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''Casino'' is a 1995 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. It is based on the non-fiction book ''Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas'' by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The two previously collaborated on the hit film ''Goodfellas'' (1990). The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, following ''Mean Streets'' (1973), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), ''New York, New York'' (1977), ''Raging Bull'' (1980), ''The King of Comedy'' (1983), ''Goodfellas'' (1990), and ''Cape Fear'' (1991). In ''Casino'', De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Jewish American top gambling handicapper who is called by the Italian Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers casino in Las Vegas. His character is based on Frank Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s. Pesci plays Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro, based on real-life Mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro, a made man. Nicky is sent to Vegas to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and the mobsters in Vegas are kept in line. Sharon Stone plays Ginger McKenna, Ace's scheming, self-absorbed wife, based on Geri McGee. ''Casino'' was met with a mostly positive critical response and was a box office success, though not as successful as ''Goodfellas'', a mafia film by Scorsese which also featured De Niro and Pesci. Stone's performance was unanimously praised, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. ==Plot== In 1973, Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is a sports handicapper and Mafia associate who is sent to Las Vegas to run the Teamsters Union-funded Tangiers Casino on behalf of the Chicago Outfit. He hires old friend Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles) as his manager. In between, Ace and his friend, mob enforcer and ''caporegime'' Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro (Joe Pesci), narrate how the mob bosses control the Teamsters Union, which gives out money for casinos that they own, such as The Tangiers, and how they also drive off rival crews and get rid of cheaters. Ace becomes the Tangiers' ''de facto'' boss by taking advantage of lax gaming laws allowing him to work at the casino while his gaming license is still pending. He doubles the casino's profits, which are skimmed by the Mob before the records are reported to income tax agencies. The bosses are impressed with Ace's work and send Nicky to protect Ace and the whole business, along with Nicky's brother Dominick, Nicky's friend and subordinate Frank Marino (Frank Vincent), and the rest of Nicky's soldiers in his crew. Nicky, however, becomes more of a liability than an asset; his criminal activities—which he makes nearly no effort to conceal—and his violent and vicious temper quickly get him banned by the gaming board from every casino, and his name is placed in the Black Book. In retaliation, Nicky gathers his own crew, opens a jewelry store and restaurant, begins running unsanctioned shakedowns and burglaries, and soon after is considered the mob boss of Vegas. Ace, meanwhile, meets and falls in love with a hustler named Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone). Ace, desperately wanting to settle down in Las Vegas, proposes marriage and a family, but Ginger refuses. She changes her mind after Ace assures her that, even if it doesn't work out, he will make sure that she is taken care of for the rest of her life. They soon conceive a daughter (Amy) and marry. Their relationship begins to deteriorate when Ace and Nicky catch Ginger giving money to her former boyfriend Lester Diamond (James Woods), the man she actually loves and her pimp from her days as a prostitute and now a small-time con man. Ace also makes an enemy in Clark County Commissioner Pat Webb (L.Q. Jones) by firing Webb's brother-in-law Don Ward (John Bloom), the slots manager at the Tangiers for incompetence and refusing to reinstate him. Webb retaliates by pulling Ace's casino license application from the backlog and forcing him to have a license hearing in 1980, while secretly arranging for the gaming board and State Senator Harrison Roberts (Dick Smothers) to reject the license (in spite of Senator Roberts being a frequent and comped guest at the Tangiers). Ace responds by appearing on television and openly accusing the city government of corruption. The bosses are unappreciative of Ace's publicity and ask him to return home, but he refuses, stubbornly blaming Nicky's reckless lawbreaking for his own problems, which leads to a heated argument with Nicky in the desert. The bosses soon notice that the amounts of the skim are getting lighter due to local mobsters taking some of it for themselves, so they appoint Kansas City underboss Artie Piscano to oversee the skim, but he keeps incriminating ledgers and is caught on an FBI bug discussing the skim. Ginger tries to file for a divorce, but Ace refuses, stating that he will not let her take Amy away from him due to her severe drug and alcohol problems, and she will likely spend all of her money within a year and come back to him anyway. Ace then finds out that Ginger and Lester are in Los Angeles together with plans to run away to Europe with Amy. Ace manages to talk Ginger into bringing Amy back. After a tension-filled dinner, he overhears her talking on the telephone with someone about having him killed. He forcefully evicts her from the house. She returns on Ace's condition that she carry a beeper so that he can contact her at any time. Ginger turns to Nicky for help in getting her share of her and Ace's money from the bank, and they begin an affair, which Ace later finds out about. These actions violate Mob rules and could potentially get Ace, Nicky, and Ginger killed. Ace reaches his limit with Ginger when she ties Amy to her bed in order to have a night out with Nicky. Ace confronts Ginger in the restaurant for abusing Amy, and disowns her. Ginger turns to Nicky to have Ace killed, but he refuses, saying that because of her rash actions, Ace will not give her any money. Ginger flies into a rage and attacks Nicky, but he throws her out. Meanwhile, Sam has Billy arrive with a shotgun in case Ginger returns. The next morning, the hysterical Ginger, determined to retrieve her share of Ace's jewels, goes to the Rothstein house and creates a disturbance by rear ending Ace's car with her own, causing police to be dispatched to the scene. Ginger, escorted by an officer, uses the distraction to steal the key to the couple's bank deposit box (She is unable to retrieve any other valuables from the house due to Sam having Billy place the valuables in the casino vault the night before.). All of these events are occurring under FBI surveillance, having been alerted by Piscano's discussions heard by the bug. Ginger steals most of the cash from the safe deposit box and drives off, intending to run away to another city. Before she can escape, however, she is pulled over and arrested for aiding and abetting by the FBI undercover officers watching her. They arrest Ginger in hopes of using her as a witness against the Mob's activity. Ginger says nothing to the police, but it doesn't matter; the FBI has collected enough evidence to arrest several casino executives involved with the skim. Philip Green (Kevin Pollak), the casino's front man and nominal main executive, decides to cooperate with the FBI. The FBI raid Piscano's home and find his ledgers, which detail every transaction of the skim. Piscano becomes so upset he suffers a heart attack and dies, right in front of his wife. The casino empire crumbles, and the bosses, including leader Remo Gaggi (Pasquale Cajano) are all arrested. Nicky, catching wind of the early arrests, flees Las Vegas and manages to evade capture. The FBI comes to see Ace with the pictures they took of Ginger with Nicky. Devastated, he refuses to look at the pictures as well as the agents, and he turns away. During an after-trial meeting, the bosses decide to eliminate anyone involved in or with knowledge of the skim, in order to keep them from testifying. They kill money courier John Nance in Costa Rica, a few casino executives and despite knowing he won't talk, they kill Teamsters Union president Andy Stone (Alan King), deciding not to take a chance with him. Ginger, all of whose money and jewels had been looted by bikers, hustlers, drug addicts, and felons, suffers a fatal drug overdose and dies in a motel in Los Angeles (from a hot dose, which is a mixture of heroin and battery acid, as Ace learns via a second autopsy). By the time of her death, she had only $3,600 in "mint condition" coins remaining. Ace, on the other hand, is almost killed in 1983, in a botched car bombing which was never authorized by the bosses, but Ace suspects it was Nicky. Before Ace can confront him, however, Nicky and Dominick are savagely beaten with baseball bats and buried alive in an Indiana cornfield by Frankie and the rest of their crew. Ace narrates that the bosses had "had enough of Nicky" and had ordered Nicky's crew to get rid of him in exchange for clemency for covering up Nicky's affair with Ginger (the bosses also suspected Nicky's involvement in Sam's car bombing.) The Mob is knocked out of power as well as the Teamster's Union and the old casinos are purchased by big corporations and demolished to make way for gaudier gambling attractions financed by junk bonds. Ace laments that this new "family friendly" Las Vegas doesn't cater to the players as their predecessors did and that now "it looks like Disneyland", stating: "Back then dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played; today it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday". In the final scene, an older Ace is shown living in San Diego, once again as a sports handicapper for the Mob, or in his words, "...right back where I started". Ace closes the film with the words, "I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing? And that's that." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casino (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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