Gambling Glamorized
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Conservative Trope Examples
Wendy and Marty Byrde purchase the Missouri Belle riverboat casino and put Ruth in charge of most day-to-day operations. The casino is featured prominently throughout many episodes, showing crowds of people playing craps, roulette, poker, and slot machines.
Bond enters an opulent casino in Macau at night by skiff over water with beautiful lights everywhere.
Like the original, the third installment of the Oceans trilogy romanticizes casinos with one of the main plot points showing people having fun winning games the crew rigged. And they also show fancy "whales" getting VIP treatment.
The main event of the movie centers around an ultra-luxurious and exclusive poker tournament with a $10 million buy-in at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.
The entire movie is an ode to Las Vegas casinos with the fountains at Bellagio romanticized, the MGM Grand hosting a major boxing match and of course many scenes of people enjoying themselves while gambling.
The entire movie glamorizes no limit Texas Hold'em poker, local poker games and the World Series of poker in Las Vegas.
6 Tropes
5 Movies
1 TV Show