Nope. This is a fairly well known movie, so the clues are still a bit more tricky / minor but memorable details as opposed to major plot points.
That sounds like a promising guess.
Blueberries is not ringing any bells, but I can make the others fit. Well, I assume table manners fits because pretty much every Scorsese movie has an argument at the table.
Di Niro flips out because when eating with a client one Blueberry muffin is full of blueberries, and the other has none.
AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF BLUEBERRIES IN EACH MUFFIN!!
Very much so! I’ll add explanations for the clues in a bit.
- Suitcases - Being heavily reliant on cash, Vegas Casinos make it very easy for the Mob to skim some money of the top. This is done the old fashioned way, by hand, in the count room where a Mob associate will simply take wads of cash, stuff them in a suitcase and deliver it to the families on the east coast and in Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcTq0U9ofk
- Hammer - When caught cheating, Tangiers customers are treated to a zapping via cattle prod and then have the choice of getting their hand smashed by a hammer or returning the money they cheated the casino out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGp3PrC1CKI
- Blueberries - One of many exmaples of Ace Rothstein’s obsession with detail, he will not tolerate an uneven distribution of Blueberries in the muffins served in the casino and demands an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin, much to the astonishment of the pastry chef.
- Table manners - Ace Rothstein tolerates some members of his partner Nicky Santoro’s crew cheating tourists out of their money, but he will not stand for them putting their feet on the table.
- Demolition
- Tourists - Both clues are part of the closing scene. When the mob finally gets driven out of Vegas, the old casinos are demolished and replaced with junk bond financed hotels and casinos more akin to theme parks, that are quickly populated by an amorphous mass of tourists.
At least you get the fantastic theme from Le Mépris to finish it all off.
And that’s that.
dtolman
3376
OK - your next five elements!
-traffic
-patriotism
-funeral
-travel
-teamwork
Well, since I’m not going to get it at this stage, time for a silly guess:
Live & Let Die
dtolman
3378
Ooh - great guess (wrong, but…) - and this movie also has some great music in it. Maybe not quite as good as McCartney’s title track, which is a favorite… but that may be personal taste.
You know what - lets make it an official element
-traffic
-patriotism
-funeral
-travel
-teamwork
-great original songs
Not sure if it contains a funeral, but Team America: World Police?
dtolman
3380
Great guess - but there are no puppets in this film. Just actors playing people.
I think at least one person died in the documentary ‘Woodstock’?
Interesting choice! But this work is completely fictional.
'Fraid not. Never seen it, so can’t say how good a match it is.
Think its been long enough to introduce a New Element
-traffic
-patriotism
-funeral
-travel
-teamwork
-great original songs
-prison
