It’s more all of the films from that era. They aren’t in the pop culture anymore. They are becoming the domain of aficionados.
Relax. I’ve shown “Casablanca” to a couple of twenty-somethings recently and both thought it was incredibly great, wondering why we don’t have actors and writers like that now. This article is BS.
It’s a movie that extols freedom. Slate don’t play that.
So are we lol
Ten yrs ago or so I took Robert McKee’s screenwriting course. He took half a day analyzing, scene by scene, Casablanca.
Totally engrossing, even more than the rest of the fascinating course. McKee is a tremendously entertaining lecturer.
The popular consciousness is accelerating into oblivion.
Today you have to pay a king’s ransom to see one movie(usually garbage) one time. I remember the days of double features, newsreels, travelogues, and cartoons for a lot less money, and worth the money too.
Casablanca will outlast the pop cult and the pathetic millenial generation that produced this narrow shallow article.
This isnt rocket science - they aren’t available on Netflix or Roku.
My kid discovered swing, big band, 20s, and 30s music from Bioshock. Favorite artists - Sinatra, Bennett and Torme.
I blame the death of Saturday morning cartoons. The foundation block of my classical education (and classic movie education) is an animated rabbit. I don’t think anybody is doing that kind of thing anymore, Speilberg did a pretty good job of rebirthing it with Animaniacs, but I think their primary audience was adults looking for another lap in the WB animation pool. And Animaniacs ended 20 years ago. Want to get kids interested in the great movies again, stick a Peter Lorre imitation in a popular cartoon.