The Monarch Of Morocco : The Ruler Of The Faithful Essay

Casablanca, a movie directed by Michael Curtiz, according to many people, is one of the world's best movies ever produced. The movie had an all-star cast, which was considered legendary. The main stars of the film were Ingrid Berman as Ilsa Lund, Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. The cast did a fantastic job of portraying their characters. Rick played the leading role as a man who ran a popular “saloon” in Casablanca. His true love, Ilsa, came with her spouse, Victor, to seek help to go to America. Upon encountering Rick, Ilsa became weak and desired to stay with him in Casablanca rather than go with her husband to America. Being the big-hearted person he is, Rick got them both their visas and helped them escape

Watching a video of a dance piece called “The Moroccan Project,” choreographed by Alonzo King was quite impressive. Living in San Francisco and taking dance classes brought me to Lines Ballet which is King’s dance studio. I have seen a great deal of different types of dance at the studio waiting for my Ballet classes and there are some great dancers. It comes as no surprise that Alonzo would have such great dancers. It appears that Alonzo King is exploring different cultures in dance in Contemporary Ballet. His near-perfect choreography is articulate, passionate, and graceful- he brings diversity in dance to San Francisco and other parts of the world. This piece articulates the expression of the two dancers coming together yet dancing apart at times- it is a fusion of several different types of dances into one using video editing to create a story about the coming together of two individuals.

In class we watched a film named Casablanca by Michael Curtis. Curtis is a television producer and writer. He was also one of the executive producers of the popular show Friends during seasons two through five. Casablanca was published in 1942. It was one of the first films admitted into the National Film Registry in 1889. The general topic of this film is one of the main characters, Rick Blain, an American Cafe owner, gets ask to hold Transit papers for Ugarte. These Transit papers are very hard to come by because they give people the option to leave the country and go to America to start their new lives. Rick accepts the request and hides them under Sam, an American piano player’s instrument. Throughout the film, Vichy France, which is the

Since its release in 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers has divided critical opinion. The film which depicts the Algerian struggle for independence, was awarded the Lion d'Or at the 1966 Venice Film Festival and nominated a year later for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film. Despite this acclaim, the inherently controversial film was banned in France until 1971 due to its graphic portrayal of torture and repression during the war. Heavily influenced by the distinctive film style Neorealism, the politically engaged director sought to make a film which was produced and shot within a 'dictatorship of truth.' These neorealist aesthetics (hand-held camera, non professional actors) rendered such an extraordinarily accurate reflection of

Love may make you feel as if you are able to accomplish anything, but it cannot truly overcome all obstacles. If this were the truth, it would be able to overcome problems such as life-or-death situations. Casablanca takes the idea that love is the one true solution and completely rejects it. Love cannot overcome all pain and strife, and while the film may focus on romance, it is also conveying to the audience that romance is not always the most important value and cannot solve important problems or moral dilemmas.

Casablanca is a film about war that was released in 1942 and directed by Michael Curtiz. This war film is not only about the war. It also features drama and romance, while depicting World War II. This Warner Brothers' film was an immediate success. It was nominated for eight Oscars, and won three. Casablanca, a romantic war film, is also considered as propaganda. It spotlights Americans and their allies as better than everyone else by showing them as cocky and arrogant. While, making the viewer’s feel slightly patriotic about their country in the war.

A reading of Casablanca beyond it's pretense of being an old Hollywood romance is the interpretation of the film as a piece of American or Allied propaganda during its time of release. Present day, the word propaganda gets a bad reputation, and many consider it a form of manipulation that doesn't belong in art, however, it is of my belief that, seeing as all art contains a message that it wishes to convey to its audience, all art is, in some form, political or supports some school of thought or ideology. For clarity, I will define my use of the word 'propaganda' to mean the dissemination of information in favor of an ideology or cause, for the means of garnering sympathy towards the cause and validating the emotions of sympathizers.

The classic and award winning movie “Casablanca” has become favorite move to many generations all around the world. And although it shows some great acting and wonderful directing viewers have to be aware of the obvious as well as hidden messages of this classis. The movie glorifies Myth # 3, suggesting that your true soul mate should know what you are thinking or feeling, without you having to tell. There are other different myths in this movie but this one in particular was obvious to me throughout. The film was very well made for its time and it became a classic, regarded by critics as one of the best movies of all times, but it is not perfect. Its underlying messages suggest that

What makes for a classic Hollywood film? Increasingly, films have evolved to the point where the standard by which one calls a “classic Hollywood film” has evolved over time. What one calls a classic film by yesterday’s standards is not the same as that of today’s standards. The film Casablanca is no exception to this. Although David Bordwell’s article, “Classical Hollywood Cinema” defines what the classical Hollywood film does, the film Casablanca does not exactly conform to the very definition that Bordwell provides the audience with in his article. It is true that the film capers closely to Bordwell’s definition, but in more ways than not, the film diverges from Bordwell’s definition of the typical Hollywood film.

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.

The Berbers did not have a really defined way of punishing people who break rules and laws. A much of this responsibility was left on the religious section which guided the behavior of people. Religion also defined the way people should relate and thus, was key in ensuring people had a good relationship with each other in the community. Despite that, the Berbers had a simple customary legal system that was used in ensuring people in the communities are ruled by some laws and order.

To fully comprehend why and how this cinematic motion took place, it is valuable here to establish the wider social climate of France at the time, and the active forces which heavily shaped New Wave cinema. Between the years of 1945 and 1975, France would undergo “thirty glorious years” of economic growth, urbanization, and a considerable baby boom, all of which came to expand and radically alter the parameters of French culture (Haine 33). Beneath the surface affluence however, France was in a state of deep self-evaluation and consciousness. Following WW11, the

Soviet cinema has a significant contribution to the world’s film history. The years after the October Revolution in 1917 bring many economic difficulties and political changes to the newly formed USSR, which also affected film production. The nationalization of the film industry, Kuleshov experiments, and the support from the government mark some of the most important phases that influenced the progress and development of the Soviet film. Even though used as medium of propaganda, the cinema popularity

By analyzing the historical contexts of these specific movements, we take a deeper look at society's social, religious, economic, and political conditions that existed during a certain time and place. These relevant factors profuse mass influence into a filmmakers decisions while in the production process of a film. Additionally, these components have the role of establishing distinct trends in the film industry. Each movement has its own purpose for creating each film in regards to a stylistic standpoint.

On the surface Muhammad is usually considered to be a prophet and messenger of God, but when looking closer we can see that He played many more roles in His life time including one of a Statesman.