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    Casablanca is a film about a man named Rick Blaine, who owns a popular bar in the titular Casablanca, who discovers his old love Ilsa has traveled to Casablanca with her husband, Victor Laszlo. Victor Laszlo is a famed rebel, and he has Nazi Germans on his tail. llsa knows that Rick has exit visas he can use to help them get out of the country. The film takes place during WWII, though the main focus of the story is Rick's past and present life with Ilsa. Casablanca was part of unoccupied France

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    Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains are all part of the cast of one of the most famous Hollywood movies of all time, Casablanca. It came out in 1942 and it was not as famous as it came to be when initially released. Casablanca is a movie about a man named Richard Blaine (Bogart) who fell in love with a woman named Ilsa Lund (Bergman) when he was in Paris. She and her husband then went to Casablanca in order to find a way to get to America, she didn’t know that Rick owned a saloon there called Rick’s Café

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    Casablanca is one of the most famous film made in 1942. Made in 1942, Casablanca is one of the most famous films of that time. With Humphery Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, portraying Richard, ‘Rick’ Blaine and Ilsa Lund, In a sequence of flash backs it is shown that Ilsa never wanted to betray Rick or Laszlo, she had thought that Victor had died, the last time she saw Rick in Paris a close up shot of her saying ‘kiss me like it were for the last time’ shows her guilt. Through the battle of the national

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    Response Paper #3 – Casablanca As Historical Evidence Looking at the socially or culturally history of the United States, many historians use Hollywood films as a primary source. I also used many films such as Easy Rider (1969) or Dance, Girl, Dance (1941) to support my historical thesis paper and to make the topic more vivid by using the images of the film. Even though, some people think that films are accurate and authentic in its depiction, it is important to mention that films are still fictional

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    In the film Casablanca, there are many extreme close-up shots and zooms, often focused on the facial expression of characters. These close-up shots show great details of characters face, which reveal the emotion of a character. For example, when the engines of the plane is starting up, there are a lot of close-up shots that really demonstrates character’s thinking processes. During the scene, Rick and Ilsa looked toward each other, then Rick turned his head toward Victor, Victor turned to Ilsa and

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    Welcome to Rick’s: A Closer Look to the Introduction of Rick When the opening of the film Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) first introduces Rick at “Rick’s”, many indications of his character are shown. He is sophisticated, mysterious, and a hard thinker. These traits are shown by his playing chess by himself and wearing very expensive, well-kept clothing. The “Rick Introduction” scene in the film is able to give the audience an immediate perspective on who Rick really is, within a matter of

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    threat of Nazis in Europe, many people flee to a nightclub in Casablanca to acquire illegal letters that’ll allow them to escape to America. The film, Casablanca, takes place during World War II and is about an American expatriate, Rick, who must make the choice of whether or not to help out his former lover, Ilsa, and her husband flee to neutral Portugal by giving them transit letters that are deemed priceless by many refugees. Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa

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    The movie, Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz is a story within a story. In order for one to truly appreciate the greatness of the film, one has to look beyond what meets the eye. By doing so, one can identify the importance of the character, Rick Blaine. While Rick Blaine is the main character and protagonist in the film, the true importance of his role can only be identified by looking at his character's development. Throughout the course of the film, Casablanca, the character Rick Blaine goes

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    The classic movie, Casablanca, proves a notable example of the transformation that takes place in the story of the hero, and highlights the four levels of worldview the character holds. The four levels of worldview, according to Dr. Stratton, are 1) Actions and Behaviors, 2) Rule of Life, 3) Value and Belief Systems, and 4) Stories and ‘Scriptures.’ Casablanca begins by introducing us to the hero of the story, Rick, a man who “sticks his neck out for no one,” which is an example of one of Rick’s

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    Casablanca, a city home to over 3 million people located in the country of Morocco in Africa, but it would seem that most people in America when they hear “Casablanca” they think of the 1942 classic movie; Casablanca. Rather remarkable when you think about it. Anyways, onward to the film; Casablanca. The renowned classic romance/drama Casablanca (1942), is nearly always seen on “top-ten lists” of films. It is a expertly told tale of two men jockeying for the same woman's love in what some may call

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