A casino is an establishment for gambling. Casinos are also known as gaming houses, kasino (Italian), or casin
A large percentage of people who walk into a casino have no idea that the odds are stacked against them. To keep them playing, casinos make the games with the worst odds more attractive by highlighting them with flashing lights and bright colors. For example, at craps, the most appealing bets–the Field and Any 7–are the most colorful. By contrast, the drab bets like Pass and Don’t Pass are less attractive.
Even if you are a good player, there’s no guarantee that you will win in the long run. The house edge, which varies from game to game, ensures that the casino will win over time. This does not mean that a casino is not ethical; however, it is a business and needs to be profitable in order to stay in operation.
Unlike Paul Verhoeven’s Boogie Nights and Showgirls, Martin Scorsese’s Casino does not romanticize the city of Las Vegas; it presents a brutal re-imagining of a place that once drew royalty and aristocracy but now resembles a family-friendly theme park. This ambivalence is reflected in the film’s truly hellacious violence, including a torture-by-vice sequence involving a popped eyeball and an expertly edited baseball bat beating that had to be trimmed to avoid an NC-17 rating.