Scene with Arnold Rothstein at casino

[@Pazzak13]

We hit 500 000, thank you for watching. Boardwalk Empire was such a good show.

[@andyusfca]

God will not be mocked!

[@alejandrob.4961]

and you post the video in the year 2022 at 240p, what a loser you are

[@Reportbots]

best show ever

[@alonenjersey]

I'd easily rank it up there with Mad Men, Sons Of Anarchy & The Man In The Iron Castle.

[@insertclevername4123]

The suit game on this show never disappoints.

[@trillgates2452]

Insert CleverName You'll love Peaky Blinders the show

[@CGoody564]

Indeed.

[@CharlieSheensTigerBlood]

Insert CleverName I wish we still wore suits like this whenever someone was successful...now gangsters are chains and saggy pants

[@akirak1871]

Agreed... Rothstein's diamond-tip bowties are particularly sharp.

[@steelbronson4238]

@@CharlieSheensTigerBlood some types of fools wear chains and pants so low they can't run properly while some still dress very, very well.

[@grogtgs]

I can’t believe they had the nerve to end this show without showing Rothstein getting killed. He was a great character and he just disappeared

[@richardharrow2513]

At least they could start off with a flashback showcasing Arnold’s death and then carry on with the rest of that rushed season. At least...

[@DLHarv]

They dropped this show hard for game of chumps. Find some solace in the fact that piece of crap show flamed hard

[@capss1651]

@@DLHarv Same with Rome, they always rush the good shows to make that telenovela with dragons smh

[@DLHarv]

@@capss1651 yup no doubt. And walking dead still has fans lol. What a world. I might go to mars with Elon haha

[@oofowie8882]

I partly agree. But in another way, The offscreen death explained by a quick remark is more realistic. Rothstein was always in control, always had the fix in. But eventually he ended up murdered over a gambling debt.

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

Nucky's expression at Luciano's anger is hilarious. He implies that Luciano is a child, so Luciano acts like one. Lucky has one of the best character arcs on the show, in my openion.

[@twisted_nether373]

how would you even misspell a word like "opinion"?

[@Live.Laugh.Lobotomy]

@@twisted_nether373 well apparently like openion

[@whyiaskyou]

Nucky's problem wasn't that he underestimated Lucky, it was that Nucky never stopped to reassess Luciano, he always saw him as the hothead he was when they first met.

[@justinpowell1802]

Luciano took a lot of lessons from Rothestien and was councilled with lansky but was also done the same from torrio before he took and claimed it all. A lot of value and grit made Luciano. What happened with nucky was the change of an era

[@joecrockrell04]

Guy had the largest rise on the show, one of the largest in recent tv history to be honest.

[@byronleemarley9610]

What a shame how they rushed this classic off the air. This was the most enjoyable TV series I have ever watched.

[@dwightlove3704]

I own the entire series of Boardwalk Empire.

[@Godfather9814]

Love how nucky didn’t flinch when Luciano squared up with him, plus it’s even funny that rothstein won pretty big here to screw nucky over but years later at poker nucky would beat rothstein in a game

[@AB-ou8ve]

Years later, Luciano made Nucky his bitch.

[@Godfather9814]

A B yeah the mob or criminal life does that, even in movies it shows that if you don’t kill someone before they get to strong they’ll eventually try again to kill you. Look at The Godfather 2 lol yeah don ciccio wanted to kill a kid which is pretty awful but decades later Vito grew up, became strong and STILL went back to Sicily to kill the old man

[@randylahey8174]

He beat him in a one hand of poker and then left

[@hello-4503]

@@randylahey8174 for a man that does not lose often 1L means alot to them and knowing that they were beat rides with them for a long time especially when he knows he's better then Nucky

[@randylahey8174]

@@hello-4503 I don't know how much you know about poker but beating someone in one hand and leaving proves nothing and is actually kind of rude. Luck is obviously a big part of cards so players typically sit down for hours and play as many hands as possible to mitigate the luck factor. But having said all that Nucky was just trying to rattle him and it worked perfectly.

[@zinozee8929]

Seeing Arnold’s gentle demeanour toward Charlie’s rage just went to show how Arnold was the one to be feared with his ability to tame an angry guy.

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

Shortpants would get his teeth kicked in by half the roster.

[@kurtiskaskowski5386]

The way AR says "Charlie" cracked me up.

[@utewbd]

Chully

[@Professor__S]

$2000 plus 10% of the gambling venues.. No wonder why Charlie ended up killing that fat tub of crap Massaria😂

[@tchoupitoulos]

Come for Arnold Rothstein in the casino. Stay for the boxing dwarves.

[@JoeSmith-hv7oe]

The little big show

[@jiricirtek8160]

No low blows? How are they gonna do that?

[@MrSinthan]

Luciano really still was "Short pants" here.

[@CronoXpono]

lol, Gotta love how Nucky didn't budge when Lucky got up. It's amazing how well they demonstrated the power of dynamics of then without foreshadowing to death that YES, THIS GUY IS GONNA BE A BOSS. Loved this series!

[@jackdaone6469]

@Isabel Beckerman Definitely in the earlier seasons, though he's considerably more calm and calculated in season 5. Shame we had to jump so abruptly in his development.

[@MrB00mbang]

Too bad the show went downhill due to GoT budget pressures, and how it ended, but they should’ve continued lucky’s story.

[@ElkoeWise]

For anyone wondering, the song is called "The Japanese Sandman" by Paul Whiteman. Beautiful song.

[@harryluis]

LeifTheOldSoul thank you.

[@covariance5446]

As I seem to recall, an escort plays that song later on the ukulele for Nucky and one of his political equals (the king-maker of New Jersey?) later on in either this season or season 2.

[@terranceaddison4599]

I heard on this looney tunes short called the ducktators.

[@yvc9]

The doo wop remake of that song is awesome

[@yeahmateyeah8649]

Seeing as it's a song that's notorious for being inherently tranphobic as well as making light of the Khmer Rouge atrocities, I'd hardly say it's beautiful.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Why do you guys think AR was such a gambling fiend? His personality was so quiet and reserved, yet he gambled like a psychopath and didn't know his limits at all.

[@khairiaris]

Everyone has their personal pitfalls.. Some are wackos like Gyp, some drugs, some women.. AR’s case is gambling..

[@felixw4993]

Chairman Meow You will be more surprised to hear his story about how he started to losing all the bets in a sudden and winning his last bet on the presidential election but can’t cash out the result because he was shot

[@Ruosteinenknight]

@TheRealist 811 That supposedly was what did him in. He lost high stakes poker game (4.7 mil in modern currency) and claimed only way he could've lost was if the game was fixed, which led to him getting targeted for a hit. To him it wasn't "you lose some, you win some" or "It's okay to lose so long as your spirit isn't broken." Granted if testimonies were right, it was true that the game was fixed.

[@mathewgore8121]

Chairman Meow Probably because he was so controlled and reserved in everything else.

[@MossB87]

Yeah and he ended getting killed for his brazenness

[@stoneharper7038]

“Maybe you shouldn’t be listening to the grown ups conversation then” Fucking fantastic

[@prophetascending9021]

Midget boxing, the spectator sport of gentlemen.

[@jeremydyar7566]

Its just boxing of a discreet weight class

[@ghostlylover99123]

I cried laughing when I saw the midget boxing match!

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

No low blows... LOL

[@prophetascending9021]

@James Donnelly Fucking libtards... They don't seem to understand that midgets bred in captivity simply can't cope in the real world. My midgets would fight to the death in a 7 foot deep pit. It was quite the spectacle. Shady figures from the criminal underworld, big city bankers, aristocrats, bus drivers - all would rub shoulders and bet on the hand to hand combat of the midget pit. Bernie, my prize midget, was an expert with a short sword and had 21 victories to his name. Each opponent was beheaded upon defeat and Bernie would take their left ear as a trophy. He had a great ceremonial necklace made from ears. Anyway, I shouldn't really be telling you all this as the first rule of The Underground Midget Fight Club is you don't talk about The Underground Midget Fight Club.

[@canadaero]

Prophet Ascending lol

[@chipsthedog1]

AR doesn't even need to raise his voice, that's some real power

[@jarredanderson207]

I love how AR goes “Charlie...Charlie”. The second time he says his name, even though his voice is so quiet and polite, by that look he gives him you can tell he’s saying “Do not dare embarrass yourself and most importantly me right now. Calm the fuck down and take a seat”. And sure enough, he composes himself and sits down haha

[@dwightlove3704]

Sit Charlie Sit GOOD DOG!!!!!!!!!

[@Guru316]

One thing that seems to go under the radar about Nucky is how fearless he is. Especially when confronted with someone as aggrssive as Luciano, he doesnt even so much as flinch. He stands his ground and stares them down. He's a legit boss.

[@TheeGemstone]

That is a man hardened by suffering, nobody can intimidate him.

[@pappy374]

"I don't like what I'm hearing" "Maybe you shouldn't be listening to the grown-ups' conversations...!" BURN!

[@cl4ssic]

that didn‘t age well considering at the end of the show nucky is luciano‘s bitch.

[@foodank_atr817]

"Charlie sit down. Charlie? _Charlie?"_ Great actor

[@pappy374]

He was amazing in Fargo as well.

[@hardpack187]

1:09 That look on Nucky's face is great. It's not fear, just surprise. Like "Are you out of your *FUCKING* mind, kid?"

[@bethenawaltz4190]

i think it's more shock that someone is ballsy enough to step to him and check his disrespect, like if you were at a bar and someone said something disrespectful, but there's that one person who will step to disrespect and check it no matter what: that's what Charlie is here, and I think he's giving Nucky a sort of reality check about the kind of gangster-ism happening in New York, where hoods are everywhere, whereas Nucky is sort of protected and sees or fancies himself as aristocracy in New Jersey... but times are changing, and Charlie Luciano is part of the new wave of gangsters coming up (like Bugsy Siegel) who won't take to getting stepped on by anybody, rules or not

[@hardpack187]

@@bethenawaltz4190 So he's an overly emotional hot head who can't control himself, and throws a tantrum at a minor insult? You read that scene way different than I did.

[@adamjarvis7185]

@@hardpack187 Totally. Luciano had a long way to go, both in reality and the context of the show, before he would be heading up the commission. Contrast his behaviour here with when he's with Capone in the final season and Nelson calls him out. He knows he's in Capone's house and that he has nothing to gain, so just lets it slide. Here, he's in Nucky's town, in Nucky's establishment, surrounded by Nucky's men, but he blows up at the provocation anyway and is made to look like an idiot.

[@elofkjellson3906]

I just love when he slams that guys head into the table after the guy insults him in front of everyone. Really makes you remember that he isn't some average rich dude, he is the fucking BOSS and will not take shit from anyone. I also loved when he was talking to Rothstein later on the phone and he says "You wanna see how I do business? Show your face again in Atlantic City." The man does not fuck around...

[@rqneo5361]

Nucky knows he can't look weak in front of his customers especially with Rothstein there. He rarely gets violent but knows he needs to now and then when it's called

[@kevlamar6613]

You mean Tommy?

[@Vercettislugger]

Charlie... Charlie!

[@transeeyou885]

nuckys face shows hes surprised to see that Luciano is even less mature than he thought. like wtf u think we're gonna start punching each others when we get mad like kids?

[@oriiif]

Sit!

[@Dilomight]

Not in my house!

[@publicslum6495]

TranSeeYou he literally beat the shit out of another guy seconds later cause he got mad

[@Ruosteinenknight]

@@transeeyou885 It's difficult to believe that a hot head like him would one day end up quite a lot mafia wars by establishing the comission where crime families could work out their differences without bloodshed.

[@josephtelegen8754]

The way Rothstein restrains Lucky here is just amazing. "Charlie, sit down. Charlie...Chaarlie!"

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

Lucky in this series was nothing less than a small potato hothead. His temper got in the way when anyone slighted him in infractions that infuriated him.

[@stacyhall3402]

that guy said no low blows to the midgets 😭😭💀👏👏👏

[@RichWeigel]

That was the best part of this scene hahahahahahahahaha!!!

[@ajmalik5693]

When

[@IssaFram]

"your credits good with me" amazing

[@noono19]

your*. Dude...

[@Charles-ij1ow]

Lol to see Steve Buscemi physically man handle a younger guy who's got 70lbs on him made my day.

[@sashaqureshi6204]

The song playing in this scene is called The Japanese Sandman, B-side to Whispering by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, the first record to make $1,000,000.

[@MrBlack1968]

No low blows hahahahaha

[@Arbitrary_Moniker]

Yeah, every blow is low. The fuck's the matter with the ref?

[@robrick9361]

@@Arbitrary_Moniker "No low blows" can also be a joke about them being midgets which is ironic because that's a low blow.

[@XxxULTIMATEZxxX]

The breadstick in a bow tie does it again!

[@starguy2718]

I can't even say his name.

[@batefather4457]

@@starguy2718 that animal Thompson...I can't even say his name..

[@illerac84]

@@batefather4457 Blasted right back into the 20's

[@TheAlmightyBassist]

It's amazing watching this scene of Luciano and then watching his appearance in season 5

[@YD-uq5fi]

Throughout all of Boardwalk Empire, no one even once said, "Myah, see?". I feel cheated.

[@Moadar]

We were robbed of authentic mob speak.

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

I bet you even wanted to hear it in Ed Robinson’s voice, too.

[@octoberosiris7463]

Tommy from POWER got beat up by Nucky.

[@4thMoore]

Producers: Alright lady’s and gentlemen, what is the suit budget for this masterpiece? Crew/Cast:........ what budget? Buy the damn suits.

[@tocsradio2k24]

Mane that’s a Rolls Royce Enoch pulled up in. Even back then!

[@tonyb8660]

Charlie always gets excited, gets up, and does absolutely nothing. Hard to believe in real life he woulda stuck an ice pickin the nearest orifice.

[@GORILLA_PIMP]

Yeah ikr I think he explodes off his chair like 5 or 6 times in this show lmfao If he's always THAT mad do something then

[@2345allthebest]

Jeez everyone's disrespectin' Steve

[@HitPeace]

So, one thing I REALLY like to do is to find actors who play other mobster/gangster characters in differen shows. The guy who plays Hans Schroeder here (the upset husband) plays a pretty substantial role in the show "Power" as Tommy. Nucky plays tony b in the sopranos (but everyone knows that) chalky is Omar in the wire. There's others but this comment would end up being way to long!

[@keiko909]

"and remember. i want an EQUAL amount of blueberries in the muffins!".....

[@dlxmarks]

Arnold and Lucky teleport out of the restaurant the moment Nucky turns his back. They're simply not there as Nucky is walking away.

[@CarelesssXeno]

Even the 1920’s Ghost doesn’t have Tommy’s back 😭🤣

[@PangurBan-l1s]

“No low blows”

[@5ellz84]

Just noticed thats "Tommy" from power lol....nice

[@3bigperm3]

He said “no low blows.” Lol

[@Danko_Sekulic]

That was so low .... even for him!

[@ericcollins8794]

that dude who got his ass whipped is Tommy from power

[@MacLKO]

Eric Collins yeah!!! Why wasnt he on any other hbo series? Went to starz

[@ericcollins8794]

Salvatore Lucciano the dude that plays tommy.is from my hometown of Chicago

[@MacLKO]

Eric Collins niice

[@jerry85g7]

Oh shit that is my boy Tommy

[@OlYables]

Also Ginger from True Detective season 1.

[@billiebleach7889]

His grandson is a successful surgeon and also fond of the card games. He often played poker with a Jersey stripclub owner and mr. Sinatra, Junior, Sir.

[@torontoBluejays87]

Pretty stark contrast between Nucky and Luciano in this scene compared to the one where Nucky is on his knees begging for his life in the final season.

[@shaunscotland8099]

his nephews life

[@torontoBluejays87]

His life too, Lucky could have easily shot Nucky there as well. Bugsy was egging Lucky on to kill Nucky too...

[@agg4000]

That final season was horseshit

[@leonelfrmda6025]

@@torontoBluejays87 Not really if nucky's nephew wasn't there they could have just got into a shootout and everyone in the front would have died, Including lucky Mayer,Bugsy,Eli,Etc...

[@AccountabilityHub]

markwest1987 if they didn’t rush the final season for god knows what reason, they could have had a MUCH better storyline as to how everything played out. As phenomenal as this show was, the way sped up the ending was pitiful and disrespectful in my book

[@maybachrob9475]

Never realize Tommy was the husband

[@sethcopeland4362]

Charlie, sit down. Charlie....𝒞 𝒽 𝒶 𝓇 𝓁 𝒾 𝑒 ...

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Love that blue car at the beginning.

[@1247-k9y]

One of the best scenes

[@HRZY-RWF]

Which season?

[@Wolfsky9]

Michael Stuhlbarg deserved multiple Emmys for his masterful performance . --------------------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o

[@philmbu6741]

Suits on Mr Rothstein got me thinking "Why wear anything else?"

[@AB-ou8ve]

2:12 Never turn your back on Steve Buscemi.

[@sonyaugustin9195]

That was Tommy from power right the bar scene

[@channelname5477]

awful actor hated him in the clips I seen from Power, hated him in Ozark glad he only has a few episodes in this masterpiece show

[@deja212]

I don't think he knew Charlie had a bad temper 💀💀

[@matthewriley7826]

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, antagonize them.”

[@jhonmiths1344]

2:20 where every grabs the money then returns to normal like nothing happened kills me, there so desensitized to this sorta behavior like it’s a regular Tuesday

[@johnngatia4880]

That is Tommy from the Series, Power

[@Raizo950]

Lol nucky "toss him the fuck out!" Best part

[@ModernMercenary]

If Peewee Herman was a gangster.

[@LanceDillion]

Tommy from "Power" wow!!🤣🤣

[@ostreds]

Lucky didn't even flinch when Charlie got up

[@politicallynotcorrect]

I didn’t realize Tommy from power was on this show and coincidentally his wife name is Angela

[@williamdon3442]

That animal blundetto

[@BerdosReactions]

The third yelp from the guy getting his head slammed into the table always makes me laugh 😂

[@burnlastsunday]

You're out of your element, Nucky!

[@waltwilliams7063]

from what i've gathered, luciano would have never have reacted that, even as an adolescent. he could invent dirty, withering, challenging insults on the spot, sometimes saving them for later.

[@stephanodixon619]

Tommy is Hans Schroder

[@TheAntiTrope]

Nucky beat his ass so bad he time traveled and changed his name to Tommy Egan

[@colleentownsend4212]

Most underrated comment I was so surprised rewatching this and seeing him on here

[@JohnBarron-n]

Every punch is a low blow with these guys

[@Nonaggress]

"If he wasn't who he is, they'd have found him in a fucking alley." "Well he is who he is." And so they found him in a fucking alley.

[@tapset]

Lol just wait ten years they will find him in an alley

[@Djeispark]

*Guy in the purple suit is Mark Whalberg's brother. He was also in the band The New Kids On The Block.*

[@lizbethgonzalez3715]

Where?

[@jasonmonto4445]

no. he's not.

[@darj617]

Donnie? No.

[@btwarner2124]

Loves this show. Amazing

[@kajcsapapa]

them angry midgets at the end... lmao

[@NPC13niner5]

Subbed for the boxing match

[@Godfather9814]

Pretty cool that Nucky didn’t really jump back when Luciano was ready to square up with him

[@ParadigmZwei]

Every man feels he should be invincible within the walls of his own house.

[@samifolio950]

how you expect me to suspend disbelief with that beatdown? What is he, the hulk? guy pushes his head and he doesn't even hold the table to counterbalance?

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

The guy was drunk and I doubt he knew how to do much aside from beat his wife but yea

[@matthewriley7826]

Probably didn’t expect a suit to get his hands dirty like that.

[@cubefarmerhkc9105]

What a great TV show.

[@whitleyconcepcion6717]

This is special to me,because it's me and my boyfriend show

[@EddyDurden]

I wish people dressed like this today. Yesterday I saw several people wearing pajamas, women with wraps on their hair, pants hanging so low you can see their ass. We need to bring Shame back.

[@dwightlove3704]

There was another version of this scene in which Thompson was already in the casino.

[@nznative6615]

That was a nice touch at the end when that woman snatching the money off the floor puts her heel up 😘

[@justbreakingballs]

?? What does it mean?

[@ignaciogodoy7095]

@@justbreakingballs, the meaning is like took the money from the floor never happend

[@amirhomesrealtyinc5301]

When nucky beats the crap outta tommy from power

[@davidbanterford3216]

No way Buscemi could handle that guy like that.

[@soakingbook]

They could have at least had him gut-punch him, would have been slightly more plausible.

[@GORILLA_PIMP]

Hahahaha right!!

[@halwakka504]

How do you figure?

[@mauricio460]

@@halwakka504 Hans Schroeder (the guy handled by Nucky Thompson, Buscemi's character) was bigger, younger and perhaps used to work physically demanding jobs, different from Nucky Thompson whose job was done mostly while seated; hene there's no way Nucky could have just beaten the hell out of a physically fitter man.

[@halwakka504]

@@mauricio460 No way? Physical size and age doesn't mean everything. Dude was drunk, he was wobbling on his feet. If he was sober it likely would've ended differently (ie dude fighting back and having the same thing done to him only by Nucky's guards) but nothing's certain in a fight.

[@Sp00nexe]

I wish I knew the song in this scene, I can't find it anywhere.

[@GORILLA_PIMP]

Someone in the comments above 👆lists the name of it

[@tonymin1555]

Has anyone ever actually slammed someones head on a table against their will? I loved this show but this cracks me up. Nucky shooting a guy in the face okay. But the WWF move on a bigger man was pretty silly. Got to love TV.

[@tapset]

Maybe because he was drunk? Who knows

[@Danko_Sekulic]

I started drinking milk from a crystal whisky glass because of this man 😂

[@renttojo]

What is the nane of that background music

[@saturn3652]

The Japanese Sandman

[@greendelano]

Referee: No low blows. Camera pans down...WAY DOWN! To reveal two midgets touching gloves. 😂🤣

[@mst3KGf]

"This Rothstein's a cheater. Honestly, if he wasn't who he is, they'd found him in a fucking alley." Nice foreshadowing on what happened to Arnold in the end.

[@Ocelot10]

The difference is Rothstein was cheated on last time

[@samiam7342]

I like that blue rolls royce.....................styling and profiling.............

[@johnnymaximum3828]

any else find that nucky could take on that big irish dude not believable

[@hkhan7321]

I knew id seen tommy from power before somewhere

[@billybowens5834]

Holdup is that Tommy from Power

[@fazbell]

Steve Buscemi can match De Niro in sheer acting talent. This guy could play BATMAN credibly. LOL

[@Idalg87]

De Niro couldn't play batman

[@cgh7337]

@@Idalg87 & neither could Buscemi

[@jonboll2066]

De niro is a terrible actor.. terrible.. no range.. if it wasn't for Scorsese he wouldn't even had a so called acting career

[@listrahtes]

Buscemi doesnt have physicality. Thats why he is a fantastic actor but always makes a very frail impression. There are Limits to what you can act and he simply is a breadstick in a Bowtie. He does a good job but not menacing or threatening at all.

[@fazbell]

@@Idalg87 He played the Frankenstein monster. That made a fan out of me. Both are brilliant actors.

[@jengasias]

According to his bio arnold had a keen sense of weak players and weak houses. So it's kind of on nucky for having a weak house against a skilled gambler.

[@Pazzak13]

True

[@alexmuenster2102]

They outright say that AR was *cheating* ! The banter about "lucky" and "skilled" only proves it! Has nothing to do with being a "weak" house.

[@jengasias]

@@alexmuenster2102 it's not cheating if you find an advantage over the house like card counting or what have you but they don't want your action is what it is. Not cheating per say.

[@matthewriley7826]

He didn’t know Rothstein that well, just met him last night after all. He just underestimated how far he’d go to not pay him.

[@EchoRhythmMusic]

Your credits good with me. Powerful statement

[@berni9977]

Charlie always gets held back from fighting lol ..

[@jerryc5743]

2:31 - no low blows? Really? 😂😂😂😂

[@GovernorRiffRaff]

Between Nucky, Chalky, and Torrio this is more like the Lazy Eye Empire.

[@yeahyeahyeahsok]

tommy egans great great grandfather LOL