Martin Scorsese's "casino" is conceived on a grand scale, as a gangster's paradise lost. Paradise was Las Vegas in the 1970s, a Wild West town ruled by the mob, where guys from the street like "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) and Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) could reign in gaudy splendor as long as the skim money from the casinos kept flowing back to the mob bosses in Kansas City. In an unholy alliance with the corrupt local politicians and the Teamsters, the mob had Vegas in its fist. But it all came crashing down, the sinners expelled from their gold-leaf Eden, the Mafia casinos replaced by the new corporate-owned, junk-bond-financed pleasure palaces of the '80s and '90s.
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机译：马丁·斯科塞斯（Martin Scorsese）的“娱乐场”构想宏大，被认为是黑帮的天堂。天堂是1970年代的拉斯维加斯，是一个由暴民统治的狂野西部小镇，只要有脱脂金钱，街上的“ Ace” Rothstein（Robert De Niro）和Nicky Santoro（Joe Pesci）等人就可以在华丽的辉煌中统治从赌场一直流回堪萨斯城的暴民老板。在与腐败的地方政治家和Teamsters的邪恶联盟中，暴民的头顶上是拉斯维加斯。但这一切都崩溃了，罪人被他们的金叶伊甸园驱逐，黑手党的赌场被80年代和90年代由公司所有，由垃圾债券资助的新型娱乐宫殿所取代。
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