Film Essay In the movie Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz‚ lighting plays an integral part in displaying an underlying tone of what is being portrayed in the scenes. The lighting in the bar is consistently bright except when there is a spotlight focusing the viewer’s attention to a specific character. When we see the outside of Rick’s bar at night there is always searchlights roaming looking for criminals. In the Final scenes of the movie‚ shadows cover the eyes of Bogart letting us in on
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begins the journey that is Michael Curtiz’s 1943 film‚ “Casablanca”: “With the coming of the second World War many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully‚ or desperately‚ to the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point‚ but not everyone could get to Lisbon directly‚ and so a tortuous‚ roundabout‚ refugee trail sprang up; Paris to Marseille‚ across the Mediterranean to Oran‚ then by train‚ or auto‚ or foot to Casablanca in French Morocco.” Last stop: Rick’s Café Americain—December
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The News: Realism‚ Narrative and Form ________________________________________ The questions of Realism‚ bias and representation take us back to the material we looked at in the first two weeks of the course. As I have tried to stress‚ when we look at the issue of "realism" and the "representation of reality" in the media we have to be aware of the fact that the media always presents a "mediated" version of that reality‚ on its own terms. Sociological‚ political‚ cultural and ideological
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Lectures 11 & 12 American Short Stories: From Postmodernism to Dirty Realism John Barth on the short story ‘Less really is More… there are narrative ideas suitable only for a short story: quick tales‚ epiphanies that even a novella would attenuate…. You can hold a short story in your hand‚ like a lyric poem; see it whole; examine the function of individual sentences‚ even individual words‚ as you can’t readily do with Bleak House’. Ihab Hassan: Modernism vs Postmodernism (from
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1. THESIS OF YOUR “MINI” DIS-ILLUSIONING OF THIS FILM The classic and award winning movie “Casablanca” has become favorite move to many generations all around the world. And although it shows some great acting and wonderful directing viewers have to be aware of the obvious as well as hidden messages of this classis. The movie glorifies Myth # 3‚ suggesting that your true soul mate should know what you are thinking or feeling‚ without you having to tell. There are other different myths in this movie
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In the 1942 classic‚ Casablanca‚ Rick is the American owner of the prominent bar‚ Café Américain‚ where people from all over the Moroccan city come to gamble and make shady deals to escape the place. Despite all of the drama and variety of people that pass through‚ however‚ Rick has remained largely uninvolved‚ maintaining a strictly neutral stance with all who know him. This all changes‚ however‚ the day his ex-lover and her husband stop in. Despite his character’s initial detachment‚ Bogart allows
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Good and Evil-Casablanca Kimberly Gromack PHI2000 U03a1-Unit 3 Assignment Capella University October‚ 2013 There are many different viewpoints on what is right and wrong and ethically and morally correct. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Jon Stuart Mill (1806-1873)‚ both considered to be two of the best philosophers of all time‚ had different views on how one should live the Good Life. John Stuart Mill’s theory was called Utilitarianism and Kant’s theory‚ the Categorical
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Casablanca Critique The story about Rick Blaine and his American bar in Casablanca‚ and how he falls into such a strong relationship with Ilsa is wonderful. They met in Paris and had the most wonderful time but they had to escape. The morning they had to leave the girl‚ Ilsa‚ is not there. She had sent him a letter saying that she was sorry she couldn’t be with him‚ and Rick was feeling like his inside had been ripped out. Feeling very betrayed by Ilsa‚ Rick being a very hard headed character
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Grace Massett Professor Delmira Valladares Film 101 September 16‚ 2015 Casablanca Casablanca was a romantic film produced in 1942. Internet Movie Database summarizes Casablanca as “Rick Blaine‚ who owns a night club in Casablanca‚ discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband‚ Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a famed rebel‚ and with Germans on his tail‚ Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.” Rick Blaine is the main character and he is described as cynical and doesn’t have a care
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Casablanca and The Classic Hollywood Era Casablanca exhibits the Classical Hollywood cinema in which its focal point is the resurgence of mankind. General focus points in Classical Hollywood era are narration‚ aspects of space and time‚ cutting (“invisible style”)‚ and lastly the characters. Classical Hollywood narration progresses always through psychological motivation‚ i.e. by the will of a human character and its struggle with obstacles towards a defined goal. In Casablanca‚ Richard “Rick”
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