Casablanca is a great American film whose movie stories continuous to inspire us. It is the ultimate classic movie, which is created prior to its time. This film is wartime movie, which is shot during World War Two. Casablanca is French occupied land in Morocco, North Africa, which is also called the city of hope to many European refugees in order to escape to the free land of America. However, during that time, there was a strong political tension between the Nazi and the Anti-Nazi allies, which was the source for prejudice, crime, and bribe that hold the refugees back from escaping to the secure land of the United States. The political conflict, the scene of refugees, the story of everlasting love, the smoky environment, and the small …show more content…
number of Americans in the cast make the film more authentic and realistic. Casablanca is a great classic American film because of its cast, theme, and romance. First of all, Casablanca has a magnificent cast which contains outstanding leading players, and best supporting players. For example, Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine plays a significant role in this great film. Bogart completely matches the character of Rick who has played truly romantic role. Bogart is a kind of helper, lover, straightforward, smuggler, and wealthier man who runs café Americana. Apart from his wealth, Bogart is a tough-guy. He has killed major stressor in order to make Ilsa and her husband to escape out of that messy town. This phenomenon contributes an immense cause for the defeat of the Nazis. As a result, Bogart has played a strong epic role in this great film. Besides Bogart, the colorful woman, Ingrid Bergman who perfectly matches the character of Ilsa has played a major role in the film Casablanca. She is naturally gorgeous woman, who is vulnerable to a strange love situation created by horrible political circumstance during the reign of Nazi. Ilsa is loyal to her husband. In addition to Ilsa, Paul Henreid who played as Victor Laszlo is one of the major character in this film. Laszlo is an idealistic man who is married to a gorgeous woman, Ilsa. He is straightforward to expresses his feelings. Laszlo has told Rick in his café office that both of them are under odd situation loving the same woman, and he is prepared to scarify his love for her safety. Laszlo is also a heroic man that he shows his ambition to defeat the Nazis by his action singing “La Marseilles” with the band, and then he shut up the mouth of the Nazis’ band. Moreover, Claude Rains who played as Captain Renault matches a kind of man who does not have self-confidence. He is also not loyal to his master. For instance, he arrests Laszlo just to amaze his master, General Stressor. Apart from the leading players, supporting players also have played a remarkable role to the greatness of the film. For example, Peter Lorre who played as Ugarte is characterized as a funny guy. For instance, while Abdul, the doorman for the casino talking to a stranger, Ugarte squeezes himself behind him, and jumps in to the house. As soon as he gets in and meets Rick, he asks Rick to sit with him. He then ordered two drinks for both of them even though Rick refuses to drink. After that, Ugarte said, “You know Rick, I have many friends in Casablanca, but somehow, just you despise me, you are the only one I trust” (Ugarte). Besides Ugarte, Dooley Wilson who is characterized as Sam has played piano, and sung “As Time Goes By’ perfectly. He is also a friend of Rick. Moreover, Sydney Greenstreet who played as Ferrari is the owner of The Blue Parrot Bare, and has a monopoly in the Black Market. He also buys Rick’s café, and offers to buy the service of Sam, but Rick rejects his idea by saying, “I do not buy and sell human beings” (Rick). Furthermore, Conrad Veidt who is played as Major Stressor is a Nazi higher officer. Major Stressor has come to Casablanca to investigate the case of two murdered Germen messengers. Besides the investigation, he has come to follow up Mr. Laszlo who escapes from concentration camp. There are also many supporting players who need credit, and contribute allot to the greatness of this movie. Second of all, self-scarifies, and helping others are the best theme of the film, Casablanca.
This movie has unimaginable scarifies that make it unforgettable. For example, Rick has scarified his love for Laszlo who is striving for the freedom of his nation. Amazingly, Laszlo has also understood the strong chemistry between Rick and Ilsa. As a result, he has decided to scarify his love, Ilsa for Rick, and told him to keep her away from that town safely. Finally, Rick has got his point that he has made the thing easy for Ilsa and Laszlo to escape from Casablanca. Besides self-scarifies, helping others is the astonishing event of the movie. For instance, the Bulgarian couple, Annina and her husband are stressed out because of the shortage of money they face in order to buy Transit Visa. Therefore, she has gone to Rick to ask money. Rick has also helped the broke couple to win at roulette. Now, Annina is very happy because her dream to buy the Transit Visa and escape to America is going to be true. For this incredible help, Annina has given a big hug for Rick, which shows the big thank for him. He deserves it because as Annina said, “He is a man” (Annina). The aforementioned theme contributes allot to the excellence of the …show more content…
movie. Third, Casablanca is regarded by many film lovers as one of the best fascinating wartime romance, which contributes allot to the greatness of the film. For example, the strong love relationship between Rick and Ilsa shows the original scene of true love. When Ilsa approaches Rick, she paints his face with her eyes. Besides her beauty, the way she talks, and the way she acts at her love makes her a perfect lover. Rick is also a good lover, and has a good sense of humor. For example, while Laszlo approach to them, Rick said, “Here’s looking at you, kid” (Rick). This golden thought of Rick is remembered by many who have seen this great film. While Ilsa is in love with Rick, she also loves her husband, Laszlo who has been in the concentration camp for long time. This situation creates a question among viewers that which of them does Ilsa loves more. This event also creates allot of suspense until the end of the movie that to whom Ilsa is going to be with. Ilsa wants the letters of Transit from Rick, but he refuses. As result, she points a gun at his chest. Rick then said, “Go ahead and shoot. You will be doing me a favor” (Rick). Instead of shooting him, Ilsa drop the gun, and turns her face with her tearful eyes. She then told him, how much she still loves him. On the course of Ilsa and Laszlo’s leaving at the air port, the speech between Ilsa and Rick is a convincing moment that both have strong love which scarifies one for the other. Therefore, Casablanca is also the best romantic movie of all time. Some may argue that Casablanca has inactive main character that Ilsa plays for.
These people provide the weakness of Ilsa as evidence that she is getting terrible to choose her best lover. However, it is clear that the situation is going from bad to worst day by day, so that we do not know what will happen next till the end of the movie. We clearly know that she loves both of them, and she does not want to put them in difficulties. As we have seen in this character, she looks in the emotional struggle over choosing her best, but she knows very well who her best is. In my opinion, Ilsa is loyal to her husband, whom she has been thinking is dead. Even though there is strong love relationship between Rick and Ilsa, she has left Rick in Paris when she notices her husband is alive. We cannot imagine whom Ilsa loves more. Some people may believe that she loves Rick more than her husband, Laszlo, but we have seen that she sticks with her husband, which is the right thing she did as a loyal
wife. In conclusion, Casablanca is a great American film of all time because of its excellent cast, and tremendous self-scarification. Besides helping each other, the imperishable love in the smoky environment contributes allot to the greatness of the film, Casablanca. Eventually, I would like to recommend seeing this movie again for those who have seen it before, to become a better witness for the greatness of Casablanca. If you did not see this move, you are cheating yourself.
The film Casablanca centers on an American man by the name of Rick Blaine who flees a German-occupied France during World War II to a city in Morocco by the name of Casablanca. (Casablanca, 1942) This city is a territory of France at the time and is out of full German jurisdiction due to this status. (Casablanca, 1942) Many citizens of German-occupied countries in Europe sought refuge here due to the lack of control Germany had on other countries’ territories early in the war. The general intent of refugees in Casablanca was to flee to even further countries such as The United States of America, which they could not achieve in their home, occupied countries. As the film’s plot develops, the viewer is introduced to refugees very important to the freedom-fighting movement France, and we learn that Rick originated in New York, U.S.A.
Desert Storm was a part of the Gulf War, Desert Storm was a codenamed Operation to get Iraq soldiers out of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. This was the first foreign crisis that the U.S. got involved in since the Cold war. It was because of saddam Hussein. Saddam ordered his Iraqi army to cross the border to Kuwait. This wasn’t some random attack by Iraq. but instead Iraq had been preparing for this for years, they knew what they were doing and were heavily equipped with weapons.
This is an extremely basic concept that is impossible to miss. Implicit meaning in a film is an idea that isn’t directly expressed but still should be understood by the viewers that are watching. Implicit meaning in Casablanca: In Michael Crutiz’s Casablanca (1943) we see that the characters are trying to outrun their pasts.
In the film Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, a clear juxtaposition exists between Rick and America. Despite Rick’s numerous similarities to America and his deep longing to be part of the country, a physical and psychological barrier separates the two. With America practically being on the opposite end of the world, Rick understands that he cannot abandon his responsibility to aid and influence others in Casablanca. Rick is willing to sacrifice his personal comfort and well-being for the greater good of society. This juxtaposition between America and Rick foreshadows that the United States would soon become involved in the war by overtly displaying Rick’s transformation when he confronts his troubled past.
This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach them about immigration to America. It shows them the reasons they (the Mousekewitz) left their homeland Russia to come to America. In their case it was to escape the Czarist rule of the cats, parallel to most immigrants who escaped their land due to religious and political persecution. Once aboard the ship to America, it showed the long and unpleasant trip to New York Harbor, where in this movie, Fievel gets separated from his family to inclimate weather. Once they arrive in New York Harbor, it shows children the happiness immigrants got when they saw the statue of liberty and the process through Ellis Island to become a citizen of America. The rest of the movie takes place in America where it shows “political machines”, such as Warren T. Rat, who really is a cat but takes advantage of new immigrants by dressing as a mouse and receiving the mice’s trust. With trust came their money and broken promises, just as “political machines” really did back then. The movie shows the immigrants hardships and poor living conditions in America with tenement housing and unsanitary conditions.
Audience members, when seeing Casablanca, would associate it as a war film, and I agree with that, but to be more precise, it is a pro-Allie war film. The literary elements in the film are the reasons why it can be viewed this way, with the emphasis on the plot and characters. The timing of when the film was released also supports the idea of it being an anti Axis film. Although it was set in 1940, it was made a year after Pearl Harbor and America entering the war, but it was released right before the Allies had a meeting in Casablanca, so the filmmakers seemed to have wanted the audience to empathize with the Allies. The whole plot seems to be focused around how Rick is neutral at the beginning of the film, but because of an old flame coming into his life once again, he slowly becomes in favor of the Allie side.
In the essay “Beautiful Friendship: Masculinity & Nationalism in Casablanca”, Peter Kunze lavishly explains the magnificence of Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film Casablanca. Kunze focuses on how the movie not only highlights an exchange of relationships, but how the film has an underlying meaning between these relationships. He also implies that there is a more complex meaning behind every character in regards to their gender, economic, and social roles. The overall thesis of his reading is “the patriarchal ideology underlying the narrative commodifies Ilsa, leading Rick to exchange her with other men in an act of friendship and solidarity as well as to dissuade any perception of queerness between the strong male friendships in the narrative” (Kunze
Robert B. Ray categorizes Casablanca as "the most typical" American film. Ray uses Casablanca as a tutor text for what he calls the formal paradigm of Classical Hollywood as well as the thematic paradigm that addresses the conflict between isolationism and communitarian participation. The film is typical in its appropriation of an official hero Laszlo, who stands for the civilizing values of home and community, and an outlaw hero Rick, who stands for individu...
...t it is clearly obvious what is about to happen using an establishing shot. Casablanca also uses camera angle specifically portraying Captain Renault and Strasser as less powerful people in the office scene. Editing allows for smooth transitions between shots and allows for us as viewers to experience the scene like we are seeing through the characters eyes. Lighting provides us a mood of the scene, specifically when Rick first sees Ilsa for the first time since Paris. The Music plays a role in how we as audiences should feel while watching the movie. And without production design movies would not flow correctly. Every setting is specifically chosen to depict the location where the scene takes place. Casablanca is a quintessential film because it ties up all the formal elements of classical Hollywood. Without this movie Hollywood may be a completely different place.
La Rafle is a movie that is both entertaining and educational; it takes us into the lives of the Jewish children and families, who are living in France and still going through the horrors of extermination. This movie is a brave answer to the eroding memory of that time. We are faced to watch and learn about one of the most heinous atrocities ever committed by man, however such knowledge is needed for many survivors will not be alive to share their stories. Artifacts like museums and movies shed light on the events that occurred during the war.
When Rick is forced with the decision of what to do with the letters of transit Rick speaks with Ilsa and Ilsa asks Rick to think for both of them and make the decision. In the end, Rick sacrifices himself for the happiness of Ilsa and Victor as well as the war against Germany. He risks his own life for others even though he is quoted as saying, “I stick my neck out for nobody” and, “I’m the only cause I’m interested in.” This is an endearing quality. Women want to be Ilsa, and dream of loving a man like Rick.
Despite not being considered as the traditional ‘hero’s journey’ which is outlined in Joseph Campbell’s argument of ‘separation-initiation-return’, Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film Casablanca, can be argued to follow this twelve-step journey. Campbell states “whether the hero be ridiculous or sublime…” (p.38), on this basis, Rick Blaine qualifies as a hero. These twelve steps are: Ordinary World; Call to Adventure/Disruption; Refusal of the Call; Meeting with the Mentor; Crossing the First Threshold; Tests, Allies, and Enemies; Approach to the Inmost Cave; Ordeal; Reward; The Road Back; The Resurrection; and Return with the Elixir. Although in some parts stages may overlap, this essay aims to argue that Casablanca still
The Age of Revolutions was a period of time in which many global revolutions took place, especially within America and Europe. A revolution is an overthrow of government or social order in favour of political change. There were many revolutions that took place between 1760 and 1840, most notable being the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, and the French Revolution beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799. These, along with the Napoleonic Empire, which carried on from the French Revolution and lasted until 1815; all greatly transformed the Atlantic world. This occurred through these global revolutions, which inspired another revolution within the slave island of Haiti. The focus of this essay will be on the aforementioned revolutions,
When anyone thinks of vintage Hollywood films, Casablanca is definitely in the minds of most people. It has been hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time, receiving three academy awards. Even though it was made in 1942, it is still watched by many movie fanatics because of its wide appeal to critic and viewer alike. Casablanca is a movie everyone should watch because it is full of great acting and a well written plot full of romantic drama and moral redemption. Casablanca is set in Morocco during WWII, where refugees from Europe are fleeing away from German occupation.
We only arrive at the Grand Budapest Hotel after passing through layers upon layers of story within story— a teenage girl in the present day reading a bookˌ the book’s author talking into a camera about the experienced he had while writing his book in the eightiesˌ the younger version of said author meeting a much aged Zero in the now decrepitˌ post-Soviet era Grand Budapest. Thus the new world of our adventure has not been lost to time but rather created by the lost timeˌ through a chain of nostalgic yearnings and imagination. The film diverts its audience's attention away from the dark, grim, realities of then Eastern Europe on the eve of fascism to dwell on just a fun fantasy. But I think this very diversion is the film’s true subject. Anderson’s