Casino: The Title Credits
Having been blown up by a car bomb, Sam Rothstein finds himself falling through a hyperbolized fireball as Bach‘s “Matthaus Passion” plays elegiac over the soundtrack. Rothstein is either in hell, or well on his way to it. Fire transitions into the crimson lights of the Las Vegas Strip, and Rothstein keeps falling. Flames shoot up from the bottom of the frame, engulfing a screen covered with abstractionist shots of Las Vegas signage and illumination. Rothstein descends quickly over the superimpositions, then disappears entirely.
