View Poll Results: Have you seen Casablanca (1942)
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88
73.95%
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It's 2019: Have you seen Casablanca (1942)?
#51
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Citizen Kane has a pretty damn boring plot for a movie (though the history it’s based on makes it more interesting) but the filmmaking itself is like a visual textbook!
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As a TCM viewer, I've had about a thousand chances to watch it..
But, no. Not all the way - not even most of the way.
I just don't know anyone in real life that talks like that. So, I can't seem to care about it.
But, no. Not all the way - not even most of the way.
I just don't know anyone in real life that talks like that. So, I can't seem to care about it.
#54
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Nope, but I should get around to this blind spot, one of many, sometime this summer.
Also, was Antifa even a thing when Mabuse first saw the film? Up until the past year or two I had never heard of antifa folks.
Also, was Antifa even a thing when Mabuse first saw the film? Up until the past year or two I had never heard of antifa folks.
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Was thinking about Casablanca at work tonight, and it occurred to me the movie hasn't seemed to have seeped into the pop culture the way other classic films have. Even as a kid, I knew the "secrets" of movies like Psycho and Citizen Kane long before I watched them. But Casablanca I barely know anything about. I don't know the plot, I don't know any of it's big scenes, I don't even know for sure if Peter Lorre is in it or not. I love watching movies fresh. I should check my library to see if they have a copy.
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It isn't any one thing that's great...it's everything together.
A good stew isn't a good stew until good things are put in...
You do realize we are talking about a movie made in 1942, right?
When people talked differently than they do today?
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#58
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Was thinking about Casablanca at work tonight, and it occurred to me the movie hasn't seemed to have seeped into the pop culture the way other classic films have. Even as a kid, I knew the "secrets" of movies like Psycho and Citizen Kane long before I watched them. But Casablanca I barely know anything about. I don't know the plot, I don't know any of it's big scenes, I don't even know for sure if Peter Lorre is in it or not. I love watching movies fresh. I should check my library to see if they have a copy.
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it again, Sam"
"I stick my neck out for no one."
"The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"Looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
And that's just off the top of my head.
#59
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No
Is it playing on cable somewhere?
Is it playing on cable somewhere?
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#61
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How can you say that? It may be the most quoted movie in history:
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it again, Sam"
"I stick my neck out for no one."
"The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"Looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
And that's just off the top of my head.
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it again, Sam"
"I stick my neck out for no one."
"The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"Looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
And that's just off the top of my head.
"In America they only bring a penny"
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine"
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#63
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While I like and respect Casablanca, my real love is The Maltese Falcon! In the Maltese Falcon, you get the badass (hard boiled)/ take no prisoners version of Bogey. The movie plays even better in today's cynical and trust no one world.
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#64
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For those that love it, what's your #1 favourite thing about it that you would use in order to get others to see it sooner than later? Note that "It's a classic for fucks sake" isn't really compelling or sufficient, because if it was, most of those who haven't seen it would have, by now.
Blaine being an Antifa Supersoldier doesn't count, either.
Blaine being an Antifa Supersoldier doesn't count, either.
#65
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The Blu Ray of Casablanca looks fantastic too.
#66
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I saw it once and though it was okay. I then finally watch Singing In The Rain I think it was on TMC few months ago and I really enjoyed it and I not real a fan of musical flick.
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But you can’t question anything woke, so it turned into nonsense.
It devolved into some claiming Casablanca isn’t that well known or widely viewed.
#68
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This thread was created because of an argument in the politics forum. For some strange reason a member here posted a very sophomoric YouTube film review pointing out that the character trajectories in Casablanca align with today’s antifa movement. I felt the reviewer was naive to the fact that everyone already knows this, that being a WWII film made during the war its anti-nazi sentiments couldn’t be more well known.
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It was directly relevant to the topic of the thread in which it was posted. This would have been clear to anyone who doesn't make it their goal on this forum to be a constant contrarian.
I felt the reviewer was naive to the fact that everyone already knows this, that being a WWII film made during the war its anti-nazi sentiments couldn’t be more well known.
The reviewer came off as very pious, like he was unveiling this amazing truth. And I was like, “Yawn. Old news.”
But you can’t question anything woke, so it turned into nonsense.
It devolved into some claiming Casablanca isn’t that well known or widely viewed.
Anyway, the purpose of this thread was clearly stated in the OP, yet you've chosen to "devolve" it with your continued string of contrarian nonsense while others are trying to talk about the film and what draws people to it.
#70
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It's a solid but overrated movie. Never understood why certain films and actors got the bigger than life "classic" label, while other, better films got ignored. Bogart and James Dean really weren't that great of actors yet those two names are the most recognizable.
Frankly, Bogart got on my nerves. Ugly, short, his voice is unpleasant. It's frankly laughable that he played a badass in most his films.
Frankly, Bogart got on my nerves. Ugly, short, his voice is unpleasant. It's frankly laughable that he played a badass in most his films.
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The funny thing is some views that Antifa thinks makes someone a "fascist" such as thinking there's only 2 genders, thinking that there's innate natural differences between men and women, and believing that being homosexual was morally wrong - views which were basically shared by nearly everyone in the 1940s - would have antifa labelling Rick Blaine a "fascist" because, living in the '40s, he would've had these views too.
Those are not "antifa" views. They're strawmen.
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And yet, as it currently stands, more than one in four forum members who answered the poll haven't seen the film. Who's being naive when they say "everyone knows Casablanca!"?
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For me, one form of pleasure in watching a movie is listening to the well-crafted, artificial dialog. Nobody speaks like a David Mamet character and certainly not like a Shakespeare character. But I love the words.
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How can you say that? It may be the most quoted movie in history:
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it again, Sam"
"I stick my neck out for no one."
"The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"Looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
And that's just off the top of my head.
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it again, Sam"
"I stick my neck out for no one."
"The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"Looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
And that's just off the top of my head.
Stuff like "Looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship" and "Round up the usual suspects" is interesting to hear they originated with Casablanca, I would have assumed are just generic phrases.
When I watch it, there may be references I'll now get. My point was that the movie hadn't been "spoiled". While you posted half a dozen famous quotes, they have no context for me, I don't know what they mean in the movie. I remain blissfully in the dark about what happens in this movie, unlike other famous classic films.
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Re: It's 2019: Have you seen Casablanca (1942)?
I’d like to see a poll of a film with higher numbers. Maybe Wizard of Oz? Jaws?
Jaws, I'm not so sure. I think Jurassic Park would be more likely.