12/24/2023 0 Comments Casino theme 1995![]() Bills, whether fished out of a G-string or deposited in suitcases, were depicted as dirty, damp with druggy sweat and marked by evil deeds. It presented the casino as a kind of purgatorial arena, capable of bestowing unfathomable rewards on those who chose to fight there, but more likely dragging their souls to hell its visual style, peacockish and flashy almost to the point of nausea, mirrored that of the Las Vegas strip, its low-brow glamour and its clashing colors winking at the inherent tastelessness and seediness of the film’s story. ![]() In 1995, an American feature film stunned critics by presenting the world of the Las Vegas casino - a venerable institution for which the phrase “seedy underbelly” could have been invented - as an allegory for the pursuit of success in capitalist culture, a hotbed of violence - literal, verbal, and emotional - in which cruelty and venality are rewarded, and weakness is exploited. ![]()
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