Casablanca Essay

In the year 1947, legal conflict arose between Warner Brothers Studio and the Marx Brothers. It began when the Marx Brothers released the name of one of their upcoming films, A Night in Casablanca. When Warner Brothers claimed exclusive rights to the name “Casablanca,” Groucho Marx sent a letter to Warner Brothers in response. In spite of a few ambiguities, Marx employs a brilliant and clever combination of humor and logic to effectively refute Warner Brothers’s assertion. Throughout his letter

A Postmodern Take on a Hollywood Film Classic The jacket blurb on Robert Coover’s creative compilation A Night at the Movies reads: “From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what ‘might have happened’ in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover’s riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader.

Shiyao Anna Luo MUS Z315 Music for Film Casablanca Viewing Assignment 1. Discuss the diegetic music that occurs in Rick’s café: identify and discuss three moments, which you feel are, respectively, empathetic, anempathetic, and neutral with regard to the narrative. Empathetic: For the scene that happens around (00:15:13) which is when the girl asked Rick where he was last night and whether she would see him tonight, the music is kind of bluesy and emotionally let the audience fall into the scene

Casablanca In World War II, the Moroccan city of Casablanca was a refugee place for prisoners of war and wayward strangers looking to cross the Atlantic ocean. Rick, the cyclical nightclub owner, symbolizes America in the film Casablanca. To start, he is one of the few Americans in the film-- and an expatriate at that. Additionally, Rick stays neutral throughout much of the film. He does not want to get involved in the war, or even take sides. Rick allows the Gestapo to intercept Ugarte, yet does

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

Casablanca: An Unconventional Romance      In Casablanca, the prominent themes of unhappy love and self-sacrifice set this romantic melodrama apart from most in its genre. These themes are best expressed in the interactions of the three main characters: Victor Laszlo, a heroic political leader; Ilsa Lund, an enigmatic femme fatale; and Richard (Rick) Blaine, a seemingly morally ambiguous night club owner. An unusual love triangle forms with the two men’s mutual love for

cinematography, theory, and film history and practically applied it to physically watching movies. By breaking down scenes and movies as a whole, the way I look at films in general has developed. A reflection on two of the films from this term, Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) and North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) will carry the bulk of the essay. Though, I will also be discussing how this class changed the way I saw a movie just a few weeks ago. Casablanca’s script and acting are of particular caliber

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

It is a romantic drama directed by Michael Curtiz. Going into the movie the context is important. 1942, Casablanca Morocco. Narrator talking about how people move from Lisbon to Casablanca. Victor is Cech and Slovakia but wants to live under French rule. World War 2. She kissed him then sent him a letter saying she can’t stay with him forever and for him to leave. Stuck between hard choices. He had to choose whether to stay with his love or to help her husband escape. Editing is simple and does the

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