Help! Sufffering from a brain fart

[birima]

Dear fellow gamblers,

Here's the situation.

With the risk of being ridiculed

I am going through a divorce (not problem gambling related) I have come to peace with that, actually I see it as a new chance in live.

I am a roulette advantage player and I am also an adventurer. Every once in a while I drive a car from Europe to West Africa through the Sahara, spent some time over there, sell the car and fly back. It's my hobby.

Now I have planned another trip and was thinking....

What if I combine my interest for roulette and casino with travelling and came up with the idea of producing a series about African casino's! Most people associate Africa with hunger, war, Ebola, parasites and all kind of other negative stuff but there's a flipside to that coin. I know there's (extreme) richness, happiness, talent and yes, there are casino's. So I started fantasizing and even doing some research on African casino's to the point that I now want to produce a trailer. The Idea is to visit every casino on the way of my trip. Review the place, review the ambiance, review the food etcetera. Anything you would expect to see in a review. Furthermore I would film the locations secretly to show my audience what it's like to be inside there. I would then upload every week an episode of a particular casino that I have reviewed on a dedicated You tube channel. There are about 12 casino's on my way until final destination in Morocco, Senegal, and The Gambia.

So I started to think about my trailer in order to draw audience.

My Idea was to start like this...

IGI pictures presents..... (heavy dramatic voice like Hal Douglas rip)

A world unlike any you have ever seen....(African djembe music in the background)

A man going on a mission....

It could be his last trip.... (actually, there is some calculated risk from AQIM (Al Qaida in the Maghreb, in Mauretania).

From there I don't know how to introduce the casino/roulette review idea. English is not my native language...

I need you guys input. On the idea, maybe you think it is ridiculous, fine, if enough people convince me I put my energy on something else. However if you think it's interesting, please give input for making a compelling trailer.

I realize this post may seem awkward and I hesitated to put the questions here, but hey, nobody know me so I see where it goes.

Thank you for reading and please leave your thoughts.

[Turner]

Dangerous to say the least.
To quote the great philosopher Jim Steinman:

"There aint no Coup de Ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box"

[birima]

Your input is greatly appreciated...

To quote the great philosopher Jim Steinman:

"There aint no Coup de Ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box"

Good to hear Jim Steinman was promoted to philosopher but what is the meaning of the sentence?
English is not my first language.

Dangerous to say the least

It's not that dangerous you might think.

Along this so called Atlantic road, about 9 incidents have taken place since 1998. Considered the fact that there's traffic all day and year in, year out, I would say it's a calculated risk. In Mauretania, about every hour or so, you will meet a military checkpoint and those people are there for your protection. Filming covertly in casino's might be another thing in those countries.

In 2000 I drove through the sands and that was quiet stressful taken in account I didn't have 4 x 4.
Nowadays, there's a fairly good road from Morocco to Senegal hence things are much easier. To have an impression from that route, you can check a small video from one of my last trips. It's quiet boring actually but to give you an idea what it looks like.

link:://youtu.be/4GvkkIGwLjk

[Turner]

When I was working in Athens...I saw a horse racing stadium and asked the greek guys if they fancied going. In Uk...going to the races is a respectable thing..quite middle class thing to do.

The greek guys looked at me like I had suggested we go score some hard drugs in some gangster run back alley.

In greece...you are a bum if you go to the races. A rougue....lowest of society.

I didnt know that!

I would need to know what the status of clientel in casinos in that part of africa was before I went.

Morrocco is a snake pit. And thats just shopkeepers and taxi drivers

[birima]

The greek guys looked at me like I had suggested we go score some hard drugs in some gangster run back alley

That's funny, the same thing happened to me in Miami downtown when I wanted to visit a concert from 'Tears for fears'. Needless to say I didn't accept the invitation.

Morocco snake pit, well, driving your own car you don't mind taxi drivers apart from not driving into them. If you don't watch your speed or don't stop for next to invisible police stops at night you run into trouble. Virtually behind every tree there's a cop with a laser gun.

What about the Jim Steinman quote I asked you.   

[Turner]

"There aint no Coup de Ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box"

Crackerjack is US popcorn with a prize in. The prize was some worthless rubbish...plastic toy etc.

Dont expect the prize to be a Luxury Cadillac (Coupe de Ville)

It means.....Dont expect something to be what it obviously isnt going to be.

Its like the English saying "You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear"