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Gerry 2022-03-14 08:01:02
A thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and a thousand trees spring ahead of the sick tree
In 1976, the people of the state voted to open a casino, and the renovation was completed in 1978, making it the second largest casino in the United States. The film was shot in 1980, and Louis Mahler keenly seized this opportunity.
It is also thanks to the transformation of Atlantic City that the...
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Rubye 2022-03-14 08:01:02
The old man chats about teenage madness
From Ma Gongzi's point of view, Atlantic City is like a rising third world city, such as Japan in the 1970s, South Korea in the 1980s, Taiwan in the 1990s, and now the mainland. People are running around to make money in a materialistic society. The instability of life and the happiness that comes...
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Kaya 2022-04-21 09:03:46
Three and a half stars, Louis Mahler actually won the Golden Lion for this film. It is even more unbelievable that Calanster and Susan's old and young are so attractive. Although Susan was young at the time, she still looked old... It's really a casino desire. The opening and the end use the word ''destroy''. A metaphor.
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Brionna 2022-04-22 07:01:55
Atlantic City, which is in the transition between old and new, accommodates immigrants and declining gangsters, and the demolition of old buildings and the construction of casinos accelerate the growth of crime. The orphans from the old era finally maintained the glory of the past with the sound of gunfire in the gap between the times. Louie Mahler's zooming from a height is a bit like Robert Altman.
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Lou: It's all shit now. It's a shame you never saw Atlantic City when it had floy floy. Remember the song, "Flatfoot Floogie with the Floy Floy"?
Dave: No.
Lou: Hep cat and zoot suit. That was the floogie part.
Dave: Yeah?
Lou: The floy floy. That was something special. Atlantic City had floy floy coming out of its ears in those days. Now it's all so goddamn legal. Howard Johnson running a casino. Tutti-frutti ice cream with craps don't mix.
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