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Film Techniques In Casablanca

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Casablanca has been often regarded as one of the best films ever made and continues to be a fan favorite even though it is more than seventy years old. The movie used many different techniques to keep the audience interested at all times while also keeping the viewer in suspense of what was going to happen next. The movie also was depicting the war and how the Germans were taking over parts of France and putting individuals in concentration camps. Later in the movie it is even discovered in flashbacks that Rick wanted Isla to leave Paris with him because the Nazi’s were invading. When Isla never showed up at the train station to leave with Rick, but instead sent a note stating she could not leave Paris, this initiated the interest of the viewers because everyone was curious as to why she could not leave with Rick. …show more content…

Rick and Isla who were old flames end up reuniting and it is discovered that Isla is married. The cliché in most romance movies is that the two characters who were previously in love always end up reuniting in the unlikeliest of ways. During the movie, Rick even stated “Out of all the towns in the world she walks into mine.” This sentence shows the cliché of how out of all the places and towns in the entire world, Isla happens to end up in the same place as Rick. This also left the viewer in suspense as to whether she would end up with Rick again like in most romance movies, or stay with her husband. The end of the movie proved to vary from the typical of romance movies in the fact that Rick did not end up with Isla because he is the one who made her leave the country with her husband. However, he told he that they still have Paris and none of them will ever forget that

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