Ben Campbell is a math genius at MIT. Kevin Spacey who recruits Ben for the MIT Blackjack Team. They learn how to play the age-old art of card counting.
Once they get good enough, Spacey took the team to Las Vegas to give their new talent a try in a real world setting. Of course, things don't go quite as planned, and Ben learns some harsh lessons about life and love before going off to Harvard Medical School.
In Reality:
21 gives us the greatest whitewash in recent Hollywood history--a broad, sweeping stroke of Caucasian across the majority of the cast.
The real MIT Blackjack Team was mostly all Asian, but you'd never know that from the film. Even Kevin Spacey's character was based in part on an Asian professor.
At least they did cast a pair of Asians as members of the Blackjack Team. They were made into goofy loser sidekick types, while the white kids handled all of the heavy intellectual lifting.
My Thoughts:
It's pretty messed up how the movie producers cast mostly white kids for this movie. I mean the original group were all Asian. But then again there like barely any Asian actors or actress. But at the same time, the producers could have held a casting call to get Asian kids in the movie. I think movie directors and producers do this a lot because they want to make the movie more "interesting" by having a diverse group and they NEVER make the movie like how that story actually happened. Why make a movie based on a true story if it doesn't even have the actual facts in there and its not even going to be like the true story?
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