First Time Watching CASABLANCA (1942) | Movie Reaction

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  @vincentsaia6545 · 4 months ago

  One of the greatest movies ever made.

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  @user-gt2uf8cq9y · 4 months ago

  The amount of emotions in their faces when singing the French anthem is real because most of the extras were refugees from Europe, including the French woman in the closeups, Madeleine Lebeau.

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  @coldflamebluedragon196 · 4 months ago

  I don’t know if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie but this comes pretty damn close

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  @jimbro5223 · 4 months ago

  Old movies have much more dialog and less action compared to modern movies.  This movie is thought to have one of the best screen plays ever written.

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  @gardnervh · 4 months ago

  One of the films that teaches us that we knew things in the 30s and 40s about making movies that sometimes it seems we have lost today. &nbsp;Special effects, CGI, sterotypes, and story rewrites to avoid offending the money, none of these are substitutes for craftmanship, creativity, and a love of film.<br><br>It warms my heart to see so many looking to these classic films and appreciating their worth.<br><br>Thank you for an intelligent, well done reaction.

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  @teebonesmith1457 · 4 months ago

  The young newlywed from Bulgaria was supposed to sleep with Captain Renault for the visa -- that was the &quot;bad thing&quot; she was going to keep in her heart. &nbsp;She was asking Rick if Renault would keep his word after he boinked her....

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  @RobRagusa-g7k · 4 months ago

  This is one of those movies you need to have multiple viewings. &nbsp;You will find every side character plays a part later on. You also realize dialogue you saw earlier sometimes is a result of a flashback. &nbsp;Example: &nbsp;In the beginning of the movie Rick tells Yvonne &apos;He doesn&apos;t make plans that far ahead&apos;. During the flashback in Paris you realize Ingrid Berman&apos;s character said that to him.

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  @custardflan · 4 months ago (edited)

  Another great Bogart movie with a lot of the same cast is The Maltese Falcon

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  @johnniekight1879 · 4 months ago

  Another B/W film you must see is &quot;12 Angry Men&quot;.

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  @markkennedy5479 · 4 months ago

  It&apos;s worth remembering that Casablanca came out in 1942, when the war was still underway and its outcome was uncertain. &nbsp;Talk about theatre audiences being invested in the story! It&apos;s easy to imagine them leaping to their feet at the singing of La Marseillaise and joining in the cheering. &nbsp;<br><br>Leslie Halliwell was one of those acerbic critics who tear apart everything that doesn&apos;t meet their expectations—which can make reading Halliwell&apos;s Film Guide a disappointing experience when he&apos;s trashing one of your personal favourites. &nbsp;Many movies failed to rate even a single star from him. &nbsp;He gave Casablanca the maximum four, though, and here&apos;s how he ends his summary: &nbsp;“Cinema par excellence: a studio-bound Hollywood melodrama which after various chances fell together impeccably into one of the outstanding entertainment experiences of cinema history, with romance, intrigue, excitement, suspense and humour cunningly deployed by master technicians and a perfect cast.”

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  @williambourne5425 · 4 months ago

  Here is a blurb to help today’s younger viewers better understand this movie: “Casablanca is in French Morocco. When France surrendered in WW2, it was divided in half. &nbsp;The Northern half under the direct control of the Germans the other half &quot;nominally&quot; independent under the French in Vichy. &nbsp;French Morocco was also under the control of the Vichy government and thus was technically independent so that the Germans had to operate with French consent. It was all a formality, of course, as the French consent was usually rubber stamped.” <br> <br>As for the timing of this movie, Germany had quickly defeated France and on June 14, 1940, the German troops entered and occupied Paris. This movie Casablanca is set a year and a half later on December 1, 1941. &nbsp;This was a week before America is attacked at Pearl Harbor and entered the war against Japan and Germany. <br> <br>When this movie was shown to the general public in January 1943, the US Marines were fighting the Japanese on Guadalcanal, the Nazis were fighting the Russians at the outskirts of Moscow and in Stalingrad. &nbsp;And the Americans had already invaded North Africa, near Casablanca, and had just lost a big battle with the German at the Kasserine Pass. &nbsp; <br> <br>I first saw this during WW2 and believe the reason that it became such an instant classic was that the theme and story truly hit a nerve with the audience members back then. Everyone there identified with the story because, in 1942, the war in Europe and the Pacific was going full blast with the outcome of both was still in doubt. &nbsp;Suddenly husbands and wives, young men and their lovers were being forcibly separated by the war and the draft. If your immediate family was not affected, then many of your neighbors had people either at war, killed or wounded. <br> An element of this film that made it so suspenseful was the love triangle between Rick, Ilsa and Victor. Normally in a Hollywood movie two of the people, the leading man and the girl are obviously meant to end up together. The third character is always shown with some flaw or attitude that makes them an unsuitable mate. &nbsp;In Casablanca, all three leading characters are shown to be equally heroic and desirable choices. Thus making it more difficult for the theater audience to decide who should end up flying off together and who should be the one left behind. &nbsp;Writing a suitable script ending that would satisfy both the Hays Office (the U.S. film studio Self-censorship Organization) and the theater audience must have been very difficult. <br> <br>Cortiz got an Oscar for directing this picture. The flowing movement of the Camera, with its closeups and tracking, and the constant motion of the Actors are like a carefully rehearsed Ballet. Notice how the Actors and the movie Extras are always moving around and how the scenes smoothly flow from one event to another with few cuts and fadeouts. <br> Watch how the movie literally starts with a ‘Bang’ and the Camera keeps you glued to the screen leading up to the Flashback with Rick and Ilsa. The first 10 or 15 minutes seems like one long shot. &nbsp; It is rarely mentioned, but the Editing of the movie was excellent. <br>In 1942, this movie was well received by the Black Community. It was praised by being one of the first films that portrayed a black man not as a stereotype but as an important character in the story.

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  @hongfang2348 · 4 months ago

  Bogart was one of the great male actors of his generation. The more movies you watch, the more you appreciate his enormous talent.

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