![]() However, while Goodfellas was based on a book that told a true story, Casino was actually based off of another book that only used real life events as inspiration for fiction. Many people wondered if Casino was based on a true story, just like Goodfellas was. The movie Casino was a release from director Martin Scorsese after his movie Goodfellas came out. The primary characters in Casino are Ace Rothstein (De Niro), a Jewish American gambling expert handicapper who is asked by the Italian Mob to oversee the operations at the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas Nicky Santoro (Pesci), Rothstein’s friend and partner whose increasingly violent behavior begins to jeopardize their business Ginger McKenna (Stone), a former prostitute who becomes Rothstein’s wife and Lester Diamond (James Woods), a small-time con artist and ex-lover of Ginger who is hired by Nicky to be a stand-in for him at casinos when he has to leave town. The movie is based on the career of Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Anthony Spilotro, but certain aspects of the film have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes. ![]() PRO TIP:Casino is a movie inspired by true events, but it is not a true story.
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