I've been to the casino in Ottawa, it's mostly full of fat middle aged people in track suits and bad cover bands. Casino's are always protrayed as glamorous exciting places, they're actually quite depressing.
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That's because you went to OTTAWA! Most of what you see on TV about casinos is Las Vegas. Not some hole in the wall in Northern Ontario. The thing is, all Canadian casinos are owned (at least in part)by the government. What's glamourous and exciting about the government? And, a good part of them are owned by the Native peoples as well, so they display a lot of Native symbolism as opposed to flashy, glitzy, in-your-face decor. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you really haven't had the casino experience until you've experienced Las Vegas. (this is coming from someone who's been 5 times) I even like to take it a step further than that and say that you haven't had the true casino experience until you've experienced Downtown Las Vegas. Fremont street to be exact. Don't get me wrong, the strip is gorgeous, pallatial, very extravagant, very at-this-moment, but Downtown is Las Vegas the way it was.
I actually didn't even know there was a casino in Ottawa to be totally honest, and I work as a dealer at an Ontario casino. The only one I know of around there is Gatineau.
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I think the point of the question was that all the casinos in this movie were in Canada & they were portrayed as glitzy. They do actually go to the casino in Ottawa & it's just as glitzy as the rest...
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Ehh... you can get the same Downtown Vegas experience visiting Virginia Street in Downtown Reno. They even have a Fritzgerald's in downtown Reno. The only thing they don't have is the Fremont Experience, which I found to be overrated, especially showing once per hour.
BTW, Many of these older casino's in downtown Reno still have coins. Go to any of the big name Casinos, they have stupid paper chit's that come out of the slot machines that you have to redeem for cash.
I haven't been to Vegas in 6 years, but I was on a roll going twice a year, but I imagine it hasn't changed much since then - except they probably went paperless like Reno and the rest of the "Indian" Casinos in California.
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That's because you went to OTTAWA! Most of what you see on TV about casinos is Las Vegas. Not some hole in the wall in Northern Ontario. The thing is, all Canadian casinos are owned (at least in part)by the government. What's glamourous and exciting about the government? And, a good part of them are owned by the Native peoples as well, so they display a lot of Native symbolism as opposed to flashy, glitzy, in-your-face decor. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you really haven't had the casino experience until you've experienced Las Vegas. (this is coming from someone who's been 5 times) I even like to take it a step further than that and say that you haven't had the true casino experience until you've experienced Downtown Las Vegas. Fremont street to be exact. Don't get me wrong, the strip is gorgeous, pallatial, very extravagant, very at-this-moment, but Downtown is Las Vegas the way it was.
I actually didn't even know there was a casino in Ottawa to be totally honest, and I work as a dealer at an Ontario casino. The only one I know of around there is Gatineau.
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well time to take a look at some of the high rolling places :)
shareThink about it a bit, it's a place of interest. It's a stereotype. If they portrayed it the way it really was, it wouldn't be entertaining. I mean, which is more interesting/entertaining? Watching some group try to beat the system when the setting is a glamorous, fast-paced, over the top, extravagant, anything goes arena where the people are beautiful or a tacky, too bright, too loud, dirty, cold-hearted and impersonal gilded cage where the inhabitants are tired middle-aged or retired individuals? The fact is, what they present sells and if they switched it to presenting real life without embellishment and enhancement or downright exaggeration, it would cease to be entertainment and become what we use entertainment to escape--real life. They're selling us the vision of what we wish life to be--exciting, exotic, beautiful, and glamorous.
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