| Casablanca |
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| Casablanca is a movie about people which takes place for the most part in Rick's a popular nightclub in Morocco. The back drop is World War 2. Rick Blaines the owner of Rick's is played by Humphrey Bogart. Bogey plays an ex American patriot with a mysterious past. Ingrid Bergman plays the female lead, she is very good. Claude Raines is also wonderful in the role of Captain Louis Renault, Perfect of Police, who finds himself between a rock and a hard place when the Nazi's take over Casablanca. The picture is one of my favorites and we all learn lessons about love, betrayal, friendship and patriotism. Casablanca is adapted from a play entitled "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison. |
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| All the characters in the film seem to have interesting past. They are not just cardboard cutouts. They interact with each other in such a way that it adds to the intrigue and suspense. Casablanca is neutral so all travelers are required to have genuine documents of transit, which are like our visas today. The dialogue is super and much quoted in books and in other subsequent films. A great example of this when Captain Louis Renault... Louie is talking to Rick: Louie: "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" Rick: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." Louie: "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." Rick: "I was misinformed. The whole film is peppered with great memorable dialogue. If by a long shot you have not seen it I strongly recommend it. You will not be disappointed. |
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| At the airport after the German Major is shot to death, Louie turns to one of his subordinates and says, "Round up the usual suspects." What a memorable line... wwhen Casablanca was released you use to hear that phrase everywhere you went in the old Canal Zone. |
| The goodbye scene at the airport is one of the best scenes I have ever seen on film. The dialogue again is exceptional and adds to the dram. At the airport Ilsa played by Ingrid Bergman thinks that Rick is going with her on the last plane out of Casablanca. But no... Rick shatters that dream when he says, "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world...We'll always have paris." So Ilsa boards the plane and leaves Rick with Louie standing their on the tarmac. They then turn and walk into the fog and Rick says to Louie, "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." The movie ends... |
| The film is a classic with a superb script, great cast and all through the film you hear in the background that unforgettable music entitled "As Time Goes By." Yes, I can remember humming it and singing some of the words after seeing it; such as, "...it's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die..." Every time I hear that song on the oldies but goodies I invariably think of that blockbuster movie...Casablanca. "Play it again Sam" is a misquote that is attributred to Rick, which he never said in the movie. What Rick actually said was, "If you can play it for her you can play it for me. Play it Sam. Play, "AsTime Goes By." |
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