It sets up the basic conflict at the core of Casino: relationships gone wrong. Otherwise, what’s the point?” Seconds later, the car explodes and throws him into midair. You’ve got to give them the key to everything that’s yours.
In the voiceover narration, he says the film’s now-famous opening lines: “When you love someone, you’ve got to trust them, there’s no other way.
Casino’s noir elements are overtly discernible in the prologue sequence, where the protagonist Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein (Robert De Niro) lights a cigarette and gets into his car.
