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Summary: Here's Looking at you kid!
Review: Casablanca is one of Hollywood's most beloved classic's. Even watching it now it's not hard to tell why it's a classic or why it won an acedemy award for best picture. It's perfect, has memorable dialogue, well done humor, well written characters with real emotion, pride and dignity, and an intriguining plot. It's also very romantic and shows that a movie could end satisfying without the hero getting the girl. The main character Rick Blaine (Humprey Bogart) changes a lot by the time the movie ends, he goes from being self-centered to doing the right thing and letting the on he loves get on a plane without him to possibly never see her again. Movies these days just aren't that smart, especially not any of the Romantic ones you get. You mostly always get guy gets girl, the end. If the guy doesn't get the girl you're not satisfied but here you are because Rick still has his dignity at least. Casablanca may be one the most romantic movies ever made it surprisingly has a bit of a march tone to it. It's mushy enough for women to enjoy with the excellent chemestry and dialogue that Humphray Bogart and Ingrid Bergman share. Bogart in a way is like John Wayne where he makes you want to be just like him. These days a character can't make a point without cursing and yelling but all Bogart has to do to look depressed or tough and make his point is just make a motionless expression. So Casablanca works for both sexes, guys can relate to Bogart's Rick. Any women who fell in love but at the wrong time can relate to Bergman. Can't really think of any actor's that actually draw you in more into their roles than Humphrey Bograt and Ingred Bergman do in this movie. Besides the acting being very good Michael Curtiz's direction is splendid. You actually feel as if you're there, with the big flashing lights pointing towards Rick's pub as people enter or walk out of it, also when a charcter is standing by the window you see that light flashing by. That light gives a presence that the Nazi's are there and that eventhough it's Rick's pub they pretty much have all the control over it. You feel the fear and emotion of the people in Rick's pub, they fear that they'll be taken by the Nazi's to one of their war camps. Curtiz's also makes you feel as if you're at the airport at the end saying good-bye right along with Rick as well. He holds your complete attention right to Bogart's classic line at the end, "Louie, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship". There's no wonder why Casablanca is such a huge favorite to so many, it's just perfect.
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Summary: Murder, Spies, Love and Lies...
Review: Welcome to Rick's, the hot spot in Casablanca! Rick's, run by Richard "Rick" Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), is where people come from all over Europe in order to escape World War II and the terror of the Nazi's . Visitors gamble at the roulette table, make fishy deals at their tables, bribe officials at the bar, and toast to future health everywhere. All of this takes place under the tunes from Sam's (Dooley Wilson) piano while Rick refrains from drinking with customers. One night Rick is approached by Guillermo Ugarte (Peter Lorre), a regular, who trusts Rick and asks if he can hold some visa papers for him. This is the beginning of a heart breaking episode for Rick, since he once again has to face a woman who previously broke his heart. This woman is Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a woman he meet in Paris before the Nazi's occupied France and who he was supposed to escape with. However, she ran off at the last minute and he has not seen her since he saw her last in Paris. Casablanca has a fabulous cast as it is telling a story buried in secrets, spies, murders, and lies. In the end, Casablanca will provide a suspenseful adventure interlaced with love and greed with honorable and cynical characters.
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Summary: Love and Glory
Review: Just why is this film so good? First, pace and camera movement: incident follows incident in a continuous, seamless flow: it never lets up, and grips from beginning to end. (Perhaps only the flashback Paris scenes could have been slightly cut). Then, one of the essentials for great films, like Blood Simple and Chinatown: misunderstanding and faulty communication between man and woman. This is a sure-fire ingredient for a fascinating plot. Third, the wonderful battle of the songs. I watch this scene over and over again --- it's never long enough (another great tip: leave 'em wanting more). Die Wacht am Rhein is a good song, but nothing will ever beat La Marseillaise in the patriotism stakes. Something else another viewer mentioned: the Germans are somehow shown as human beings; charmless, of course, but human creatures of circumstance nonetheless. Add all the rest of the ingredients that everyone else has mentioned, stunning acting, stars, beauty, character, variety, ensemble, sharp and witty dialogue, humour, music, singing, colourful (b&w) backdrop, plenty of incorrect booze, cigarettes and gambling. That's the way I want to live! Somebody once called it hokum. It's a conjuring trick that hasn't been repeated.
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Summary: The Greatest
Review: 'Casablanca' is the greatest movie ever filmed. It has no "action" to speak of, no special effects, and it doesn't offend the senses. What it DOES have is spectacular acting, a great story, and an astoundingly good script -- all the more incredible considering this is one film of hundreds that Hollywood churned out in the wartime and post-war 1940's. If you don't like black-and-white movies -- then just close your eyes and listen to it. It's worth the money.
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Summary: Wonderful Movie
Review: This is truely a classic film. It has everything, drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. Very well written. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Casablanca-the best movie ever made
Review: Casablanca is a wonderfly made movie and in most peoples opinions one of the very best. Ingrid Bergman is stunning as Elsa, a trouble woman in doubt of whether she sould go with her husband (Victor Lazlo), or stay with Rick, Humphrey Bogart, the man she fell in love with in Paris. Humphrey Bogart is also amazing as the owner of Cafe American. Casablanca is what I would call the absolute best movie ever made!
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Summary: Must See
Review: This movie is the epitamy of COOL. Ask anyone who has seen and I garrentee they will love it! If your getting this movie because you have never seen it before (you don't know what your missing) or because you are tired of renting it from the Blockbusters; this movie is a must get!
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Summary: Here's Looking At Casablanca Again
Review: Casablanca is one of the most beloved films in movie history. It is a timeless classic that has crossed over from mere entertainment into pure Americana. Lines like "here's looking at you kid" and "play it again Sam" are part of our lexicon and "As Time Goes By" is practically as famous as the movie itself. Humphrey Bogart is dashing as club owner Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman is luminous as his former paramour Ilsa Lund who comes back into his life with her husband Victor Laslzo played by Paul Henreid. This sets up a love triangle that famously concludes on the airstrip. Director Michael Curtiz won the 1943 Best Director Oscar for his work and the film won the Oscar for Best Picture as well as writers Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch picking up the Oscar for Best Screenplay for one of the most memorable screenplays of all time.
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Summary: This is what a movie oughta be ~
Review: I've seen people attempt to put into words how great this film is, and none of them had ever come close. I'm certainly not about to start... Casablanca is a must own. You'll be proud of it.
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Summary: GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE AND ALL TIME TO COME
Review: CASABLANCA IS NO DOUBT THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME.IT WAS SAD BECAUSE BOGEY,BERGMAN,EDITING,MUSIC DESERVED OSCARS.CASABLANCA IS 100 TIMES BETTER THAN CITIZEN KANE,GODFATHER,GONE WITH THE WIND AND ALSO WIZARD OF OZ.THERE IS NO FAULT IN THE MOVIE.IT DESERVERD ATLEAST 11 OSCARS,BUT GOT 3 ONLY.BOGEY,BERGMAN AT THEIR BEST.THE GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME IS NO DOUBT BOGEY.A MASTERPIECE,A CLASSIC,LANDMARK.REALLY SHOULD BE NO 1 ON THE AFI LIST.MY FAV ACTOR AND ACTRESS,BOGEY AND BERGMAN.PLAY IT SAM!
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