How Did Marx Fight In Casablanca

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Groucho Marx prepares for a war against the largest army in this side of hollywood, the Warner Bros. The cause of this war was the lawsuit against Marx’s new film “A Night in Casablanca” and Marx put on his armor. Marx loads his weapons full of examples and fires at the Warner Bros any chance he can gets using humor as his battle strategy to win the war of the lawsuit. In the first battle, Marx gains grounds to better position himself with the Warner Bros. “Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your great-great-grandfather,..., stumbled on the shores of Africa and,... named ot Casablanca”. Warner Bros controls Casablanca and Marx destroyed that whole claim by showing some historical information that there is no connection the histories. He makes an absurd connection to prove that their is no ownership over Casablanca. Marx finds their weak spot with he tried to invade the city. …show more content…

He uses hidden messages to distract the Warner Bros. He says that the names of the largest army are also unoriginal. “ Now Jack, how about you? Did you maintain that yours is an original name? ... As for you Harry, you probably sigh your chackes sure in belief that you are the first Harry of all time and that other Harrys are imposters”.Marx is saying that the claim that his movie has a too similar title to Warner Bros’ is completely ridiculous and needs to prove that. He compares Jack to a notorious serial killer and Harry to some guy on the street and goes even further by attacking the studio’s name to further prove that it is not the same. All the mean while, Marx sneaks into the main battle ground to finally kill the

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