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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/08/19 12:32:56 PM #174:	#15. Casablanca https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/CasablancaPoster-Gold.jpg/375px-CasablancaPoster-Gold.jpg Dir: Michael Curtiz Genre: Drama, Romance Year: 1942 Casablanca probably contains the greatest screenplay ever written. Everything about the dialogue in this film is so crisp--not a single word is taken for granted. It's what drives this movie and lets it be as special as it is--remaining as timeless as an Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams play, only captured on film. It's quite amazing that this movie was produced at all. It was filmed right before the United States entered World War II, and it certainly doesn't shy away from taking a side. The French had just been taken over by Nazi Germany, so the poignancy of the French national anthem scene is just unbelievable. To put this in perspective, it would be like a movie about Pearl Harbor being released in 1943 and capturing American patriotism without coming off as insincere or shoehorned. It's magic, really. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman also of course give respective GOAT-worthy performances and are exactly what I picture when I think of Golden Age Hollywood acting. However, they do not fall into the typical Hollywood arc for the time, of course, as ~~their love remains unfulfilled~~ by the end. And that ending certainly packs a punch--with the famous "We'll always have Paris" speech being one of the best bits of dialogue ever put to screen, and a perfect tone for the bitter realism of the wartime era. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924405519] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#15. Casablanca https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/CasablancaPoster-Gold.jpg/375px-CasablancaPoster-Gold.jpg Dir: Michael Curtiz Genre: Drama, Romance Year: 1942 Casablanca probably contains the greatest screenplay ever written. Everything about the dialogue in this film is so crisp--not a single word is taken for granted. It's what drives this movie and lets it be as special as it is--remaining as timeless as an Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams play, only captured on film. It's quite amazing that this movie was produced at all. It was filmed right before the United States entered World War II, and it certainly doesn't shy away from taking a side. The French had just been taken over by Nazi Germany, so the poignancy of the French national anthem scene is just unbelievable. To put this in perspective, it would be like a movie about Pearl Harbor being released in 1943 and capturing American patriotism without coming off as insincere or shoehorned. It's magic, really. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman also of course give respective GOAT-worthy performances and are exactly what I picture when I think of Golden Age Hollywood acting. However, they do not fall into the typical Hollywood arc for the time, of course, as their love remains unfulfilled by the end. And that ending certainly packs a punch--with the famous "We'll always have Paris" speech being one of the best bits of dialogue ever put to screen, and a perfect tone for the bitter realism of the wartime era. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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