Near the beginning of the scene, a character’s narration is interrupted as he is hit in the back. Halfway through the bludgeoning scene, he uses two bats simultaneously as his main victim is being dragged away. Frank Vincent) had played Billy Batts in Goodfellas. Even the cornfield scene with the baseball bats could be seen as darkly comedic to some extent. I feel that there are some scenes which could be almost seen as comedic such as the desert confrontation between Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
The film has often been described as a parody version of Scorsese’s Goodfellas. Part of what makes the scene powerful is that the film, for the most part, is a glamorous depiction of crime with an ebullient tone despite the many scenes of swearing and violence.
Martin Scorsese’s Casino is one of the most harrowing films of all time, mostly because of a scene that takes place in the final reel.
I got the cover from the Twitter account of Heidi Harris, who is a Las Vegas journalist.
