Casablanca Movie Essay

We watched the movie version of Doubt (2008) by: John Patrick Shanley, he also wrote the play Doubt: A Parable (2004), which the movie Doubt is based on. This movie was really good, I liked it more than I thought I was going to too be honest. The end was just like whoa, wait what so did he do it or not and your thinking it could go either way. I see what you meant by the audience being sided afterwards this movie would be a heated war at my house for days most likely. The movie was so well done and that’s hard to say about a lot of movies, especially the ‘two sided’ ones. Philip Seymour Hoffman played his role so well he was just amazing to watch, it was captivating; it almost felt like you were in the room with them the whole time.

Ilsa offers to pick up their romance where they left off buy simply going back to America and leaving her husband, Lazlo, in Casablanca. Rick came to Casablanca to get away from everything and start a new life where no one knows him. Throughout the film Ricks emotions gradually gets the better of him. Rick convinces Renault to let Laszlo go, by telling him that he may have a chance to have him locked up for good if he finds another charge, instead of the “petty charge.” At the end he decides to do the selfless thing and help Lazlo and Ilsa get away and does not part them. He realizes he cannot stomach her not being with Laszlo and gives up ever being with her

In the movie Wit, English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately, she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts.

The relationship between Rick Blaine and Captain Louis Renault was my topic for the project we are starting in class and I learned that Renault was very sexual and sometimes took advantage of couples wanting to leave the country. So, in order for them to get signed Letters of Transit, the women would have to do a sexual act with Renault. I think this is very disturbing and selfish of Renault. He was risking couples happiness just for his own pleasure. Another character we were introduced to is Ilsa Lund, who has a recent history with Rick while she visited Paris, is visiting Casablanca with her husband Victor Laszlo. Laszlo knows that Rick has the Letters of Transit and he makes an offer. At the end of this film, even though there's romantic tension between Rick and Ilsa, Rick sends Ilsa and her husband off to America. At this point in the film, I got very emotional because even though Rick still loved Ilsa, he sent her off to America because he felt as if she deserved to better her life with her husband. Even though he seemed very tough and acted as if he did not care about Ilsa, he cared for her enough to let her go. I felt as if that was very brave of him to

During the narration of Rick’s story, his past was revealed after Ilas’s arrival at Casablanca, it is necessary to help emphasize what kind of person Rick is and how different he was. Captain Louis also took an important role in this story. At the beginning, he seems like a person who doesn’t care about other people, only cares about himself, but as story goes, he can’t hide his feeling to befriend with Rick, finally escapes Casablanca together with

In the film, World War II occurs while Rick and Ilsa were together in Paris. When the German soldiers invades and the couple separate, they believe they will not see each other again until they met again at Rick’s nightclub. This is an example of how present historical events can disturb the characters’ lives in the film. The war has completely altered the conditions of their

Rick is in Casablanca to overcome his heart brake from Ilsa. However, instead of confronting his feelings and memories, Rick suppresses them and lives an emotionally detached life; “I stick my neck out for nobody” (Casablanca).

In the film Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan is about the Battle at Dunkirk France between the allies and the Nazi’s between May 26 to June 4, 1940. In the span of the twelve days of war, British and other European allies would retreat while protecting Dunkirk from the constant aerial bombing and onslaught of the Nazi pilots. Like other battles, Dunkirk was moreover a suspenseful battle that portrayed the uncertainty of all the allied soldiers being repeatedly bombed by the Nazis. The film was not all about the gruesome and scarring images of battle on the frontlines, however, the film recreated the anxiety every British and French soldier felt while being bombed constantly by their enemy. Just like the opening scene: the main character is being fired at by fearful allies and every soldier is later ducking down from the bombing attacks by the Nazi. The scene is set that a bunch of allied soldiers are trying to evacuate in fear while also trying to help all the injured soldiers as best as they can to leave

A Bout de Souffle or Breathless is a movie filmed in 1960 by Jean-Luc Godard. Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who also used documents of Laszlo Kovacs is a main character of the film. The man is a fraudster (or other type of criminal) who killed a French policeman and tried to save himself after it. Michel was a womanizer and American student Patricia Franchini became his last partner. The woman worked in the newspaper in Paris and followed Michel during the most part of the movie. Patricia turned the character to the police and saw how he was shot and arrested. While the movie looked like an ordinary criminal-love story, it demonstrated significant moments for both old and modern cinematograph.

In the film, Casablanca, director Michael Curtiz uses screenplay, cinematography, music and sound, and acting performances to highlight the pitfalls of neutrality in both love and war.

At the time I thought it looked boring but when I finally watched it I was greatly surprised at how good it was. It is truly a classic love story and film but what makes it even more interesting is its time period and setting. The fact that it was made while World War II was still going was ridiculously risky considering how anti-Nazi it is since they didn’t know who was going to win the war. As said on the website MoviePie “What if the war had turned out differently? Would this film have been obliterated?” This makes the movie even better to me because anyone watching this today wouldn’t even think about this since now we, of course, know that the Nazis lost and we can hardly imagine a time when the Nazis weren’t definitely going to lose. It’s even crazier to think about how, according to The Guardian, after World War II the screenwriters of Casablanca, “Howard Koch and Julius and Philip Epstein became one of the first wave of victims of the HUAC Red Scare, fired from the studio by Jack

During the early years of World War II in Casablanca two German couriers are killed and two letters of transit are taken from them. Everybody is trying to escape to America and are willing to pay a lot of money to get out of Casablanca. A man comes into Rick’s Café American looking for Rick and gives Rick the letters of transit that he was planning to sell to the highest bidder. But then the man is arrested by Major Henrich Strasser for killing the two German couriers. The two highest bidders come to the café but when Rick sees them he realizes that it is his old love Ilsa and her husband Victor Laszlo who escaped a German concentration camp and is a Czech Resistance leader and he need to get to America to continue his work. Rick and Ilsa

The sequence illustrates the dominant features of the Noir film style. Some common elements found in Noir films are: the anti-hero protagonist, the femme fatale, taut or no-nonsense dialogue, and high-contrast mise-en-scène. It can be seen that the sequence leads audience to the climax of the story plot, as Maxim faces an obstacle when he is attempting to resolve his own issues, thus he must own up to the consequences of his actions and stop running from the memory of what he has done, indicating a breaking change in the audience's perception of Maxim. Therefore, the sequence fulfils the "anti-hero" part of the Noir film plot. In the clip, it can also be seen that the director applied continuity editing. This editing method involves point-of-view shot and shot/reverse-shot.

Some films capture the hearts of many people all over the world, and are loved and remembered by all. These films deserve a place in history books. We refer to them as ‘Classics'. E.g. Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather

Rick and Lo have been contracted by the embassy in Sanaa to consult on a sensitive project. Things come to a head when one of the higher ups in the embassy tries to get them killed. Rick and Lo have never been known to back down and immediately make their statement with a body count. They believe they have eliminated the threat and head back to the US, only to find that it has followed them home. They now find themselves and their friends and family the targets of a bloody feud that they must win at all costs. When revenge is served cold, Rick and Lo have to fight their assailants with no prisoners taken, even as they embrace new