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“ | I went into this with my eyes open, you know. I knew the bottom could drop out at any time. I'm a working girl, right? You don't think I'm gonna go into a situation like this if I don't think I'm gonna get covered on the back end. | „ |
~ Ginger's cold-blooded philosophy on marriage |
Ginger McKenna is the secondary antagonist of the 1995 crime film Casino. She is based on the late real life Las Vegas socialite, showgirl, and model Geraldine "Geri" McGee.
She was portrayed by Sharon Stone, who also played Lori Quaid in Total Recall, Catherine Tramell in the Basic Instinct films, and Laurel Hedare in Catwoman.
Biography[]
A hustler by nature, Ginger has no capacity for love, often using her looks to fool men into supporting her. Ginger's cunning and manipulative personality has become infamous among movie fans, and she is often ranked as one of the greatest female movie villains. Sharon Stone won a Golden Globe for her performance and is to this day recognized as one of the best villainesses in modern cinema.
Ginger is depicted as a heartless casino hustler in Las Vegas, Nevada during the early 1970s. One evening, Tangiers Casino manager and mob handicapper, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is watching over the security cameras when he catches Ginger stealing poker chips after distracting men with her good looks. Sam and security arrive, and after Ginger is caught by the man she is stealing from, she causes a scene and throws the poker chips all around, causing a bunch of patrons to get into a frenzy and pick them all up. He does nothing to punish her as he fell in love with her right at that moment.
Sam becomes extremely infatuated with Ginger and begins giving her a bunch of lavish and munificent gifts, including expensive jewel-encrusted gold adornments and the highest fashions. When Sam reveals to Ginger that he wants to settle down, Ginger warns him that she is not the kind of woman who would make a good mother. Sam denies this and the two wind up getting married and have a daughter named Amy. Ginger would later get depressed and resort to heavy drug use and drinking to ease the pain of her loneliness.
Ginger is very unhappy with her marriage with Sam and winds up having two separate affairs, one with Lester Diamond, her pimp ex-boyfriend and a country club golf hustler who earlier Sam arranges his beating after he catches Lester receiving $25,000 from her and who Ginger plans to go Europe with until his abusive and disrespectful behavior leads her to coming back to Sam after he request her to bring back Amy to him, along with Sam's best friend, Nicky Santoro who she asks to him to help her get money and who she turns to after she gets into an argument with Sam especially when he throws her out of the house after he overhears her asking someone over the phone to kill him. She is also photographed by the feds kissing Nicky.
She also loses whatever little maternal instinct she had and neglects Amy, culminating in tying the girl to her bed so Ginger could go out and get drunk. Sam gets home and discovers that Ginger was responsible and confronts her at Nicky's restaurant and already pushed to the edge by his deteriorating gambling empire, divorces her, and has Nicky throw her out of their house. After continuing to argue with Sam, Ginger leaves to back to Nicky's and confronts Nicky in the back of the restaurant and asks him to have Sam killed but Nicky angrily refuses to kill his best friend of 35 years and also worried about the mob bosses finding out. In a fit of rage, Ginger attacks Nicky who fights back and hits her multiple times down the stairs and throws her out of the restaurant with Frank Marino. Ginger declares that she is not longer afraid of Sam nor Nicky and threatens to go to the FBI and states she has her own money. The following morning drunk and on drugs, an angry Ginger arrives at their house screaming hysterically and rear ending Sam's parked car several times, Sam who was impending her arrival; has Billy stay put in Amy's room while he goes outside and confront Ginger. Ginger begins trashing their yard, admits to Sam that she was having an affair with Nicky and causes a scene by threatening to call the FBI that causes the police to arrive on the scene. Ginger explains to the police she wanted to grab a few things before leaving but Ace refuses to let her in unless she calms down, unbeknownst to either Ginger or Sam the pair were photographed by the cops. One of the cops escorts her inside and she goes inside Sam's office and manages to steal his Las Vegas safe deposit key from his desk. She leaves to go to the bank but not before asking the police to escort her out of fear that Sam will follow her down whilst being photographed by undercover cops.
Sam finds out she stole the safe deposit key and contacts the bank to stop her and ultimately drives down to the bank himself with Billy, Ginger manages to gain access to the safe and takes most of the money she walks outside the bank with the police and flees when when she notices that Sam arrives to stop her and the police prevent Sam from going after her however she does not go far herself when a pair of undercover cops pull her over for aiding and abetting despite claiming she did not do anything wrong and was only trying to leave, her arrest leads to a chain of events that leads to the casino empire to crumble; the FBI discovers all the evidence they need when they discover Artie Piscano's records when the FBI search his home leading to the arrests of the mob bosses. Ginger escapes to Los Angeles and takes with her nearly all of Sam's money, spending it on drugs and hooking up with pimps until, within a few months, she has only $3600 in mint conditioned coins to her name. Finally, she dies of a heroin overdose; she is heard screaming in her hotel room realizing her impending doom and she walks outside of her room walking lifelessly down the hallway before finally collapsing onto the floor and dying; it is implied that the Mafia was involved in her getting a "hot dose" of lethally pure heroin after Sam hired a private doctor do an autopsy on her after her body was found.
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