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Posted By admin On 14/04/22Posted on Friday, December 28th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista
- Casino is a brilliant cinematic masterpiece from writer/director Martin Scorsese. The story follows two childhood friends who are sent to Las Vegas by the mob to oversee their casino operations.
- The movie Casino was a 1995 release directed by Martin Scorsese. It starred Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone. It starred Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone.
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Martin Scorsese's fascinating new film 'Casino' knows a lot about the Mafia's relationship with Las Vegas. It's based on a book by Nicholas Pileggi, who had full access to a man who once ran four casinos for the mob, and whose true story inspires the movie's plot. Like 'The Godfather,' it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place.The movie opens with a car bombing,.
We come to you now with a very important story. Perhaps the most important story you will ever read. Since Bird Boxdropped on Netflix December 21, the internet has been inundated with Bird Box memes. Lots of them. So many, in fact, that it’s starting to get suspicious. Now, a new conspiracy theory has surfaced suggesting Netflix is creating the memes themselves, in an effort to drum up more awareness for the Sandra Bullock film. Who knows how high his conspiracy goes!?
My mom trying to wake me up @ 5 am for school. #birdbox#birdboxnetflix#birdboxmemespic.twitter.com/sga9LUVzEI
— Mel (@SisterMelondy) December 27, 2018
Me pretending to see none of these bird box memes… pic.twitter.com/5iA7FAIe6Q
— Elvin. (@ElvinAdan_G) December 26, 2018
girl and boy looking at each other when sandra bullock said one of them has to look #birdboxpic.twitter.com/IFqPFNLKma
— ? (@balencigars) December 25, 2018
Above, you’ll see just a small sample of the many Bird Box memes that have been flooding the web since the film hit Netflix on December 21. Memes cropping up after a film’s release is nothing new – Get Out, for example, spawned memes almost immediately. But something seems…off here. Is Bird Box really that popular? Sure, the film stars well-known actress Sandra Bullock, and it debuted right before the holiday weekend, giving more people time to watch it. And yet, at the same time, the popularity seems to be too strong, and sudden.
There’s a new theory floating around that might explain everything: the memes are being created by Netflix, using fake accounts. Before we go any further down this crazy rabbit hole, let’s just say there is no proof that this is true! It’s just a wild theory, and even if it is true, it’s kind of harmless and funny. But several people have floated this idea, including film critic Emily Yoshida.
I was kind of shocked after looking for my Bird Box review on friday to see the zone so flooded with memes… almost as if they had been pre-made, waiting in a folder on an intern's computer… ready to launch at 2:00AM ET
— Emily Yoshida (@emilyyoshida) December 28, 2018
This may sound like a lot of effort in the name of advertising a Sandra Bullock movie, but it’s certainly not outside the realm of possibility. And it’s working – in the sense that it’s getting the Bird Box name out there. Typing Bird Box memes into Google brings up a whole slew of websites aggregating those memes, further spreading their reach.
Of course, this doesn’t mean every meme related to Bird Box is fake. If there’s any truth to this theory, what’s likely happening is normal people are spotting the abundance of memes, and deciding to get in on the action as well. This furthers brand awareness. It’s win-win for Netflix. As has been reported in the past, the streaming service doesn’t gauge interest via viewer numbers. Instead, it looks for online engagement. The more an original film or TV show is talked about on social media, the more successful Netflix considers it. With that in mind, the possibility that Netflix is counterfeiting these memes seems highly likely. We’re through the looking glass here, people. Black is white, and up is down.
Or this is all a misunderstanding, and people really love Bird Box. Either/or.
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Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s lawyer, Oscar Goodman (played by Goodman himself), stands by his side. Photo courtesy of Oscar Goodman.
Though the movie Casino was released more than 22 years ago, it still serves as a reference point for those hoping to understand what real Las Vegas mobsters were like when they were a sinister fixture in the news.
But most movies based on true stories, including Casino, twist the facts for dramatic effect and to compress long histories into a watchable timeframe.
What you see in Casino isn’t exactly the way things were. Case in point: the death of the Spilotro brothers, two mobsters originally from Chicago.
The way the movie portrays it, the brothers — or at least the fictional characters representing Anthony and Michael Spilotro — are beaten with baseball bats in a cornfield and shoved into a shallow grave while still alive.
Not true.
In his 2009 book Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob, journalist Jeff Coen details what really happened. Coen covered the Family Secrets trial for the Chicago Tribune. That 2007 trial resulted in convictions and revealed details that weren’t publicly known when the movie came out more than a decade earlier.
In the 1995 movie, it was baseball bats in a cornfield. But according to trial testimony, the Spilotros were lured to a residence near O’Hare International Airport in Bensenville, a subdivision of “modest homes,” and were beaten to death in the basement. (At the trial, one of the killers, Mob turncoat Nick Calabrese, said he could not recall which house it was.)
Anthony and his brother, Michael, a part-time actor and owner of the Chicago restaurant and Mob hangout Hoagie’s, went to the home in June 1986 believing they were to be promoted within the Outfit.
Although the brothers were suspicious, refusing to go was unthinkable.
When the Spilotros got to the basement, about 15 mobsters pounced on them. Michael had brought a pocket-sized .22-caliber handgun but could not get to it. Anthony was heard asking if he could say a prayer but was swarmed.
In addition to breaking Michael’s nose, the attackers inflicted blunt force injuries over his entire body. They severely bruised Anthony’s face, left temple and chest.
Anthony, 48, had blood in his trachea, lungs and nasal passages and hemorrhaging in the muscles of the larynx. The 41-year-old Michael had a fractured Adam’s apple.
Neither man’s skin was broken, indicating the killers did not use a heavy object such as a baseball bat. The brothers were beaten with fists, knees and feet, according to a pathologist at the trial.
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The Spilotros were dead when buried in an Enos, Indiana, cornfield about 100 miles south of the murder house. The brothers were placed in a five-foot grave in only their underwear, one on top of the other.
The cornfield is near land that Outfit boss Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa used for hunting, according to Coen. A farmer discovered the grave, thinking someone had buried a deer. The Spilotros were identified by dental X-rays provided by a third bother, Patrick Spilotro, a dentist.
Why did this happen to Anthony and Michael Spilotro? Mob higher-ups felt the two had to be silenced.
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Since the early 1970s, Anthony Spilotro had overseen street rackets in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit. He also was keeping an eye on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, a Chicago bookie handling the skim in Las Vegas for Midwestern Mob bosses.
Ultimately, though, news stories about Spilotro’s violent criminal activities, and his affair with Rosenthal’s wife, a former showgirl at the Tropicana hotel-casino, led to the gruesome outcome in that Bensenville basement.
Anthony Spilotro’s high-profile legal problems were jeopardizing the Outfit’s Las Vegas cash cow, prompting Aiuppa to order him “knocked down.” Michael Spilotro, facing a trial on extortion charges, had to go, too.
That terrifying outcome is not the only place where Casino misses the mark factually. In another example among many from the film, an animated Kansas City mobster pops off in an Italian grocery about the Las Vegas skim while federal authorities listen to his profanity-laced rant through a bug planted in a vent.
In reality, law enforcement authorities learned about the Las Vegas skim while eavesdropping on a conversation between members of the Civella crime family at a bugged back table in Kansas City’s Villa Capri pizzeria. Unlike the movie, there was no humorous scolding mom at the now-demolished Villa Capri nagging her mobster son about his vulgar language.
The only ones at the table were sinister Mob figures, behaving like real-life conspiratorial gangsters, not colorful movie characters.
Larry Henry is a veteran print and broadcast journalist. He served as press secretary for Nevada Governor Bob Miller, and was political editor at the Las Vegas Sun and managing editor at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Northwest Arkansas. Henry taught journalism at Haas Hall Academy in Bentonville, Arkansas, and now is the headmaster at the school’s campus in Rogers, Arkansas. The Mob in Pop Culture blog appears monthly.
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