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Madonna wants to remake Casablanca
The Daily Mail online ^ | March 29, 2008 | Caroline Graham

Posted on 03/29/2008 9:28:58 PM PDT by RayChuang88

It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.

But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.

The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: antiwar; casablanca; madonna; movie
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To: dennisw
Of course it would never be made. After the fiasco that was Swept Away, Madonna will never get a serious movie offer anytime soon.
21 posted on 03/30/2008 5:37:53 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: raynearhood
I will be banning boycotting this "remake," if made. - fixed it.
22 posted on 03/30/2008 6:23:41 AM PDT by raynearhood ("Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world... and she walks into mine.")
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To: RayChuang88

Sluts don’t make convincing movie heroins. She needs a more morally ambiguous role—like concubine of Jabba the Hut


23 posted on 03/30/2008 7:43:42 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I would offer, Rocky Roccoco:


24 posted on 03/30/2008 8:00:49 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: skr

Exactly. Rick is a self-serving type who is neutral and available to the highest bidder. But he becomes a patriot to the Allied cause by the film’s end. I guess the remake will feature America as the bad guys.

BTW, anyone who even suggests remaking Casablanca deserves our eternal scorn. You don’t remake a masterpiece.


25 posted on 03/30/2008 8:05:28 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: RayChuang88

Madonna couldn’t pull of a remake of “Monster From the Surf”.


26 posted on 03/30/2008 8:46:44 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Sue Perkick

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27 posted on 03/30/2008 8:47:31 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: RayChuang88

Is she going to play the part of Rick?


28 posted on 03/30/2008 8:48:32 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: puroresu
The plot of Casablanca was probably a B. Casablanca is memorable because it assembled such a great cast. Bogart, Rains, Greenstreet, Bergman, Lorre, Wilson, and a few others.

This reminds me of the recent attempt to remake the Music Man, with Matthew Broderick as Harold Hill. It was almost physically painful to watch.

In both movie remakes, people far less talented than the original cast are attempting to remake the roles that made those performers legends.

29 posted on 03/30/2008 8:57:23 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball

When they get it right the first time it doesn’t need to be redone.


30 posted on 03/30/2008 9:01:47 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: usmcobra

I think she could probably pull off the role of the prostitute that sat at the bar and drank heavily.


31 posted on 03/30/2008 9:11:57 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball

If it’s a remake she wants she might be better suited for “Earth Girls are Easy”.


32 posted on 03/30/2008 11:32:35 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Sue Perkick

She's perfect for any role that requires man hands. I generally ignore celebrities that are annoying, but she really gets on my nerves.

33 posted on 03/30/2008 12:14:30 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: RayChuang88
Sorry did not read the entire article but will the sympathy of the Nazi resistance be replaced by the sympathy Al-Qaeda insurgents?

Instead of ‘Play it again, Sam’ will it be ‘Blow it up again, Osama’? By looking at films dealing with Iraq lately I would not be surprised.

34 posted on 03/30/2008 12:26:00 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: RayChuang88

Wow. Madonna? You do realize that Pamela Anderson already tried this with her huge success “Barb Wire”, don’t you? I’ll expect for this to do just as well.


35 posted on 03/31/2008 1:20:19 PM PDT by Starter
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To: RayChuang88

She ought to do a one-man production of Rocky Horror Show instead.


36 posted on 07/01/2008 8:48:45 PM PDT by dr_who
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