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because it has good actors and acting, a complex plot, and action highly involved. The actors in Casablanca create great emotional ties for the audience to connect with each of them. Humphrey Bogart does a great job as Rick Blaine; especially in his demeanor to stay distant to everyone, including the audience. Bogart does a great job as well by pulling at one’s heart strings to stay as emotionless as possible throughout the entire film, but one can see deep down his true feelings and intentions, especially

an American expatriate, Rick, who must make the choice of whether or not to help out his former lover, Ilsa, and her husband flee to neutral Portugal by giving them transit letters that are deemed priceless by many refugees. Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. The film was made in 1942 and was directed by Michael Curtiz, and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film is rated PG, and is a romantic drama type of film. Rick owns a nightclub and restaurant called

quality film over a time period, defining a classic and still today Casablanca remains a top American movie. Michael Curtiz, the director, shows World War II on the home front, using the setting to transfer the view point. The famous and popular Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid play the complex love triangle that leads the film to the stories purpose and theme. Casablanca illustrates liberal criticism through a hometown war rebellion setting, the nationalistic view points, and true love’s

Theater 120C: Final Paper In The Maltese Falcon (1941), Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade, a private eye detective who is lured into the chase for a bird statue by a mysterious and deceitful woman named Ruth. His objectives are to find the Maltese Falcon, and discover the murderer of two crimes: the death of his former partner, Miles Archer, and another man named Thursby. He also wishes to prove his innocence for the murder of his partner because the police have him as the prime suspect. Sam approaches

Breathless: Movie Review 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

Looking back at Casablanca in 1941, it is shocking to know that Humphrey Bogarts famous words “hears looking at you kid” was improvised on the spot. While this type of improvising is common today, it was taboo compared the structured and generic Golden Age of film (“Sorry Russell”). The studio system of the 1930s to 1960s dramatically changed the methods of film production, the types of movies made, and eventually caused its own demise. At the beginning of the great depression, holding non-essential

The Maltese Falcon: Book Vs. Movie      Many time in our lives, we have seen the transformation of novels into movies. Some of them are equal to the novel, few are superior, and most are inferior. Why is this? Why is it that a story that was surely to be one of the best written stories ever, could turn out to be Hollywood flops? One reason is that in many transformations, the main characters are changed, some the way they look, others the way they act. On top of this, scenes are cut out and

1. The author states, “We can’t explore enlightenment without knowing endarkenment” (Sluyter 32). This quote is basically saying that as individuals, we cannot truly appreciate the benefits and advantages to experiencing a state of enlightenment without going through a struggling or dark experience first. Even though this may seem counter intuitive, if one only experiences and knows happiness and freedom, they then transform into a greedy and arrogant person who begins to take this form of enlightenment

In the movie, however, there is a distinct attraction between the characters, purposely created to capitalize on the real-life affair between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Director Howard Hawks was charged with creating a movie vehicle for these stars as a result of their incredible chemistry from the earlier movie To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall were phenomenally well-matched on-screen and off, and Hawks decided that The Big Sleep was the best film to display their chemistry

The Maltese Falcon is a classic mystery film that came out in 1941 starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor directed by John Huston. The movie is based on the novel which came out in 1929. This film is a classic because of its excellent writing and videography for its time. The movie begins with a pan across San Francisco's City skyline getting shots of iconic buildings and structures. Then the camera fades to Spade and Archer's office. This is when we are introduced to the main character, Sam Spade