all ace had to do was pay the dummy
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NutMustardx — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 05:57 PM)
That idiot guy he fires, and gets his license checked as payback.all ace had to do was tell the guys brother in law. We will give him a paycheck every 2 weds but he's too dumb to work here. Tell him stay away abs we will mail him his check every pay day. Done. No hassles and every ones happy
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cabal24 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 06:43 AM)
No hassles and every ones happy
I only slightly disagree so let me ask this question then. What is to discourage someone else who is connected from pulling a scam? I dont think Don was capable of doing that because I think he was just stupid. But if I am a smarter version of Don and my brother in law is also a bigshot, why wouldnt I try and set something up? Seems to me that the penalty is not having to go to work and getting a paycheck.
Ace had to get rid of Don to send a message that this casino is off limits to BS. But I agree, he didnt have to fire him IMO. He could have had him transferred away to another casino looking to do a favor for a County Commissioner. -
jh66 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 01:09 PM)
Another Casino would have exacerbated the problem - County Commissioner Webb's nephew wouldn't have been present at the Tangiers, so Webb would still have had Ace's casino checked out.
Maybe Ace should really have given Don a 'mop job' at his own casino and kept him 'juiced in'? -
jh66 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 01:10 PM)
Another Casino would have exacerbated the problem - County Commissioner Webb's nephew wouldn't have been present at the Tangiers, so Webb would still have had Ace's casino checked out.
Maybe Ace should really have given Don a 'mop job' at his own casino and kept him 'juiced in'? -
frankzappayay — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 02:30 PM)
He should have just put him in some other job like running the bar or a restaurant or something. The amount of money they were making, it could have been easy to justify one guy working a job that doesn't even need doing. But the point of the film is that Sam was getting too full of himself.
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wildbill8276 — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 10:24 AM)
Social_Intovert had it right: it was about ego. You hear it from Ace when he's talking to Green before the muffin blowout. He's sick of having to keep the local powers happy by doing them favors.
You also hear it from Santoro when he tells him his "head is getting bigger then your casino, pal." Ace views himself as a "somebody," that he's grown beyond the need to cater to people he views as beneath him that did nothing to help grow his empire. It's hubris, and the first domino that goes down in the sequence to ruin everything.