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Is Moe Greene's casino based on a real one...?
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02/24/11 01:17 AM
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dontommasino
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The Flamingo perhaps since that was the one that Bugsy opened? Forgive me if the book or movie outlines this.
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Re: Is Moe Greene's casino based on a real one...?
[Re: dontommasino]
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02/24/11 09:11 AM
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In the final draft of the screenplay Moe Greene's casino is also named The Flamingo. But in the film, the hotel/casino they enter isn't the Flamingo. They obviously couldn't use the name due to legal issues in combination with a limited budget. Moe Greene is definitely based on Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was the first gangster who came to Las Vegas and built a major casino. Both were killed with a shot through the eye and both were friends with another powerful gangster, Meyer Lansky (Hyman Roth). For more info, check this out: http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Moe_Greenehttp://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/The_Godfather.htmlAnd ofcourse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel
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Re: Is Moe Greene's casino based on a real one...?
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02/24/11 02:33 PM
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Cool. Just curious, was this Bugsy memorial built before or after 1974? If post GFII, it would appear that somebody paid attention to Hyman Roth's '...not even a plaque...' homage to Moe Green in response to Michael's "Who gave the order..." question (always one of my favorite parts of the movie).
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Re: Is Moe Greene's casino based on a real one...?
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02/26/11 02:15 PM
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Cool. Just curious, was this Bugsy memorial built before or after 1974? If post GFII, it would appear that somebody paid attention to Hyman Roth's '...not even a plaque...' homage to Moe Green in response to Michael's "Who gave the order..." question (always one of my favorite parts of the movie). The last remnants of the original Flamingo Hotel were taken down in 1993 and the hotel's garden was then built on the site of the Flamingo's original structure. So the memorial had to have gone up in or after 1993.
Don Cardi  Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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