Casablanca is an all-time favorite film for many people. My father showed me the movie when I was 12 so I have seen the movie before. When I was younger I could not quite grasp the elements of the movie; however, I am older I understand the movie much more an can appreciate the film. The class has taught me how to view films in another light. I watched the movie again with my father and I had so many comments about the film that I could not watch the film without talking. I love how the director

screened in New York on November 1942 and largely released in January 1943, Casablanca, a moving love story consisting of many emotional turns and slightly similar to the chaos surrounding WWII. A mixture of Love, politics, and war was the atmosphere created by the Director Michael Curtiz. Three of the top screenwriters of all times, Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein and Howard Koch wrote this award-winning movie. Casablanca was adapted from the stage play Everybody Comes to Ricks. The movie’s lead

The film “Casablanca” mainly focus’s on a character named Rick, who was an American man living in Casablanca. He’s the owner of a bar with an underground casino that attracts a large variety of different types of people. Throughout the film, it slowly becomes relevant that Rick is in love with a woman named Ilsa and simply can not let go of what passed they had together while he was in Paris. One motif is the song that they both would always mention called “As Time Goes By.” This song was a highlight

Casablanca and To Have and Have Not: Hollywood during World War II Released just two years apart, Casablanca (1942) and To Have and Have Not (1944) share obvious story lines: a cynical American (played by Humphrey Bogart in both films) living in an occupied French colony during World War II ends up aiding the resistance movement. Being released at either ends of the war, the overall tones of the films, however, are quite different; and this difference is most conspicuous in the endings. Casablanca

(1)Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz released in 1942 is a classic movie that has an element for everyone. (2) A memorable scene in the movie is when the Germans are singing their national anthem and Laszlo has the saloon begin singing the French national anthem. This showed his and the French’s national pride even in times of despair. At the end of the scene a women yells “Viva la France”. This could be a precursor the success that Laszlo and Ilsa have in escaping Casablanca, living on

Casablanca Complexity of human relationships is a primary theme of “ Casablanca”. Throughout the movie we are trying to figure out the relationship between the characters, a relationship we don't learn about until about half way into the movie is that the man Ilsa is traveling with is actually her husband, and had been her husband for a while. We can tell pretty early on that there is history between Rick and Ilsa from the moment they saw each other. We are led to find out they were together while

These two mentioned above are former lovers and the two main characters of the 1942 film Casablanca. Why Rick speaks these words with despair is because of Ilsa Lund, whose archetype is common in most if not all noir movies. This archetype is known as the femme fatale which literally translates to, fatal woman. The particular focus of the femme fatale and its characteristics is Ilsa Lund, female star of Casablanca, who exhibits the major and auxiliary qualities of the femme fatale character as well

Those that believe Casablanca is not film noir usually perceive Film Noir as a genre. Noir is not a genre; Noir transcends genres and behaves more accurately as a style of cinema. As styles go, there can be variations of them as we see now with Post-Noir and Neo Noir, noir elements in a different time period of film technology which makes these films slightly different than the style of classic film noir. Themes of cynicism, impending doom, loss, jeopardy of life accompanied by visuals dominated