Essays on Casablanca

Since the beginning of time, men and women have fallen in love with each other, made sacrifices, waged war for love, and died for love. People from different cultures have different ways of expressing and experiencing love. Also, men and women have different ways of experiencing love. Is there a Western tradition of thinking about romantic love? What are its characteristics? Is it specific to the West? Do you agree with it? People from different parts of the world think about love differently. People from the West think about romantic love as a matter from the heart. An individual ...

The film industry during the World War II underwent major changes to help change the cause of the war. The world war II affected cinematography and the story lines of various movies that were produced at that time. These movies symbolized the Cardinal impulses that later came to captivate serious audiences, filmmakers, and critics after the war.

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

Rick Blaine, a businessman with a strict, but cool, cynical and efficient business man whose anger is reserved, an American expatriate is the owner of a highly rated nightclub and a gambling den in Casablanca. The movie develops complex characters who are ...

Casablanca: Plot

Directed by Curtiz Michael, Casablanca is an American film of 1942 that features romance and drama. It is a production of the Warner Brothers who base it on Burnett Murray and unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's of Alison Joan. The setting of Casablanca took place during the Second World War, which underlies the plot of the film. It focuses on an expatriate of the United States who has to sacrifice his relationship with a lady he loves for helping her husband – a leader of the Czech Resistance - escape from Casablanca. Getting out this Vichy-controlled town would help ...

Introduction

This report describes the process of international expansion of a business named Al Futtaim. The report refers to the useful considerations for the business to make while expanding its operations globally. These considerations are aimed at the profit maximization of the company through international expansion. The hurdles in the international expansion have also been discussed with possible means of overcoming the problematic areas. The selected geographical region for the expansion of the business is the city of Western Morocco named Casablanca.

Company Background

Al-Futtaim is UAE based company. It is a multi-sector conglomerate. The company was formed in 1930. At the ...

Immersion in Morocco

I encountered Rachid, a Moroccan, international student on a visit to his lifelong friend studying here on campus. Rachid, whom I met over in a social gathering organized for celebrating a friend's birthday at a nearby restaurant, was as active and as open a person as one could imagine. Before I met Rachid, I had never met a Moroccan before. Our first encounter was, if anything, a particularly fulfilling one and hence more encounters in subsequent days. In our first encounter, I was introduced to Rachid by a distant friend who spent last summer in Casablanca, Morocco. There, our ...

Casablanca was released in 1942 and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film takes place in Casablanca in World War 2 and follows Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), an American owner of a swanky nightclub. Rick’s club acts as a neutral zone for several European nationals. Most of these people are seeking refuge in the United States or are on the run from the Nazis. Rick deals with several criminal types, jostles with the local police captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), and gets involved with his former lover Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). ...

The overwhelming theme that seems to be driving the characters in Casablanca seems to be – “All’s fair in love and war”. This movie is often said to be one of the greatest films made in the golden era of Hollywood. It certainly has all the classic elements to stir up ones imagination – war (although none of the characters are directly in the middle of it), an exotic third world setting, cheeky dialogues, a good sound track, the famous love triangle, and a star-studded cast. All these elements have combined to make this movie a huge success.

Casablanca can ...

Casablanca – Use of Sound

Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz is well known for its use of sound. Sound effects are an important part of a movie and help in showing the importance of a scene as well as the aid in displaying the emotions of the actors. Casablanca is the story of the man who helps a woman, whom he loved before to escape from Casablanca with her husband. The film is based at the very beginning of the Second World War after the Germans had invaded France. This movie carries rich sound effects and musical tones. One comes across both Diegetic and Non-Diagetic Sounds in a ...

A romance story packed with the thrilling experience of keeping one safe from the hands of the law; this is what Casablanca is about. Released under the direction of Michael Curtiz in 1942, the theme of this movie captured the attention of several viewers and had them thinking of how much their love would be able to contend with the challenges that the main character, Rick, have had to undergo for the sake of making sure that the love of his life is safe. As an owner of the Casablanca Café, Rick was presented in the movie as a well-kept ...

Introduction

The World War II is the deadliest war that the world has ever faced. Major Powers of this planet fought World War II under flags of axis and allies powers. The world war started in the year 1939 and continued till 1945 but various other battles were fought earlier that caused this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians from both sides lost their lives in this war and hundreds of millions people were directly or indirectly affected by the World War II. Winners of the war, allied forces altered boundaries of nations that lost the war. The world war ...

“Casablanca” by Michael Curtiz is an anti-Nazi film based on the play. The romantic drama of 1942 starring Ingrid Bergman represents an outstanding example of interesting methods in cinematography. “Casablanca” is a black and white film with high-key lighting and mostly deep focus (except for the close-up scenes with the main characters where shallow focus is used). To make the eyes of the main female character sparkle, the director used softening gauze filter and catch lights. This method gave the effect of the nostalgic and sad glance. The director uses normal lens, so the perspective is normal and the focal ...

Gender-Role Expectations as seen in Casablanca and Mrs. Doubtfire:

Discussion and Analysis Gender-role expectations are the labels put on individuals whom identify with a particular gender. Many of the expectations are formed from real observations and social roles; however, these stereotypes can be both foundational as well as detrimental to relationships. Men may desire women who are “feminine” and “good homemakers.” Women may desire men who are rugged and good with tools. The effects of these expectations can be seen in the two films, Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz, and Mrs. Doubtfire, by Chris Columbus. While these two movies don’t primarily focus on the effects of gender-role expectations, ...

Introduction

As the US was involved in the war against the Germans during the 1940s, it was necessary to hire people for the army. Realizing the need to instigate the registration into the armed forces, the US used the media to promote nationalistic sentiments. Casablanca (Curtiz 19) is certainly one of the legendary films of Hollywood. The story’s most famous scene is a romantic one, where Rick and his ex-girlfriend bid goodbye. This, however, obliterates one of the strongest war propaganda symbolism ever made in a commercial and successful movie. While the general tendency is to remember the movie as a love ...

- Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” is a white-collar mafia story. In other words, the classical Hollywood theme of mafia gangsters chased by the good guys (the policemen) is reenacted in this movie. The movie is nevertheless successful because it avoids duplication, telling the story originally, revealing the mystery behind the Wall Street brokers’ lifestyle in a direct and unique manner, which incorporates the features of what a story should be like, according to Robert McKee (1-8). Throughout the movie, Belfort (the story writer) seems to have considered the audience, perfecting the story of his film until the end ...

Three Key Factors in Morocco Independence

Kingdom of Morocco achieved independence from France on 2 March, 1956 after more than forty years of French and Spanish rule as northern third of the country and Western Sahara was controlled by Spain. There were many contributory factors in achieving the independence, however, three key factors played a major role in Morocco Independence. These key factors shall be discussed in the essay. French and Spanish colonial administrations brought more than half a million skilled European to Morocco with heavy influx of money and made progress in the fields of education, health and transport. However, there was constant resistance to ...

Synopsis

The movie ‘Casablanca’ is set in the World War II setting. One of the main characters Rick owns a makeshift café in the northern Africa town of Casablanca in Morocco. He refuses to take sides in the war despite his long standing opposition to the Nazis. The movie revolves around Rick and his relationship with a young woman named Ilsa. His short association with her causes him great resentment, even derailing his insurgency against the Nazis. The story runs from a time they were having a good time in Paris. The lived and chose not to reveal too much about each to one ...

2. What can be said about the nature of romantic relationships, or friendships, based on an analysis of this play? Allan Felix a movie critic from San Francisco breaks with his lovely wife a situation that runs him to depression. He is a lover of classical movies where he finds consolation after the break up. He starts conversations with his ghost film idol named Humphrey Bogart who advices him on masculinity and romance. His best friends Dick and Linda encouraged him to try dating again. He ends up having disastrous blind dates that did not lead his love life to success. ...

1. PERSEPOLIS (2007) & GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). *How does the theme of survival and having a female protagonist relate in these two films? In the film gone with the wind, Scarlet O’Hara, the daughter of Gerald O’Hara is the major character, and she carries most of the burden of the characters, who are related to her in one way or the other. Scarlet struggles with marriage throughout the film since she cannot find her ideal man. In the beginning, she is surrounded by many admirers. On the contrary, she is not interested in these men ...

1. The name of the film is Casablanca. The director is Michael Curtiz. The two leading actors are Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. 2. The leading characters are Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Captain Louis Renault, Major Heinrich Strasser, Signor Ferrari and Sam. Other important characters are Ugarte and Carl. The story takes place in Casablanca in French Morocco during World War II. France is occupied by Germans and people from all over Europe are coming to Casablanca in order to try to get to Lisbon from where they can continue ...

Introduction

The introduction of an International Film Registry organization would enable films from around the world to be remembered by future generations for their cultural, historical and aesthetic value. The organization will serve as a preservation site for culturally important identified films. The films that would be preserved will constitute films from organization’s member states that are recognized by the states to be containing significant social interests. It is important to note that the films that would be voted into the registry would not be the best films but those with historic, aesthetic and cultural representation of the society. In ...

As the largest city in Morocco, Casablanca is a metropolitan city and the economic capital of Morocco with a population estimate of four million people. Casa as popularly called, traces its history back in the 1800s having grown from an undersized village with close to a thousand people. To date, Casablanca has grown tremendously and to many it is the center of attraction in the region offering a healthy collection of countless tourist attractions for hotels, beaches, clubs to entertainment hubs and many recreational facilities. Commonly referred as a charming city, Casablanca is a romantic and intriguing place full of extreme fun where interested ...

Introduction

In the essay we shall be discussing facts from the film, Casablanca that suggest that it is more of a love and romantic story than it has been thought to be otherwise. The movie has been considered by many to be a collection of movies. This is because of its historic significance and the fact that it combines a number of elements into one. The aspect of love and romance has been revealed in certain instances such as sacrifice and desperation because of love. The plot has been set in a country and place that was considered a haven for both refugees and foreigners. ...

Casablanca, a classic tale of romance mixed with the flavor of patriotism, redefined the film industry. The ambiguous yet enchanting dialogues, Bergman’s cynicism regarding the past and passion for Ilsa, the setting of a new era represented by the dazzling casino, the presence of the evergreen Ingrid Bergman, the impending doom and the supremacy of lady luck make this movie ageless and a classic. This film produced some of the most famous dialogues, like, “I stick my neck out for nobody”, “and this may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship”and“Play it, Sam”. These dialogues depicted the past and ...

Tourism is one of the biggest world’s recognized industries and offers great potential to both developing and developed countries in terms of foreign exchange earnings, income generation, and employment creation. Tourism industry is independent on the societies and quality of the local environment since tourists are interested in cultural attractive and esthetical places to visit. However, if it is not managed appropriately, it can damage the resource that sustain and sees its success. This delicate balance situation requires development of recommendations for sustainable tourism that maximize benefits while reducing its negative economic, cultural, social, and environmental ...

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), in the first 23 minutes of Casablanca, is shown to be an incredible enigma, a mercurial and wounded figure who deliberately eschews attachment to any cause or person, choosing for one reason or another to be strictly business with regards to his business and the varying forces at play in Casablanca. This is mostly conveyed in the first part of the film with his interactions with both Ugarte (Peter Lorre) and Captain Renault (Claude Rains), when an issue of neutrality is made apparent in his club.

When we first see Rick, he is shown to be ...

The Academy Awards are the set of awards designed to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements. These Awards were established by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the first presentation of them occurred in 1929. Everybody knows the unofficial name of the Academy Award of Merit, which is Oscar. The question of where the name “Oscar” came remains unanswered up till now, though there are several suggestions. From the time the Awards were established, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never ceased to carry out the ceremony, even during the World War II. Still, ...

The 1942 film Casablanca is a tremendous tour-de-force of cinematic greatness; considered to be one of the finest films ever made, it endured a troubling production and a lack of enthusiasm from the studio at the time to create a masterpiece of film. Winning the Best Picture Oscar among many other accolades, its quality still holds up today as a fantastic example of film. In addition to its quality and enduring appeal, it carries a certain historical significance that provides it as an indicator for the political and cinematic attitudes of the time. Casablanca uses innovative cinematography, stellar acting, and brilliant mise-en-scene to showcase a very ...