No, Las Vegas isn't a place with tremendous political power: "Vegas" is the entertainment capital of the world! Connected to gambling and freedom, the landscape means active nightlife, attractions, casinos, mortgages, fine dining or wedding chapels. In the middle of the desert, is the artificial city a "Disneyland" for adults?
It's possible! And for American Cinema, Vegas is this kind of schizophrenic place: land of pleasures and land of vices, which is the classical American entertainment cocktail with friendship, love, games and violence!
ENTERTAINMENT
On the one hand, Vegas appeared in movies as The Hangover, Friends, Rain Man, Austin Powers, Viva Las Vegas, Swingers, Very Bad Things or What happens in Vegas as a place of freedom for heroes. In this land of pleasures, the heroes are going to the city during a short period but they live crazy nights with the same four ingredients:
1/ Money
2/ Party
3/ Friendship
4/ Love
SIN
On the other hand, the entertainment city has a dark side with excess, alcohol, drugs, mafia and violence. This part of the town is spotlighted in movies or TV shows as CSI, Showgirls, Las Vegas Parano, Casino or even The Godfather. In this "sin city", pleasure goes faster and faster until a decadent moment.
I can identify, again, four types of ingredients:
