A casino is a public place that houses a variety of gambling activities. Many casinos add a number of luxuries to help attract patrons, including restaurants, free drinks and stage shows. Casinos can also offer a range of rewards to “good” players, known as comps. These may include free hotel rooms, dinners, tickets to shows or even limo service and airline tickets. Casinos also spend a great deal of time, money and effort on security.
The people who gamble at casinos are a diverse bunch. Some strut around in confidence, expecting to win big; others simply want to make back what they lost last time. Regardless of their goals, most people who visit casinos share one common experience – they’re having a good time! With music blaring and coins clinking, there’s something about the atmosphere of a casino that just makes you feel happy.
Casino is a movie about Las Vegas, but unlike other movies that portray Sin City, this one digs deeper, showing the city’s past ties to organized crime as well as its neon signs and opulence. It also depicts the shady underworld of gambling, with Martin Scorsese’s brutal, hellacious violence (including a torture-by-vice sequence that had to be trimmed for an NC-17 rating) making it clear that the movie is not for the squeamish.