Before he tookover the casinos and got himself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a hell of a handicapper. He was so good that whenever he bet, he could change the odds for every bookmaker in the country. I'm serious. He had it down so good, that he was given paradise on earth. He was given four of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas to run •••
Casino (1995)
NICKY
A screenplay character in Casino (1995).
- lines
- 175
- words
- 3,649
- scenes
- 66
- dialogue
- 23%
- avg words / line
- 21
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 109
source review flagged 1 dialogue line
Sample dialogue
The problem with Ace was he was such a worrier about his fuckin' casinos. On some things, even I couldn't talk to him. To Ace, the casinos came first. He ran them strict. He closed down a lot of outside scamsters and even made a few enemies, but as long as he kept making money he knew he was saf•. I saw Vegas different. I saw it as untouched. There were bookies to shakedown, pimps, drug dealers, torch artists, loansharks and bogus wiseguy skells. Little shakedowns, but it was a begiMing. The best was, I had a fool-proof scheme on how I could bet and never lose. CUT TO:
scene 76 — EXT. JOCKEY SPORTS BOOK - NIGHTI'm over here.
scene 61 — INT. TANGIERS CASINO - CREDIT WINDOW -·NIGHTAhh! It's all bullshit. They only
scene 78 — INT. TANGIERS CASINO - NIGHTYour fuckin' license. Do you know what kin~ of money I'm talking about? 3ow come lately everytime I come up with a proposition you don't want to hear about it.
scene 137 — INT. ACE'S HOUSE - DAYWhy don't you get a separation?
scene 200 — INT. CONSTRUCTION TRAILER - EVENING
Bookends
Everything died down, they wanted me to send my brother, Carmine, out to Vegas to keep the packages coming home. And they were right. It was still too hot for me to go back. I uan, I'm not a jerk. What's right is right. We were goint to meet ••• .Ur9hl