Trivia: the actor playing KK Ichikawa is actually Robert De Niro's business partner and a professional chef. Together they own a chain of Japanese restaurants
The look Ace gives as Ichikawa's limo returns is so calculated. He knows he's about to bleed him and there's nothing Ichikawa can do about it, absolutely genius.
@@robertusthemacdeniros character “Ace” Rosenthal Goldstein was a Jewish high earning bookmaker who was an associate of the Chicago outfit, The Chicago Outfit was different to the five families in NYC in the fact that they had very high ranking Associates who EVEN THOUGH couldn’t be made into the Family they were given high status if they earned well unlike in new York where associates of crews were just grunts, not only was Rothstein a top earner he was given the Keys to Las Vegas to run the Dunes Casino for the Outfit ..there was also a Japanese fella in the 50s to 70s in the Outfit named Tokyo joe who actually had his OWN crew even though he wasn’t made in the Outfit but an Associate “ to be made into a crew, you have to be 100% percent Italian so they can trace your family back to the old country” - goodfellas
@@GirlycarDawn He probably got taken for a ride. You can get in a casino at 18 in OK and there are plenty available, lol. Every single word in this video is accurate about any casino, even small ones in Oklahoma.
@@bigwilly43729I’ve witnessed both gambling addicts winning furiously and mushes losing the title to their house and cars. Once saw the trainers for Hugo Chavez lose all of their cash they earned from his fight at craps and then try to get comped. The casino manager at the Mirage explained they are supposed to request a comp prior to playing and ask to be rated as a player. They didn’t understand and still wanted to be comped a room and meals, etc. Chavez was long gone probably back to Acapulco and these guys wound up sleeping in the lobby trying to scrounge up enough bus money to get to Tijuana. Seen a little old lady put $3000.00 on zero at the roulette wheel and it hit! She walked away with over 100k and acted as if she had just won a stuffed animal. Turned out she was an old school Hollywood producer widower who came to Vegas once a month. Ridiculous how much money can be won and lost.
Reminds me of baseball legend Yogi Berra when someone asked him about a plush hotel he'd stayed in. He said, "The towels were so thick I could hardly close my suitcase."
It's sometimes easy to forget how long De Niro has been in the industry. He was already legend a here. At this time Clooney waited for his big breakthrough in From Dusk till Dawn, Banderas had his in Desperado, Travolta his big comeback a year earlier in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson his big breakthrough in same movie, and it would be another two years before Di Caprio became a superstar and anyone even heard of Matt Damon and Affleck...etc etc...
Absolutely. When he appeared in Goodfellas back in 1990 he was the "and" on the billing, reserved usually for legends. That was 30 years before The Irishman!
It's not hard to forget, the guy looks decrepit as hell. That scene in the Irishman where he was supposed to be beating that shop owner was pathetic. Not to mention the guy is a typical Hollywood limousine liberal douchebag. Fvck him.
It's the same reason that some bodybuilders won't take a sip of soda. You don't get to the point where you have a ridiculously built body (or bank account), unless you're the type of person to try to make every single penny you can in every possible way. (some people make their money through luck of course, others through their own mentality, etc, we're talking about the mentality)
The shot at 0:50 in my opinion is overall the best in the entire movie, the way the camera pans, Ace standing defiantly getting ready for revenge, and the way jazz version of "The In-Crowd" fades into the original lyrical Dobie Gray R&B soul version. The shot says it all: you cross Ace, you pay the price - BIG time!
Not trying to be one of those people, but just wanna say the sequence you like is not a “pan” shot. It’s a tracking or dolly shot with a zoom, Scorsese loves that combo and uses it a lot. The camera never moves in a panning shot, it just swivels left or right. There is actually a pan in the scene just before when Rickles character leaves the counter to say something to the whale. The camera pans left.
@@Kurt_Soulpatch cool, I figured that if you love film as much as me you’d appreciate some of the technical jargon. But from now on you’re gonna notice tracking zoom shots all over the place, lol. My apologies 😉
@@HYPERI0N. Lol, well apparently I'm not as knowledgeable with the technical mumbo-jumbo as I thought I was. But at least now I know not to call that kind of shot a "pan shot" again, hehehe. Just Googled tracking zoom shot and I wanna thank you for helping me with that one, too!! Never knew what that kind of shot was called until now! Lol so much for my movie knowledge
I used to work as a blackjack dealer at one of the big casinos in South Lake Tahoe. You start to get a feel for how much money people spend on average. The average buy-in was $100 cash. That $100 would get people about between 30 minutes and an hour playing blackjack. So figure the casino gets paid an average of $100 per hour, per customer, and they serve many hundreds or even thousands of customers per night. Imagine how much money is made, and really all they're doing is pushing cards and chips back and forth across a little table.
The Character K.K.Ichikawa was based on Akio Kashiwagi, a real estate investor based in Tokyo who will be killed in 1992 at his house in Tokyo, close to Mount Fuji. His murder was never solved.
Such fantastic music throughout this film. In this segment: Ramsey Lewis Trio's "The In Crowd." At the point where they're being welcomed back to the casino after the flight problems, it is Dobie Gray's "(I'm with) The 'In' Crowd," before fading back into the Ramsey Lewis version. For the little bit of the segment tacked on at the end, the "Goddammit!" is from Les McCann's "Compared to What?"
@@AChillPirate It's up there. The ending was a little weird but overall I like the movie enough to stop and watch it if I see it on TV. The pic is a little homage to my job transferring me to Paris.
The Tangiers casino in the film was largely based on The Stardust casino. One night in Vegas in January 2006 while there for a night, I'd finished playing and decided to walk up to the Stardust at 3.00am. One of the pit bosses there struck up a friendly conversation with me and he recounted stories and memories from the days it was run by Frank Rosenthal (Robert De Niro character) in 1970s as the pit boss was working there back at that time. Later that year, it was closed and demolished. Always wondered what happened to the lovely friendly pit boss who has worked there 30+ years. It was a real treat to end my first trip to vegas speaking to a person from that time and place, sharing famous stories from the past with first-hand experience. The pit boss added that the real-life Joe Pesci character moved around between lots of casinos, but largely hung out at the Dunes, which was later replaced by the Bellagio. FYI - after years of the stardust property changing hands and changing construction plans repeatedly, a new casino called Resorts World is being built and plans to open in 2021. At this time, it's predicted to be the most expensive casino built on the strip.
Awesome story. Have you had a chance to visit Resorts World? It's a huge disappointment. Except that the Mike Tyson statue they have there is pretty cool. I grew up in Vegas in the '90s and miss places like The Stardust, The Frontier, MGM Grand Adventures, and so forth. Hope that pit boss is doing well.
@@InflatableConan howdy, thank you kindly. Would you believe that 9 months ago I went to Vegas for a week and literally walked past resorts world but didn't cross the road to have a look. Interesting to hear it's a bit of a let down. As a side note, I went to Sahara to perhaps catch a little nostalgia of las Vegas, and I was so impressed with it that it's my hotel of choice next visit. I loved the gaming floor, pool looked great, good food and bar options, rooms look a little unique but very comfortable... And honestly it feels like it's way cheaper than the centre of paradise. Wished I'd seen Vegas properly and with a little money on the 1990s but I wasn't legal age then!! Cheers thanks for reply.
The behind the scenes on the Oceans 13 DVD has a nice segment on how the casinos treat the whales. They give them free rooms, shows, planes, cars, the whale loses a couple million at the tables and in the end they tell the owner "I had a great weekend. See you soon!"
If you think about it, they're not getting played. You would imagine somebody with that much money to burn understands they're probably not going to win at the tables, so if they're going to do it they ought to have the most fun they can. That's where a casino with a great host pulls out all the stops to ensure that million dollars worth of gambling happens in his house instead of somebody else's.
On social media the cardinal rule is to keep them watching and keep them coming back. The longer they keep consuming the more time they lose. In the end we get it all.
“I’m not losing $50 on an already millionaire E thot! It’s providing me entertainment!!” [as she spends that money on the boyfriend she keeps a secret] I gotta get in on this if people are twisting stuff around to feel better about their nonsense.
That's why it's a disease. I never gamble because I always lose. Every single time. The most I do is play the lottery when it hits like a half billion or a billion. And even dropping THAT $10 or $20 on tickets bothers me. I haven't even won so much as 5 bucks on the lottery!
Akio Kashiwagi (柏木昭男 Kashiwagi Akio, also known as "The Warrior"; 1938 - January 3, 1992) was a wealthy Tokyo-based real estate investor. Kashiwagi regularly played baccarat for large sums, betting $100,000 or $200,000 a hand, for hours at a time. On January 3, 1992, Kashiwagi was killed, stabbed as many as 150 times with a samurai sword.
The funny thing is that this is one of the few points that he has any dialogue. Scorsese cast him because of his presence, as he represented the 70's Vegas era shown in this film, as one of the top entertainers during this time (the fact that Rickles was also an underrated dramatic actor was a bonus.)
I've seen this movie 100 times and it is really hitting me that this dude took those towels. And not one towel, ALL of them. And the soap! Who wants to use hotel soap?
this scenes reminded me that story of that asian dude Terrance Watanabe that used to be in Vegas betting large sums of money and got his pockets ran deep in similar fashion i guess he just one of many through history
@@chewface they're not "stupid", they just value the thrill of the hazard more than the money. other folks may do bungee jumping - you could also call it a waste of time and money. every human activity apart from earning - wheter it's listening to a concert, having dinner at a fancy restaurant or readinb a book - is, essentially, a waste of time and money
Lol!! At 1:02-1:05 he tells him, "no gambling no gambling." As that was just the simple code to "give it all back otherwise we're gonna beat it outta ya".
"In the end, we get it all." Not if the whale drops dead of a heart attack while still up a few mill. In THAT case, presumably his winnings go directly to his heirs. ;-)
@@AmericanCryptid1 Made a bad investment 4 months ago... I'm no longer part of the 3 comma club. Now I am just a normal millionaire, like you all... just waiting' to die basically.
I don't know why that guy didn't just stop gambling when he knew he was losing. Its so funny the little honey next to him has this disappointed look on her face lol
In any game of chance where your chances of winning a round are less than 50%. You may get lucky and win in a few rounds in the short term but the longer you play the more rounds you lose. Its basic math but people who gamble don't seem to get this.
Interesting that people enjoy or are curious about the gambling cycles of a casino game. Best way i can describe it is: imagine a graph. The starting point of the line is $1000 and the end point is zero dollars. The x axis is the number of hands or spins of a slot game. You should obviously start with a straight line that goes from $1000 to $0, effectively on a downward slope, 45 degrees or so. Now, draw over that straight line with a wavy weird roller coaster shaped line. Thats what most table games look like and slots if you graphed it out. At some points the player could win 15 hands or spins in a row and their money goes way up... Then they lose 7 of the next 10, then win 4 in a row...etc... but in the end, that rollercoaster line will always reach zero over time...
Yep.... Everyone should have a read about Archie Karas. He went to Vegas and had a monumental run at the casino. Defied odds, at one point the casino paid him for racks of their own $500 chips back because Archie had so many in his private vault... Then he lost it all a year or two later
I love how the rules are inverted for a casino. Gamblers should cut their losses or quit while they're ahead. Casinos only lose if the playing ever stops.
Someone is Always watching. We are watching UA-cam, UA-cam is watching us, The studios are watching the analytics of what we watch and the directors are watching the studios, the actors are watching the directors and everyone is watching the actors for their next movies. The internet is watching us ALL.
I was working at a back alley recycle tech shop and during some banter, my boss told me not to call him boss and point at the security camera and said “that’s the real boss”. It never quite hit me until later that I was working at a laundry for wise guys.
deniros character “Ace” Rosenthal Goldstein was a Jewish high earning bookmaker who was an associate of the Chicago outfit, The Chicago Outfit was different to the five families in NYC in the fact that they had very high ranking Associates who EVEN THOUGH couldn’t be made into the Family they were given high status if they earned well unlike in new York where associates of crews were just grunts, not only was Rothstein a top earner he was given the Keys to Las Vegas to run the Dunes Casino for the Outfit ..there was also a Japanese fella in the 50s to 70s in the Outfit named Tokyo joe who actually had his OWN crew even though he wasn’t made in the Outfit but an Associate “ to be made into a crew, you have to be 100% percent Italian so they can trace your family back to the old country” - goodfellas
2 days ago was my very first time watching Casino AND OMGG i rewatched this scene 7 times I was CRYING LAUGHING how they got that man back. Bro 2 million downstairs 🤣 shampoo, towels and soap upstairs in a whole suitcase 🤣🤣 you better get this man back haha
Actually it went wonderfully. It was like a dream thanks for asking. Won 500 the first night on some slot game. Few days with cocktails floating around a pool in pure relaxation bliss, won another 700 on slots, then jumped into a poker tournament and won over 2000. I came home with money. I'm sure that will never happen again, but I'll enjoy the one off. As a side note, Vegas is very expensive now. In past times, it was always considered cheap and cheerful. Paying $60+ for a good entree at a restaurant isn't uncommon.
The way the casino fleeced Ichikawa with fake breakdowns and comped rooms reminds me of a sad Reddit story. There was this mildly mentally handicapped guy who really wanted a free breakfast. Since casinos sometimes give comped food to players, he started playing. He began winning and winning a couple thousand bucks and still no comp breakfast. The whole time, the dealer was staring at the pit boss, and the pit boss kept shaking his head, "not yet". Every player watching was telling the guy that he won enough to buy the best breakfast in Vegas many times over, and still the man kept playing. He really wanted his free breakfast. Soon, the odds began tilting toward the house. The guy started losing and losing while the players kept saying to pull out and get his own breakfast already, that guy kept playing and losing. All this while the dealer was staring at the pit boss, and the pit boss kept shaking his head, "not yet". Eventually, the man lost all his winnings and his money. Everyone was fed up, and then finally, the pit boss gave the guy his free breakfast. The house is there to fleece you. Suck you dry. All the free food and drink is there to make you lose.
Kk ichikawa was loosely based on a real life japanese billionaire with alleged connections to the Yakuza. He once even put Donald Trump in financial strain after cleaning out trump's casino. Eventually the real ichikawa ran into money troubles in business and with gambling debt, he was killed in his home and it remains a cold case. It's believed it was a Yakuza hit.
Would’ve been funny if the Japanese players simply then got a limo to head to LA to catch a plane there and what De Niro would’ve done to respond to that.
@@leejackson4724 the free drink is an illusion. it doesnt exist. Everybody pays for their "free drinks" with all the money they lose at the slots or the tables. Nothings free in this world. especially at a casino.
That Japanese guy was never a varsity player, this is something your wife might enjoy besides all those towels and free soap she put in her bags, blueberry muffins with the exact amount of blueberries in each muffin now I’ll bet you won’t see that in Tokyo.
Trivia: the actor playing KK Ichikawa is actually Robert De Niro's business partner and a professional chef. Together they own a chain of Japanese restaurants
For real?
It’s Nobu Matsuhisa
@@DGNYY27 all the years… must have seen the movie at least a dozen times, and I never realized that was Nobu. Thanks for that tidbit.
Deniro better be careful Nobu doesn't gamble all the profits away and close down the restaurants
What’s the name of the restaurant
The look Ace gives as Ichikawa's limo returns is so calculated. He knows he's about to bleed him and there's nothing Ichikawa can do about it, absolutely genius.
Welcome back...we've been expecting you. 😏
Deniro was a made man, and Ichikawa wasn't
Can Ichikawa not gamble?🤔
@@robertusthemacnope jew fbi informant
@@robertusthemacdeniros character “Ace” Rosenthal Goldstein was a Jewish high earning bookmaker who was an associate of the Chicago outfit, The Chicago Outfit was different to the five families in NYC in the fact that they had very high ranking Associates who EVEN THOUGH couldn’t be made into the Family they were given high status if they earned well unlike in new York where associates of crews were just grunts, not only was Rothstein a top earner he was given the Keys to Las Vegas to run the Dunes Casino for the Outfit ..there was also a Japanese fella in the 50s to 70s in the Outfit named Tokyo joe who actually had his OWN crew even though he wasn’t made in the Outfit but an Associate “ to be made into a crew, you have to be 100% percent Italian so they can trace your family back to the old country” - goodfellas
Robert De Niro:” in the end we get it all”
Black guy: GADDAMMIT
LMAOOO
Ha!
Scorsese’s editing for his early 90s filmography was next level brilliant
@RandalBauer11 Same editor for 50 years. Even now. That's some loyalty. She won Oscars too. A crime Scorsese only has one Oscar
@@RandalBauer11 He didnt edit sht. Thelma Schoonmaker did.
Wish to GOD I had watched Casino before I moved to Oklahoma when I was 18. Could have saved my whole life.
Why, what happened?
@@GirlycarDawn He probably got taken for a ride. You can get in a casino at 18 in OK and there are plenty available, lol. Every single word in this video is accurate about any casino, even small ones in Oklahoma.
God lets us down. Again.
@@bigwilly43729I’ve witnessed both gambling addicts winning furiously and mushes losing the title to their house and cars. Once saw the trainers for Hugo Chavez lose all of their cash they earned from his fight at craps and then try to get comped. The casino manager at the Mirage explained they are supposed to request a comp prior to playing and ask to be rated as a player. They didn’t understand and still wanted to be comped a room and meals, etc. Chavez was long gone probably back to Acapulco and these guys wound up sleeping in the lobby trying to scrounge up enough bus money to get to Tijuana. Seen a little old lady put $3000.00 on zero at the roulette wheel and it hit! She walked away with over 100k and acted as if she had just won a stuffed animal. Turned out she was an old school Hollywood producer widower who came to Vegas once a month. Ridiculous how much money can be won and lost.
Reminds me of baseball legend Yogi Berra when someone asked him about a plush hotel he'd stayed in. He said, "The towels were so thick I could hardly close my suitcase."
😂😂🤣🤣
@@retroguy9494 True Yont style.
It's sometimes easy to forget how long De Niro has been in the industry. He was already legend a here. At this time Clooney waited for his big breakthrough in From Dusk till Dawn, Banderas had his in Desperado, Travolta his big comeback a year earlier in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson his big breakthrough in same movie, and it would be another two years before Di Caprio became a superstar and anyone even heard of Matt Damon and Affleck...etc etc...
He's been acting in movies for over 50 years
Samuel L Jackson killed it in Jungle Fever (1991), still one of his best of his career.
Absolutely. When he appeared in Goodfellas back in 1990 he was the "and" on the billing, reserved usually for legends. That was 30 years before The Irishman!
It's not hard to forget, the guy looks decrepit as hell. That scene in the Irishman where he was supposed to be beating that shop owner was pathetic. Not to mention the guy is a typical Hollywood limousine liberal douchebag. Fvck him.
@@fredrickfrederickson5246Heat and Copland would come to mind, they came right after Casino.
I always found it funny that a billionaire is still unable to resist the urge to take home free soap from a hotel.
Harper Bowersox stfu you clown
Hey....it’s free. His housekeepers and maids probably steal all of his towels and soap at home.
They're souveniours of his gambling conquests.
That is called human greed for some it is never enough
It's the same reason that some bodybuilders won't take a sip of soda. You don't get to the point where you have a ridiculously built body (or bank account), unless you're the type of person to try to make every single penny you can in every possible way. (some people make their money through luck of course, others through their own mentality, etc, we're talking about the mentality)
The shot at 0:50 in my opinion is overall the best in the entire movie, the way the camera pans, Ace standing defiantly getting ready for revenge, and the way jazz version of "The In-Crowd" fades into the original lyrical Dobie Gray R&B soul version. The shot says it all: you cross Ace, you pay the price - BIG time!
Yes yes... And after the handshake, you can just hear Ace say "no no.... No gambling"
Not trying to be one of those people, but just wanna say the sequence you like is not a “pan” shot. It’s a tracking or dolly shot with a zoom, Scorsese loves that combo and uses it a lot. The camera never moves in a panning shot, it just swivels left or right. There is actually a pan in the scene just before when Rickles character leaves the counter to say something to the whale. The camera pans left.
@@HYPERI0N. My mistake. Thank you for clearing that up for me and fixing my movie terminology! Lol
@@Kurt_Soulpatch cool, I figured that if you love film as much as me you’d appreciate some of the technical jargon. But from now on you’re gonna notice tracking zoom shots all over the place, lol. My apologies 😉
@@HYPERI0N. Lol, well apparently I'm not as knowledgeable with the technical mumbo-jumbo as I thought I was. But at least now I know not to call that kind of shot a "pan shot" again, hehehe. Just Googled tracking zoom shot and I wanna thank you for helping me with that one, too!! Never knew what that kind of shot was called until now! Lol so much for my movie knowledge
I love the way the Ramsey Lewis version of the “in crowd” is finished off with the Dobie Gray hit, my favourite bit of the film.
Best movie . I watch it from time to time and I know it will get me entertained and stick every time !! What a masterpiece !!
Yeah I agree, this is a top 10 flick for me.
I used to work as a blackjack dealer at one of the big casinos in South Lake Tahoe. You start to get a feel for how much money people spend on average. The average buy-in was $100 cash. That $100 would get people about between 30 minutes and an hour playing blackjack. So figure the casino gets paid an average of $100 per hour, per customer, and they serve many hundreds or even thousands of customers per night. Imagine how much money is made, and really all they're doing is pushing cards and chips back and forth across a little table.
lol at this math....
The Character K.K.Ichikawa was based on Akio Kashiwagi, a real estate investor based in Tokyo who will be killed in 1992 at his house in Tokyo, close to Mount Fuji. His murder was never solved.
Yakuza
@@jquest43 no it was the bride from kill bill with a Hattori hanzo
It was iitchi!!
Stabbed over 150 times with a samurai sword......damn
Ya they banked him ! And lost it all
I never stepped foot in a Casino ever since I watched this movie.
Such fantastic music throughout this film. In this segment: Ramsey Lewis Trio's "The In Crowd." At the point where they're being welcomed back to the casino after the flight problems, it is Dobie Gray's "(I'm with) The 'In' Crowd," before fading back into the Ramsey Lewis version. For the little bit of the segment tacked on at the end, the "Goddammit!" is from Les McCann's "Compared to What?"
Nice profile pic. As Above, So Below - your favorite?
@@AChillPirate It's up there. The ending was a little weird but overall I like the movie enough to stop and watch it if I see it on TV. The pic is a little homage to my job transferring me to Paris.
@@dergluckliche4973 Ah, okay. Once I leave the US Army, I’d love to teach English abroad, preferably in Poland. Poland’s a very beautiful country
My man. Great to know there’s someone out there who has great taste in music. A shout out to Eddie Harris. Cold Duck Time
The Tangiers casino in the film was largely based on The Stardust casino. One night in Vegas in January 2006 while there for a night, I'd finished playing and decided to walk up to the Stardust at 3.00am. One of the pit bosses there struck up a friendly conversation with me and he recounted stories and memories from the days it was run by Frank Rosenthal (Robert De Niro character) in 1970s as the pit boss was working there back at that time. Later that year, it was closed and demolished. Always wondered what happened to the lovely friendly pit boss who has worked there 30+ years. It was a real treat to end my first trip to vegas speaking to a person from that time and place, sharing famous stories from the past with first-hand experience. The pit boss added that the real-life Joe Pesci character moved around between lots of casinos, but largely hung out at the Dunes, which was later replaced by the Bellagio.
FYI - after years of the stardust property changing hands and changing construction plans repeatedly, a new casino called Resorts World is being built and plans to open in 2021. At this time, it's predicted to be the most expensive casino built on the strip.
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Great story, thanks! I'm back in Vegas this summer for a week. Can't wait.
@@chriss7430 have fun. And check out the Sahara. It's awesome but a little out of central strip
Awesome story. Have you had a chance to visit Resorts World? It's a huge disappointment. Except that the Mike Tyson statue they have there is pretty cool.
I grew up in Vegas in the '90s and miss places like The Stardust, The Frontier, MGM Grand Adventures, and so forth.
Hope that pit boss is doing well.
@@InflatableConan howdy, thank you kindly. Would you believe that 9 months ago I went to Vegas for a week and literally walked past resorts world but didn't cross the road to have a look. Interesting to hear it's a bit of a let down. As a side note, I went to Sahara to perhaps catch a little nostalgia of las Vegas, and I was so impressed with it that it's my hotel of choice next visit. I loved the gaming floor, pool looked great, good food and bar options, rooms look a little unique but very comfortable... And honestly it feels like it's way cheaper than the centre of paradise. Wished I'd seen Vegas properly and with a little money on the 1990s but I wasn't legal age then!! Cheers thanks for reply.
I always liked the nameless staffmen backing up Ace wherever he goes, rolling deep just ready to crack heads 1:50
More henchmen than staffmen
1:53 Guy on the right. That's Ritchie, he's the one who gets the lead pipe to the head in the killing montage.
The behind the scenes on the Oceans 13 DVD has a nice segment on how the casinos treat the whales. They give them free rooms, shows, planes, cars, the whale loses a couple million at the tables and in the end they tell the owner "I had a great weekend. See you soon!"
If you think about it, they're not getting played. You would imagine somebody with that much money to burn understands they're probably not going to win at the tables, so if they're going to do it they ought to have the most fun they can. That's where a casino with a great host pulls out all the stops to ensure that million dollars worth of gambling happens in his house instead of somebody else's.
I work a casino and I gotta tell you that this could t be any more accurate. I see that everyday.
Hahaha too true. Someone who arrives in Las Vegas on Friday and wins 3k on a casual night before the big Saturday night is the wet dream of the house
Two technically three great songs in one scene..... fabulous scene 👍🏻
Music married well with the scene. Was a big brilliant element of the film production
What were the songs
@@jmeler1254 “Compared to What”
4:00 is where it starts in the below video
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This whole scene was brilliantly shot Marty can really tell a story without flaws
Absolutely fantastic scene from a great movie!!!!!
1:49. Joke's on you. He got a whole floor full of towels and soaps.
3 million dollar towels 😂
just brilliant, there's so much flow and rhythm to the script, it's as hypnotic as a 5 reel video slot!
On social media the cardinal rule is to keep them watching and keep them coming back. The longer they keep consuming the more time they lose. In the end we get it all.
You nailed it! 🙌
"They can't bet small for long. He didn't think of it as winning $10k, he thought of it as losing $90k." Yep, that's the trick right there.
“I’m not losing $50 on an already millionaire E thot! It’s providing me entertainment!!”
[as she spends that money on the boyfriend she keeps a secret]
I gotta get in on this if people are twisting stuff around to feel better about their nonsense.
Would’ve been funny if the Chinese guy simply got in a car, said he was going back to the casino and then ditches for LA to fly out.
That's why it's a disease.
I never gamble because I always lose. Every single time.
The most I do is play the lottery when it hits like a half billion or a billion. And even dropping THAT $10 or $20 on tickets bothers me. I haven't even won so much as 5 bucks on the lottery!
The Boxman is watching the Shine box.
And the food manager is watching if the cook did not put too much onion in the sauce.
Don Rickles was cast so well in this movie
Akio Kashiwagi (柏木昭男 Kashiwagi Akio, also known as "The Warrior"; 1938 - January 3, 1992) was a wealthy Tokyo-based real estate investor. Kashiwagi regularly played baccarat for large sums, betting $100,000 or $200,000 a hand, for hours at a time. On January 3, 1992, Kashiwagi was killed, stabbed as many as 150 times with a samurai sword.
Clancy Featherton danm
Rest in peace, Akio!
He was a bright man
Morale of the story: don't be a great gambler or hire alot of bodyguards.
Clancy Featherton you dont stabb with a samurai sword.... you slice with it
The most accurate part of this was the billionaire stealing towels, shampoo, and soap.
Love Don Rickles.....can't understand it, better down here than...up there.
Was thinking about the part were nicky was beat up thank god its only a movie
The funny thing is that this is one of the few points that he has any dialogue. Scorsese cast him because of his presence, as he represented the 70's Vegas era shown in this film, as one of the top entertainers during this time (the fact that Rickles was also an underrated dramatic actor was a bonus.)
The film was shot in the Rivera I was there in 94 watching Denero by the swimming pool great film
The Japanese billionaire won so much they had to give him The towels soaps and even Tommy DeVito shine box
ive been looking for this scene for awhile thanks for uploading
1:50 the best intro music when you walk into a room.
I've seen this movie 100 times and it is really hitting me that this dude took those towels. And not one towel, ALL of them. And the soap! Who wants to use hotel soap?
"In the end, we get it all."
🎵 GODDAMMIT!!🎵
Had to pause the video for a moment after that, the timing was too damn brilliant. 🤣
If anyone's looking, dobie greys version of the in crowd is what your looking for.
I was looking indeed. Thank you
this scenes reminded me that story of that asian dude Terrance Watanabe that used to be in Vegas betting large sums of money and got his pockets ran deep in similar fashion i guess he just one of many through history
All this is true even to this day, Brilliant!!!!!
*You can either walk outta here with the money and the hammer, or with the free towels and soaps; but you can’t have both.*
This scene, right here, is why I don't gamble. I've never set foot in Vegas and I have no desire to. They're all designed to make you lose
"These mechanical things"😂😂😂
There's no way you can use the words "Casino" and "Best scene" without referring to one of the clips with Joe Pesci.
The whole movie is a best scene
"in the end we [the casino] get it all"
Which is why I don't gamble. Waste of time.
Almost makes you wonder why so many humans are stupid enough to even walk into a casino.
yakikadafi I have never had a gambling problem because I have a losing problem🐸🐢🐢🐢
@@chewface they're not "stupid", they just value the thrill of the hazard more than the money. other folks may do bungee jumping - you could also call it a waste of time and money. every human activity apart from earning - wheter it's listening to a concert, having dinner at a fancy restaurant or readinb a book - is, essentially, a waste of time and money
@@vibovitold The thrill of losing all your money for the extremely small chance of maybe making a lot. Dunno, man. Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Lol!! At 1:02-1:05 he tells him, "no gambling no gambling." As that was just the simple code to "give it all back otherwise we're gonna beat it outta ya".
Now, the Resort Fees pay for those soaps and towels. 😩
This awesome movie. These awesome individual scenes and comments on each, here on YT. Enterfuckntainment!
"In the end, we get it all." Not if the whale drops dead of a heart attack while still up a few mill. In THAT case, presumably his winnings go directly to his heirs. ;-)
Its very rare for a whale to drop dead when playing. Their willpower is so strong they stay alive just to have one more go at the table.
@@florinivan6907 LMAO! It's true, it's so true! '-)
Malfunction voids all plays. 😅
Na no “no gambling “ 😂😂😂
"I want a close up shot of de Niro smoking which fades into another close up shot of Robert de Niro smoking." 1:48 - 1:57 ahh yes, perfect
As a billionaire, I can confirm that we are billionaires because we don’t pay for soap or towels.
Thanks for teaching me your ways, I’ll be as rich as you soon.
@@AmericanCryptid1 Made a bad investment 4 months ago... I'm no longer part of the 3 comma club. Now I am just a normal millionaire, like you all... just waiting' to die basically.
An educational documentry.
Great scene!!
Thanks for posting this!
I don't know why that guy didn't just stop gambling when he knew he was losing. Its so funny the little honey next to him has this disappointed look on her face lol
The song in this scene at 1:50 is “Compared to What”
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Start at 4:00
In any game of chance where your chances of winning a round are less than 50%.
You may get lucky and win in a few rounds in the short term but the longer you play the more rounds you lose.
Its basic math but people who gamble don't seem to get this.
It’s entertaining at some point and if u don’t mind loosing what u bring Vegas is awesome
a GREAT movie. AND..... this whale got played!! could not resist trying to win more money, didnt see the 'set up' 😂
And... When he arrives back at the casino, de Niro even insists : no no no... No gambling
Epic Movie..Big Up !!
Now that's how you do narration.
Interesting that people enjoy or are curious about the gambling cycles of a casino game. Best way i can describe it is: imagine a graph. The starting point of the line is $1000 and the end point is zero dollars. The x axis is the number of hands or spins of a slot game. You should obviously start with a straight line that goes from $1000 to $0, effectively on a downward slope, 45 degrees or so.
Now, draw over that straight line with a wavy weird roller coaster shaped line.
Thats what most table games look like and slots if you graphed it out. At some points the player could win 15 hands or spins in a row and their money goes way up... Then they lose 7 of the next 10, then win 4 in a row...etc... but in the end, that rollercoaster line will always reach zero over time...
godammit!!!
This is what casinos do in real life
That shot 0:54 🔥
People don’t beat the casinos. People just borrow money from them for a while.
Yep.... Everyone should have a read about Archie Karas. He went to Vegas and had a monumental run at the casino. Defied odds, at one point the casino paid him for racks of their own $500 chips back because Archie had so many in his private vault... Then he lost it all a year or two later
I love how the rules are inverted for a casino. Gamblers should cut their losses or quit while they're ahead. Casinos only lose if the playing ever stops.
Was this a deleted scene? I dont remember it.
I initially thought the pit boss was Jon Lovitz.
Anybody knows whos the girl ichikawas with?
The comment section is great here.
Someone is Always watching. We are watching UA-cam, UA-cam is watching us, The studios are watching the analytics of what we watch and the directors are watching the studios, the actors are watching the directors and everyone is watching the actors for their next movies. The internet is watching us ALL.
You betcha they don't tip neither the dealers nor room maids.
Is this David Scatino in other version?🤔🙄
I was working at a back alley recycle tech shop and during some banter, my boss told me not to call him boss and point at the security camera and said “that’s the real boss”. It never quite hit me until later that I was working at a laundry for wise guys.
Lost $125 in a casino once. That was enough for me
deniros character “Ace” Rosenthal Goldstein was a Jewish high earning bookmaker who was an associate of the Chicago outfit, The Chicago Outfit was different to the five families in NYC in the fact that they had very high ranking Associates who EVEN THOUGH couldn’t be made into the Family they were given high status if they earned well unlike in new York where associates of crews were just grunts, not only was Rothstein a top earner he was given the Keys to Las Vegas to run the Dunes Casino for the Outfit ..there was also a Japanese fella in the 50s to 70s in the Outfit named Tokyo joe who actually had his OWN crew even though he wasn’t made in the Outfit but an Associate “ to be made into a crew, you have to be 100% percent Italian so they can trace your family back to the old country” - goodfellas
Sicilian.
Gotti had the last rule changed for his son who was past Russian.
Pay attention Millennials... 1:46 - you don't murder your enemies and treat them like shit! You outsmart them and make them your slaves.
2 days ago was my very first time watching Casino AND OMGG i rewatched this scene 7 times I was CRYING LAUGHING how they got that man back. Bro 2 million downstairs 🤣 shampoo, towels and soap upstairs in a whole suitcase 🤣🤣 you better get this man back haha
This is why I do not go to casinos and waste my money, yep!
Aww man, don’t have that attitude. Somebody has to win every now and then. Why not you?
Never gonna win with that attitude
I'm the OP.... And tomorrow I'll be in Vegas :) fun awaits
How did that go?
Actually it went wonderfully. It was like a dream thanks for asking. Won 500 the first night on some slot game. Few days with cocktails floating around a pool in pure relaxation bliss, won another 700 on slots, then jumped into a poker tournament and won over 2000. I came home with money. I'm sure that will never happen again, but I'll enjoy the one off. As a side note, Vegas is very expensive now. In past times, it was always considered cheap and cheerful. Paying $60+ for a good entree at a restaurant isn't uncommon.
The way the casino fleeced Ichikawa with fake breakdowns and comped rooms reminds me of a sad Reddit story. There was this mildly mentally handicapped guy who really wanted a free breakfast. Since casinos sometimes give comped food to players, he started playing. He began winning and winning a couple thousand bucks and still no comp breakfast. The whole time, the dealer was staring at the pit boss, and the pit boss kept shaking his head, "not yet".
Every player watching was telling the guy that he won enough to buy the best breakfast in Vegas many times over, and still the man kept playing. He really wanted his free breakfast. Soon, the odds began tilting toward the house. The guy started losing and losing while the players kept saying to pull out and get his own breakfast already, that guy kept playing and losing. All this while the dealer was staring at the pit boss, and the pit boss kept shaking his head, "not yet".
Eventually, the man lost all his winnings and his money. Everyone was fed up, and then finally, the pit boss gave the guy his free breakfast. The house is there to fleece you. Suck you dry. All the free food and drink is there to make you lose.
yes sir. It's important to stay focused and keep in mind, these people are NOT your friends.
Funny how if he would’ve responded by ditching Vegas for LA in a car without telling De Niro and how he would’ve responded.
Anyone know the gorgeous Japanese models name?
Nicky's shinebox came to life and stabbed him with the sword that many times!!
Lose the exclamation marks. Ruins the in-crowd reference to these Borko inspired lines. Too needy.
Who is the woman who is in this scene?
I tryed finding her in the credits I cant find the actress name
1:51 always thought this shot was boss as fuck
He got himself some $3 million towels 😂
Which pixel is Robert De Niro?
I never understood why it went from day to night.... how long does it take to find out the plane is on the fritz?
They were probably sitting in there for hours while they had the mechanics pretending to look over the jet's instruments.
@@eazye088 Sneaky bastids
And I’m watching the eye in the sky. 👀
I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. 🎰
Could be yakuza. If u look closely hes missing the tip of his pinky.
Kk ichikawa was loosely based on a real life japanese billionaire with alleged connections to the Yakuza. He once even put Donald Trump in financial strain after cleaning out trump's casino. Eventually the real ichikawa ran into money troubles in business and with gambling debt, he was killed in his home and it remains a cold case. It's believed it was a Yakuza hit.
Silencing capable bodies? Mr abbott and Langford?
1:55 same shot in Color of Money. Scorcese is untouchable.
The house always wins
Mr. Rothstein lives and breaths gambling 🎰 🎲 🃏 ♣️ ♦️ ♥️
Compared to WHAt! Les McCann and Eddie Harris on soundtrack
Would’ve been funny if the Japanese players simply then got a limo to head to LA to catch a plane there and what De Niro would’ve done to respond to that.
Four hour trip
@@corssecurityBetter than getting screwed by the casino
i play $5 and leave. whatever i get free in drinks etc.
Breanne Smith on those rare occasions I visit a casino I always buy my drinks, the free ones are too weak.
@@leejackson4724 getting a beer is best bet
@@leejackson4724 : Weak drinks- you can consume more drinks without getting smashed while you bet or just enjoy the atmosphere.
@@leejackson4724 the free drink is an illusion. it doesnt exist. Everybody pays for their "free drinks" with all the
money they lose at the slots or the tables. Nothings free in this world. especially at a casino.
Most don't even give free drinks anymore. I've always had to pay, and they're not cheap either
That Japanese guy was never a varsity player, this is something your wife might enjoy besides all those towels and free soap she put in her bags, blueberry muffins with the exact amount of blueberries in each muffin now I’ll bet you won’t see that in Tokyo.
The eye in the sky is watching us all.