He accepts and declares that the game for him is not poker but the hustle, and he loves it.' Worm is completely comfortable with who he is in a deep, conscious, philosophic sense. 'You always need to find a line in on a character, and Bugs Bunny is always scheming, always two steps ahead of a beating and always laughing. ' like Bugs dressed as Keith Richards,' Norton told Mal Vincent of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In Real Life: Some have likened Worm to Ratso Rizzo, the great character Dustin Hoffman played in 'Midnight Cowboy.' While Norton admires Hoffman and knows the Rizzo character well, that wasn't what he had in mind. In Reel Life: Worm (Edward Norton) is a risk-taker, in contrast to Mike, whose instinct is to grind it out in the true 'rounder' fashion. In Real Life: 'City Law School' is actually Rutgers, which you can figure out from a typical movie 'tell.' Check out the door in the last scene: There's a 'No Smoking' sign that says, in small type at the bottom, 'Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.' In Reel Life: Mike (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend, Joe (Gretchen Mol), go to 'City Law School' in New York. For all of you poker players out there, 'Rounders' is a must-see.Ī realistic depiction of life as a full-time poker hustler player? You decide.
