Casablanca

Casablanca - Casablanca is a great film. With ease it combined action, comedy, romance, and unforgettable dialogue. A great movie must have certain components which consist of great acting, action, humor, a compelling plot, and a memorable song. This move fits all of them, in my opinion.

I noticed all the smoking in the film which you don't see too often in current movies. There were no obscenities or profanities, that I heard. At the beginning they touched on the pickpocketers along the cafes. It was hard to catch that the plot had something to do with transit letters from two German couriers which Rick somehow obtained.

“The difference in height between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman changes throughout the film. This is because Bergman was actually a few inches taller than Bogart, though to create the illusion that it was vice versa, Michael Curtiz had Bogart stand on boxes and sit on pillows in some shots, or had Bergman slouch down (as evident when she sits on the couch in the "franc for your thoughts" scene).”

“No one knew right up until the filming of the last scene whether Ilsa would end up with Rick or Laszlo. During the course of the picture, when Ingrid Bergman asked director Michael Curtiz with which man her character was in love, she was told to "play it in between". Since the ending was not the final scene shot, there are some scenes where she *was* aware of how everything would turn out, and these include the scene in the black market with Rick and the scene in the Blue Parrot where Ferrari offers the Laszlos one exit visa.” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/trivia)

“Curtiz was certainly responsible for the breathless pace of the movie. That was his trademark. He lingers over conversations and activities only when they're essential.”

“It was Curtiz who had Ilsa pound the table with her fist, knocking over the wine glass, in the climactic scene between her and Rick in Paris.” (http://users.datarealm.com/Lucius/Casablanca.index.html)

Will Ilsa and Rick ever cross paths again? If so, will it end up differently? Will the relationship between Rick and Renault change as time passes, or how will it end?

The relationship between Rick and Renault was both funny and conflicted. They're friends but yet they are not. They should be enemies, but are they or will they be? Rick's bar is the place to be. I

Rick ends up being heartbroken when Ilsa realizes Laszlo had not been killed, as she believed. She then doesn't show up to leave with Rick but later does at his place. Ilsa comes across as irresistible, compelling, a woman worthy of Rick's love. A woman that Rick would protect. It was presented in the movie that Rick would not protect anyone! In the end, Rick shows his protective side which makes an intense story-line.

Now I know all of the following unforgettable lines were from this movie:

"Here's lookin' at you, kid"

"I stick my neck out for nobody"

"Louie, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

"you'll regret it; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

"As Time Goes By," (Rick and Ilsa's love song.)

"Play it, Sam!"

"This is a beginning of a beautiful friendship."

This movie told a story that is relevant today and how we still make the same types of decisions in our lives. Perhaps some of them are not the best results we wanted but maybe we can have a second chance to change the outcome. This movie is for all ages. I don't believe it will ever get old.