"Casablanca" D.Moore

“Casablanca” is a classic Hollywood film but it doesn’t have the classic happy ending where everyone rides happily into the sunset.  This is because it features a traditional love triangle between actors Llsa, Victor Laszlo, and Rick Blaine.  This is considered a Hollywood film because the entire film was shot in Hollywood sets, using studio actors, and writers. “Casablanca” is unlike other films on the basis that it is considered to use a collaborative effort to in production, rather than using just one persons vision.

Many people and critics believe that “Casablanca” is a film noir.  I can agree with this because of the lighting and colors used in the film.  Considering that this film was shot in 1942 and color was no yet put into films, it’s easy to link “Casablanca” as a film noir.  Another aspect that helps link this film to being noir, is the mean city streets, and although the streets don’t seem that uneasy why are there troops/police walking around. Another example of this is the gunfight in the market at the beginning of the movie, and the gunfight between Rick and Strasser at the end.

The setting for this film really coincided with what was coming for the world.  During the film you noticed troops walking around the streets to keep peace.  And since this movie was filmed at the beginning of World War II it helped give a little insight to what may happen. With the disturbances going on with the war many citizens would be trying to get out of the those countries in which the war was affecting.