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What I find fantastic about Casablanca is that while watching it, you sometimes find yourself thinking, "OMG, what a cliche!" (flashbacks, closeups, famous one
by russellbeattie 9y ago
What I find fantastic about Casablanca is that while watching it, you sometimes find yourself thinking, "OMG, what a cliche!" (flashbacks, closeups, famous one liners, etc.) only to realize that it's all the movies that came after Casablanca were what made the cliches, this is the original.
- bshimmin 9y agoYou might be interested in this essay by Umberto Eco about Casablanca: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/eco.html http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/eco.html I think the author of this article is right that La Marseillaise is the most important scene in the film, but for some reason the line "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue" affects me the most.
- sysbell 9y agoI'd never read this before -- thank you! Especially liked this bit: >But precisely because all the archetypes are here, precisely because Casablanca cites countless other films, and each actor repeats a part played on other occasions, the resonance of intertextuality plays upon the spectator. Casablanca brings with it, like a trail of perfume, other situations that the viewer brings to bear on it quite readily, taking them without realizing it from films that only appeared later
- jacobolus 9y agoA lot of it was cliché at the time. But sometimes a whole string of clichés is greater than the sum of its parts.