Jeff Ma , who was the real-life inspiration for the character Ben Campbell and served as a consultant on the film, was attacked as being a " race traitor " on several blogs for not insisting that his character be Asian-American.

In response, Ma said, "I'm not sure they understand how little control I had in the movie-making process; I didn't get to cast it. Nick Rogers of The Enterprise wrote, "The real-life students mostly were Asian-Americans, but 21 whitewashes its cast and disappointingly lumps its only Asian-American actors Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira into one-note designations as the team's kleptomaniac and a slot-playing 'loser.

The Media Action Network for Asian Americans MANAA reported on their web site: "After the 'white-washing' issue was raised on Entertainment Weekly ' s web site, [ 21 ] producer Dana Brunetti wrote: "Believe me, I would have LOVED to cast Asians in the lead roles, but the truth is, we didn't have access to any bankable Asian-American actors that we wanted.

In pre-production, the producers and the book's original writers predicted that the Vegas casinos would be unhelpful, as a film that told viewers the basics of card counting might hurt their bottom line.

A featurette included with the DVD completely and accurately describes the "Hi-Lo" system used by the MIT Blackjack Club and by Rosa's team in the film.

In fact, the writers were surprised when told by the producers that MGM Studios would finance the film, though all "MGM" casinos including one used by the real MIT Blackjack Team are owned by MGM Resorts International and are no longer related to MGM Studios.

In reality, as another DVD featurette reveals, the casinos including MGM Resorts saw the film as an attention-getter; people who saw it would be encouraged to go to Vegas and play: some just for fun and some attempting to count cards but failing to learn or memorize the entire strategy or making too many mistakes.

The film withheld critical strategy details such as the conversion from the "running count" to a "true count" , and most beginning card counters underestimate the number and value of the mistakes they make.

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