“I was misinformed” - My favorite line.
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The.Best.Movie.Of.All.Time.
The full bottle Inspector Renault throws in the trash at the end is “Vichy Water”. A lot of people these days might not get it but everybody got it back then.
I imagine that Spongebob Squarepants is more to Joe's taste these days.
I liked “Key Largo” too.
World War II a very necessary war necessitated by a mistake called World War I.
Spoiler alert.
Is it a Love Story? A Political Treatise? A war Movie?
Calling Rick an Isolationist in relation to war leaves out Ingrid, Paris, and that song.
Rick was an emotional Isolationist from a broken heart.
Casablanca as an Island of Lost Souls is where he sets up shop.
Like “Titanic”, it’s a Love Story in an historical setting.
Bergman reignites his humanity, to get back in that fight.
IRL, Conrad Veidt is the real Hero.
Spent his fortune and his life fighting the Evil.
The article spells it out quite succinctly.
One of my favorite all time movies. I try not to watch it too many times because I don’t want to get sick of it.
Maybe the best exchange in the movie...
Louie to Rick: “Why did you come to Casablanca?”
Rick: “I came for the waters.”
Louie; “Waters? We’re in the desert. There are no waters.”
Rick: “I was misinformed.”
Nobody overacted, except for may that French girl. Great movie that apparently Bogart and Bergman did want to be doing and the script was being made up as they want. Nevertheless, a great movie.
Pathetic.
Rick is not an isolationist; he’s a communist sympathizer. Doesn’t anybody listen to the dialogue in this movie?
“Casablanca” was written in 1941 during the months preceding the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. The film was released in 1942.
The original script of “Everybody Comes to Ricks” was picked up by a script reader on December 8, 1941. If he had read it the week before, it may have never been made.
We will always have Paris
Bogarts never says play it again Sam. He says
“Play it Sam, You played for her, you can play it for me.”
Bergman did say play “As Time Goes By” and Sam claimed he did not remember it.
Max Steiner who orchestrated the movie was planning to write a song for it. But because she used the line and had changed her hair style for her next picture, they had to leave it in. Herman Hupfeld became a very rich man because of this. He wrote “As Time Goes By” in 1931.
They were a group of intergalactic refugees.
Wanted to use the Earth as an apolitical zone for...
creatures without a planet.
Did you ever see the movie "Casablanca?"
Same thing, except no Nazis.
IMDB trivia:
” Humphrey Bogart was an extremely avid and skilled chess player, and was known to have hustled games for money when he was younger and living in New York in the Depression (reportedly 25 cents a game). He also hustled chess games for money when he was not shooting his scenes in Casablanca and other movies. There is a picture of Claude Rains watching Bogart play Paul Henreid on the set of Casablanca, and Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall appeared on the cover of Chess Review in 1945. The scene with Rick studying a chessboard was a position from one of Bogart’s correspondence games.”
“Conrad Veidt, who played Maj. Strasser, was well known in the theatrical community in Germany for his hatred of the Nazis, and his friendship with Jews. (His wife, Ilona “Lily” Prager,” was Jewish.) He was forced to flee his own country when he learned the SS had sent a death squad after him. Veidt only played film villains during WWII as he was convinced that playing suave Nazi baddies would help the war effort.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/trivia/?ref_=tt_ql_3
The song, featured prominently in the film, has a conservative theme, reminding us that despite the stupendous technological achievements of the 1930s (and the 2020s), human nature remains unchanged.
No matter what the progress,
Or what may yet be proved,
The simple facts of life are such,
They cannot be removed.
” You despise me, don’t you Rick”?
“If I gave you any thought, I probably would”.