Veronica Badea

Pentru că prietena mea Monica Cure mi-a lansat acum ceva vreme provocarea să creez un substack public cu știrile pe care le trimit, de vreun an și ceva, unor prieteni care sunt plecați din țară, iată că am făcut-o 🙂 vă prezint primul meu post și vă invit să vă abonați dacă doriți să primiți buletinul meu de știri săptămânal ^^

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"The first time I went to Vegas, I was 17. I had a friend who was a dealer in a casino. It was real desert, still like the Wild West. Back then, you gambled and then, at 4:00 a.m., you went to the lounges to see [Frank Sinatra] sing."

Most of the conversations between Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in "Casino" (1995) were improvised. Director Martin Scorsese would tell them where to start and where to end. The rest was up to them.

To avoid the continuity problems that accompany a chain-smoking movie character, De Niro always held his ci******es the same distance from the lit end so that their lengths never appear to change.

The costume budget for the film was $1 million. De Niro had seventy different costumes throughout the film, Sharon Stone had forty. Both were allowed to keep their costumes afterwards.

According to Alan King, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, upon whom De Niro's character Sam "Ace" Rothstein was based, wanted Richard Widmark to play the lead in the film. However, Widmark was eighty years old by that time, and, therefore, not a practical choice. In preparation for filming, De Niro met Rosenthal, and Scorsese would screen a rough cut of the film for Rosenthal, who reportedly was very pleased with the end result.

"Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. When I'm directing a great dramatic scene, part of me is saying, 'Thank God, I don't have to do that.' Because I know how f**king hard it is to act. It's the middle of the night. It's freezing. You gotta do this scene. You gotta get it up to get to that point. And yet, as a director, you've got to get the actors to that point. It's hard either way." (IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Robert De Niro!

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