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Casablanca And It Happened One Night Analysis
The film styles of Casablanca and It Happened One Night were completely different from that of Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives. Casablanca and the earlier films were all shot with very basic techniques where the frame just focused on the action. However, in Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives everything was in focus in the frame, even the events taking place in the background. Rather than just one main conversation or action being the concentration point of the film, there were things taking place in different layers of the frame, including the background. The Best Years of Our Lives is a series of long takes, unlike the other movies we watched where there was a lot of back and forth filming. My favorite technique they
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