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Casino Ending Monologue

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Finally, the Casino script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, Kevin Pollak, James Woods, yadda yadda This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Casino. Synopsis: In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), his ex-hustler wife Ginger (Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond (James Woods) and a handful of corrupt. Nov 30, 2015 The monologue book thing is a little bit of a quick fix solution,” explained acting and monologue coach Brian O’Neil, “And there are two traps with monologue books: It is very often either a story piece or else it’s something that a lot of people are doing.” But there’s tons of different things to keep in mind when deciding which. The ending to the movie Casino was one of the scariest things I have ever when I was a kid Born in 87, I grew up watching TV. A lot of TV, my parents didn't want me watching rated R movies but I always found a way. Even with movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th, Childs Play, it didn't really set into my head like the ending of Casino.

EXT. RESTAURANTPARKING LOT, LAS VEGAS, 1983 - DAY

SAM 'ACE' ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculatelydressed man

approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn

on the ignition.

ACE (V.O.)

When you love someone, you've gotta

trust them. There's no other way.

You've got to give them the key to

everything that's yours. Otherwise,

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what's the point? And, for a while...

I believed that's the kind of love I

had.

Suddenly, the car explodes. Flames, smoke and metal rise

into the sky covering the view of the Las Vegascasinos and

their signs.

Music in:
J.S. Bach - 'St Matthew Passion'.

Ace's body comesflying in - extreme slow motion. His body

twists and turnsthrough the frame like a soul about to tumble

into the flames of damnation.

MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.

INT. TANGIERSCASINOFLOOR - NIGHT

Vignette of ACEthroughrippling flames, we move in on ACE

Ending

ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.

ACE (V.O.)

Before I ever ran a casino or got

myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a

hell of a handicapper, I can tell

you that. I was so good, that whenever

I bet, I couldchange the odds for

every bookmaker in the country. I'm

serious. I had it down so cold that

I was givenparadise on earth. I was

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given one of the biggestcasinos in

Las Vegas to run, the Tangiers...

INT. SANMARINOITALIAN GROCERY/BACK ROOM, KANSASCITY -

NIGHT:

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Vignette of MOBBOSSESsitting at a tablesurrounded by food

and wine like the gods of Olympus.

ACE (V.O.)

...by the only kind of guys that can

actually get you that kind of money:

sixty-two million, seven-hundred

thousand dollars. I don't know all

the details.

NICKY (V.O.)

Matter of fact...

INT. BAR, LASVEGAS - NIGHT

Vignette of NICKYSANTOROstanding at a bar with DOMINICK

SANTORO, his brother, and FRANK MARINO, his right-hand man.

NICKY (V.O.)

...nobody knew all the details, but

it should'a been perfect. I mean, he

had me, Nicky Santoro, his best

friend, watching his ass...

INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT

Vignette of GINGERMCKENNA a dazzling thirty-one-year-old

blonde seated by a smallfiery pool.

NICKY (V.O.)

...and he had Ginger, the woman he

loved, on his arm. But in the end...

INT. TANGIERS SPORTSBOOK/ACE'S OFFICE - NIGHT

ACE looks over the casino he rules.

NICKY (V.O.)

...we fucked it all up. It should'a

been so sweet, too. But it turned

out to be the last time that street

guys like us were ever given anything

that fuckin' valuable again.

EXT. LASVEGAS - NIGHT

Aerial shot coming down out of the clouds over the brightly

lit VegasStrip and off into the blackness of the desert

night.

ACE (V.O.)

At that time, Vegas was a place where

millions of suckers flew in every

year on their own nickel, and left

behind about a billion dollars. But

at night, you couldn't see the desert

that surrounds Las Vegas...

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EXT. DESERT - DAWN

Aerial shot swoopingalong the desert floor, then rising

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above the mist to revealmountains in the distance.

ACE (V.O.)

But it's in the desertwhere lots of

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the town's problems are solved.