Casino (Destoned)
by geKKoWhat is it about? This is Casino without the Ginger/Lester storyline. The focus is kept on Ace and his casino; Nicky and his gangster antics.
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(8 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10, rated)
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Tagline: De Niro. Pesci. Vegas.
Original film name: Casino
New film name: Casino (Destoned)
Film studio name: Universal Pictures
Edit crew name: geKKo
Date original film was released: November 22, 1995
Date edit was released: August 17, 2007
Original runtime: 2h 52m (without credits)
New runtime: 1h 42m
Amount of time Cut/Added: 70 minutes
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- Removed most scenes involving Ginger. She has no major dialogue in the remaining scenes.
- Removed all Lester scenes.
- Removed opening sequence and credit montage.
- Trimmed some scenes for better pacing.
Video: 854 x 480, H.264, 1800kbps
Audio: 48kHz, AAC, 128kbps, Stereo
Your intention for this fanedit:
Keep the focus on Ace and his casino; Nicky and his gangster antics.
Hardware and software information:
Final Cut Pro 6
Additional Comment:
I like Casino even with Sharon Stone, but I wanted to see if it worked without the Ginger/Lester storyline. I tried to remove Ginger completely, but her presence is critical in one key scene (talking on the phones to fool the feds). So the best I could do is minimize her screentime. Now, instead of Ginger being part of Ace’s downfall, it’s Nicky who solely brings it about.
Time needed for the edition:
2 days
Persons involved:
geKKo
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Cover art by AvP (download here):
Additional information links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/
DVD version:
- additional info:
- by boon23: this is an encode I made from the quicktime movie, which is the only available source.
- Of course the “perfect” picture and sound quality are ONLY on the ORIGINAL quicktime movie, available currently via bittorrent. As always I have put my best effort into making this still a good quality release, upgraded the rather weak 2.0 128kbit source sound into 5.1 and created from what I think some pretty cool menus, all with sound. The DVD version was created, because people like me prefer to watch on their TV using the comfort of a DVD player. But if you watch on your PC anyway, the best thing to do is to watch the quicktime movie. The DVD also features a trailershow of fanedit trailers, including the following trailers:
- King Kong Vintage
- Titanic – Jack Edit
- Star Wars Reborn
- Wing Commander – Countdown to Invasion
- Blade 3 – Behead The King Edition
- Star Wars – Rise Of The Empire
- Superman III – The Smallville Cut
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First of all, Thanks for the great edit!
Technically it was great, all the cuts were unnoticeable and the Audio and Video quality were good. 5/5
After watching the movie I was left with a feeling that something was missing from this edit.
I didn’t miss Sharon Stone and Lester, so cutting their parts to the bare minimum, wasn’t the problem.
It took me a while to figure out what was wrong and I think that the problem with this edit is that you cut so much out of the movie, that the two main characters are now too shallow: you don’t get to really know them any more.
Their characteristics don’t really develop during the film.
Another thing is that this is a drama movie, and drama movies are based on motional content.
I think that you left so much of the emotional content out that I couldn’t connect to the characters any more – I didn’t really give a damn about what will happen to them.
Thank you for the effort, filmfreak.
Review by filmfreak — June 23, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Good work, its way better without sharon. This should be the official cut. Much more replay value.
Review by cafevincent — January 11, 2009 @ 4:14 am
best version I can imagine of this movie. Highly entertaining. Gekko, you have a good view and know exactly what has to be addressed.
Review by Istvan6 — May 15, 2010 @ 11:58 am