his theme song, and things quickly deteriorate. Jay-Z sues him in 2001 for copyright infringement, and Lester loses most of his savings in the settlement. He leaves California for greener pastures and finally heads to Europe. Having not been educated though, he winds up in Greenland thinking he will flourish. He is disappointed to find that the land is neither green nor overflowing with a need for prostitutes. He goes into the reindeer sex trade and earns enough to live out his last years in relative luxury. He died in 2006 and is survived by his wife, Hoofy.

Nicky: Nicky lived for a few hours in his shallow grave, slowly choking on dirt and his own blood. He remains dead.

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