I’m sure that many of you have seen this movie. I just watched it yesterday with my friends. I paid $12.50 for this movie, and for me it is WORTH IT. I think that the movie is cool, and i got brainwashed about BlackJack which i never played before. I thought that Black Jack can make me rich if i play it in the future, or maybe i should create a group like MIT, so that i can win million of dollars, and have a happy life (like in the movie).
But another thing that made me realise is that this is only for smart people who can count fast, calm, and collected like BEN.
“Who wouldn’t want to go to Vegas and make a killing, not because of luck, but because you are smart about it?” These were the words that appealed to Kevin Spacey as well as the rest of the filmmakers of 21.
You are right. If i were smart. I WOULD GO FOR SURE.
A little summary about the movie:
The movie centers on gifted MIT student Ben Campbell (played by Jim Sturgess) who needs $300,000 for Harvard Medical School. He is enlisted (on the down low, of course) by math professor and statistics genius Mickey Rosa ( Kevin Spacey) to join a group of the school’s most gifted students as they crack the code by counting cards and beating the odds on blackjack. At first, Ben is hesitant to venture to the other side of morality, as it compromises not only his standing at MIT, but also his friendships and basically everything that he stands for. With a little coercing from the object of his affection, Jill Taylor ( Kate Bosworth) and a desperate need for money because of little hope in getting a prestigious ‘dazzling’ scholarship he is applying for, Ben realizes this could be the solution to his money problems. The stakes are raised even further when Ben’s desperate need slowly starts to manifest into greed, cockiness and corruption as he takes his scheme to the point of no return. The thrill of chasing the almighty dollar and becoming successful seduces Ben even further into a lifestyle and a world he never imagined. In comes the challenge for Ben, as he struggles to keep the numbers straight, staying true to his friends and being one step ahead of the casino’s looming consultant Cole Williams ( Laurence Fishburne).
This movie received lots of positive and negative feedback from the viewers. The positive feedbacks are given most by the people who doesn’t know ANYTHING about Black Jack, whereas the negative feedbacks are mostly given from people who knows better in Black Jack. The positive just keep on praising the movie, and the negative keeps on saying that the movie is racist and shit. I’ve found so many videos about this in Youtube, because i was searching about Black Jack and 21 right after i came back from the cinema. It was quite surprising for me, who just happened to believe that everything shown in the movie was real, but it is not! well, i do understand that people make mistakes in their life…
These are several videos that i found in Youtube:
Top 10 Card Counting Mistakes in “21″ The Movie
This video explains almost about everything that you may notice if you ever play Black Jack and showing the true Black Jack game rules. Me, myself was surprised again by this video. They talk about how there shouldn’t be 2 big players in a table, different counting method, etc.
If you are about to make a rebut about ‘there shouldn’t be 2 big players in a table’, i’m sure you are going to say ‘They did it so that they could get more money!’ NO. Watch the video, and you’ll understand WHY.
Meet The Real 21 Dude
So as you may know, 21 is based on a true story. Where a smart Asian-American student play blackJack with strategy and stuff. This is the real guy! The interviewer asked him several questions about the movie. Some points that i grabbed from him is that:
1. It’s real
2. Actual storyline changed a bit ie. Why he does is, his motivate is VERY different
3. What he does, the counting card scenes, training is all dead on
4. The producer asked him so many questions because he didn’t know that much about theory, but he knows the basics.
I really can’t conclude my opinion because i am half LOVE the movie, and i am half upset with the fact.
Anyway, here’s a tip that i found in youtube:
Why you shouldn’t play SLOT MACHINES
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