![]() Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. ![]() Published: January 30th, 2018 - By Larry Henry, Contributing Writer. Video games, which have always harboured something of a desperation to be seen as films, are getting in on the act - but I'm not sure they understand it. Separating fact from fiction in ‘Casino’. A gun being fired directly at the camera has been a thing since 1903's The Great Train Robbery. The shot of the car driving away reflected in De Niro's glasses in Casino has been repeated over and over again, as has the close-up on the peering eye in Psycho. Movies build upon each other with references all the time - the reason so many horror movies show us slow moving shots from the killer's POV is because Friday the 13th did it so successfully, for example. Aside from literally adapting works in other mediums, film is full of homage, parody, send-ups, and tributes - and it loves to self reference most of all. The medium most fascinated by intertextuality by far though is cinema. It began in literature, but has since been used in theatre, music, painting. ![]() Essentially it means taking an idea - an image, a line, a theme - and deliberately transplanting it from one piece of media into another. Intertextuality has existed in media for centuries.
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