Introduction

JamesArthurArmstrong The idea for the movie all started from a newspaper article about Lefty Rosenthal’s car exploding. It says in the article that he was friends with Tony Spilotro, who along with his wife, were all part of a romantic love triangle and the car explosion that starts the movie, was the culmination of this extraordinary history of what Las Vegas become and was no longer.

The movie is arguably one of Martin Scorsese’s finest pieces of not only filmmaking, but storytelling. It exemplified the true power of how the director uses cinematic language to engage his audience into living alongside these selfish set of characters who exist in a money hungry paradise that collapses around them. Without further ado, here are 8 things you didn't know about Scorsese's brutal thriller...