The Critique Of The Film Casablanca

The movie, Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz is a story within a story. In order for one to truly appreciate the greatness of the film, one has to look beyond what meets the eye. By doing so, one can identify the importance of the character, Rick Blaine. While Rick Blaine is the main character and protagonist in the film, the true importance of his role can only be identified by looking at his character's development. Throughout the course of the film, Casablanca, the character Rick Blaine goes through a series of character developments.

The movie Enough is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching movie about a young woman named Slim, her daughter Gracie, and her abusive husband Mitch. At the beginning of the movie, Slim is working as a waitress in a diner and meets Mitch after he intervened a conversation between Slim and another man. At first, Mitch is viewed as a hero because he stood up for Slim when she was being hit on by a man who made a bet with his friends. Slim soon fell in love with Mitch who seemed like an overall great guy; he was handsome, charming, and very wealthy. Prior to the wedding they both appeared happy and he did not show any warning signs of domestic abuse. Soon after the wedding, Slim learned the awful truth about her

The effect of Groucho’s short history of Casablanca is to create a humour but yet also sarcasm scenario. The letter says, “It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your great-great-grandfather … had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his aplentock, which he later turned in for a hundred shares of common, named it Casablanca” (Groucho). Groucho finds it ridiculous that the Warner Brothers thinks they own the city name Casablanca. He makes up a how supposedly the Warner Brothers were given the right to own the name not because they made a movie using the title Casablanca.

Film Noir was extremely trendy during the 1940’s. People were captivated by the way it expresses a mood of disillusionment and indistinctness between good and evil. Film Noir have key elements; crime, mystery, an anti-hero, femme fatale, and chiaroscuro lighting and camera angles. The Maltese Falcon is an example of film noir because of the usage of camera angles, lighting and ominous settings, as well as sinister characters as Samuel Spade, the anti-hero on a quest for meaning, who encounters the death of his partner but does not show any signs of remorse but instead for his greed for riches.

Jackie Robinson, 42, first black man to play on a team of all whites and make it to the world championship. He rocks. His number is retired and people wear the number 42 on their jersey every year for one day because of him. All of this information I got from the movie 42. The movie was amazing and very good! In the beginning when it showed how he became selected was different than what I imagined it would’ve been done. During the movie there were threats from white people saying they’d come where Robinson lived and hurt him or something, so he left with the black reporter guy who later became a part of the American Baseball Press or whatever it was called. However, Robinson thought that he was

1. What is the setting for Casablanca? How does the film establish this setting? If you were creating a theatrical production of the play upon which the film is based, how would you establish the setting on stage? The setting for the movie looked as if it was around the 1980’s. The movie has a sort of mellow feeling to it because of how calm all the actors and actresses are performing. If i were to do a theatrical performance on this i would have set all the scenes in a way where it would fit the 1980’s attitude, such as clothing and accent.

Casablanca, as well as promoting American involvement and patriotism, was used as subtle propaganda for the American people. As previously stated, the absence of focus on the war let the characters and story take center-stage. Rather than the entire film be about war and the fight, it focuses on the individual strength, character, and leadership of a man. The film was about people rather

Casablanca, the crowning achievement of director Michael Curtiz, which was released in 1942, is a film that had to work against the pressing concerns associated with World War II to stay relevant in both cinematic and general audiences. The writing, which was done by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, had to be inspirational yet uncontroversial. With actors like Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, and Paul Henreid as the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo, Casablanca has a respectable cast. The movie initially appears to fit the film noir genre because of its smoky backdrops with muted colors,

Casablanca a film by Michael Curtiz was a combination of both drama, and romance genre. It was made in the year of 1942, and won a academy award for the best picture. The film contained many great elements such as lighting, close up’s, and costume. Also the plot of this film is very interesting as well. Because it has good themes, and topics along with it. It is one of the best classic hollywood films to be made.

In the film Casablanca they show various different aspects of American culture during the wartime forties. These things are cumulated in the films sole American, whose name is Rick. However this film not only shows the culture of Americans but also shows a look into what Americans viewed the war as. The values of people and what was considered obtuse for society are ever changing, and you can see this as plain as day within the movies and films of the time. Casablanca is an amazing example for this because it is special in the fact that it’s the only play written during the time that was never played but was instead turned straight into a movie. Now let’s take a more in-depth look into the movie and how it’s connected to the people who were meant to watch it.

In Casablanca, there are so many lines that people still say today referencing the film. For instance, Rick Blaine stated, “Here’s looking at you kid” or “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” If people are able and wanting to memorize the lines of the actors, then the movie must be an all-time favorite. Furthermore, each scene is shot in different ways that grasps each characters emotions. The film contains action, flashbacks, love, musical scenes, and so much more that provides a combination of genres that comes together as

The movie was directed by Luis Valdez and was about the life of Ritchie Valens and the song that made him such a success La Bamba. The movie was a success and gained many awards and nominations some of the most recognize was its nomination in the Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture. The movie had a budget of 6,500,000 dollars and was to premiere on July 24, 1987. At the box office was a huge success as the movie made about 55,000,000 dollars. It was stared by Lou Diamond Phillips playing the lead role of Ritchie Valens, whos bond so well with the actual Valenzuelas family that when they were filming the movie and Philips was about to board a plane Ritchie’s actual sister, Connie Lemos, yell out, “Don’t go Ritchie!

Casablanca, first released on January 23rd, 1943 is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of Classical Hollywood film. Written and released in the midst of World War Two it explores themes such as love, desire and especially sacrifice. Although the love story of the protagonists is the cause and catalyst for most of the narrative, one would not necessarily associate it with the conventional Classical Hollywood love story. Rather as a fabula based on the principle of the importance of sacrifice in order to overcome a common enemy, in this case the Nazis. Casablanca does indeed contain many of the common characteristics identified with the Classical Hollywood film. An example being the the way director, Michael Curtiz used a mainly chronologically ordered narrative structure and the utilisation of a Cause and Effect chain. In this essay I will looking at the various ways I believe this film does fall into the criteria of a Classical Hollywood narrative and also how some could perceive that it does not.

During World War I many Americans could not be bothered to care about the current events in politics. The populous generally agreed that Americans should do their best to remain neutral and uninvolved. Murray Burnett was a 27-year-old English teacher who wrote a play titled, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” in attempt to warn the public that this war was coming to America as well. He was inspired to do so after making a trip to German-occupied Vienna in efforts to help Jewish relatives. After the Pearl Harbor attacks leading into World War II America was forced into the war. This play later became more commonly known as the play that inspired of Casablanca. This film likewise chased many of the same political goals to influence American audiences to open their eyes to the world’s current events rather than settling for an illusion of isolation (Gluck, Robert). While many see Casablanca as another typical studio produced movie of its classical era, the crafty use of classical Hollywood narrative structure and development of character enables this movie to have a stronger political message and influence.

The renowned classic romance/drama Casablanca (1942), is nearly always seen on “top-ten lists” of films. It is a expertly told tale of two men jockeying for the same woman's love in what some may call a “love triangle”. Casablanca is a story of both political and romantic espionage and is set in the time of war between democracy and totalitarianism. Speaking of the time period, Casablanca premiered in 1942, but was not released nationally until 1943. The black and white film is comprised of a cast of very memorable characters, supposedly actors and actresses from 34 different nationalities were included in it’s cast. Throughout the film, there are some very memorable lines of dialogue, in fact Casablanca is the most quoted movie according to the American Film Institute's list of it’s top 100 movie quotations, it had six quotations out of the list of 100. Likewise, Humphrey Bogart was the most quoted actor of all time with five quotations in the top 100, four of which were from Casablanca. Some examples of quotes include; "Here's lookin' at you, kid.", and the inaccurately-quoted "Play it again, Sam". Casablanca is one of the most popular, flawless, and revered films of