Casablanca (1942), movie directed by Michael Curtis, is about love, past-relationships, and sacrifice in World War II. During World War II, many people wanted to leave Casablanca to America, to escape the Germans. However, obtaining the visas was never easy. People had to ask for help from criminals and their methods to get what they wanted. Rick owned a nightclub in Casablanca called Rick’s Café Americain.
The intriguing world of Casablanca, displays a wondrous mise-en-scene in fashion that accentuates emotions and feeling through aspects of cinematography. From the movement of the camera, to the intricacy of the shot distances chosen to be included within the frame, the film reveals important elements of the diegesis without uttering a sound. The cinematography of Casablanca gives the audience an insight into the intimacy of Rick and Ilsa's relationship, and seeks to situate the viewer’s attention to the space and time of the film. Throughout the film, Rick’s romantic relationship, or rather previous relationship, with Ilsa appears to be a focal point of the film.
Tossed to the Four Winds The Latvian people who had fled their country during WW II and had spend a long time in DP (Displaced Person’s) Camps in Germany while others had opted to go to Sweden were ready to move on as war came to an end. These were families, people young and old, and babies born at the camps who now had to decide which way they would go. Their choices included Australia, America, Canada, England, Sweden and even as far as South America.
Casablanca (1942) by Michael Curtiz is a story that is based on the classic Hollywood formula, which often involves a film noir flashback that steps outside of a linear sequence of events. At the beginning of the film, the story of World War II is presented by showing a map of the world in order to understand the fight between the Allies and Hitler’s forces throughout North Africa. A plane is shown flying over each location of Europe until it reaches the city of Casablanca in Morocco. This seemingly linear narrative remains stable, as the focus of the story centers on Rock’s Café and the suspicious characters that move about in his bar. Rick’s Café is tolerated by the local French police officials, such as Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) because Rick has a good reputation for being apolitical, yet this linear story pattern changes on the arrival of a mysterious couple.
In the book Round Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930 author, Mark Wyman analyzes some reasons why after the mass immigration to the United States, many of immigrants made trips back to their mother country. In Wyman’s analysis, he finds patterns tied with ethnic origin, work, assimilation and more. This essay will discuss the phenomena of ‘return immigration’ and the impact it had on America, specifically with the labor movement, politics of assimilation and the rise of nativist movements while bringing forward the stories of those immigrants who went through it. Coming to America In the beginning of Round Trip to America, Wyman talks about the incentives or reasons on Europeans immigrating to America along with
The film opens in September of 1939 in Krakow, Poland, with the Jewish community under increasing pressure from the Nazis. Into this tumult comes Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a Nazi businessman interested in
After the war, Europe rebelled against pre-war traditions, ideals and values. Just as Europe rejects conformity, so does the
Casablanca is one of the most beloved films of all time, so much so that it returned to the big screen in spring of 2014 during the 20th anniversary of Turner Classic Movies. I personally remember watching Casablanca as a young girl and becoming immersed in the tale of love, survival and politics. Growing up in a household full of members of the armed forces, who were old enough to remember Casablanca, from their youth; I am all too familiar with the classic black and white movies. Many of the storylines were similar in their Hollywood style during the Golden Age of film – there was love, there was betrayal, possibly a love triangle and someone brave enough to make the sacrifice for all. Casablanca had the setting of its title, a city in unoccupied
The Inciting Incident in Casablanca is when Rick is approached by Ugarte in his nightclub. Ugarte gives him letters of transit, which was obtained by murdering two German messengers. This paper allows people to travel freely around German claimed areas in Europe. Which are highly important to the refugees stranded in Casablanca. Ugarte plans to sell them around Casablanca.
In the essay, On Going Home, Joan Didion claims, “the question of whether or not you could go home again was a very real part of the sentimental and largely literary baggage with which we left home in the fifties; I suspect that it irrelevant to the children born of the fragmentation after World War II.” Joan Didion defines something that changes as you get older, but her claim is saying that those born after the war, do not know what home is. The state of the country after the war is written to seem as an era of prosperity, with the baby boom and the spread to the suburbs. The reality of this being, the country was in utter chaos, the economy was recovering from one war while prepping for future wars.
Despite many alternatives of solutions, the British peoples’ lives still changed dramatically. Young children were forced to move to the countryside causing many families and friendship having to split up. This was a way of trying to keep the children safe. Evacuation had a big impact on people’s lives during the Blitz and several million people, mostly children, were evacuated. Host families had the choice of the evacuees they wanted, which resulted in a major number of children left without any host
Casablanca is a film directed by Michael Curtis and was released January 23, 1943. The film’s genre was Drama/Romance with a runtime of 102 minutes. The main characters are Rick Blaine played by Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund played by Ingrid Bergman, Yvonne played by Madeleine LeBeau, and Victor Laszlo played by Paul Henreid. This Critique will outline the storyline, Cinematograpy, and overall themes of the film. These themes include the inability to escape your past, the difficulty of Neutrality, and the airplane that took people out of the country.
Life has changed drastically for everyone after War World I. The life style of German has now gone down into the dirt, except for a few very rich people. People are starting to get scared because the shortage of food. People want someone to blame for the the lifestyle change and for the shortage of food. Christopher Isherwood takes us through Berlin just as the Nazis are coming to power.
Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) is a film based in WWII around different nations involvement in the war. Casablanca is a stylistic piece of propaganda based in Casablanca, Morocco, a hotspot for Europeans escaping the war and Nazi government. Within the movie each character represents a nations stand in the war. Because of this each character is compromised in certain ways and has clear flaws. Ilsa Lund, the main female character in the film is renowned for being extremely manipulative and overly emotional because of the way women were seen in this era.
The French film Amelie directed in Paris, the city of love receive many awards as it was classified as one of the best movies ever done by its elements and knocked way to show the genre expressing the theme. There are many elements that brought this movie to success as by the animations of fantasy and comparison of fairy tales. Formalism as mise en scene were amazing for the points wanted to give to as topic. Amelie loves every single pleasure life has given her to enjoy. A very creative girl, that has talent in her hands, the cover of the film is very creative as is unusual with different colors and angels from the protagonist making the film look different to the others.
