How A B-Movie Budget Created Hollywood's Most-Quoted Film
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- The 1942 Film That Redefined Hollywood's Golden Age
Discover the untold story behind the 1942 film that revolutionized Hollywood's Golden Age. From timeless performances to groundbreaking storytelling, this cinematic masterpiece reshaped an era. Dive into how this film set new standards for love, sacrifice, and cinematic artistry, leaving an unforgettable mark on the industry.
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Why is 13:55 reversed? Is it for copyright purposes?
It's hard to pick from so much outstanding dialogue, but I have always enjoyed this ultimate put-down:
"You despise me, don't you?"
"If I gave you any thought I probably would"
It's not politically correct was it, LMAO. BRUTAL
@@justme.9711 In what possible way is it politically incorrect? Peter Lorre's character was merely whiny and obsequious. He was such a zero, I can't even recall his character's name -- and I'm danged good at recollection of useless information. Mind you, I only remember Sydney Greenstreet's character's name because it's hilariously ironic -- Ferrari. Greenstreet was manifestly _not_ built for speed.
@@justme.9711 There's nothing politically incorrect about that insult...
I have watched this film many, many times over the years and I still shed tears when they play La Marseilles...I believe that the tears welling up in the singer are real. One of the absolute best. I still think Bergman is the most beautiful woman ever on the earth.
There are masterclasses taught about this one scene where the tide is turned on the Germans and Rick decided to help Lazlo escape.
I always thought she over acted that song. But I think I remember they shot her separately for that moment and cut it in. So maybe that’s what they were going for. That moment didn’t work for me. Although it is an emotional moment in the movie. The sheer defiance and pride brings a tear to my eye.
And Bergman, yes, absolutely beautiful.
Ahem (French teacher here). Marseille, formerly spelt Marseilles and in either case pronounced mar-say, is the city on the Mediterranean. The patriotic song named after it is La Marseillaise, mar-say-yayz.
@ and mar-say-yay means what?
As a retired Cop. “Round up the usual suspects “ was iconic and inspirational:)
Also the inspiration for the title of a more recent movie.
@@KutWrite
Which is also a pretty good movie.
That line always reminds me of a school princpal who gets news of a fight in the hallway or cafeteria lol [I was a teacher].
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It probably usually was the usual suspects
@@mpetersen6it would be unusual for it to not be so
After just being sick of modern CGI "Blockbusters ", watching old movies, especially now, through much more mature eyes, really makes me appreciate the artistry involved in old movies.
I think the burgeoning Television industry has a lot to answer for. Now that Television (as we knew it), is on the wain, mabey this kind of story telling might return.
odd thing but i found also listening to old radio shows improves the old movie experience.
@@wils-q7j I'ma guessing on YT? Like I said I think the old Television Industry had a lot to answer for. But, you can't blame 'Artists' from moving to where the Money is. I mean it's kinda farcical to compare Casablanca to any given Twilight Zone, Putter Limits, or gosh-darnn OG Star Trek, but these 'People' were still working, were allowed to work, with out having to worry about the lowest common DEI denominator.
@@Ichijoe2112 Hey now, Star Trek was absolutely the "DEI" "woke" series of its time in teh 60s.
@fnjesusfreak Ok then perhaps that where things started to slide. That said, the writing on the whole was still better than what passes for Trek today. Interracial kissing or no.
If I remember correctly, my two favorites lines, early in the film.
--- Where were you last night?
--- Bogey: I don't remember that far back.
--- Where will you be tonight?
--- Bogey: I don't plan that far ahead.
That was BEFORE, Ingrid appeared in the Film.
How about these lines;
Louis: “I’m shocked! Shocked to find out there’s gambling going on here!”
Waiter: “Your winnings, sir.”
Louis: “Oh, thank you.”
Captain Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
@ Those are great ones also.
My favorite part of Casablanca is when Rick helps the Bulgarian couple by rigging the roulette wheel in their favor. Rick can't help but be a hero. It's who he is.
The wife offers herself to Rick, foreshadowing Ilsa.
@@babsbybend no, she's asking rick if going with renault will get exit visas and whether that would be a forgivable sin for her marriage. rick tells her that nobody ever loved him that much...and realizes he's been lying to himself about ilsa and her motivations. it's the key pivotal scene for rick in the whole movie and brilliant acting on bogart's part.
@@richardmartin7708 "What sort of man is Captain Renault?" "Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."
To be accurate the wheel is always rigged but the croupier wil only use it occaisionally not every roll.
❤the Marseille part was best..
"Shocked! Shocked! Gambling at Rick's"' still makes me laugh
"Your winnings, sir"
"I have a gun pointed at your heart..."
"My least vulnerable spot!"
Bergman didn’t need to stand on a box if she was taller than Bogart. HE stood on the box.
I noticed that. She would've towered over Bogart in that case.
Here's one for the Monty Python fans: Maybe she stood on a box that was in a trench.
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I’m a Monty Python fan! 👏
This is the comment I've been looking for. WTH was he talking about? Should have been HIM standing on the box, which I've heard before.
A point of fact please: Closeups do not use less film than wide shots. The film is exposed at 24 frames per second regardless of the content being filmed. Time is what determines film consumption, not the contents of the image.
Yeah, that was a really weird statement. Closeups save in other ways, though, and material shortages effected just about everything. And, let's face it, using close-ups probably did save film, too. Less to go wrong, so they needed fewer takes. Doubly so with lighting innovations and a filter carrying some of the emotional weight, less-than-perfect takes could be acceptable.
I think the point was just poorly worded, but is fundamentally correct. Two shots save film relative to shot-reverse-shot sequences, because of the greater amount of film lost in editing the latter.
@@davidmouritsen...good point...
All well observed points posted in this context. More extended close ups would indeed make for more efficient use of elaborate stage sets and arguably result in much less redundant film stock on the cutting room floor...
Fun fact: if you apply enough zoom, you don’t use any film at all. In fact, filming at the subatomic level actually gives you back some film. 🤡🔬
The greatest picture of all time,perfect casting,chemistry level off the charts.
And the screenwriter still says they ruined his screenplay.
More facts about "Casablanca": it was based on an unproduced play by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison called "Everybody Comes to Rick's," inspired by a vacation Burnett had taken in 1938 in Vienna and the south of France. Burnett and Allison wrote the play in 1940 but weren't able to get it produced. They sold the movie rights to Warner Bros. for $20,000, considered an unusually high price for an unproduced play. Originally the female lead was "Lois Meredith," a morally "loose" woman suspected of sleeping with Rick Blaine to obtain the letters of transit. Warner Bros. at first planned it as a "B" movie with Dennis Morgan as Rick, Ann Sheridan as Lois, and Ronald Reagan as Victor Laszlo. As the U.S. entered World War II Warners upped the budget and sought a major outside star for the female lead. After offering it to Hedy Lamarr, they approached Ingrid Bergman, but Bergman was under contract to David O. Selznick and he wouldn't loan her out to another studio except for a major project. So Warners production chief Hal Wallis decided it needed a major leading man, and he assigned it to Bogart after the success of "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon," both roles that had advanced Bogart's career after George Raft turned them down. Raft pleaded with studio head Jack L. Warner for the lead in "Casablanca," but Warner said, "Forget it. After 'High Sierra' and 'The Maltese Falcon,' Bogart's a bigger star than you are now." Casting Bergman in the lead meant changing the character from American "Lois Meredith" to Swedish "Ilsa Lund." And there were actually four writers on the film: Julius and Philip Epstein for the overall intrigue, Howard Koch for the politics, and Casey Robinson for the love scenes, including the entire Paris flashback. But Robinson declined screen credit because at the time he was only taking credit for scripts he wrote entirely by himself, and in doing so he did himself out of an Academy Award.
It di get a production on NYC stage but was not a huge hit. Fortunatly, movie makeers at that time were willing to take risks on what they knew were great pieces of art. Sorry but that is very ubkike today
Pamela Anderson’s “Barb Wire” (1996) did it better. 🤡🍿
There's more. Casablanca was rushed into wide release on Jan. 23, 1943 to coincide with the Casablanca Conference, a high-level meeting between FDR and Churchill in Casablanca. There are other intangibles that are worth mentioning. When the film was made, the Allies were losing the war, but Casablanca offered hope when we needed it most. The video mentions that the ending was not known during production, but there's more. The principle writers, the Epstein brothers, were called to Washington to make a training film for the War Department during production, so WB enlisted the services of Howard Koch who created the whole Paris storyline. When Julius and Philip Epstein returned to the project, they picked up where they left off. Lastly (pun intended), the ending scene walking down the runway was an afterthought. It was filmed 2 weeks after filming was done, so Bogey and Raines were brought back to film the scene. This was crucial because the dialogue while walking down the runway was upbeat and ended the movie on a high note and gave a sense of hope when audiences needed it most.
There's also a story about the song "As Time Goes By". It was written in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld (yeah, not a household name) but it didn't do well. After it became the marquee song in Casablanca 11 years later, its popularity soared. It was my father's favorite song when he was flying out of England during World War II. It's ironic that Max Steiner, who scored the music for the film, didn't like the song and wanted to cut it from the movie. The song had been included in the original screenplay, but more importantly, Ingrid Bergman had already shot the scenes with the sone and had cut her hair for her next movie, so they couldn't re-shoot the scenes, so the "As Time Goes By" was kept in the film. After Casablanca was released, "As Time Goes By" spent 21 weeks on the Hit Parade.
@@HariSeldon. Great User-name! (Hari Seldon.)
I think you should have mentioned Michael Curtiz who was Warner Bros. top director. His approach and style helped to make the movie the masterpiece it is.
9:27 Peter’s last name is pronounced as two syllables, like the British word for “truck”: lorry.
Yes, I cringed every time he said the name
I was going to say the same thing. Thanks for saving me the trouble!
AI generated
He needs to learn to pronounce La Marseillaise as well.
@ Right. Programmers are not known for literacy.
That movie was the right movie at the right time. It captured the desperation and courage of the times and the people that lived it. The scene where Victor Laslow stood up against the Nazis and leads the frightened denizens of Rick's bar in singing the Marsasilles showed why he was so important and why his wife would never leave him.The screenwriting was so good that no one ever questioned the need of getting ' a letter of transit ' no more than many moviegoers doubt the existence of the holy grail .
The inspiration for the Letter of transit might have been " Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the League of Nations's Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees to stateless refugees." By the war they were as useless as the League itself.
It's still the same old story A fight for love and glory A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
I have to watch this at least 4 times a year to gauge all other films by it. My fave actor/character is Claude Rains as Captain Renault
Claude Rains charecter comes out of this film smelling like roses. Yes he is corrupted. Not only receiving kickbacks from Rick’s casino, he also sold exit visas. He is considered as charming and does steal scenes. He is also a rapist. For women who couldn’t afford the visa they could pay for the visa with sex. Coercion vs charm.
I love this movie. Dispite having my doubts, I rather liked the colorized version of this film. They did an excellent job job. I’d be curious to see the unfilmed second version of the film’s ending where Rick and Elsa walk into the fog.
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@@martingreenberg870 I am a professional photgrapher and teacher. There is a difference in the way individuals "see." I imaging things in B&W. That is how I judge composition, political statements and everything else in fine art images. That doesn't mean I'm the "most correct." It just means that I am elderly and want to pass down my way of viewing, interpreting and preserving photographic arts.
I also love drawings in pencil and India Ink
I’m shocked
Major Strasse has been shot... round up the usual suspects.
Another Claude Rains line that I enjoy is his response to Rick saying, "I wouldn't do that Louie, this gun is pointed right at your heart." To which Renault says, "That is my least vulnerable part."
Key Largo is my favorite, but Casa Blanca is a close second. Both are brilliant and it’s worth it to watch the film and concentrate on the use of shadow and light. An early Bogart film “The PetrifiedForest” is also well worth watching to see him as a bad guy. Not on the same level but certainly foreshadows Bogart’s brilliance. I didn’t know they used refugees for some of the scenes. The brilliant choices of actors, to use light and dark as a character in itself, and the decisions made to compensate for a tight budget and wartime shortages resulted in one the most extraordinary, artistic films ever made. Great video.
This has always been one of my favorite films. If not my favorite. I discovered it in Blockbuster and loved it.
Bogarts next movie, To Have and to Have Not, isn’t a sequel but is certainly a great follow up. It’s a lighter tone but with a similar backstory/plot.
The movie captured universal experiences that everyone can relate to. All told using actors and people who actually experienced loss and heart ache in real life. Unlike rich people's kids today who have been sheltered from the harsh realities of life and became actors to continue to be sheltered from reality.
The most perfect movie ever made.
My favorite scene is when the Germans singing are overcome by La Marseillaise. The raw, patriotic emotion is stirring. La Marseillaise is not like other anthems, it is downright bloodthirsty. *That* is what would have made the Germans think twice and shut up. If you've never seen the lyrics in translation, watch the Mireille Matthieu video (subtitled).
@andhisband= You are right about the chorus line in the Marseillaise: "qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons” (let their impure blood soak up our furrows).
The period (like Dunkirk for the Brits) was: all of Europe allied against France and no chance of winning, save for a mass mobilization of bodies and souls of the people. But, although the violence of the words was justified, it was also divisive. President Giscard in the late '70s found the words too fiery and suggested the Marseillaise could be replaced by the "Chant du Départ”. To no avail !
There is another part (in verse n°5) of the Marseillaise, lesser known but just as relevant: “Français, en guerriers magnanimes, / Portez ou retenez vos coups ! / Épargnez ces tristes victimes, / À regret s'armant contre nous" (Frenchmen. as noble-minded soldiers, land your blows but do hold them when to spare these sad victims who reluctantly bear arms against you).
These ('reluctantly') lines are a tribute to the persuasive power of the ideals of the French Revolution within the rank and file of Allied armies, ideals which were to permeate throughout Europe. __ .
@@christianfournier6862 Watch the Conrad Veigt character. He looks like he's hearing it for the first time, and he's taking it personally. He is incredulous and gutted.
Thanks for elaborating.
As good as everything else is, and as good as the rest of the cast is, Bogart is absolutely brilliant in this movie. He is a good guy, a tough guy, a heart-broken lover, a heroic subversive, and he did it all with nuance and believability.
Peter Lorr? How about "Lor-ee"?
Yes. I was going to say exactly the same thing. *sigh*
AIs don't know history, I guess... I wonder who they ripped this off from...
@@MyName-tb9oz I don't think this is an AI voice. Humans mispronounce things all the time too!
But that segment was wrong as it talks about the chemistry between Lorre and Greenstreet. But they don't have a scene together (deleted or maybe from Maltese Falcon or something)
Why were there screenshots of Sean Connery and John Wayne? Connery was wearing a white jacket, like Bogart, but it still doesn't make sense in that context. And the narrator said Bergman was standing on a box because she was taller than Bogart. Ah, no. It was the other way around.
I've seen this film a dozen times. The last several minutes still shock me with the anxiety they create in the audience. Even though I know the ending, it's still unfathomable how the characters will sort out their dilemma, and it's always exciting to watch how the climax works out. Such a perfectly written script makes this the best screenplay of all time.
The line I quote when somebody tells me they are doing me a favour is: "For a price Ugarte, for a price".
My favorite scene is a small one. The plane starts and each main character looks at each other. Don't know why but I love that scene
My Mom and Dad met during the war. He always called her, "Kid". They're not around to testify, but I'm sure that's where they got it.
@10:45: Why would Bergman stand on a box "because she was actually taller than Bogart"?
I was going to comment on that-glad you beat me to it.
I suspect the narrator simply made a mistake and meant to say "Bogart stood on a box".
@@taylormackOr maybe Bergman stood IN a box, set below the stage…. Nah, probably not.
@@FastEddy1959 I remember an English comedy where they had the actors stand on a box in a trench.
@@halholland1637 First thing i thought of too 😆 That was _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ sketch “Scott of the Antarctic” 😂
Just to clarify regarding sets - being unable to afford sets is not exactly correct. It was more the war restrictions on materials was the reason why. Studios sought to reuse sets as much as possible and on top of this was particularly evident at Warners where economy of filmmaking was of high importance.
I recently saw that films were limited by the government to a $5000 budget for sets.
If Ingrid Bergmann was taller than Humphey Bogart, then she was not standing on a box to appear shorter than Bogart as the commentary states. Rather, Bogart wore platform shoes as evidenced in the photograph.
In movie biz to elevate short actors we use (apple) "crates". They come in full, half, and quarter sizes.
I’ve used “I’m shocked, shocked!” more times than I can count.
Me too. After years of hearing me say it, when I finally got my teenage daughter to sit and watch Casablanca, she busted out in laughter at that line.
I’m shocked, shocked that I do, too.
For a film with the most iconic lines, you didn't include "Of all the gin joints, in all towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." How could you miss that?
And…” I’m the only cause I’m interested in.”
Of all the lines in all the movies in all the world, how could they miss this one
but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world
Thank you, I forgot that one.
I think that line is deeply philosophical.
And then there was the comedic response from the Police Squad II movies.
Drebin: But this our hill and these are our beans.
That scene where the locals are singing and drowning out the Nazis always got me emotionally and now that I know the actors crying we're real refugees crying for real it makes it even more poignant. I'm going to go rewatch this now with all this in mind.
I learned this from Gilbert Gottfried. 😇
The first time I saw it, touched my heart deeply. I still fell the same way every time I remember several portions of it.
I think the fact this was an excellent cast and crew who were just making a good film with what they had. One of the beauties of Casablanca is its unpretentiousness was one of its greatest strengths. The movie just tells the story of Rick, Inga, Lazlo, and Renault in believable way and lets the story carry itself.
The closeups and the lighting made it perfect. The lighting is almost like you are there in Casablanca hiding in the shadows.
Given that "Casablanca" had Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Ingrid Bergman, and Madeline LeBeau, it was an "A" picture all the way. A "B movie" at Warners would only one minor star, e.g., "Underground" (1941) that starred Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn and Kaaren Verne, people no one had ever of and never would hear of again. Conrad, Peter, and Madeline were all big stars from prewar Europe; Ingrid Berman was an absolute Swedish ingenue who had a chance to be the star of Nazi Germany's film industry.
I was more interested and in love with Yvonne than Ilsa, lol.
@ - Yvonne's role isn't much, but the moment when she is crying while shouting "VIVA LA FRANCE! VIVA LA DEMOCRACIE!" is an example of how Casablanca gives every performer a special moment in which to shine.
Warner Bros. studio was originally a family owned company, founded by four brothers. The elder three: Aaron, Hirsz and Szmuel Wonsal, along with their parents, emigrated to America from Poland. As many Eastern European immigrants did at the time, they gradually acquired anglicized versions of their names (Albert, Harry and Samuel Warner). The youngest son, Jack, was born after the family had emigrated.
Being Jewish as well as Polish, the Warners kept a closer watch than most on what was happening in Europe during the Nazis rule of Germany. Their anti-Nazi viewpoint was reinforced when Philip Kauffman, the studio’s German sales head, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.
Warner Bros. hired more refugees from the Nazis than any other studio, for work both behind and in front of the camera, often covering the costs of traveling to the United States. They made quite a number of anti-Nazi and pro-allies films leading into and during the war era. By the war’s end, around $20 million in war bonds had been purchased through the studio, their employees had given over 5,000 pints of blood to the Red Cross, and over 700 studio employees served in the armed forces.
Thank you for that information.
I have watched this movie dozens of times and your analysis of the movie invites me to view it in different ways that I would not of anticipated. Thank you for the work you provided for all of us who love this movie.
This shows that limitations are essential for great art. What a contrast to Avengers or Avatar with virtually no limitations. It just descends in lots of noise and distractions that tunes out the story.
Agreed.
Casablanca was produced for the equivalent of 15 million modern dollars. By quaint coincidence, this was also the quoted production cost of Gojira: Minus 1.0, which was a top-quality epic with ten times the heart of a typical Hollywood tentpole produced at a fraction of the tentpole's cost.
The scene with Ingrid Bergman riding through Paris in a sportscar with the wind in her hair is as perfect an image of feminine beauty as any other ever created from Antiquity to the Renaissance. I saw a colorized version of the film once and it was like slapping cheap makeup on the Mona Lisa...
Aah. That‘s where Marianne Faithful got the inspiration for the line from. Cool 👍
Ingrid Bergman would look good in a potato sack. Because she had it going on.
THANK YOU!! I hate colorization of the old films. Many young reactors on youtube see these old films, and comment "Oh no, it's in black and white", like they're going to catch VD if they watch it...by ten minutes into Casablanca, they have completely forgotten about their stupid phobia lol.
@@thomastimlin1724 I've seen black and white colorized that I thought looked OK. But it was film of things we knew what color it all was supposed to be. So that may have been a factor? It was all war footage and everyone was dressed in known uniforms. We knew exactly what color everything was. So I guess what I'm saying is it matters what the subject matter is and how it is done. Black and white actually has more detail than color does. I don't know why that's the case but it just does. Maybe there's more graytones than colors? There's really only 3 colors they mix. But black and white can look crisper.
@@HelmutRockstroh That would have been Shel Silverstein, the writer of the poem/song.
Story I like: Michael Curtiz, who had a Czech accent, during some street shoots said, "we need more poodles. Where are my poodles?" His assistants were confused, but efficient: next day some staff had a dog on hand. Curtiz said, "I still need poodles! On the street! And what is this dog doing here?"
So, I'll bite. Just what did Michael Curtiz mean by the word "poodles" ? Please enlighten us.
Oh, I think I just answered my own question. "Puddles" ?
@@AbqRealDeals 🤣Congrats!
Peter Lorre was such a great actor, it's such a shame he's so unknown today.
My wife worked on colorizing the movie. They had t shirts made with a bull's eye on the back that said "I colorized Casablanca". The company had the contact to colorize all of Ted Turner's movies. The company did not want to make any decisions on what color an item would be so they found has much of the original items as possible and used its color. This was a "safe" choice but led to some odd results since the original color was chosen for the shade of gray it would present.
Orson Welles said, “Keep Ted Turner and his coloring crayons away from my movies.”
In addition to the strange statement about close-ups, there are also some slightly strange images, as if it's "find the AI generated errors": Sean Connery in a white jacket, and John Wayne in a cowboy hat. Neither of them have anything to do with Casa Blanca.
I had no beef with showing Connery. He was wearing a white tux to highlight the “Good Guy”.
AI hallucinates or, at minimum, it tries to impose it's vision on the viewers
Rick was shown in his white tux, then it cut to Sean Connery, and I took that to mean the James Bond films copied the white tux idea from Casablanca. I did not understand the John Wayne photo. But the Sean Connery rather made sense to me. Just saying.
@@taylormack
That’s how I read the Connery shot.
I loved the small detail of Louis dropping the bottle of Vichy Water in the garbage.
Fun fact (maybe not so funny): that is one the few scenes a good chunk of todays audiences do not fully understand. They still get that it is significant that the waterbottle is thrown into the trash, but not why. What Vichy stood for at the time has moved from common-knowledge into historic-knowledge that not everybody remembers.
There are times when knowing details about a film's making turn me off to the film. Not so with CASABLANCA. Thanks for putting this together. 💙
Think one of the Regan shots was John wayne. Apart from that likes the production.
Yeah, that's strange. Any minor classic movie buff would recognize John Wayne. Such an enthusiast would also know how to pronounce Peter Lorre's last name.
@@jerometaperman7102 It's the AI narration. It does not know the vagaries of the English language. I hear mispronunciation in many YT videos due to non-human narration.
@@AbqRealDeals Nah, many human narrators are idiots too.
@@andhisband I believe that!
I initially thought the video was going to be about “Dead men don’t wear plaid”
Neither Bogart or Bergman, and I believe the other actors at time thought the Movie was going to be a success. In fact, they thought it was a disaster, since even the ending was not written at the time. So it was quite and accidental success.
As an aside. The film was shown at a festival, with Ingrid Bergman who was being honored was in the audience. After it ended, she supposedly came up and said to the audience: MY THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE.
The real reason Ingrid Bergman was frustrated during the shooting was she didn't know whether she'd end up with Bogart or Henried. According to Howard Koch, they actually wrote it both ways, intending to shoot both versions, preview them and use whichever the preview audiences liked best. But when they shot the first version - the one we all know - Koch, director Michael Curtiz and the rest of the filmmakers decided, "That's it. That's how this story HAS to end. We don't need to bother shooting the other one."
One thing that makes this movie great is the suspense. Because even the cast and crew don't know what is going to happen next, neither do we.
I heard that there were two endings planned, one in which she goes and one in which she stayed. When they filmed the one in which she leaves, they decided it was so good they didn't bother shooting the alternate.
Robert B. Parker often dropped quotes in his Spenser novels, but never with footnotes. Years after reading Small Vices I found the source for an exchange between Spenser and a Harvard professor, because both characters were quoting Casablanca.
“I came for the waters.
“There are no waters here.”
“I was mislead.”
Great piece of analysis. The details of the "making of" are something that I would never have known. I look forward to my next watch of this, with new things to marvel at.
@PastAmerica - Point of correction… The white jacket still that you used was not Bogart as Rick (actually 5’ 6 1/2”), but an 8”s taller Sean Connery, as James Bond in from From Russia With Love. Then later, when commenting on Ronald Regan in the role of Rick, you used a still of John Wayne in his preeminent role as the Ringo Kid from John Ford’s Stagecoach, shot 5 years earlier than Casablanca.
Closeups use less film than wide shots? Uh, no. Closeups, however, do require less of a set than a wide shot.
Things are much more likely to go wrong in a wide shot necessitating a re-take?
In no way can I be considered a film buff. Yet I can recognize an excellent review when I see one. Good work.
Also, it’s Peter Lor-REE
Pure gold for Claud Raines is when Rick has a gun pointed as Renault's heart and Renault says it's his least vulnerable spot. Though, Shocked, is more famous, I go with the heart quip.
@5:45 No one else seems to have noticed. That is not Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca. That is Sean Connery as James Bond in Doctor No.
Showed how white makes the primary character stand out in later movies.
I believe that was deliberate, suggesting that's where Bond got his look.
Everyone noticed. No one noticed he talks about the chemistry between Lorre and Greenstreet. But they don't have a scene together (deleted or maybe from Maltese Falcon or something)
Stuck out like a sore thumb. That was the work of AI
It'll be a crime if they ever colorize this film. It's the most classic example of Film Noire. Same with The Maltese Falcon. 😮
Narrator needs to review the pronunciation of Peter Lorre's last name. "Lor-ee". 🙄
They did in the 80s. And it was.
@@inanimatecarbongod well they didn't colorize it, but they did remake it (badly cast as well because you could not recast it with any modern film actors).
@@josephteller9715 Yes they did colorize it by Ted Turner's orders who owned TCM at the time. It was only shown a couple of times. People, myself included, did not like it.
@@coleparker Actually "Casablanca" has never been remade as a theatrical film, but it was used as the basis for a 1955 TV series with Charles McGraw as Rick. The latest Warner Home Video DVD release of "Casablanca" included the pilot of that series as a bonus item. It wasn't bad - though McGraw was too thug-like as Rick and didn't bring the nuances to the character Bogart had - but it wasn't great, either.
@@mgconlan Don’t forget the Woody Allen play and movie “Play It Again Sam.”
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Claude Rains is fantastic.
And let's not forget the Deep Space Nine episode, "Profit and Loss", with Quark as the Rick-figure. Great archetypal story!
This analysis is deeply moving and packed with useful information. Possibly the best of its kind I've ever seen. Thanks.
Everything looks good in this movie except for the airplane scene! Absolutely love everything else. I watch this movie everytime it is on TCM!❤
Never watched it, and I’m 70 years old! I will tonight! Great video! PS It’s pronounced Peter “Lor ree”.
It is time you watch it!! I'm 69 and I think I first saw it when I was in college, somewhere on campus on a large screen, back in the mid-70s. I've seen it countless times since, and I never tire of it.
@ I had it in my DVD collection and didn’t realize I did. I watched it last night for the first time and really enjoyed it. I’ve got movies on DVD that I don’t even know I have. I’m going to have to start going through them and watch them.
My favorite movie ever! I found this and subbed immediately! Thank you!
My favorite character in the movie is the cafe itself. It seems to protect Rick, Isa and the others. When Rick steps out, he is always in some sort of danger. When he returns to the bar he still may be in danger, but the bar gives him the confidence he needs to do what he has to.
Certainly not a B-Movie. It's a classic. A very intelligent, insightful and multilayered plot. Very pertinent to the time.
That's what I thought. The cast was not the cast of a "B" movie, no matter how tight the budget was.
Casablanca!!! The perfect story, the perfect romance, the perfect cast. Every word, every performance is perfect!
Best movie ever!!!!
Boggie in that white dinner jacket. Hot dog!
Every story told, including films like this one, is a product of its time in history. This one tells a story of Hollywood at that time. A lot of the production choices were driven by the oncoming change to shooting in color. Even appellation "film Noire" was probably due to a shortage of high intensity stage lights that were needed over on the sets where they shot in color.
There may have been a benefit also of the benign neglect it received by studio bosses more concerned by the high costs of the other movies being shot there simultaneously. These factors were known by Billy Wilder many years later, when he purposely chose to shoot "Some Like it Hot" not just in black and white, but also 100 miles away in San Diego where studio oversight was inconvenient for the bosses.
I note that the sound muting case for the Mitchell camera you show is held closed with a C-clamp. That speaks of second hand equipment as well as noise control problems when shooting those close ups. That close ups with background extras chatting gets the hidden boom mike closer to the performer without having to use dubbed in crowd sounds as often may have helped as well.
From the Vienna secessionists. "Everytime has it's art and every art has it's time."
Me finks its best movie ever. The pot, the photography, the passion, the players, and that song.
"Airplane!" is Hollywood's most-quoted film.
AFI ranked the top 100 and Casablanca got 6. Princess Bride was voted by fans. So let the debate begins.
The most impressive is the funniest line ever in my opinion.. is actually from Casablanca though always overlooked.
"Remember this gun is pointed at your heart".
"My least vulnerable spot."
@@laartwork Sounds like a line from The Goon Show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.
Surely, you must be kidding.
@@laartworkI was thinking Princess Bride, but there were more famous quotes from Casablanca than I realized.
The actor who played the nazi, did so to show how evil they were.
The actors who played the nazi's in Hogan's heros did so to show them as incompetent idiots.
They all had very good, personal reasons for the portrails they gave.
Perfect movie, great cast and amazing dialog.
Very quotable.
The book "November 1942", a pivotal month in WWII, had a number of pages about "Casablanca". 🙂
Casablanca was one of the films which seem to be destine not to make it before its full release. Then by word of mouth, it became a hit. Over time, Casablanca became one of the greatest films of all time as well as one of the greatest B movies of all time.
Peter Lorre...that's Lorry, not Lore. At least twice, that I noticed. That's not the way it would be pronounced in German (the final e would be a schwa, certainly not silent) but in English...
13:12 You're talking about Ronald Reagan, but you show John Wayne (Stagecoach). Why?
Because John Wayne was a better Ronald Reagan than Ronald Reagan ever was.
6:34 Close-ups don't use less film than wide shots. However, they show less of the background giving the cinematogarpher options of where or how to film it. If the faces occupy 90% of the screen you could film it in front of a blank wall, whether that's on the set or not, and the audience would be none the wiser because they'd be focused on the faces and not the peripheral areas.
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world - she walks into mine!" So many of us have someone particular in mind that makes us understand perfectly how deepest longing and deepest regret can swim in your head and heart at the same time.
Love this movie, have it on DVD and VHS!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I've seen it when I was young but I'll have to see it again.
My memory of it is sparse.
My favorite movie of all time. 😊
There was also a TV show, sometime in the '70s, called Rick's Cafe Americain, starring David Soul, intended to show earlier adventures of that cafe and the staff. Interesting to watch, but only lasted one season.
Good memory!
That was the photo they used to help describe what was called a remake [making people beleive there was attempted moive remake...never was...are they kidding us? A cheap failed TV show is a "remake?" David Soul was no equal to BOGART, and no one else was either....what a sick joke...
It was called Casablanca and aired 3 episodes in 1980 before canceled
Still one of the greatest movies ever made
At 10:48 - “Bergman was wearing a box to stand on, because she was actually taller than Bogart” . . . Huh?
Stupid robot.
You know...that Reagan. The highest paid actor in Hollywood, the president of SAG, and the most popular male actor of his time. I hear he went into politics and became the governor of California.
Nothing much was said about the song As Time Goes By, written by Herman Hupfield, or the fantanstic score by Max Steiner. As Time Goes By was NOT written for Casablanca as many believe. It was originally written for the Broadway show Everybody's Welcome (1931), which ran for 139 performances.In 1931, the song was a modest hit, with versions issued on Victor, Columbia, Brunswick and the dime store labels.
The song was featured in the unproduced play Everybody Comes To Rick's, the basis for the Casablanca story and script. Against the wishes of Max Steiner, who wrote the music for the film, it was decided to feature the song in the 1942 film.The producers considered dropping the song in post-production but, since Ingrid Bergman had been given the part of Maria in Paramount's For Whom the Bell Tolls and had cut her hair for the part, it would not have been possible to reshoot her scenes in which the song was performed or to meet her request that Sam (Dooley Wilson) play a different song.
Max Steiner was the John Williams of his day, writing many groundbreaking high class film scores, such as King Kong 1934, and Gone with the Wind [1939], manay more...
This is SUPERB. If only all TH-cam commentaries were so well researched and with such good narration. DEFINITELY WORTH THE TIME. One correction. Proper pronunciation: Peter Lorre (pronounced: Lorry, or Lorr-ee). Otherwise, great. Now, want a challenge? Do King's Row - but read the book first. Amazing it got made. And with Ronald Reagan's ONE AND ONLY great performance.
So ignoring that Lorre and Greenstreet didn't have a scene together, Bergman didn't stand on a box, closeups don't use less film. There are probably more but it was too painful to watch the A.I. written script.
Well done, sir, well done. I've loved Casablanca since the first time I saw it in the 60s as a kid.....
Glad you enjoyed it
Surely, you can't be serious! Airplane is the most quoted film.
And don't call me Shirley.
Roger, Roger.
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That’s Clarence Over.
Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive.
Do you like gladiator movies?
Few films showed the dance floor from ABOVE the mirror ball.
so many brilliant scenes but my favorite is rick's conversation with the bulgarian girl. he is a totally different, better person afterwards. fantastic acting by bogart, his words say one thing but his expressions say the opposite.
Loved this video. My favourite film of all time is Sunset Boulevard...every time I watch it, I notice something new - truly a masterpiece...It's astonishing it even made it to the screen considering its take on Hollywood during the height of the Hayes Code. I'd love to see your take on it.
I visited Rick's Cafe in Casablanca, Morocco. I could only take a quick look around since I didn't have time for dinner or even a drink. I'm glad that I had that brief look. It's an elegant restaurant with Moroccan decor, painted in white, and there is a piano, but it doesn't look like the cafe in the film. I was hoping to buy a souvenir, but the restaurant doesn't offer any. As a friend of mine said, offering souvenirs (t-shirts, shot glasses, books on the film, other items) would bring in enough income that the owner of the restaurant could buy up the buildings around the cafe and open a version of the Blue Parrot!
The Blu-Ray special edition has not just one but several alternate audio tracks talking about all the trivia behind the movie.
I watched this movie in the theater last Valentine's Day. Pretty good movie.
I have watched dozens of "the best movie ever made," and honestly, this is the only one that I ever felt truly lived up to its name. It's my favorite movie to date, and I don't know how you could ever do better. A tale of two true love stories, a rousing story of a man running from what he knows is right, trying "to escape from yourself, and that you'll never succeed," of those just trying to survive and some trying to avoid their destiny.
It's funny - of course the central character is Rick, but everyone thinks it's him who needs to be convinced to do the right thing, when all along he was only fighting himself not to do it. It's Louis who needs to be convinced, who must throw away his comfortable life and accept his duty to his countrymen. Rick convinces him of this, just as Lazlo convinces Rick.
Sure, there are moments in this movie that are imperfect - when Ilsa calls Sam "boy," which is a product of its time to be sure, but still, or Ilsa's tragic line "Was that cannon fire? Or just my heart pounding." Terrible schlock, but again, a line of its time in the movie industry.
But when you get down to it, the writing, no matter how fragmented, no matter how cringey at times, is just perfect.
Final screenplay by Theo Epstein's grandfather and great uncle. Compared to winning 3 World Series in 13 years with the Red Sox and Cubs, who between them had not won a single title in a combined 192 years, writing a masterpiece is a piece of cake.😃