Directed by : Quentin Tarantino, Emir Kusturica, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam
Just like its predecessors “Paris je t’aime”and “New York I love you”, “Las Vegas, I heart you” tells a few separate stories drawn together by the magnificent city that is sin city.
Segment one : Inglorious Time Travelers
The first short to open this future acclaimed movie is about a three Nazi officers accidentally transported into the future by a hot tub. Cristoph Waltz reprises his role as col. Hans Landa the Jew slaughtering Nazi. The three find themselves in a Las Vegas hotel room soaked from the hot tub and pretty astounded thinking that they’ve brought the sphinx and Eiffel tower to Berlin but after abducting a poor innocent bellhop they realize that they’re not in Germany. Trying to get to the bottom of what happened in the last 70 years the teenage bellhop helps them find concise historical reference that shows them exactly the outcome of WW2 and shows them the following:
Outraged by the gruesome events they see the three begin their quest to change the course of history as we know it.
Segment two : Black chip White chip
Meanwhile somewhere outside the casino, a group of gypsies who have recently emigrated in America try to scam people with illegal betting. Trying to get the police off their tales they devise a plan to get Esmeralda their chief’s daughter to marry an American and get a green card.
Segment three : Ocean’s lucky 13
Because the bets organized by the gypsies are rivaling with the casino games everyone is distracted and a band of very cunning thieves tries to break in the casino vault. In segment three we have on our hands a remake of the famous movie, but given Hollywood’s unfriendliness to aging actors George Clooney got the villain role this time whilst Brad Pitt was re-casted as Danny Ocean. After Brad Pitt’s character robes George Clooney’s Casino he is robbed as well because he couldn’t resist the temptation of participating in the illegal gambling outside the casino .He makes a deal to get Esmeralda a husband in exchange for his money back.
Segment four : Eddie Hall
Eddie Hall played by Woody Allen is a retired Jewish salesman who is on vacation in Las Vegas before he moves in a retirement facility in Florida. Normally this character would have a simple life, witty lines and so on, but when in the same movie you have a band of Nazi officers, life gets a little more complicated. Hence Eddie is forced to run for his life throughout the short film.
Segment five: Fear and Marriage in Las Vegas
At the roulette Pitt meets Eddie who is hiding from Landa and his men. He rescues Eddie by setting him up to marry the young Esmeralda so that the Nazis lose his track.
Afterwards Pitt gets a one on one combat with col. Landa and obviously wins leaving the latter scarred for life with a dollar mark on his forehead. He then sends back the three Nazis with their time machine and after all is well goes to a Las Vegas chapel to the wedding of Eddie and Esmeralda officiated by a Michael Jackson impersonator (Elvis became out of trend).
Back in Nazi Germany, army chorus composers decide to dedicate a ballad to Landa’s Las Vegas experience and to his new scar. The ballad in cause is featured on the film soundtrack and goes like “Can’t read his can’t read his poker face …”
End credits
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