Abstract
This paper explains that the appeal of the film "Casablanca" lays not only in its story about the great romance of star crossed lovers, but also in its especially strong story about the appeal and power of friendship between the lead character of Rick and two other characters.

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"This paper examines what makes Michael Curtiz's film, "Casablanca", such an enduring classic. The simple solid story sets a star-crossed romance against a backdrop that combines an exotic location with powerful sense of danger. The colorful cast includes a wide range of likeable quirky, characters that continue to ring true for modern audiences and pits them against a starkly evil villain. "Casablanca" is a satisfyingly tragic romance but, even more important, a genuinely affecting story of friendship. The film's hero is accused of having a sentimental..."

Tags:Casablanca, Curtiz, Rick

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This paper explains how the choice of songs and the use of music in the motion picture "Casablanca" adds impact to the film for viewers.

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"The Michael Curtiz directed film, "Casablanca" is generally considered one of the finest American films ever produced. The film's use of music is but one of many elements that add to the film's impact; a story about war, honor, duty, sacrifice and, most poignantly, love and romance. Rick is the owner of Caf America in French-occupied Morocco. His former love affair with a beautiful woman named Ilsa comes back to haunt him due to her marriage to a leader of the resistance, Victor Laszlo. The song selection in..."

Tags:Ilsa, Rick, As Time Goes By, Le Marseillaise, Germans, Nazis, French, love, romance, sacrifice

Abstract
This paper interprets the main theme of Michael Curtiz' film "Casablanca" as being the need to sacrifice personal interests in the name of achieving a greater good. The analysis uses four specific scenes in the film between Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) to reinforce this point, focusing on how cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene and editing help reinforce the main theme.

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"The beloved film "Casablanca" is a love story set against encroaching war and fascism. Featuring a cast of ex-patriots in a movie about the dangers of fascism, the genuine emotions of the multinational cast significantly enhances the appeal of the film. With some of the most famous and beloved lines of dialogue in cinema history, like "Here's looking at you kid" and Max Steiner's superb score, the film's different elements combine in ways that make Casablanca on every critic's top ten films list."

Tags:Nazis, love, relationships, totalitarianism, fascism, cause, isolationist, self-sacrifice, war

Abstract
This paper presents a review of the film "Casablanca" with an emphasis on the narrative. It explains that the use of restricted narrative keeps the viewers attention by helping identify with each character's point of view and therefore the crucial story line is unraveled. The paper outlines the entire plot of the film highlighting how one minor narrative remains unresolved.

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''The filmmakers of Casablanca constructed a plot in which story information is revealed to us simultaneously as it is revealed to the characters involved; the exception to this pervading theme are the experiences of Richard Blaine and Ilsa Lund prior to the beginning of the plot, but occurred earlier in the story. The use of restricted narrative in this film keeps our attention by helping us to identify with each character's point of view - we learn about crucial story information as the characters unravel it for us. The filmmakers also manipulate the temporal relationship of story events in order to create mystery surrounding the relationship between certain characters in the film. Non-diegetic plot information given at the beginning of the film sets the stage for the movie, and creates the desperate and dire atmosphere of Casablanca.''

Tags:narrative analysis, plot lines

Abstract
This paper examines how, in the film "Casablanca" (1942), Michael Curtiz uses mise en scene through his use of contrasting costume, set composition, and character framing in Paris, Casablanca/Rick?s Cafe, and the airport to develop the idea that one must put the past aside to reach success, as Rick does in the film. It looks at how, in order to show the audience the growth of Rick, Curtiz uses three points in time with dramatically different mise en scene. The audience is transported to France to visualize the days of Rick in high spirits with his love, Ilsa, after viewing his blase attitude in Rick?s Cafe in Casablanca after he has lost her, and then finally realizing what he must do, not only for his personal life, but for the world at large once Ilsa has come into his life again.

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"By making contrasts between the scenes of Paris and the scenes in Rick's Cafe; in Casablanca, the director presents the audience with the contrasting sides of Rick. Dressed in a suit with a solid white jacket matched with solid black pants, the audience is now aware that after losing Ilsa, Rick is fighting his own inner-battles. Ilsa, dressed in a solid white dress, contrasts the dark blue pinstripe dress from France to show that she has also changed and is attempting to purify herself. However, her outfit is completed with a large brooch which is gaudy and showy, to put forth a front of wealth and contentment in her appearance. Yet the large size of the brooch signifies that she is concealing how she truly feels, be it in her feelings towards Rick or her fear of the German soldiers."

Tags:rick, paris, cafe, ilsa

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In this paper, the writer studies the cinematography elements in 'Casablanca'. The writer discusses that the lighting on Bergman's face reveals her role as the central female romantic interest, as Curtiz often has her face framed in close up shots that define her beauty and seductive power. Also, the writer notes that the low-key illumination of light and shadow of the film reflect the classical film noir style that often provided sharp contrast that reflected the characters in the film often-turbulent relationships.

Tags:film, cinema

Abstract
This paper examines how "Casablanca", directed by Michael Curtiz, is a 1942 romantic film set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. It looks at how it explores the ideals of love and sacrifice in the context of World War Two and how these themes are propagated by the selfless actions of Rick, a cynical night club owner, and Ilsa, who must restrain her love for Rick in order to support her husband, Victor Laszlow.

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"The costume and make-up of Rick and Victor Laszlow generates a comparison of their different roles in the war and complicates the audience's decision to sympathize with either one of them. Rick is attired in a bright white tuxedo and bowtie. His ensemble is neatly tailored to his body, producing an air of sophistication and strength which separates him from his clients. This costume implies that Rick is an important, masculine figure. Victor Laszlow's more conservative suit depicts his role as a leader. Unlike Rick, he wears a tie, reminding the audience of his practicality and pursuit of purpose. "

Tags:rick, bogart, Victor, Laszlow

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This paper shows how William A. Wellman, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz used innovation and manipulation of genre conventions to convey the message that crime does not pay in their respective gangster films: "The Public Enemy," "White Heat," "Scarface," and "Angels with Dirty Faces."

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"Genre directors often innovate and manipulate genre conventions to make social comments on contemporary life. The new directors who shaped the gangster genre like William A. Wellman, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh and Michael Curtiz were no different. The respective directors of "The Public Enemy", "Scarface", "White Heat" and "Angels with Dirty Faces", all of these men used innovative genre conventions to express the social comment to American film goers that crime does not pay. The directors of the ...s and ...s were reigned in by the Hollywood..."

Tags:criminals, production code, Hollywood, cinema, symbolism, morality