Film of the Week #39 - Casablanca

Karl Hungus

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

Definetly another very iconic film, and one I've not seen for a long time. I don't know exactly what to say about it, but it's one of those films that's worked it's way into popular culture so very successfully.

Discuss.

The Denouncer

Watched it last Christmas again, its a classic indeed. Great lines, acting, music, direction, plot, cinematography and influence..compare the scene with Rick nursing a drink over his love for a woman to Indiana Jones nursing a drink over his love for a woman in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
You can discuss it for a lifetime but simply put Casablanca just works, it comes together beautifully and is a true cinema legend. A seminal film.

That_Guy

Can't help think of the Family Guy skit on Casablanca (Assablanca) when I think of this film. Heh. Priceless.

Anyway, yeah a really great film. I didn't really think a whole lot of it at first when I watched it but it was only some time after when I realised what a classic it really is.

humanji

It's one of my favourites. It's got everything you could want in a film (or at least everything I want in a film. Ok, maybe not tits and robots, but it's got enough!). And I still think it has one of the greatest endings ever.

galactus

What can anyone say about one of the greatest films of them all? Except "I'd like to see it on the Big Screen" please!

I watch this movie every time its on TV and it just gets better and better. I don't think its my all-time favourite old movie but fairly close.

They definitely don't make them like this anymore. Can you imagine a modern remake? Rick would head off into the sunset with Isla and all the nasty Nazis would be blown up in a big explosion.

This movie is not all about Bogie and Bergman though. There are fantastic performances by Claude Rains (Capt. Renault), Sydney Greenstreet (Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Signor Ugarte), Conrad Veidt (Major Strasser) and Dooley Wilson as Sam. The scene at Rick's when the patrons drown out the SS signing with "La Marseillaise" brings a tear to the eye every time.

More on the movie at Wikipedia.

The movie is highly quotable of course, here is one of my favourites:

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!


More quotes here.

That_Guy

galactus wrote:

What can anyone say about one of the greatest films of them all? Except "I'd like to see it on the Big Screen" please

Maybe Cineworld will show it? E-mail them and see.

galactus

That_Guy wrote:

Maybe Cineworld will show it? E-mail them and see.

No its the Kino in Cork for me boy! And good idea, I will email them.

I saw "The Big Sleep" there a few years ago: I'd have missed most of the innuendo* if it wasn't for a couple in front of me in stitches!

* The scene with "a lot depends who's in the saddle" I did manage to get. :eek:

RAIN

First film i got on dvd back in the day~:) !! Got the matrix and casablanca free with my LG Dvd played . I watched it every night for about a year i used to wake up in the middle of th night with just the piano from the theme playing in the background.AHHH those were the days.
I love at the end of the movie when the plane is taking off cus they used Midgets to make it look like it was far away!Genius.