It's crazy how young he was when he did this and Boogie Nights
@algee8415
Жыл бұрын
I get upset when critics pick this movie apart. "Worthy first movie." The things they criticize are exactly what I like about it.
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
It's an amazing film - no doubt. And I totally agree that PTA is one of the greatest directors of all time. There's no doubt.
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
@@skycorrigan6511 I KNOW!!! He was such a mature filmmaker at such a young age! He's clearly prodigiously inclined towards the art. I wonder if he's a bit of a savant...
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
This is such a brilliant scene...the writing, the score, the acting and the direction are just so incredibly perfect!! Not only that but as a viewer, watching this incredible bit unfold, I find it to be absolutely compelling and absorbing. Both leads are perfect. John C. Reilly makes for such a lovable loser in all of PTA's films...and Phillip Baker Hall was always magnificent. This film is one that I can watch over and over, There are few films that I can appreciate watching again and again and this is one of them. It deserves FAR more recognition as one of the great films out there!
@JustSomeCanadianGuy
3 жыл бұрын
Every time he says "And here's my rate card." I get nervous like he's gonna blow the whole scam. 🤣🤣
@Sarah.Riedel
3 жыл бұрын
The goofy "Thanks a lot!!" makes me facepalm every time lol
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
John C. Reilly has one of the most expressive visages of any actor I'm aware of. He's such a likeable actor and guy too. And what a range! He's one of Hollywood's most underrated talents. If you haven't seen him with Steve Coogan in "Stan & Ollie" you're missing out on a beautiful film and one hell of a performance (from both amazing leads to be honest). It's a tear jerker to be certain.
@drew8703
2 ай бұрын
Dominated every scene, added something to every movie.
@woodson21
Ай бұрын
JCR plays the rube so well in this scene.
@holisticpsychologybyobrien
10 жыл бұрын
So great. This video starts and ends perfectly. Got precisely the clip I wanted to see.
@adolpholiverbush9060
Жыл бұрын
We are all so happy for you.
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
Ha! I was looking for the exact same scene too!
@jaya1000
19 күн бұрын
5:00 those neck collars are funny 😂
@retrovicecity9017
2 жыл бұрын
I gotta watch this. Great actor.
@joaquinhernandez6940
Жыл бұрын
Came here after hearing about Phillip Baker Hall's passing. RIP to the veteran actor.
@hndl771
2 ай бұрын
See Seinfeld Phillip Baker Hall plays a library detective named Bookman funny episode.
@user-uw3fr7cd9z
3 жыл бұрын
This movie is swag😎
@arthurmoore4464
15 жыл бұрын
Great clip... shows a lot..
@linkdavid
12 жыл бұрын
I followed this program exactly & all I ended up with was a couple Chuck E. Cheese Tokens?!?
@FallofAll33
5 жыл бұрын
6 years later you brought wonderful laughter to my life!
@ugandanknuckles5278
4 жыл бұрын
@@FallofAll33 9 months later i read your comment and decided to get off my couch and go see the world thank you Trixter and Link David if you are still alive
@wjatube
4 жыл бұрын
Word of warning: No matter how drunk you get, none of this works with the slot machine inside the bathroom stall at the Crazy Horse strip club. Secondly, arguing with the security about it might also lead to stitches. I am guessing, I wouldn't know. Maybe I should delete this....
@TheBarbahaba
2 жыл бұрын
hahaha
@jaya1000
6 ай бұрын
I heard the slot machines at crazy horse III pays better
@marklipson
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for not deleting. That's one of the best comments I've heard on the YT. I laughed just trying to picture the thing.
@primokava
2 ай бұрын
99
@marklipson
2 ай бұрын
Coming back again. Christ, the original comment is funny. Your mind is pleasantly warped.
@lukebell7131
Жыл бұрын
Bookman on the weekends
@MrTomV
2 ай бұрын
MR. BOOKMAN!!!
@dogstar167
4 жыл бұрын
great flick
@DrJ-hx7wv
10 ай бұрын
You and your good time buddies.
@davemustaki134
2 ай бұрын
You put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York library!
@algee8415
5 жыл бұрын
1996. No work no more. Now you have to put the cards in the machines. Have an actual record of your bets. And John C Reilly was skinny.
@Ken4Pyro
15 жыл бұрын
The rate card stuff is computerized, for the most part, and it doesn't rate you when you BUY the tokens, or chips, but only when you spend them, in a machine, and you can't pull this off on that kind of tracking, or at least it's a lot more complicated. It's a way that real serious players don't spend much on rooms, food, flights, etc because the casino makes a butt load more on what they drop at the tables than on what it costs them for comps to the player. Computers make it tougher for us.
@350zKingz
3 ай бұрын
Exactly, I feel like this scam NEVER actually worked, because you're not actually spending the money and they know it. Even when this movie was made, they still had at least cameras that would track you circulating the same money over and over again. Not to mention the suspicious guy you keep running off to talk to in eyeshot of everyone. This scene just never worked for me because it's so inconceivable.
@mumblesbadly7708
Ай бұрын
When this story was written, a number of the smaller casinos were still using non-computerized slot machines.
@TheMurindo
4 жыл бұрын
one of my favorite movies, if you like this you might also like Mississippi grind. anyone know any other movies sorta like this though?
@blipblip88
3 жыл бұрын
"Owning Mahowny"
@theyrecousins
Жыл бұрын
I love the simplicity of the scam, but the only thing I’d wonder is: wouldn’t the floor man or security notice that Sydney is shepherding him through his whole stay? Especially since Sydney is presumably a preferred customer staying at the hotel?
@algee8415
Жыл бұрын
Maybe they don't care. It's not their casino.
@gk10002000
5 жыл бұрын
It is pretty stupid because back when they used tokens, the casinos were aware if the same person kept going back and forth
@algee8415
2 жыл бұрын
The world was a better place.
@350zKingz
3 ай бұрын
But I bet they didn't know about the guy in the suit you keep running off to talk to everytime you do it! 😊
@mike196212
Жыл бұрын
I gave up our casino(Halifax,NS,Canada) around 05 or 06. Saw this film many years ago and wasn't clear about what was going on in this sequence. I THINK I get it now. Is this something you could actually succeed at?
@anonops1980
Жыл бұрын
Not anymore. Play is electronically tracked by player cards nowadays. Your comps are more or less fixed by how much you bet.
@Ken4Pyro
15 жыл бұрын
Yes, Jos, I can. What John is doing is showing the Casino that he's spending a substantial amount of cash, because they're only showing what he BUYS, not what he cashes in. So, he can spend a few dollars, and make it look like he's spent a great deal more than he has. This would give them the idea he was able to drop some good coin in their machines, and so they're going to comp him perks to keep him coming back...more
@eric13upinriop
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I had to go back like 8 times and got frustrated cuz the math didn't add up it kinda threw me off woke up today to try again and the same in like KZitem to the rescue know it makes sense 😂👍
@Sam6721
3 жыл бұрын
We call this "false dropping". Much easier for the supervisors to track someone on a table game than onna slot machine. Although, slot machines are modern today and don't accept tokens and the rating card has to be inserted.
@ryandauphin5429
3 жыл бұрын
The same thing as this applies to table games
@user-ls9oz6ch8x
Ай бұрын
Great script and cast
@PhoebeJCPSkunccMDsImagitorium
5 жыл бұрын
danny i found the best machine this machine wins every time. its called one of paper equals four of coin
@jheu6173
2 жыл бұрын
If only this is still true
@JustSomeCanadianGuy
Жыл бұрын
Where the hell did Paul Thomas Anderson learn this is my question! 😄
@plissken2156
9 ай бұрын
Probably the same place he learned of the "pudding scam" that the Adam Sandler character was partaking in in 2002's Punch Drunk Love.
@envysolar5810
5 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah yeah
@behindthebarwithjr157
5 жыл бұрын
anyone know the song at the beginning? I know its green onions but what version?
@lpr5269
10 ай бұрын
It's not Green Onions but sounds similar. It's just something composed by Jon Brion and Michael Penn for the film.
@MrFTW733
10 жыл бұрын
I'm looking at this scene, and it looks like Scorsese's Casino has some competition i think
@swazilandirtbikes
5 жыл бұрын
Very observant. A slow mover, with a nice ending. Worth watching.
@RyanJ504
4 жыл бұрын
Paul Thomas Anderson is a big Scorcese fan. Numerous times in his movies will you see things that are a tip of the cap to Scorcese's work. Pretty cool to see.
@ShonenFreakTV
3 жыл бұрын
this is better because it doesn't have the narrator
@kevinfinnerty8414
9 ай бұрын
Pesci’s narration getting interrupted by a baseball bat to the back of the legs was sheer Brilliance though.
@2ndRatePetronius
9 жыл бұрын
Forget OCEAN'S 11, just do the rate-card scam.
@Klangvold1
9 жыл бұрын
Hard card buy in and cash out now days. Can't do this anymore. Everything is track buys wins loses gains.
@2ndRatePetronius
9 жыл бұрын
Kirstin Langvold Technology these days. 😋
@algee8415
9 жыл бұрын
2ndRatePetronius All on computer now. No chance.
@alex1020
7 жыл бұрын
what does this even mean?
@user-bl9cz5fd2b
6 жыл бұрын
The AI God's have taken over, while AI does not understand human interaction yet this would be possible if your old school and professional at keepin your cool. As the old saying goes, it takes money to make money, sometimes it's a risk, but with cautious risks come great rewards. Patience and vigilance
@underwaterlevelz1947
3 ай бұрын
I figure any casino worker would have been trained to spot this scam pretty quickly, even back then.
@chadtarusan8669
5 жыл бұрын
What is the title of this movie??
@Tru3_Detective
5 жыл бұрын
Hard Eight or Sydney depending on where you're located, it had 2 titles
@jay1jayf
4 жыл бұрын
boku no pico
@vaddix9980
4 жыл бұрын
@@jay1jayf HAHAHAHAHA
@kevinfinnerty8414
9 ай бұрын
“Hard Eight” Just like me.
@gregoryschmidt1233
Ай бұрын
It was fun while it lasted.
@vinnyrose3672
5 жыл бұрын
Does this hustle still work in today's casinos?
@nalvarado65
5 жыл бұрын
Yes and no. It's more effective in table games. Especially moving around craps tables. In casinos it's known as a false drop. Years ago I thought working table games in a casino would be fun ( it wasn't ) and was promoted to a games supervisor with only six months dealing ( the job I really wanted to do). I had to track these morons running around wasting everyones time with this bull. They buy in pocket chips run to the cage buy in etc. When the pits get busy it's not too hard to lose track of them. Now that every thing is computerized it's easy to put a false drop comment on a guys player history and wherever he goes afterwards he'll be told to go fish. In slots it doesn't work because it's strictly the amount you play per hour. not what you buy in
@dm-um9lo
2 жыл бұрын
The false drop guys were not really “wasting everyone’s time”. Tracking them was one of things you were hired to do. Without them, your job wouldn’t exist. casino had no
@mikeraymond92
2 жыл бұрын
@@dm-um9lo false drop just wastes everyones time. You don’t get points based on buy in, only actually play. As soon as you leave you’re rating stops. Also, floors are way more likely to “clean the rack” on people who false drop. If you leave with say $1,200 green and they’re missing $1,600 in green in the rack.. guess who is getting credit for the entire $1,600?
@JustSomeCanadianGuy
6 жыл бұрын
This scheme assumes you don't lose all your money.
@dogguy8603
5 жыл бұрын
Thats why you only put in 20 bucks, the trick is ro use rhe rare card to rack up points and free play and whatnot
@MrTibbs220
5 жыл бұрын
The point is you were able to risk your 150$ while also getting 150$+ value in comps. If you win any money its just gravy on top. Still works in some casinos
@JustSomeCanadianGuy
3 жыл бұрын
But you play 20 bucks and you don't win let's say. So you do another 20... It's conceivable to have 100 pulls of a slot machine and not win at all. And in that case you can just get a room for the same money.
@lrmbvv
5 жыл бұрын
why isint this movie a Criterion?
@gottalight9379
5 жыл бұрын
Stumpycat Vm I know right. The only PTA film on criterion at the moment is Punch Drunk Love
@Tru3_Detective
5 жыл бұрын
@@gottalight9379 IKR? Omg this would be a supreme Criterion release. That way we could also get the instrumental they used throughout the film as the theme (and climax scene music,) which was an instrumental of Aimee Mann's Christmastime, the end credits song. Oh yeah btw love the twin peaks name/avatar. Huge fan, you got great taste!!!! "There they are, Albert, faces of stone!" "Agent Preston gets carsick." "CARSICK!!!!!!!!!!"
@Tru3_Detective
5 жыл бұрын
@@gottalight9379 while we're talking casino flicks and criterion, how about owning mahowny? also philip seymour hoffman overlap.
@Ken4Pyro
15 жыл бұрын
Because the casino knows, based on the percentages, and averages, that the longer any player stays in the casino, actively playing, the more chance they have of taking his money. The odds are all on their side. Now what he's doing is simply for show. He's "bought" about $2,000 in tokens, but there's no idea that he's actually just rolled some of it from the cash out to the cash in. Now, in the age of computers it isn't quite as easy, because....more
@algee8415
4 жыл бұрын
They know every penny and have you on surveillance.
@MrThabest101
Жыл бұрын
I don’t understand the logic of this. Can someone one tell me how he got 2 grand by just doing the same steps over and over
@lpr5269
10 ай бұрын
The assumption is that every time he buys chips his rate card gets marked, but he only gambles a little bit of that. He cashes in the chips and starts the whole process over again. In my opinion, it's not very realistic. Number 1, I don't think a Casino is going to give you a free room for losing just $2,500. Number 2, they would have noticed him going back and forth like that.
@carcrashjayson
Жыл бұрын
Anyone have thoughts on the significance of the slow-motion closeup of the money at 7:15? On first watch I though he was short-changing Sydney since it's 2 bills but if you slow it down in HD you can see it's a 50 and a 100. So is it just to point out that John gave the money back without Sydney asking? A slow-motion closeup definitely screams THIS IS IMPORTANT but it seems pretty unnecessary. I guess the overt difference between the sizes of their cash wads is a nice visual indicator of their level of wealth. Oh also it's John paying back Sydney, and the movie has a lot of themes about payback.
@AndrewIsbell
7 ай бұрын
Do you remember any other instances of $150 in the film? Recurring money amounts is important, for example John needs $6,000 for his mom's funeral and later it is shown Sidney has $6,000 to his name.
@rtyughvbn12
3 ай бұрын
it is significant because John has nothing. when you're desperate and you have nothing and you give somebody $150 it's a big deal.
@Godzilla52
11 жыл бұрын
Does this actually still work now, or have computers made this impossible to do? I imagine even if it did work you probably couldn't do this at the same casino too often or they would probably catch you. Maybe if you showed up once every two weeks or something it could work. Could I get some feedback from anyone who's tried this or a professional gambler who knows about this stuff?
@jsmith1174
3 ай бұрын
Bookman
@skycorrigan6511
Жыл бұрын
Is this realistic nowadays? I would think they have tactics in place to stop this type of thing.
@350zKingz
3 ай бұрын
It wasn't even realistic then
@Revonaker
11 жыл бұрын
Would he be able to cash the money in his rate card or does he have to spend it in the casino facilities; bar, hotel... etc?
@saint7370
6 жыл бұрын
at casino usually
@truecrimejungle
5 жыл бұрын
it doesn't work like that. It's just a card that keeps track of how much you are gambling - they comp you based on this. It's not like a debit card. example; his rate card showed he spent 2k even though he only spent 150, so they comped him a room - what's 79$ bucks to them when they think he's spending 2k?
@PhoebeJCPSkunccMDsImagitorium
5 жыл бұрын
some ppl still try this shit, but its all tied to ur debit/credit cards and the 'power play' cards. basically the hotel thinks ur spending a shitload (and prolly losing) so they give u comps, tangible goods the casino/bar/hotel can offer. rooms, drinks, buffets, shows, etc. they think ur a big time riverbroat grambler when rly ur just a hunk check plz
@tonysyoutube542
5 жыл бұрын
Phoebe JCP Skuncc lmao, love the Steve brule references
@user-uw3fr7cd9z
3 жыл бұрын
r/wallstreetbets
@gk10002000
5 жыл бұрын
this is outdated. In the older days they would estimate how much you bet and how long you played. Now you put your card in the machine and the computer system tracks every cent played, and paid. The old star dust system at blackjack for example, if you bet an average of 10 bucks for 4 hours you get room and food for each day. What this guy says here assumes he can keep buying in for the 100 without losing it! That would work if one could keep playing and not losint
@kevinmatta9262
5 жыл бұрын
Movie came out '97
@kevinfinnerty8414
9 ай бұрын
The movie Casino came out in ‘95 and pointed out that Vegas is Disneyland and a joke back then. It’s an even bigger joke now.
@QBAN2010
Жыл бұрын
The background music is so loud that I can’t hear the dialogue!!!
@Adam-mj5hl
9 ай бұрын
Too bad you probably couldn’t do this scam at casinos today, not with all the cameras they have. Sooner or later the eye in the sky will zoom in to see you aren’t really playing 100s of dollars in slots…and they will see you going back and forth between the cash out and token booths….and then they will put 2 + 2 together and blacklist you from their casino.
@rtyughvbn12
3 ай бұрын
I think they would probably laugh you out of the casino also. this whole thing is silly
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