Casablanca Movie Review Essay
Abeer A. Saeed
Prof. Gail Crawford
COM-248
9/17/2015
Casablanca
What some people claim to be one of the most popular love stories ever to be written, three times Oscar award winning Casablanca directed by Michael Cutiz was made in 1942. In the well-loved romantic melodrama Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart who plays bar owner named Rick Blain, one of the two lovers of Ilsa Lund, who is played by Ingrid Bergman. Her other lover Victor Laszlo is a Czech resistance leader who also her husband, is played by Paul Henreid. The other stars of the film include Claude Rains who plays Captain Louis, Conrad Veidt plays Major Strasser, Sydney Greensteet plays Signor Ferrari, Peter Lorre plays Ugarte, S.Z. Sakall plays Carl, Doodley Wilson plays Sam and …show more content…
After the arrival of Major Strasser you learn that a very important Czechoslovakian resistance leader, Victor Laszlo will be arriving in Casablanca and will be in pursuit of these valuable letters of transit in order to get to America. However under strict commands he is not to leave Casablanca. As Victor enters the bar accompanied by his wife Ilsa who in a twist of fate is a former lover of Ricks when he was in Paris. “As time goes by” you see that Ilsa is still in love with Rick and expresses to him why she had left him, the way she did in Paris, and explains why it is so important for Victor to reach America. Ilsa is aware that Rick is the only one what can help them escape. Tr everything in her power to have him give her the letters of transit. After agreeing to help her, he changes his plans unexpectedly and leaves Captain Louis, Ilsa and Victor in shock. The film seemed to have been following a fairly predictable story line, until the end where there the twist that you don’t expect at first leads you to see the bigger message, after you analyze the film as a
Prof. Gail Crawford
COM-248
9/17/2015
Casablanca
What some people claim to be one of the most popular love stories ever to be written, three times Oscar award winning Casablanca directed by Michael Cutiz was made in 1942. In the well-loved romantic melodrama Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart who plays bar owner named Rick Blain, one of the two lovers of Ilsa Lund, who is played by Ingrid Bergman. Her other lover Victor Laszlo is a Czech resistance leader who also her husband, is played by Paul Henreid. The other stars of the film include Claude Rains who plays Captain Louis, Conrad Veidt plays Major Strasser, Sydney Greensteet plays Signor Ferrari, Peter Lorre plays Ugarte, S.Z. Sakall plays Carl, Doodley Wilson plays Sam and …show more content…
After the arrival of Major Strasser you learn that a very important Czechoslovakian resistance leader, Victor Laszlo will be arriving in Casablanca and will be in pursuit of these valuable letters of transit in order to get to America. However under strict commands he is not to leave Casablanca. As Victor enters the bar accompanied by his wife Ilsa who in a twist of fate is a former lover of Ricks when he was in Paris. “As time goes by” you see that Ilsa is still in love with Rick and expresses to him why she had left him, the way she did in Paris, and explains why it is so important for Victor to reach America. Ilsa is aware that Rick is the only one what can help them escape. Tr everything in her power to have him give her the letters of transit. After agreeing to help her, he changes his plans unexpectedly and leaves Captain Louis, Ilsa and Victor in shock. The film seemed to have been following a fairly predictable story line, until the end where there the twist that you don’t expect at first leads you to see the bigger message, after you analyze the film as a