This iconic film from the early 1940’s might be one of the most popular films of all time and is known throughout many different generations. During the Second World War, this film brought a kind of hope to the American people that other kind of propaganda couldn’t, defeating the Nazi’s with love? With the small budget they had when they were creating the film, director Michael Curtiz was able to create a film that was a suspenseful action movie, dramatic love story, and a riveting wartime adventure.
THE PLOT
The
film is based during World War 2 when Europe had been consumed in death and
destruction, where it reaches all the way down to Morocco and, which was in
France’s control and Rick Blaine’s American Café. France has been overrun by
the Nazis and are heading into all of the other countries that France has
control over, and everyone is trying to escape by way of Casablanca.
THE CAST
During
the time of the movie, the main actors and actresses were what some of call
members of the “A” list and a supporting cast that couldn’t be touched.
MY REACTION
My
reaction to this film was one that I kind of assumed when I played the movie. I
thought this movie was going to be a waste of time just because of the movies
that I have grown up watching, and now going back to film created in the 1940’s
and if you said the words, “Special Effects” someone would give you the “Huh?”
look. Before I started the film, I told myself to look past the effects and
black and white and just watch the movie as if it was made for my generation.
I was
fairly amazed by the way that the directors back then used many of the same
techniques that they use today to capture some of the same emotions from the
actors and how a simple angle change of the camera or changing the music or
background noise can give an entire situation a different meaning. There were a
few major scenes in the movie that I had heard about before I ever watched the
film. So, when those scenes were approaching I was able to analysis the scene
differently. Watching the film through a more intelligent or maybe a more
trained eye, I was able to understand some of the unsaid messages that the
director was trying to get across.
After
looking over a majority of Robert Ebert’s review and some of the comments on
rottentomatoes.com, I would have to agree with the collective of people that
have posted; that Casablanca is a film for the so called “History Books” and
even after seven decades, the film is still recognized for some of the iconic
dialogues and amazing mixture of genres that this film has.
Work Cited
Ebert, Roger.
“Casablanca.” All Content. 15 Sept. 1996. Web. 14 June 2013.
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