I think the surprise in the movie is not that Rick does the right thing. We've after all seen him quietly doing the right thing all movie. The surprise is that Louis finds his conscience in the end, and despite witnessing the murder of Strasser by Rick, instructs his subordinate to round up the usual suspects. Louis pours out his Vichy water and the viewer knows he's on the side of the resistance now. Louis, the ultimate cynic, is influenced by Rick's selflessness and does the right thing too.
There is a lot of truth to that. Certainly, it is an ending any average audience in those days (at least) would want to see. What surprised me when I first saw this as an adult is how it did not strike me as contrived or hokey. Not only is it an ending you want to see, but the truth is, Louis has been dropping hints from the beginning of the movie, nearly, that this is an ending he would like to see, too. Not only is Rick his favorite person (male, at least), in Casablanca (he practically hero-worships him), but he obviously doesn't have any particular sympathy for the Germans, either ("I wouldn't underestimate American blundering if I were you -- *I was with them* when they blundered into Berlin in 1918 . . ." (emphasis added)
@@danielgregg2530 That is all very perceptive on your part. I was shocked, shocked, when I realized that the director Curtiz, was born in 1886. 21 years after the Lincoln was shot! 🤔
This is a good place to hang a very specific and nerdy piece of analysis of Casablanca I did in the 1990s. Casablanca has a very conspiratorial atmosphere: everyone knows everyone else's business. This adds to the intrigue, because despite this, every major character is trying to figure out what the others are going to do. There are five major characters in Casablanca: Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Louis Renault and Heinrich Strasser. There are 32 different possible combinations of these characters in any one scene, from none of them to all of them, because each character either appears in or doesn't appear in a scene, and 2^5=32. Of these 32 possibilities, Casablanca realizes 25, IIRC. That's a great deal of variety, and probably sets some kind of record for a film with this many leads: usually the protagonist shares the screen with other characters one at a time. This variety helps reveal different and deep aspects of all of the major players, because people behave differently and say different things according to who they're with. And especially because characters have to walk the line very carefully when they're around more people. If there's a lesson here for writers, it's mix the characters in every way you reasonably can. Footnote: In 1992, Casablanca showed for six nights running at the Empire 1, Leicester Square, in London, then the best first-release cinema in the world. I went every day.
I love Casablanca, I had to purchase the movie on Amazon 'cuz I got tired of renting the film, I learn something new every time I watch it. Excellent synopsis of the movie. Ingrid Bergman is my favorite star from old hollywood, she was naturally, beautiful Ingrid didn't have to wear a lot of makeup, just gorgeous and she was a great actress also.🙂 Vive la France!
When I was a kid, my introduction to film was the collection of "Great Movies" that the CBC network in Canada regularly played. The CBC actually owned prints of many 1930s and 1940s classics --- especially the Warner Bros. films like Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Maltese Falcon. The programmers at the network firmly believed it was their moral duty to make sure that younger generations saw these films. So my first impression of movies was some of the most brilliant work to ever hit the screen, which I saw in my home in a remote, subarctic town, surrounded by endless forest underneath the shimmering aurora borealis. Both my parents had served in the Air Force during World War 2, and they made sure I understood what the issues were in Casablanca. There is a long list of movies that the CBC embedded in my soul and will always be a part of me.
It took me decades to watch this film--convincing myself it was over-hyped--and was I was awed by how damn near perfect it is. I'm drawn more to the spy-type intrigue than the romance, but Bogart's Rick is inimitable. A great character (and ensemble) with a brilliant story/script. Add that it is black-and-white (color would detract) and it's one of my top 5 fav. golden age Hollywood films.
That's not a Casablanca sequel. It's a Humphrey Bogart movie based on an Ernest Hemingway novel starring Lauren Bacall, Bogie's future wife, in the female lead role. That's the movie where they met and it's with the famous "You know how to whistle?" scene.
Casablanca is on top of my favorite "classics". It's also an important film for the time period is was released. Casablanca marked the moment the USA really entered World War 2 and actually choosed side. It's litteraly the moment USA became the world superpower. From "i don't care" to "I have to do the right thing". And it does thing without being overly patriotic and narrow-minded. They actually sing France's national anthem and regards it as a great nation too, despites the troubled times. From a non-US citizen point of view, it's that one time America was Great!
I saw this (and not for the first time) in a revival theater in LA back in the earl 80s. While standing in line there was a group of ladies behind me who were talking about the first time they'd seen it, on its original release. One or all of them mentioned they thought it was going to be just another war movie.
@@shideyafudo probably because bruce and harvey are both lovers of rachel. And bruce has to either fight for gotham and forget about rachel or let harvey dent be with rachel and let harvey does his thing. My description isnt clear but u will somewhat get what it means
Tell your editor that he messed up, showing the blonde character of Yvonne, a French girl who holds an unrequited love for Rick, instead of the Bulgarian couple, the girl of which is rather thin and dark haired.
‘Casablanca’ is renowned and is justly acknowledged as one of the most romantic films of all time but it is much more than the tale of a love triangle. Of course, it shows that the power of love can affect the human psyche, as demonstrated by Rick’s metamorphosis. This film has so many levels to it that it takes many viewings to appreciate them. The main theme is not romance but self-sacrifice as the film’s message to the world at war is to give up the personal agenda for the common cause. It reminds wartime audiences, many of whom have loved ones fighting abroad, that their situation is the same as that of Rick, Ilsa and Victor. The screenplay is so intelligently written. It is a masterpiece of complexity, containing subliminal political opinions and messages all carried along on a thrilling plot with brilliant one-liners and memorable quotes, comedic elements, together with contemporary, social commentaries. Basically, the film is politically motivated because it is a plea to America to join the war. Please note that the action takes place in pre-Pearl Harbour, December, 1941. This is the the first non-musical movie to use music almost as an another protagonist, (which Tarantino does now). For example, ‘As Time Goes By’ is a valuable recurring theme and, in Paris, Rick and Ilsa dance to ‘Perfidia’ which means untrustworthiness. Also, ‘Love for Sale’ is played during the dialogue when the Bulgarian girl tells Rick about her ‘offer’ from Renault. Michael Curtiz’s direction is multi-faceted: Documentary, Film Noir, German Expressionism, Flashback etc. He is the master of creating the plot via seamlessly connecting a series of rapid-fire vignettes. There is subtle direction and cinematography. For example, Ilsa wears black and white clothes and is cast in shadows and in a mirror which symbolise the ambiguity of her role. POINTS OF INTEREST AND NOTES FOR SUBSEQUENT VIEWINGS. Rick’s initial selfishness, (I stick my neck out for nobody’), is a metaphor for USA indifference. It must be remembered that the events and politics are hard to comprehend and put into perspective for current audiences than for those living through WW2, not knowing who the victors would be. The script can be considered as a 'State of the Union' address, both for home and foreign policies, in which there are references to Civil Rights, as embodied in Sam and, of course, the debate about America’s involvement in the conflict. Each character represents a country e.g. Two Japanese plotting; the Italian on the tail of the German; American indifference; French collaborators; the British robbed by foreign policy. Even the Balkans are mentioned via the Bulgarian couple. Quite evidently, Rick’s actions symbolise the USA in its change in policy from isolationism to participation and ‘….the beginning of a beautiful friendship…’ is the USA and Europe joining forces to fight Nazism. The significance of Letters of Transit is a metaphor for the might of America’s power and resources and must be delivered to the right side. The ‘La Marseillaise’ scene is the pivotal moment in which both Ilsa and Rick realise that saving Victor is more important than their own personal relationship. It also comes in just as Rick and Victor are about to argue over Ilsa but both drop the issue when they hear the music. This scene is rousing now but imagine how it must have felt for audiences right in the middle of the war when Germany seemed invincible and modern viewers need to put it in perspective in terms of world events full of Nazi and Japanese domination and when the outcome looked very bleak. The facial close-ups used throughout the film speak a thousand words: but particularly note Ilsa during ‘La Marseillaise’ when her expressions show her admiration of Victor’s power and her realisation that this must be preserved at all costs. In any case... there is so much alcohol!!!! POINTS TO WATCH ‘It’s December, 1941 in Casablanca: what time is it in New York?... I bet they are asleep all over America’. PEARL HARBOUR ‘Even Nazis can’t kill that fast’ CONCENTRATION CAMPS ‘I don’t buy or sell human beings..’ CIVIL RIGHTS The Bulgarian couple keep appearing as symbols of hope and determination. In the bar room fight over Yvonne, Rick attacks the German only and not the Frenchman. Captain Renault dumps the bottle of Vichy water to represent his rejection of the Nazi- collaborating French Government which was located in Vichy. Just one example of the excellent and complex scriptwriting occurs immediately after the roulette scene. The girl thanks Rick for letting her husband win and Rick replies, ‘He’s just a lucky guy’, which, on the face of it, refers to the gambling, but, in Rick’s mind, means that the husband is ‘lucky’ because his partner truly loves him.
Well said, never a dull moment! And, more importantly, never a meaningless moment! (Watch for everyone knocking over their glasses, symbolizing inner chaos.)
This is a movie of one-liners, of drama, of scenes that you need to watch because there is so little talky talky in it...gestures, looks, music that fits the movie--and it stays with you forever. Everything the characters do is significant, and gives you insights immediately into the good guys and the bad guys.
Yes, I saw this flick the first time when I was 14 & I knew Rick wouldn't hand Laslo over to the Gestapo, not after he deliberately lost money on the roulette wheel to help that Bulgarian couple get passage to America. Or maybe it was because I knew that so many people held the film in high regard.
No, not everyone expects, etc. etc. There were more than enough clues how it would end, as Wayne S noticed. For me, it was always a question of how Rick would get away with it. As Wayne points out, the 'Twist' for many was Louis.
Just finished watching this movie after first time in years what a beautiful movie a man in Casablanca learns to fight the war effort against facism and tyranny and a beautiful love story a man sacrificing the one he loved so they can be free and escape Casablanca against nazi troops it’s a simple yet effect story at a time where propaganda was big on the war effort in world war 2 this shows a man wanting nothing or cared about anything to do with the war effort ended up helping the one he loved to escape to help the war efforts and fighting off the nazi’s.
Amazingly, Ingrid Bergman first saw her movie, "Casablanca" on a movie screen in the early 1970s. Up until that time, she had only seen it on a small tv set.
Yes but Rick's true character is revealed in a Scene early on with Louis when he refers to Rick as a "Secret Sentimentalist.". When they are talking about Rick's past, and Louis mentions that Rick ran guns to Spain and Ethiopia for two causes that lost.
So Rick had always been an idealist until Ilsa broke his heart. Once that break was healed, he could go back to being his true self. Seems to show a certain weakness of character on his part, if a broken heart could turn him into a cynical saloon owner.
Unless you've had your heart broken I would suggest that it might be very difficult to project how it would affect you. You might want to brush up on your bartending skills.@@roderickfemm8799
I guess that is the whole idea, a heart broken guy, a hero in a movie, with movie being the key word here. In other words, movies are suppose to mimic real life, not necessarily be real life. Long story, but a guy cried in front of me because I didn't let him finish his cigarette. That to me was a weakness of character. Compared to Rick's situation, I'll cut Rick some slack. @@roderickfemm8799
I first wanted to see this movie after an episode of the Fairly Odd Parents (if you know which one you know) My dad showed it to me at 10 years old. I had to stop the movie because I couldn't stop crying when Ilsa left Rick at the station in Paris
I don’t know why, but recently I’ve had your amazing die hard video on pretty much constant repeat, as it keeps inspiring me with both the combined tone of the film and your video. So a few ideas for films that I’d love to see you cover are Wall-E, Moonlight and The Shape of Water and an amazing Brazilian film City of God. As always great work.
A couple of things that are "fuzzy" to me. Did Rick own the bar in Paris? And, when he told Signor Ferrari that he could have "Ricks" he was intending to be gone with Ilsa. But, the plan changed..... can I assume that he was not able to, and didn't, go back to his club as the rightful owner?
Apparently storytelling and character development isn't important anymore these days. The times of drama are gone, today's cinema is all about spectacular visuals and pace. plain entertainment without depth. There are rare exceptions of course, but there is a contentwise banalization everywhere.
You'll probably like a guy named Brain McDonald he has a show/podcast here on TH-cam called "you are a storyteller" great stuff. Goes in deep into what makes stories work like the classics.
@@joeodonnell921 Somehow right, but the number of really great and epic movies has doubtless decreased. At the beginning of moviemaking it was a lower class medium, hopefully we are not going there again.
a Film Essay about Casablanca is like a Let's Play of Ocarina of Time... *not a good or bad thing just pointing it out as a perfect analogy* Just meant it as how Casablanca and OOT are the ideal products of the artform that single-handedly revolutionized history. Perhaps should've been Mario 64 or MGS1 and Citizen Kane or Vertigo but that's neither here or there cause both Casablanca and OOT have this unchangeable state of pedestal of exemplary representation for the artfom , right down to the fact that they are both technically overrated in their own rights and cannot be the "best" films/games ever due to technical and graphical limitations. _plus the modern prejudice of Black and White Films and OOT's more slow parts, but again neither here or there for the initiated._ But both are historically and academically conveyed as being such perfect by most people , objectively
🤨 4:20 Your talk of the Bulgarian couple has WRONG VISUALS! Rick's girlfriend (reluctantly on his part) is one; no Bulgarian twosome. Aside from that, well presented.
To have so many nuanced characters in a single film is lightning in a bottle. This film is full of people trying to survive, and rhat includes Rick. I’ve seen Casablanca analyzed as propaganda, but that misses the point of characters in context in the early years of WWII. Somehow, the worst dangers of melodrama are averted, and every character rings true.
I have loved Casablanca since when I first saw it on TV as a kid as a Midday Movie. There is only one small but (to me) annoying flaw and that is in the Marseillaise scene where the woman shown playing the guitar quite clearly has _no_ idea how to play it.
😂I was a way of reassuring Lazlo the whatever there might have been between Ilsa and mim (Rick) was now over. That why Lazlo thanked him. But Rick was no doubt lying which Louis knew and commented on.
Maybe if I didn't study this for Leaving Cert English I would like this film more. Not to say I hate the film but for me every time I think of it I associate it with school education.
I remember reading that the film is basically a way for the filmmakers to criticise the then current policy of the US government to not enter WW2... The bar is even called Casa Blanca... The White House... Few times have I facepalmed so vigorously...
Casablanca is anything but a lesson in storytelling. If anything it’s an example of what not to do. If you know the backstory, the directors of Casablanca did not work from a finished script. They were literally coming up with storyline as they were filming. The actors were frustrated because they didn’t know how to act in certain scenes because the director had no idea how the film would end.
Meh. Meh, meh, meh. This presenter has made a slurred mess of this. Makes Ben Mankiewicz look like Orson Wells. Somebody needs some kind of "lesson" about storytelling, indeed.
Casablanca is the most beautiful piece of warmongering propaganda, but as time passes one can appreciate it for its artistic value, rather than its political instrumentalization.
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I think the surprise in the movie is not that Rick does the right thing. We've after all seen him quietly doing the right thing all movie. The surprise is that Louis finds his conscience in the end, and despite witnessing the murder of Strasser by Rick, instructs his subordinate to round up the usual suspects. Louis pours out his Vichy water and the viewer knows he's on the side of the resistance now. Louis, the ultimate cynic, is influenced by Rick's selflessness and does the right thing too.
There is a lot of truth to that. Certainly, it is an ending any average audience in those days (at least) would want to see. What surprised me when I first saw this as an adult is how it did not strike me as contrived or hokey. Not only is it an ending you want to see, but the truth is, Louis has been dropping hints from the beginning of the movie, nearly, that this is an ending he would like to see, too. Not only is Rick his favorite person (male, at least), in Casablanca (he practically hero-worships him), but he obviously doesn't have any particular sympathy for the Germans, either ("I wouldn't underestimate American blundering if I were you -- *I was with them* when they blundered into Berlin in 1918 . . ." (emphasis added)
That's what I thought too
@@danielgregg2530 That is all very perceptive on your part. I was shocked, shocked, when I realized that the director Curtiz, was born in 1886. 21 years after the Lincoln was shot! 🤔
Jack my dude, i think this is gonna be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I totally agree!
"Casablanca" is the greatest move I've ever seen, or every will see.
Can't believe this film was made in 1942.
Monumental!
Why?
@@gordonbartlett1921timeless
This is a good place to hang a very specific and nerdy piece of analysis of Casablanca I did in the 1990s.
Casablanca has a very conspiratorial atmosphere: everyone knows everyone else's business. This adds to the intrigue, because despite this, every major character is trying to figure out what the others are going to do.
There are five major characters in Casablanca: Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Louis Renault and Heinrich Strasser. There are 32 different possible combinations of these characters in any one scene, from none of them to all of them, because each character either appears in or doesn't appear in a scene, and 2^5=32. Of these 32 possibilities, Casablanca realizes 25, IIRC. That's a great deal of variety, and probably sets some kind of record for a film with this many leads: usually the protagonist shares the screen with other characters one at a time.
This variety helps reveal different and deep aspects of all of the major players, because people behave differently and say different things according to who they're with. And especially because characters have to walk the line very carefully when they're around more people.
If there's a lesson here for writers, it's mix the characters in every way you reasonably can.
Footnote: In 1992, Casablanca showed for six nights running at the Empire 1, Leicester Square, in London, then the best first-release cinema in the world. I went every day.
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
I've been studying this movie for almost 20 years, and I never saw it analyzed this way before. Very good points!
so grateful for comments like yours. thank you!!!
I think it's hard to watch this film and not be awed by how much it influenced future films.
It's near impossible!
If Casablanca's not the greatest movie of all time, I don't know what is.
Simply one of the best movies ever made. Supremely memorable characters and conflicts. Great video!
I loved your video on Casablanca as much as this one
Both are a great analysis of a great movie
I love Casablanca, I had to purchase the movie on Amazon 'cuz I got tired of renting the film, I learn something new every time I watch it. Excellent synopsis of the movie.
Ingrid Bergman is my favorite star from old hollywood, she was naturally, beautiful Ingrid didn't have to wear a lot of makeup, just gorgeous and she was a great actress also.🙂 Vive la France!
When I was a kid, my introduction to film was the collection of "Great Movies" that the CBC network in Canada regularly played. The CBC actually owned prints of many 1930s and 1940s classics --- especially the Warner Bros. films like Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Maltese Falcon. The programmers at the network firmly believed it was their moral duty to make sure that younger generations saw these films. So my first impression of movies was some of the most brilliant work to ever hit the screen, which I saw in my home in a remote, subarctic town, surrounded by endless forest underneath the shimmering aurora borealis. Both my parents had served in the Air Force during World War 2, and they made sure I understood what the issues were in Casablanca. There is a long list of movies that the CBC embedded in my soul and will always be a part of me.
It took me decades to watch this film--convincing myself it was over-hyped--and was I was awed by how damn near perfect it is. I'm drawn more to the spy-type intrigue than the romance, but Bogart's Rick is inimitable. A great character (and ensemble) with a brilliant story/script. Add that it is black-and-white (color would detract) and it's one of my top 5 fav. golden age Hollywood films.
Most people don't know that there is a sequel for the movie "Casablanca".
The movie name is "To Have and Have not" 1944.
Go ahead and enjoy it.
That's not a Casablanca sequel. It's a Humphrey Bogart movie based on an Ernest Hemingway novel starring Lauren Bacall, Bogie's future wife, in the female lead role. That's the movie where they met and it's with the famous "You know how to whistle?" scene.
Casablanca is on top of my favorite "classics". It's also an important film for the time period is was released. Casablanca marked the moment the USA really entered World War 2 and actually choosed side. It's litteraly the moment USA became the world superpower.
From "i don't care" to "I have to do the right thing".
And it does thing without being overly patriotic and narrow-minded. They actually sing France's national anthem and regards it as a great nation too, despites the troubled times.
From a non-US citizen point of view, it's that one time America was Great!
And the character of Rick represents the USA in that he also changes from 'I don't care' to 'do the right thing' over the course of the film.
I saw this (and not for the first time) in a revival theater in LA back in the earl 80s. While standing in line there was a group of ladies behind me who were talking about the first time they'd seen it, on its original release. One or all of them mentioned they thought it was going to be just another war movie.
On my last viewing, I realised that the Dark Knight actually take a inspiration from the story
Elaborate?
@@shideyafudo probably because bruce and harvey are both lovers of rachel. And bruce has to either fight for gotham and forget about rachel or let harvey dent be with rachel and let harvey does his thing. My description isnt clear but u will somewhat get what it means
It's Thursday 17 September and this film is showing randomly on BBC Channel 4 at 8pm. Absolute treat.
Casablanca is my favorite classic movie of all time. Definitely on my top 10 favorite movies list.
It's a movie I couldn't stand so much growing up, but over the years have gotten an appreciation for it.
One of the most sweet movies that I watched
Tell your editor that he messed up, showing the blonde character of Yvonne, a French girl who holds an unrequited love for Rick, instead of the Bulgarian couple, the girl of which is rather thin and dark haired.
Exquisite! My all time favorite!
‘Casablanca’ is renowned and is justly acknowledged as one of the most romantic films of all time but it is much more than the tale of a love triangle. Of course, it shows that the power of love can affect the human psyche, as demonstrated by Rick’s metamorphosis.
This film has so many levels to it that it takes many viewings to appreciate them. The main theme is not romance but self-sacrifice as the film’s message to the world at war is to give up the personal agenda for the common cause. It reminds wartime audiences, many of whom have loved ones fighting abroad, that their situation is the same as that of Rick, Ilsa and Victor.
The screenplay is so intelligently written. It is a masterpiece of complexity, containing subliminal political opinions and messages all carried along on a thrilling plot with brilliant one-liners and memorable quotes, comedic elements, together with contemporary, social commentaries. Basically, the film is politically motivated because it is a plea to America to join the war. Please note that the action takes place in pre-Pearl Harbour, December, 1941.
This is the the first non-musical movie to use music almost as an another protagonist, (which Tarantino does now). For example, ‘As Time Goes By’ is a valuable recurring theme and, in Paris, Rick and Ilsa dance to ‘Perfidia’ which means untrustworthiness. Also, ‘Love for Sale’ is played during the dialogue when the Bulgarian girl tells Rick about her ‘offer’ from Renault.
Michael Curtiz’s direction is multi-faceted: Documentary, Film Noir, German Expressionism, Flashback etc. He is the master of creating the plot via seamlessly connecting a series of rapid-fire vignettes.
There is subtle direction and cinematography. For example, Ilsa wears black and white clothes and is cast in shadows and in a mirror which symbolise the ambiguity of her role.
POINTS OF INTEREST AND NOTES FOR SUBSEQUENT VIEWINGS.
Rick’s initial selfishness, (I stick my neck out for nobody’), is a metaphor for USA indifference. It must be remembered that the events and politics are hard to comprehend and put into perspective for current audiences than for those living through WW2, not knowing who the victors would be.
The script can be considered as a 'State of the Union' address, both for home and foreign policies, in which there are references to Civil Rights, as embodied in Sam and, of course, the debate about America’s involvement in the conflict.
Each character represents a country e.g. Two Japanese plotting; the Italian on the tail of the German; American indifference; French collaborators; the British robbed by foreign policy. Even the Balkans are mentioned via the Bulgarian couple. Quite evidently, Rick’s actions symbolise the USA in its change in policy from isolationism to participation and ‘….the beginning of a beautiful friendship…’ is the USA and Europe joining forces to fight Nazism.
The significance of Letters of Transit is a metaphor for the might of America’s power and resources and must be delivered to the right side.
The ‘La Marseillaise’ scene is the pivotal moment in which both Ilsa and Rick realise that saving Victor is more important than their own personal relationship. It also comes in just as Rick and Victor are about to argue over Ilsa but both drop the issue when they hear the music. This scene is rousing now but imagine how it must have felt for audiences right in the middle of the war when Germany seemed invincible and modern viewers need to put it in perspective in terms of world events full of Nazi and Japanese domination and when the outcome looked very bleak.
The facial close-ups used throughout the film speak a thousand words: but particularly note Ilsa during ‘La Marseillaise’ when her expressions show her admiration of Victor’s power and her realisation that this must be preserved at all costs.
In any case... there is so much alcohol!!!!
POINTS TO WATCH
‘It’s December, 1941 in Casablanca: what time is it in New York?...
I bet they are asleep all over America’. PEARL HARBOUR
‘Even Nazis can’t kill that fast’
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
‘I don’t buy or sell human beings..’
CIVIL RIGHTS
The Bulgarian couple keep appearing as symbols of hope and determination.
In the bar room fight over Yvonne, Rick attacks the German only and not the Frenchman.
Captain Renault dumps the bottle of Vichy water to represent his rejection of the Nazi- collaborating French Government which was located in Vichy.
Just one example of the excellent and complex scriptwriting occurs immediately after the roulette scene. The girl thanks Rick for letting her husband win and Rick replies, ‘He’s just a lucky guy’, which, on the face of it, refers to the gambling, but, in Rick’s mind, means that the husband is ‘lucky’ because his partner truly loves him.
Wow….This is an amazing synopsis!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for doing this. It's one of my favorite films.
Of course Karen, thanks for watching!
Well said, never a dull moment! And, more importantly, never a meaningless moment! (Watch for everyone knocking over their glasses, symbolizing inner chaos.)
This is a movie of one-liners, of drama, of scenes that you need to watch because there is so little talky talky in it...gestures, looks, music that fits the movie--and it stays with you forever. Everything the characters do is significant, and gives you insights immediately into the good guys and the bad guys.
Yes, I saw this flick the first time when I was 14 & I knew Rick wouldn't hand Laslo over to the Gestapo, not after he deliberately lost money on the roulette wheel to help that Bulgarian couple get passage to America. Or maybe it was because I knew that so many people held the film in high regard.
Casablanca is one of the best movies of all time! Thank you for presenting it! Best regards, S.C.C 😅
I just watched this, and instantly loved it, I also had no idea how much Casablanca was in Indiana Jones
Just watched it again - ahh, the chemistry!
Well, Jack and I are 3 for 3. Doubt it's the start of a beautiful friendship but it may be the start of me being a true fan of Jack's work.
It saved our outlook on the war in 1942 here in Britain. It gave us the feeling that goodness can conquer evil! Thank you Casablanca!
This video deserves so much more love. Casablanca is my favorite movie of all time and this video was great.
Also comeback soon!
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Vanilla Sky.
Keep up the great work!
No, not everyone expects, etc. etc. There were more than enough clues how it would end, as Wayne S noticed. For me, it was always a question of how Rick would get away with it. As Wayne points out, the 'Twist' for many was Louis.
Just finished watching this movie after first time in years what a beautiful movie a man in Casablanca learns to fight the war effort against facism and tyranny and a beautiful love story a man sacrificing the one he loved so they can be free and escape Casablanca against nazi troops it’s a simple yet effect story at a time where propaganda was big on the war effort in world war 2 this shows a man wanting nothing or cared about anything to do with the war effort ended up helping the one he loved to escape to help the war efforts and fighting off the nazi’s.
Amazingly, Ingrid Bergman first saw her movie, "Casablanca" on a movie screen in the early 1970s. Up until that time, she had only seen it on a small tv set.
Yes but Rick's true character is revealed in a Scene early on with Louis when he refers to Rick as a "Secret Sentimentalist.". When they are talking about Rick's past, and Louis mentions that Rick ran guns to Spain and Ethiopia for two causes that lost.
So Rick had always been an idealist until Ilsa broke his heart. Once that break was healed, he could go back to being his true self. Seems to show a certain weakness of character on his part, if a broken heart could turn him into a cynical saloon owner.
Unless you've had your heart broken I would suggest that it might be very difficult to project how it would affect you. You might want to brush up on your bartending skills.@@roderickfemm8799
@@prontopac Well, I have had my heart broken, and I didn't handle it well. But I'm not pretending to be a hero in a movie.
I guess that is the whole idea, a heart broken guy, a hero in a movie, with movie being the key word here. In other words, movies are suppose to mimic real life, not necessarily be real life. Long story, but a guy cried in front of me because I didn't let him finish his cigarette. That to me was a weakness of character. Compared to Rick's situation, I'll cut Rick some slack. @@roderickfemm8799
Great flick
Thank you!
lmao i am the guy who asked for this repeatedly,finally
thanks bro❤❤
now you can depart in peace ?
Thank you for your service.
Glad I could cover it!
It's a great littlefilm well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
I first wanted to see this movie after an episode of the Fairly Odd Parents (if you know which one you know) My dad showed it to me at 10 years old. I had to stop the movie because I couldn't stop crying when Ilsa left Rick at the station in Paris
I don’t know why, but recently I’ve had your amazing die hard video on pretty much constant repeat, as it keeps inspiring me with both the combined tone of the film and your video. So a few ideas for films that I’d love to see you cover are Wall-E, Moonlight and The Shape of Water and an amazing Brazilian film City of God. As always great work.
I think he's covered City of God before.
I covered City of God in a video by itself and touched upon The Shape of Water in my Del Toro video!
Because one I love you . Each of the characters represents the various nations stance in WWII at that particular point in the war .
Just curious - Does the music used provide a copyright strike? Or, is that only newer music? Thanks in advance. Great video.
"Here's looking at YOU, kid" is a very odd reading of a line.
My favorite film
Definitely up there for me too!
A classic
would you like to do an analysis on stand by me
Very possibly, no immediate plans!
A couple of things that are "fuzzy" to me. Did Rick own the bar in Paris? And, when he told Signor Ferrari that he could have "Ricks" he was intending to be gone with Ilsa. But, the plan changed..... can I assume that he was not able to, and didn't, go back to his club as the rightful owner?
You must remember this -- this video.
I had chosen Bergman and forgotten about the war.
"nobody ever loved me so much"
Apparently storytelling and character development isn't important anymore these days. The times of drama are gone, today's cinema is all about spectacular visuals and pace. plain entertainment without depth. There are rare exceptions of course, but there is a contentwise banalization everywhere.
You'll probably like a guy named Brain McDonald he has a show/podcast here on TH-cam called "you are a storyteller" great stuff. Goes in deep into what makes stories work like the classics.
Couldn't agree more .. and all the worse because of it
There are a lot of great smaller movies full of it! Check out The Favoruite if you missed it!
Theirs always good and bad films , I'm sure when this film came out their where some forgettable films also.
@@joeodonnell921 Somehow right, but the number of really great and epic movies has doubtless decreased. At the beginning of moviemaking it was a lower class medium, hopefully we are not going there again.
As a writer...I am looking forward for more lessons in storytelling :-)
a Film Essay about Casablanca is like a Let's Play of Ocarina of Time...
*not a good or bad thing just pointing it out as a perfect analogy*
Just meant it as how Casablanca and OOT are the ideal products of the artform that single-handedly revolutionized history.
Perhaps should've been Mario 64 or MGS1 and Citizen Kane or Vertigo but that's neither here or there cause both Casablanca and OOT have this unchangeable state of pedestal of exemplary representation for the artfom , right down to the fact that they are both technically overrated in their own rights and cannot be the "best" films/games ever due to technical and graphical limitations.
_plus the modern prejudice of Black and White Films and OOT's more slow parts, but again neither here or there for the initiated._
But both are historically and academically conveyed as being such perfect by most people , objectively
🤨 4:20 Your talk of the Bulgarian couple has WRONG VISUALS! Rick's girlfriend (reluctantly on his part) is one; no Bulgarian twosome. Aside from that, well presented.
To have so many nuanced characters in a single film is lightning in a bottle. This film is full of people trying to survive, and rhat includes Rick. I’ve seen Casablanca analyzed as propaganda, but that misses the point of characters in context in the early years of WWII. Somehow, the worst dangers of melodrama are averted, and every character rings true.
I'm shocked *shocked* to find that *gambling* is going on in here.
I have loved Casablanca since when I first saw it on TV as a kid as a Midday Movie. There is only one small but (to me) annoying flaw and that is in the Marseillaise scene where the woman shown playing the guitar quite clearly has _no_ idea how to play it.
My parents named me after Ilsa from Casablanca 😊😊😊
Bogart made this film
Do the sopranos or king creole next
Are you interested in doing Gilda?
I'd love to see that.
Honestly, I haven't seen it, will have to check it out!
I think most straight men wanted to do Gilda.
You should put SPOILER Alert in your thumbnail. Don't will ruin it for newbies.
early film-nerd squad where u at
Woo woo!
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Someone please explain WHY Rick confesses to banging Lazlo's wife TO LAZLO just as the are about to depart. And why does Lazllo thank him? Hello??
😂I was a way of reassuring Lazlo the whatever there might have been between Ilsa and mim (Rick) was now over. That why Lazlo thanked him. But Rick was no doubt lying which Louis knew and commented on.
Maybe if I didn't study this for Leaving Cert English I would like this film more. Not to say I hate the film but for me every time I think of it I associate it with school education.
I remember reading that the film is basically a way for the filmmakers to criticise the then current policy of the US government to not enter WW2... The bar is even called Casa Blanca... The White House... Few times have I facepalmed so vigorously...
The bar is called Rick's Cafe not Casablanca.
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D'oh!!!
Casablanca is a city in Morocco
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I'll go ahead and shut up now :)
if casablanca is a thriller then i guess every movie is a thriller
Jack You Forgot the MOST Important thing. RICK LOVES AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!
Cafe Americana, He warns the Germans to not invade certain parts of NYC. His Heart was Always in America.
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447th view!!!!!
This drives me crazy: It's not Cosablonca, it's Caasablaanca (as in Jack!) Jack, how can you get this wrong!?!
Ehh, it was okay.
@Randy White I just didn't get the message, I guess. I took it as a product of its time
Casablanca is anything but a lesson in storytelling. If anything it’s an example of what not to do. If you know the backstory, the directors of Casablanca did not work from a finished script. They were literally coming up with storyline as they were filming. The actors were frustrated because they didn’t know how to act in certain scenes because the director had no idea how the film would end.
Amazing
The end product was the (awesome) story -- it doesn't matter how they got there.
A belated thank you for your expert analysis. However, I’m sure you are working on your next Academy award winning film so I doubt you will read this.
Don't quit your day job.
There are some issues but the most important one is that Nazism is not Fascism stop conflating the two.
Meh. Meh, meh, meh. This presenter has made a slurred mess of this. Makes Ben Mankiewicz look like Orson Wells. Somebody needs some kind of "lesson" about storytelling, indeed.
What an annoying, boring narration.
Casablanca is the most beautiful piece of warmongering propaganda, but as time passes one can appreciate it for its artistic value, rather than its political instrumentalization.
That ain't it, chief.
I'd love to hear you elaborate a bit more on this statement...
@@JacksMovieReviews Me or cringe-boii?
The Nazis ended up to be worse than we could have known. We fought the good fight.