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This is a great write up of why Casablanca is an immaculate screenplay: economy of vision. Great architecture doesn't need a thousand beams but just a few, per
by david927 4y ago
This is a great write up of why Casablanca is an immaculate screenplay: economy of vision. Great architecture doesn't need a thousand beams but just a few, perfectly placed arches. Picasso could draw a single line and capture more than the thousand lines of a poorer artist.
In Casablanca, there are no unnecessary scenes: every single scene has one or more uses in terms of plot. As they say here, Yvonne's a background character found in three small scenes and when we see her in her third and final scene, joining in 'La Marseillaise' it's like a gut punch so hard that it takes my breath away -- every time I see it.
This is what you can do with storytelling. These are the heights we can reach.
- jaclaz 4y ago>This is what you can do with storytelling. These are the heights we can reach. Absolutely OT, but you made me remember an old (very funny) spot for Canal+ (circa 2009/2010): "Never underestimate the power of a great story" JFYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnfH_kxFyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnfH_kxFyQ
- chernevik 4y agoOk, this got an actual spit-take from me Brilliant
- dylan604 4y agoOkay, I think I now have a new appreciation for Canal+. They seem to have a similar approach as the curated content before a feature at Alamo Drafthouse. After watching your link, it auto-played into the next one for me which was just as entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNd_hUqEEl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNd_hUqEEl4 My only previous experience with Canal+ was engineering digital US content workflows for their platform. I never got to see any of their local stuff like this.
- jaclaz 4y agoyes, that's another classic. ... when they pass their eggs to each other ...
- dylan604 4y agosliding on their bellies. the seal. it was sold by the lady's single reaction shot at the beginning. it's just so well done
- AlbertCory 4y agoI don't think I've ever seen a French film that did NOT have Canal+ in the credits.
- js2 4y agoLet me offer you some not Canal+ French films I've enjoyed: Breathless; Hiroshima Mon Amour; Diva; My Life as a Zucchini; Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles; The Rules of the Game; Last Year at Marienbad; La Collectionneuse; The Green Ray; One Sings, the Other Doesn’t; The Kid with a Bike; The 400 Blows; My Night at Maud's; The Wages of Fear.
- AlbertCory 4y agoHmm... all older films?
- js2 4y agoMostly because you’re right: Canal+ has its hands on everything.
- AlbertCory 4y agoIndeed that's a recent impression. I wasn't looking for Canal+ when I watched (many of) those older films.
- david927 4y agoNot OT. Casablanca is considered by most film critics to be one of the greatest films created and that's one of it's most powerful scenes. But I'm glad it made you think of that commercial; it was really funny.
- tootie 4y agoEveryone knows that Fistful of Dollars was a retelling of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, but there's also a direct line from Casablance to Yojimbo. A lot of the elements of the sangfroid hero playing both sides, risking his life for another couple's chance at happiness are right there. It's amazing to think that so many of the elements that are still tropes of modern heroic action adventures were all there in 1942.
- coredog64 4y agoWhich was a film version of Dashiell Hammett‘s “Red Harvest”. There’s nothing new under the sun.