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I had a film professor who told us that he thought Casablanca should be #1 on AFIs list of the best films. Citizen Kane is a masterpiece of cinematography, but
by sircastor 2y ago
I had a film professor who told us that he thought Casablanca should be #1 on AFIs list of the best films. Citizen Kane is a masterpiece of cinematography, but otherwise I think it’s kind of weird. Casablanca is beautiful, complex, and approachable.
If you’ve never seen this film, give it a shot.
- Maxion 2y ago> If you’ve never seen this film, give it a shot. The atmosphere in the film is quite special, you almost feel like it was made in modern times, just adjusted in post to be black and white.
- YouWhy 2y agoA different way of putting the above is that Casablanca's aesthetic was so influential that it guided decades of subsequent work. My 2¢: this could be a consequence of both the movie's strengths as much as of the trade-offs taken that did not overshadow the strengths. For example, the movie's wartime moral dichotomy is carefully offset with reminders about the limitations of moralism.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago> I had a film professor who told us that he thought Casablanca should be #1 on AFIs list of the best films. I'm surprised that the professor never saw The Godfather :)
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoMaybe he did. Casablanca is a superior movie.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago> Maybe he did. Casablanca is a superior movie. Wait, you haven't seen The Godfather either???
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoI have. All three if it matters. Your point?
- CoastalCoder 2y agoI was pretending to be so in love with The Godfather that I saw this as an objective fact, rather than a matter of opinion. I was also making an oblique reference to the meme that The Godfather is "the perfect film". I was trying to be amusing, but apparently I failed spectacularly. I am ashamed.
- bkandel 2y agoI was amused!
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoThis explanation makes it especially amusing.
- 1oooqooq 2y agogodfather is bad and violent. but i was enjoying their cluelessness and your insistence.
- CharlesW 2y ago"It insists upon itself." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAi5aI_NPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAi5aI_NPc
- ghaff 2y agoI've seen Citizen Kane a number of times but Casablanca is more approachable and rewatchable IMO.